Should you help Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard?

With both cities under attack, you must choose to help Treviso or Minrathous in Dragon Age Veilguard

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The Dragon Age Veilguard help Minrathous or Treviso choice is a tough one as it forces you to pick between two companions and is sprung on you with no warning. As both cities are being menaced by Blight Dragons controlled by the Evanuris gods ofDragon Age The Veilguard, the city you don’t choose to help suffers quite a lot, and the respective companion – Neve for Minrathous and Lucanis for Treviso – loses their trust in you. With quite far-reaching consequences, this is a difficult choice with no right answer, so I’ve laid out the outcomes for choosing to defend Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard below.Obviously, spoilers ahead for what happens after you make this major Dragon Age Veilguard choice.

Dragon Age Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso choice explained

Your decision to help either Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard is largelydown to your own preference and whichDragon Age Veilguard companionyou don’t want to upset– in short, defending Treviso will annoy Neve and defending Minrathous will annoy Lucanis.

Otherwise, helping Minrathous does seem to have slightly more of an impact due to the Venatori presence there, but the consequences for each choice are very similar, causing things like side quests to auto-fail and for the relevant companion to gain theDragon Age Veilguard Hardenedeffect – this won’t lock you out of theseDragon Age Veilguard romance options, but it will make them harder to pursue.

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New side quests will also appear in whichever city is not defended, which show the wider consequences of your choice. You’ll also have to unlock allDragon Age Veilguard fast travelbeacons again in the city that got destroyed.If you’re not happy with the outcome, you can always reload a save, especially since you’re forced into this decision right after recruiting Davrin to your Veilguard team, with no chance to avoid it. Since auto-failing side quests is an important aspect of both choices, you might want to load an even earlier save to clear those off your map and journal before completing the A Warden’s Best Friend quest.If you’re after more specifics on each choice, here’s what happens when you opt to help Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard:

Help Minrathous in Dragon Age Veilguard

If you help Minrathous in Dragon Age Veilguard the following happens:

Help Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard

If you help Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard the following happens:

It’s no secret that tough choices in games can make some of thebest RPGs, but you can find out how Dragon Age 4 stacks up in ourDragon Age The Veilguard review.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.

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