12 - Trespasser Score - Eluvian Battle Suite

[@fenharel3991]

Trespasser was peak Dragon Age, and for me personally, peak gaming. Trevor Morris elevated the game and this DLC in particular to heights that may never be reached again. Chasing Solas through eluvians across gorgeous scenery and mountains, learning about the legends of him freeing the other Elvhen slaves, and killing the rogue Qunari chasing him. All while never knowing if this is our last ride as the Inquisitor, never knowing if the anchor is going to kill us and periodically exploding, damaging our teammates. And finally everything coming together right at the peak of this soundtrack in an incredible and still the hardest fight against the unleashed Sarebas… how I wish I could experience the entire ride again. Thank you Trevor Morris and the writers of Trespasser.

[@selwyn9631]

We should've been able to join Solas in the battle against both Elgar'nan and Lusacan at the same time while this battle theme played.

[@koto2211]

The date is November 2024. DA4 has released and Hanz MF Zimmer could not top this. Trevor Morris set the bar too high, Inquisition/Trespasser is legitimately his best work.

[@TheInterestRates]

This song/leitmotif, to me, is the sound of time is running out.

[@Itsumi456]

Whether it's to rescue a lover, help a friend or bring down hell on a betrayer, this really works as this culmination of everything inquisition has led to, especially when it's potentially the last time you'll ever be the inquisition again.

[@LadySunderlyn]

The soundtrack from Trespasser really feels like a grown up version of the Dragon Age series. Like... now the time has come where the serious shit begins.

[@Spiralpaladin]

Indeed. Because what's on the horizon...it's bigger than the Grey Wardens. Bigger than the Darkspawn. Bigger than the Qunari. Bigger than the Mage Rebellion. Bigger than Corypheus. And we are the only ones who can face it before it consumes everything we've fought so hard and sacrificed so much to protect.

[@jackiemortes]

Let's hope next Dragon Age continues in this direction

[@deathmeo]

bro i got legit scared when this god damn track suddenly dropped when i went through the eluvian LMFAO. I thought oh great finally time to heal my hand, SIKE NOTTTT!! I legit thought WAIT WHY'S BOSS MUSIC PLAYING!?? oh man i get flashbacks to this day everytime i hear this track xD

[@mordraynlachant271]

Track is real good, but DAO remains as the most gritty and mature in the series, companions like Iron Bull and others just ruined the mood and good chunks of lore.

[@wojciechciagaa7723]

​@@mordraynlachant271 Iron Bull is basically big Zevran.

[@ookami-chan3328]

This was one of the highest moments in the whole DA franchise for me when I heard this for the first time as my Lavellan.

[@francojavierfazio9670]

X2

[@finriltiengou7172]

Var lath vir suledin....the most intense romance in any bioware game

[@jonathonbartos3061]

@@finriltiengou7172 I really hope the Inquisitor is a major part of the game in DA4, in order to provide closure to the story of the Inquisitor and Solas. Because no matter what, those two are connected, whether through love, friendship, or hatred. DA4 would be empty without the Inquisitor.

[@finriltiengou7172]

@@jonathonbartos3061 Major part I don't think so. But the Inquisitor has to be in DA4 for sure at the conclusion of the game. Could also have a specific ending with a elven female saving Solas and living together thereafter (or allying with him forcing the player to kill them both). There's a lot to do with DA4. Let's hope Bioware don't made the same mistakes they done with Andromeda.

[@16Vagabond]

I felt so desperate to save my Egg, cutting through hordes of Qunari, this theme was so awesome. Nothing was going to stop me :

[@johansimp]

Ive been playing veilguard for a week already, and this whole time I couldnt stop thinking about trespasser and its soundtrack. How breathtaking, mature and serious this DLC was... and now we have the veilguard. It hurts

[@Kira.wolf98]

Me too! I feel a bit empty after what we got with Veilguard...so much potential wasted

[@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong]

I'm right with you bro. Trespasser really was the peak of DA, it seems.

[@N7Prometheus]

​@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong Origins

[@sirmarshall9521]

@@N7Prometheus A lot of rose tinted glasses when it comes to Origins, though - there are a lot of parts of that game that don't hold up well. That said, it's still a hood classic forever.

[@Bethgael]

The way this theme just builds up and up upon itself as you get closer to your goal... having to let that hand just GO before it explodes more and more often... dude. And then, the quiet version, when Something Very Important was happening. Perfect end to an otherwise flawed game, and so much more satisfying than the Cory fight! :D

[@Nagoalc]

I just really hope the next game won't be tainted with all the bad stuff that has reported to be there. Dragon age 4 could be amazing if they just keep to telling a good story, and not live services, lootboxes and wokism...

