Dragon Age: Absolution’s New Trailer Teases a Deadly Magical Heist

The world of Dragon Age is usually rocked by monstrous invasions, magical and theistic conflicts, and different life-altering occasions. While the stakes appear excessive for it, it seems just like the new animated collection Absolution goes to take a leaf out of the pages of the wonderful Dragon Age II, and do one thing somewhat smaller.

In a brand new trailer launched at present, Netflix gave us our first correct good take a look at Dragon Age: Absolution. Set throughout an unknown level within the saga’s timeline, Absolution takes views into the guts of the Tevinter Imperium, a strong bastion of magic customers in any other case shunned and persecuted for his or her harmful talents the world over of Thedas—a land the place magic guidelines with a merciless iron fist. Following the story of a younger Elven rogue named Miriam (Mass Effect’s Kimberly Brooks), Absolution explores a gaggle of mercenaries tasked with staging a harmful heist towards one of the vital highly effective mages in Tevinter, secreting away a blood magic-infused ring.

Odds are, as is often the case in the case of blood magic in Dragon Age, issues aren’t going to be straightforward for Miriam and her allies, as you may see by the quantity of bloody motion, spell-slinging, and common demonic havoc occurring within the trailer above. It’s positively bought a number of the Dragon Age vibe—past the very fact we’ve bought persecuted elves, harmful mages, and races like Dwarves and Qunari. If something, it feels closest to the oft-maligned Dragon Age II, a chapter of the sport collection that strove to attempt to inform a smaller-scale story confined to a single story, following the lifetime of a younger immigrant turned unlikely champion named Hawke. Yes, there’s plenty of nasty demons and dire portents, however a heist isn’t precisely a world-ending quest, and the banter between the occasion looks as if the thought right here is to inform one thing small and attention-grabbing within the setting of Tevinter earlier than we go go to it in depth within the upcoming Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

Dragon Age: Absolution, which additionally stars Matthew Mercer (Fairbanks), Ashly Burch (Qwydion), Sumalee Montano (Hira), Phil LaMarr (Roland), Keston John (Lacklon), Josh Keaton (Rezaren), and Zehra Fazal (Tassia), hits Netflix on December 9.

Want extra io9 information? Check out when to anticipate the newest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on movie and TV, and every part you’ll want to find out about James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water.