Dragon Age: Origins Blog Update

Dragon Age: Origins executive producer Dan Tudge stopped by the game’s official blog on IGN to tell us about the organization known as the Grey Wardens.

Throughout the history of Thedas, there have been multiple Blights: events of incredible evil when hordes of darkspawn rose up from beneath the surface and spread across the world, slaughtering and enslaving anything in their path. With each Blight, the civilized world was brought to the brink of complete destruction, and it is only thanks to the Grey Wardens that the darkspawn were defeated and driven back underground.

The Grey Wardens are an ancient order of fearsome elite warriors, made up of only the most physically and mentally superior of all civilized races. Their sole purpose: to destroy all darkspawn and drive back the Blight. They are the last line of defense against a Blight, and are said to possess the unique ability to sense the presence of darkspawn, and have a greater knowledge than anyone else in Thedas of tactics used to combat these twisted creatures. The Grey Wardens were once a large and magnificent organization, the sight of them arriving in glorious numbers wherever darkspawn threatened was truly a sight to behold. They were revered by the people, and the nations of humanity once gladly supported them with food, equipment and a steady stream of recruits.