BioWare veteran Mark Darrah has revealed an internal pitch for Dragon Age 4 that was never shared with fans.

This pitch was shared in the form of a book which Darrah says was distributed within BioWare and to higher ups at EA. The idea behind the book was to “remain relevant” with the publisher, and to try and secure early funding and new hires for the project.

“There's always a fear, and I think a legitimate fear, within a big publishing organization that you will get cancelled or in, the in case of EA, you will simply be allowed to be to remain on a starvation diet to the point where you cannot continue,” Darrah said in a new video published to his YouTube channel.

“This is where ultimately this book comes into being,” he continued. “This was made in mid-2016 to be something that I could give to the team, but also something I could give senior people within the EA organization to say, ‘Look, we're doing a Dragon Age. Don't forget that Dragon Age: Inquisition was a super great game that sold super well, so you want another one, right?’"

The book focusses on what was then referred to as Joplin, the original plan for a fourth Dragon Age game. This was later cancelled in favour of a live service Dragon Age 4, which in turn, was partially scrapped and retooled in the single-player Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

As for Joplin, this book gives us an idea as to what BioWare was cooking behind the scenes.

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