How about this for breaking news, did you know that Dragon Age 4 is going to be set in the Tevinter Imperium? The heart of Northern Thedas? No way right?
Well, thanks to the incredible journalistic work from PC Gamer, and many other credible sites who 'totally' didn't just regurgitate everything said by PC Gamer. The story goes that, based on the recent Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights novel announcement, the franchise is accordingly heading to Tevinter as the next game's official setting!
Let's have a read, shall we?
"Ever since the ending of Dragon Age: Inquisition's final DLC, Trespasser, fans have been guessing which country the next game would take place in. In the final shot of Inquisition's closing storyline, the Inquisitor stabs a knife directly into the Tevinter Imperium on a map.
Fans have of course speculated since then that Dragon Age 4 would head to the mage-ruled nation. An upcoming collection of short stories authored by several BioWare writers titled "Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights" lends a lot of extra credence to that theory."
So, Tevinter Night's announcement clearly cements that the Tevinter Imperium will play a huge role in the next Dragon Age title, largely as the main setting. Forget the ending to Trespasser, and the comics released after Inquisition which all eluded to Tevinter, drop those dabs of speculation, because Tevinter Nights is the real indicator here.
In all seriousness, if this is news to you, then kudos, but to everyone else, the fact that Tevinter Imperium is going to be the main setting of Dragon Age 4 has been the sole piece of news that we can confidently say is confirmed.
That, and the fact that Solas will be acting as a villain attempting to destroy the veil, these two factors are the foundations of everything we know about Dragon Age 4 in the works, everything else is sheer speculation and tinfoil!
Even Project Joplin, the previous Dragon Age game in-development which has being reworked into Morrison; the now-next Dragon Age project, confirmed that the game would be set in Tevinter! So, the Imperium confirmed as the next game's main setting is nothing new, like at all!
With that, the fact that it's news that Tevinter is going to be the setting now, is all rather weird, however, I guess we can say with certainty judging by a few of the developers tweets is that, yes, we're going to Tevinter in Dragon Age 4!
So, as we already were, we can prepare to enter the magocracy empire of the Imperium, embracing (hopefully) for some truly dark fantasy storytelling, if not that, well at least there's the goofy Gothic fashion style..
In any case, this was only meant to be a short, satire news piece, covering the fact that yes, indeed, we're going to the Tevinter Imperium when Dragon Age 4 hits us, to prepare we'll have the novel Tevinter Nights landing March next year!