Dragon Age: Absolution announces December 9 premiere and a very stacked voice cast
Netflix’s animated Dragon Age series has delivered a new trailer and a stacked voice cast list.
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Dragon Age: Absolution, Netflix’s next animated adaptation of a game series, will premiere December 9, it has announced today alongside a new story trailer.
“When a heist against the most powerful man in Tevinter goes south, an elven mercenary named Miriam is forced into a desperate fight for survival,” Netflix says. “Now, to save herself and her friends, Miriam will have to confront the tragic past she’s spent a lifetime trying to escape.”
The new story trailer gets into Miriam’s background as a former slave in Tevinter before being sent on a mission (by the Inquisition, it appears) to steal a golden ouroboros-looking artifact called the Circulum Infinitus. Because wouldn’t you know it, it’s fueled by blood magic. So they’ll just be taking that out of dark magic-loving Tevinter then, thank you very much.
When Absolution’s first teaser trailer was revealed, we didn’t have details on when in Thedas’s timeline the show would be set. That plot summary above also doesn’t specify but don’t worry, there’s a nice cameo in the trailer that definitively settles Absolution taking place in the same timeline as the game series, likely preceding the events of upcomingDragon Age: Dreadwolf.
Cassandra and Leliana holding a meeting in a dark, stone fortress? Feels like I’ve been here before. It seems likely then that this is a story set during the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition, in which two of the Inquisitor’s advisors send off Miriam and her crew on one of those oh-so-many war table missions across the continent.
Dragon Age: Absolution will have six 30 minute episodes all premiering at once on December 9. It’s produced by Red Dog Culture House, which also produced The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, led by showrunner Mairghread Scott, and directed by Ki-Yong Bae. Netflix also announced the main voice cast today with names and descriptions of their characters. Here’s who’s who in Absolution:
Down in the trailer’s description, Netflix has left another little hint that says “PS: if you’ve read this far, see you on Dragon Age Day. Or maybe sooner.” Dragon Age Day is a fan holiday for the series on December 4 each year, so perhaps there will be additional details about Absolution a few days prior to the show premiere.
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