Dragon Age 4 likely isn’t coming for a while yet, but there’s still plenty of ways to be involved with the franchise. For example, BioWare has recently partnered with Dark Horse comics to announce Dragon Age: Dark Fortress.
The new comic stars the returning character Fenris and takes place after the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Story details are sparse, but the plot will involve Fenris teaming up with Inquisition agents to infiltrate the titular fortress.
Fans last saw Fenris in Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, where he and his team foiled a plot to create an army of Red Lyrium super soldiers, and it ended on a pretty big cliffhanger, so Dark Fortress will likely continue where that series left off. What waits inside and how the new comic fits into Dragon Age’s franchise-wide narrative has yet to be seen, so fans will just have to be patient until the first issue drops at the end of March 2021.
Dragon Age: Dark Fortress is the work of Nunzio DeFilippis, Fernando Heinz Furukawa, Michael Atiyeh, and Christina Weir. This is the same team that worked on Blue Wraith, which is a strong indicator of what to expect from the new series, and each issue will feature cover art designed by Sachin Teng, another familiar name to Blue Wraith fans.
This isn’t Fenris’ first rodeo in the comics, but he’s only played the one integral role in Dragon Age 2, not appearing in any other video game. While not unanimously beloved within the fandom, he nonetheless has a passionate following in the Dragon Age community, and it is not surprising that such a popular character would keep finding his way back into the series.
And fans may want to read closely, as BioWare has made of habit of using other media to foreshadow events in the Dragon Age games. For example, the novel Dragon Age: The Calling introduced important characters and concepts that appeared in the Dragon Age: Origin’s Awakening expansion. The books Asunder and The Masked Empire played a similar role for Dragon Age: Inquisition. With Dragon Age 4, or whatever BioWare ends up calling it, taking place in the Tevinter Imperium, it wouldn’t be surprising if players had to confront the fallout of whatever Fenris gets up to in Dark Fortress.
This seems to bode well for anyone hoping to see Fenris return in Dragon Age 4. If this comes true, however, he will likely be relegated to a cameo. After all, Fenris is dead in many people’s playthroughs.
The first issue of Dragon Age: Dark Fortress releases on March 31, 2021.
Source: Game Informer
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