Should you help Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard?

Oct. 31, 2024

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

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The Dragon Age Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso choice appears with no warning, forcing you to help one city and companion over another. Unfortunately, there aren’t really any good outcomes for this choice either, as both places being simultaneously menaced by Blight Dragons under the control of Ghilan’nain means oneDragon Age The Veilguardcity is going to suffer a lot more than the other, along with the respective faction and companion – Neve and the Shadow Dragons for Minrathous and Lucanis and the Antivan Crows for Treviso. To help you make this tricky choice, I’ve laid out the outcomes for defending 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 whichDragon Age Veilguard companionand faction you don’t want to upset– in short, defending Treviso will annoy Neve and cause the Shadow Dragons to suffer a lot and defending Minrathous will annoy Lucanis and harm the Antivan Crows.

Overall, I thinksaving Minrathous is the marginally better choice, but only because the Antivan Crows lose just 100 Strength from this choice, compared to the -250 Strength the Shadow Dragons suffer when saving Treviso. However, bear in mind that this choice also completely locks out Lucanis as aDragon Age Veilguard romance option.

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Otherwise, while there are some specific outcomes which I’ve explained further down, the broader consequences for each choice are very similar:side quests auto-fail, the faction merchant dies, fast travel beacons deactivate, and the relevant companion gains theDragon Age Veilguard Hardened effect. The choice alsodoes not affect your game’s ending.

If you’re not happy with your decision, 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.

Opting to defend Minrathous in Dragon Age Veilguard puts you onto the“On Blighted Wings”quest in which youfight the Blight Dragon in Minrathous, only for it get called away by Ghilan’nain, saving the city from further Blight damage. Because of your decision, the follow happens:

Choosing to defend Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard begins the quest“On Deadly Wings”in which you, Lucanis, and another companionfight the Blight Dragon in Treviso, but it gets called away by Ghilan’nain, saving the city from the full force of the Blight. It has the following effects:

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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