Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a lot of things — a long-awaited sequel that can’t live up to expectations, a tight action RPG with superb combat, and a fittingly complex ending to one of gaming’s most fascinating characters. Nearly two months after release there are parts of Veilguard I love, and ones I wish were better. But what I didn’t expect, was that it would be the single game that resonated with me most on a deeply personal level — entirely because of a single character.
Emmrich Volkarin is one of Veilguard’s main party members, a posh and sarcastic necromancer with a flair for the dramatic. On a surface level he’s one of the most compelling characters in Veilguard, but the more you dig into his personal quest the more you reveal deeply human layers — layers that astonishingly echoed my struggles with anxiety.
