Dragon Age: The Veilguardhis the ending is one of the best segments in the game, if not the entire series. But it is secret endingone that you unlock by doing specific side quests and finding certain artifacts around the world is a bit more controversial. After fans unlocked the scene in question, some weren’t thrilled with how it seemed to rewrite the show’s history. Answering this, Veilguard creative director John Epler tried to clarify some interpretations of the scene. Spoilers ahead!

First, let’s lay out what the secret ending entails. After the credits roll, we see illustrations of several key moments from Dragon Age series. This includes Loghain betraying the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age: OriginsBartrand stealing the lyrium idol in Dragon Age IIand Corypheus tearing the Brecha into the sky in Inquisition. However, the difference is that these scenes are represented with cloaked figures called the Executors. The implication is that the Executors pulled the strings Dragon Age universe over time, and some fans took this to mean that this faction controlled the villains in each game to do their bidding.

Epler took it Bluesky to clear up this misconception using ROT13 code to hide spoilers from those who haven’t beaten the game yet. But his translated message explains that while the Executors nudged history through the decades, Loghain, Bartrand, and Corypheus all acted of their own free will.

“(T)he reading of the balanced, whispered, guided word is VERY DELIBERATE,” reads Epler’s deciphered message. “Nobody was forced or coerced or controlled to make choices.

It is extremely important that, in the end, everyone makes their own choices. they still own the consequences of those decisions because Dragon Age is another series about people making decisions of their own free will and those decisions have consequences”

It is not clear how the Executors “guided” the past Dragon Age villains, and we don’t even have a concrete idea of ​​what they hoped to gain by pushing history in those directions. Right now, the running theory is that they might be involved with the Forgotten Ones, elven gods who were long removed from the contemporary elves’ pantheon, worshiped before the events of Veilguard. Whatever the truth, VeilguardHis post-credits scene heavily implies that they will play a major role in the next one Dragon Age game, but it’s probably still a few years away as BioWare shifts its focus to the fifth future Mass effect.