Dragon Age: The Veilguard: Walkthrough & Boss Guide
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🗺️ Main Story Walkthrough
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This is a condensed story overview (with spoilers) and a few boss notes, not a full walkthrough. The plot summary follows Wikipedia and the quest and boss details follow Gamer Guides. The Elgar'nan fight notes on this page were verified in an earlier pass and are kept as they were; we could not re-load a source for them in this pass.
Ten years after Dragon Age: Inquisition, the elven god Solas tries to destroy the Veil. Varric Tethras and Lace Harding recruit Rook, the player character, to stop him. Rook, Varric and Harding chase Solas to Minrathous and then to Arlathan Forest, where Rook interrupts his ritual. This frees the elven gods Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain and traps Solas in the Fade. Solas and Rook become linked by a blood connection, and Varric is badly wounded.
Rook makes the Lighthouse, Solas's former base in the Fade, a base of operations and travels the Crossroads to win over factions across northern Thedas. Rook recruits the companions, including Bellara, Lucanis, Davrin, Emmrich and Taash, along with Neve. Blighted dragons attack Minrathous and Treviso, and Rook must choose which city to save. Saving Minrathous leads to the quest On Blighted Wings, saving Treviso to On Deadly Wings.
At Weisshaupt, Rook either persuades the First Warden or knocks him out, and the Grey Wardens fend off a siege led by Ghilan'nain and the Archdemon Razikale. Razikale dies, which makes Ghilan'nain mortal. This is not an Act 1 climax and not a straight defeat: the siege is won, and the story continues into The Price of the Past.
Gamer Guides lists the quests of The Price of the Past in this order: The Cauldron, Fire and Ice, Unwanted Guests, Blood of Arlathan, For the Love of Treviso, Isle of the Gods and A Cage for Gods. The Cauldron starts after The Siege of Weisshaupt, when you talk to Davrin after a waiting period. Per Wikipedia the gods plan a ritual on Tearstone Island at the next eclipse; Rook and allies assault the island, Davrin or Harding sacrifices themselves, and Lucanis kills Ghilan'nain. Solas then betrays Rook, imprisons them in the Fade and takes the red lyrium dagger, and Rook later learns that Solas killed Varric.
Rook's team breaks through the defenses guarding the Archon's palace. They learn that killing Elgar'nan would collapse the Veil, so an elven god must be bound to it. Solas hands the dagger back, helps defeat Elgar'nan and his Archdemon Lusacan, then betrays Rook again to bring down the Veil. Rook can bind Solas by force, either by fighting him or by tricking him with a duplicate dagger, or can convince him to stop the ritual and bind himself voluntarily. The ending that follows depends on your accumulated choices.
⚔️ Boss Guides
Gloom Howler
Attack Patterns
The Gloom Howler leads the darkspawn horde in The Cauldron, which you start after The Siege of Weisshaupt by speaking to Davrin after a waiting period. You reach the site through the Hossberg Wetlands. Gamer Guides says the fight has two phases: destroy six blight cysts (three on the eastern side, then three on the western side), then defeat the darkspawn horde led by the Gloom Howler.
Strategy
Gamer Guides lists rewards of 670 gold, 5 Fade-Touched Ore, an Antaam Bindings cosmetic and +100 Grey Wardens Strength. We did not verify any weakness, barrier or phase-threshold details for this fight, so none are claimed.
Seartooth Vyrantus
Attack Patterns
Seartooth Vyrantus is a blighted fire dragon fought in On Blighted Wings if you saved Minrathous. Its attacks are Fireball, Fireball Volley, Diving Flop, Drop Slam and Fire Breath Ray. Deflecting does not work against it, so you must dodge. In this quest you only need to reduce it to about 75% health to repel it. If you saved Treviso you fight Corius the Icetalon instead, and both dragons appear together in the later Fire and Ice fight.
Strategy
Gamer Guides advises dodging fireballs to the side at mid range or farther, keeping your distance from the volley, moving out as soon as the dragon starts hovering for the Drop Slam, and running behind it during the Fire Breath Ray sweep. Hit limbs with a purple glow before the glow moves, and fill the stagger bar so the dragon crashes down and exposes its heart. In the Fire and Ice fight, the guide says to attack the glowing legs to stagger a dragon, use companion detonation abilities, and focus on one dragon in the second phase; an ally with ballista bolts (Viago if you saved Treviso, The Viper if you saved Minrathous) arrives when one dragon drops to half health.
Ghilan'nain
Attack Patterns
The assault on Tearstone Island (listed by Gamer Guides as the Isle of the Gods quest) is where Rook confronts Ghilan'nain. Per Wikipedia, Davrin or Harding sacrifices themselves, and Lucanis kills Ghilan'nain. We could not verify the specific boss mechanics of this fight, and an earlier claim that she cannot be damaged directly was removed.
Strategy
Because Razikale's death makes Ghilan'nain mortal, this is a fight you can win. Companion choices matter for the sacrifice beat.
Elgar'nan (Final Boss)
Attack Patterns
Elgar'nan is the final boss of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In the first fight he uses lightning attacks: a Lightning Blast (a large circle that appears after a charge-up, followed by a ground slam), lightning bolts and balls, wide Lightning Slash sword swings, and Aspects of himself — four copies that form a line and fire line attacks until they are killed. At about 10% health the arena goes dark and you cannot damage him; dodge until a red electricity beam subdues you, which starts the second fight. In the second fight he is faster, his attacks leave persistent flames, and he uses Explosive Leap, Flame Slash, Eruption, fireballs and Flaming Walls.
Strategy
In the first fight he is weak to Necrotic and resists Electric, so bring Lucanis or Emmrich for Necrotic damage, stay at range while his big lightning attacks charge, and kill the Aspects quickly. Dodge or Deflect the Lightning Slash. In the second fight he resists Fire and is weak to Cold, so favor Cold damage. Flame Slash is his most frequent attack, so Deflecting it helps a lot, and during Eruption you can stand in the center or behind him. Bring the maximum number of Revives.
Sources & fact-check
Release facts, mechanics and boss details on this page were checked against these sources on 12 October 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.