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Dragon Age: The Veilguard lets players create a Non-Binary or Transgender character. Let’s explore what these choices mean in the game.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will let you create a trans or non-binary character in the game if you wish to do so. Players might be looking to make Rook more relatable or just experiment with how the fictional world of Thedas would treat them if they were a little different than others.
BioWare doesn’t explore themes of gender identity too deeply, but it doesn’t ignore it completely. As a result, choosing your character’s identity to be non-binary or trans might allow you to live out some dialogues in the game differently.
There are many options on the character creation screen when you are starting the game. This window also allows you to select pronouns for the character. These pronouns, however, are only there to address Rook in dialogues. Even if you select binary pronouns, you can still change your gender identity when the main character interacts with a hand mirror for the first time in Varric’s room.
Exploring Transgender and Non-Binary Options in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
You can explore different gender identity options in the game by using a hand mirror for the first time. Since the game does not focus on Thedas’ social structure, issues of gender identity are primarily personal, and characters typically do not discuss them. However, if the topic does arise, you have the complete freedom to engage in conversations about it using specific dialogue options.
There are also plot points that explore this topic, but the game doesn’t dive much deeper into it than dialogue choices. BioWare kept the player’s transgender or non-binary identity balanced with other aspects of the character’s identity, including race, faction background, and class.
If you are worried about potentially overlooking your character’s non-binary side, don’t be. The game gives you a signpost so you can make an informed decision whenever a choice like this presents itself.
The rest is for you to explore and evaluate how well BioWare represents gender identity in the medieval fantasy world of Thedas, amid an interdimensional threat.
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