One Dragon Age: The Veilguard Trick Actually Lets You Import Your Inquisitor's Appearance

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The protagonists of all four games are incredibly well-loved and often lovingly and meticulously customized. Frequently, these custom characters will make appearances in subsequent games to aid and often «pass the torch» to the new protagonist facing the latest threat to Thedas. A customized Hawke makes a cameo in at the request of Varric to aid the Inquisitor against Corypheus. And, in BioWare's latest release,, a customized Inquisitor has a cameo to help Rook against Solas.

introduced a deep, sophisticated Character Creator menu that gave players near-total control of their Rook's appearance in ways never before available in the franchise. Unfortunately, despite all the new features available in this menu, there's no obvious functionality for players to begin a new playthrough of and import Rook's appearance from a previous save when customizing the Inquisitor. However, despite not having a straightforward button, it appears the import function for Rook can in fact work for the Inquisitor, if players are willing to use a small workaround.

Given released 10 years ago, players have had plenty of time to become attached to their custom Inquisitor, and the prospect of needing to recreate an older version of them over and over in upgraded Character Creation tool can make starting a new playthrough seem especially daunting. Thankfully, as discovered by Bluesky user @saewuvv and later reported by , importing an Inquisitor is as easy as importing Rook, as long as players do a bit of convoluted preparation first.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard omits the Keep and suffers for it. This tool allowed custom worlds in Dragon Age Inquisition and made Thedas feel unique.

Only Rook's appearance can be changed during gameplay, so players only have one chance to get their Inquisitor right before they are saddled with the locked-in appearance for the entire campaign. The ability to import a custom appearance for the Inquisitor allows players to not only get started on a new save faster but