[@Nero1920]

@@Nagoalc But you played Dragon Age right? It was always "WOKE" ... just telling you

[@Muffers]

*WHY* wouldn't this be released as part of the official soundtrack? This was the most memorable soundtrack (apart from the track during the destruction of the darkspawn nest in The Descent) in the game to me. It's so powerful. Makes me so excited for DA4. I hope this track's reprised for battle themes with Solas's forces.

[@GameslordXY]

He doesn't need Forces given how powerful he is😄😄😄

[@MandalorianRevan]

It was released as part of the soundtrack.

[@tacos9323]

@@MandalorianRevan it wasn’t ? i can’t find anywhere

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

It wasn't part as the original soundtrack because it was DLC content and not part of the base game.

[@Kiraiko44]

They really went all in for the soundtrack for this game, this song is probably the most pumped I can ever remember feeling going into a battle and it was in part because this song was just SO epic.

[@destructiveraider]

This is a phenomenal piece. I just finished Trespasser last night (I know I'm ages late with this game) and I was legitimately fighting and crying simultaneously when this music kicked in. My inquisitor, his amatus - Dorian, Bull and Cassandra all running to Solas' rescue and cutting through hordes of Qunari, all while Quizzy was dying of pain because of The Anchor... Forever engraved in my mind. I wish I could erase my memory of this game to play it again for the first time - from start to finish. Such a masterpiece.

[@Inblader]

I first played the game in 2015 + this dlc, only one run, i thought it was an ok game for some reason i did not enjoy it as much, i didn't feel connected to the characters or my inquisitor. 2 weeks ago I decided to do play it again because the GOTY edition was on sale and I completed Tresspasser just last night... The game hit me differently, it's like I understood the game better, fell in love with the characters, felt the weight of the world on my inquisitor shoulders and damn the chemistry of my female dwarf with Blackwall was something I wasn't expecting at all. I even managed to get Dorian and Bull together. What you described with the pain of the anchor manifesting and hurting the squad made me feel the same way, desperate to reach for Solas. That's what I call a masterpiece, the love put into this game is astonishing, what a good and rare feeling! I wish the game had a real NG+.

[@destructiveraider]

@@Inblader This is a beautiful comment. I'm very happy you *felt* the game after returning to it after so many years. Sometimes we need to revisit something to truly appreciate and FEEL it. I'm so happy you got to experience it now.

[@Inblader]

@@destructiveraider I guess I recognized myself in your beautiful comment!

[@destructiveraider]

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[@deathmeo]

LMFAO i can attest to that! I got freaked the fuck out when this damn track dropped!! I am forever scarred because of the whole god damn tresspasser DLC XDDD playing female Lavellan in my first play through was a nasty surprise to my mental health xD

[@littlebighead4482]

the final battle in trespasser felt so much better and cooler than the actual fight with corypheus in the main story, i felt like trespasser redeemed so much of the game for me

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Naturally it was a DLC a couple years after game was released so they had time to tweak what's fans liked and didn't like about the game. They did an exceptional job on trespasser. It's easily top 3 in dramatic finishes in games I've played.

[@Victor-qd7td]

I just love the music from the Trespaser DLC^^ The first time I heard it I knew that there was something very big and huge going down, and I was right, the whole DLC just blew me away^^

[@charlotte_lk]

Currently hyping myself up for Veilguard by re-listening the Inquisition soundtrack from top to bottom and this track suite always gives me the ultimate chills. The final fight of Trespasser was so epic, so heartbreaking, so gut-wrenching and exciting at the same time. I cannot believe the full suite was never included in the official soundtrack. Anyways, October 31st cannot come soon enough. I'm so ready to go back to Thedas.

[@nay_lah]

Same here !

[@Targolak]

So true! Trespasser was, imho, the finest bit of BioWare storytelling I've ever had the pleasure to play through. Also, while I'm usually not big on elves and elf-centric stories (I know, such a contrarian I am!), female elf Inquisitor romancing Solas is truly one of the most beautiful video game romances I've ever seen. Oh yes, it's hammy, oh yes, it's very melodramatic... but it just -works-! It's just so beautiful, so tragic. And my latest Inquisitor will attempt to redeem her love in The Veilguard, and I can't wait to see how that works out!

[@michaelbarrios9174]

I could listen to the Eluvian battle suite all day; just spine chilling.

[@tiriathcornica]

It still hurts. Damn you, Solas!

