Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pushes Woke Agenda with Top Surgery Scars

BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard Goes Full Woke with Top Surgery Scars and Pansexual Characters

BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard is pushing inclusivity to a new level, as revealed by the character creator, which features “top surgery scars” as a customization option. Influencers and media outlets recently got a preview of this feature, confirming early reports about the game’s strong ideological messaging. Game Informer’s Wesley LeBlanc shared that the character creator has inclusivity “at its heart,” allowing players to choose from four races: Elves, Qunari, Humans, and Dwarves. But what makes this even more “progressive” is the ability to toggle pronouns (she/her, he/him, they/them), select non-binary gender options, and customize body types, complete with full nudity for customizing undergarments. This certainly isn't the typical Dragon Age experience.

The Dragon Age: The Veilguard character customization isn't just about fantasy aesthetics; it's about integrating political and ideological content. For example, players can adjust their character’s top surgery scars—further normalizing transgender ideology in the game. The creator also allows players to blur the lines between traditional male and female appearances with a range of features including non-traditional hair dyes, voice pitch adjustments, and more. This level of customization highlights The Veilguard's objective: not to entertain, but to spread social messages.

But the wokeness doesn’t stop there. Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director John Epler confirmed that all companion characters are canonically pansexual, ensuring that no character’s romance options are defined by the player’s gender choices. Epler described that companions’ backstories will reference their diverse romantic experiences, adding a layer of pansexuality to each relationship. So whether you choose to flirt or not, characters will still form romantic bonds with others. In fact, these bonds get quite spicy in the later parts of the game, reinforcing the game's approach to LGBTQ+ representation.

Given these options, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is not merely a fantasy RPG, but a direct effort to push the normalization of queer representation in video games. Pansexual characters, non-binary gender choices, and top surgery scars are integral to this new Dragon Age installment, aligning with the studio's progressive direction. With features like top surgery scars and non-binary character options, the game clearly steps away from traditional fantasy RPG roots and dives into social commentary.

It's also worth noting that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is just one of many recent games featuring these types of political messages, and with the game's anticipated release, fans are left wondering if this is what they truly want from the series. With a creative director focused on adding “spicy” pansexual romance scenes and a developer team committed to embedding real-world issues into the character creator, The Veilguard seems to have one goal in mind—normalizing ideologies under the guise of a medieval fantasy RPG.