Fictional Dragon Age dwarf publishes precise actual novel

Varric Tethras, co-star of each Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, was by no means your regular swords & sorcery dwarf. Clean-shaven, bare-chested, playfully roguish and broadly disinterested within the regular Dwarven issues of mining and business.

Beyond his core defining ‘sexy dwarf’ trait, he additionally had one different notable quirk: He was an writer, and all through Dragon Age: Inquisition, you can discover excerpts from his noir thriller, Hard in Hightown. Originally a operating joke, the e-book is now set to be published for real, ‘co-written’ by BioWare wordsmith Mary Kirby.

Hard In Hightown isn’t due out till the tip of July, sadly. Despite the title making it sound like a steamy novel for much less morally pure types, it’s a gritty crime thriller set in Varric’s outdated hang-out of Kirkwall (town that many gamers received intimately acquainted with in Dragon Age 2), telling the story of a hard-boiled city guardsman, his green-as-grass rookie accomplice, and their mission to unravel a sinister assassination plot.

Apparently Varric has taken the recommendation of ‘write what you know’ to coronary heart, and has given all of his buddies from Dragon Age 2 roles within the novel, though I’m hedging my bets and guessing that DA2 protagonist Hawke received’t be an excessive amount of of a spotlight, on account of their variable gender and identification making them an excessive amount of of a free canon, even for a pulp journey novel like this. Still, you could be fairly positive that a bunch of individuals are getting shivved within the e-book, at the very least in line with very Welsh Elven lass Merrill who affords a canopy blurb quote.

It’s nice to see that Bioware are nonetheless throwing the occasional bone to the Dragon Age fanbase, at the same time as nearly all of the studio’s consideration appears to be on Iron Man Does Destiny (or Anthem, to make use of its colloquial identify). Looking again, it’s laborious to consider that Dragon Age: Inquisition got here out all the way in which again in late 2014, so having an in-jokey tie-in e-book printed three and a half years later appears like an odd resolution, but it surely’s a reassuring one nonetheless.