Dragon Age: Veilguard
Rook is the playable character protagonist of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The player is able to choose the character’s race, gender, class, and first name.
Varric Tethras personally participated in one of Rook’s daring exploits, which proved to Varric that they had the cleverness, adaptability, and determination that Varric needed in his second-in-command. Fortunately for Varric, Rook’s daring exploit was controversial enough for their faction to send them away for a while, which gave Varric the opportunity to recruit them into his team, the Veilguard.
Rook joins Varric Tethras in Minrathous to track down Neve Gallus, a local investigator and Shadow Dragon for assistance in locating Solas to stop him from tearing down the Veil. Not long after taking to the streets, Solas begins his ritual in Arlathan Forest, causing disruptions in the Veil that allow demons to pour into the city from the Fade. Varric and Rook rush forward to find Lace Harding saving a civilian from demon attacks.
Together, the three fight off demons while tracking Neve, eventually discovering that she allowed herself to be taken by Venatori cultists and had freed herself when demons began assaulting the city. She joins Rook and their allies in finding Solas’s eluvian and using it to travel to his ritual site in Arlathan Forest. When they arrive at the ritual, Varric confronts Solas in an attempt to turn him from his ambitions. Rook, Harding, and Neve fend off demons until Rook suggests they interrupt the ritual while Varric distracts Solas.
Despite Neve’s warnings of potential consequences stemming from such an interruption, Rook decides to target the supports holding up a large elven statue in the ritual area, destroying much of the site and pulling Solas’s focus from the ritual. The interruption inadvertently allows two elven gods, Ghilan’nain and Elgar’nan, to escape their imprisonment while trapping Solas in the Fade. In the commotion, some of Rook’s blood interacts with the ritual, permanently connecting Rook to the Fade.
Rook and their allies awaken in the Lighthouse, a base within the Fade once used by Solas. The group decides to return to Arlathan Forest where they are rescued from demonic attack by Strife and Irelin, two Veil Jumpers who had previously joined forces with Varric and Harding to protect an artifact known as the crucious stone from Solas and the Venatori, though Solas had already retrieved the stone before they could locate it. Strife and Irelin are searching for fellow Veil Jumper Bellara Lutare and eventually find her with Rook’s assistance.
Rook and their allies encounter Darkspawn, a surprise to Bellara who notes that Darkspawn do not usually appear in Arlathan as the Deep Roads from which they emerge are not close to the forest. Bellara also notes that the group is within a “Veil Bubble” and assists them in escaping by locating and activating an artifact called the “Nadas Dirthalen” (meaning “the inevitability of knowledge” in elven). The artifact is destroyed in the process, but only after revealing itself to house an Archive Spirit. The group decides to return to the Veil Jumper camp where Bellara intends to repair the Nadas Dirthalen.