[@PoolNoodleGundam]

It hurts a lot less if you play the game like a total callous bastard. When it comes time for the metaphorical knife, I just kinda sit there thinking "Yeah Solas, I've punched you in the mouth enough times to deserve this. Now excuse me while I do it to you again."

[@celiarodriguezgonzalez8794]

I can't believe this piece is out of the official version of the bso. It's the best by far.

[@hattrickster33]

Score Forge: "Tracks created from files extracted from the game" EA: So you've chosen death.

[@bellebirk7386]

This gives me massive dragon age 2 vibes with the continuous drumming that sounds almost tribal. I love it.

[@leone41ll]

The battle you fight whilst tears pour from your eyes. We wil save our friend from himself, if we can.

[@AzurW01]

I used this for the final battlefield in my campaign as a DM, it fitted so perfectly

[@robertaperoglio]

I hope it had a less tragic ending!

[@yorukage9]

I did the same thing! It fits so well as theme that makes the players feel like time is running out.

[@arayashikinoshaka]

7:55 oh lord please let DA4 be as epic as this!

[@francojavierfazio9670]

X2 el hype me esta matando

[@finriltiengou7172]

Bioware is playing its whole reputation there. I was a huge fan of every single game of them since Baldur's gate. But the murder of the Mass Effect franchise done with Andromeda and the epic fail of Anthem had tarnished their reputation to a breaking piont. If DA 4 turned to be has shitty as those two last games (and I'm afraid it would be with EA and its greedy vision in the background) I'll never again played a single game from Bioware (if the company could survive to such a crash)

[@d.o.p.echart9483]

@@finriltiengou7172 I would argue it is not just EA that is at fault it would seem as though many of their best writers have left Bioware a prim example would be the dialogue and story in Mass Effect Andromeda.

[@mrsgamer9218]

@@finriltiengou7172 seeing as almost all the original staff left, da4 is doomed

[@juanlaise1059]

It has the potential to be the best Dragon Age in the franchise. The stuff with the Wardens in Weisshapt(civil war and Griffons returning), a Qunari invasion, Tevinter politics and Solas. It just needs to have a proper development and a team willing to exploit that potential. At least Solas write from DAI is the main writer so we can hope.

[@Leomerya12]

Trevor is a professional.

[@taralynstevenson4016]

Thank you for making this! It was by far the most moving and intense part of the game. I have never came to the end of a game with my heart pounding and mind scrabbled as if I was really on the battlefield as I was at the end of Trespasser, all because of the music. The need and urgency building was perfect and I doubt they will ever achieve that perfection again. Whoever had this idea when they pieced it all together was a master.

[@lamia8312]

My favorite soundtrack ever

[@reanschwarzer9512]

I hope they put the trespasser music on dragon age 4 but more darker sound or at least the same composer

[@roger5555ful]

Trevor Morris was the best thing that ever happened to Dragon Age

[@YoungMrBlue]

Maybe the new composer will remix it

[@CatgirlZoeUwU]

They got Hans Zimmer who trained Trevor Morris

[@Will-sb4hf]

@@CatgirlZoeUwU Unfortunately he's likely only wrote the main theme. The rest would be handled by another of his mentee Lorne Balfe.

[@cheesedanishable]

I really think this is Trevor Morris' magnum opus, where he was able to ply himself to an epic degree. I highly doubt we'll see its like in Veilguard so it won't have the same soul as Inquisition.

[@Crow_III]

Tell me, does this version of Solas feel like the same one in Veilguard? Trespasser was phenomenal.

[@16Vagabond]

This theme was so intense for me as a Lavellan. Nothing was gonna stop me from protecting my Egg from the Vidassala.

[@TCMusic-iv4nd]

"Var lath vir suledin." Because Bioware loves to stab us in the gut.

[@deathmeo]

Lmfao I unknowingly played the female Lavellan route my first DAI playthrough.. XD i WAS NOT PREPARED LMFAO i still get flashbacks and is now mentally scarred lol face palms 10000X

[@scottspeer7516]

The Dread Wolf approves

[@nagaimmortal5658]

Даже слушая в отрыве от игры, ощущение будто снова там, хочется бежать вперед и сердце стукает в ритм этого желания) Эх, Солас....

[@andreaturner7207]

THIS IS SO DAMN PERFECT!!! One of my favourite songs of all time, and you did this up SO EFFING WELL!!! KUDOS! AND MANY THANKS!!!

[@garysmithfan1432]

When that dark solas theme kicks in it makes the long fight even more epic i kept killing and killing countless quanari just trying to get to the portals

[@TheGallifreyanGal]

Thanks so much for releasing these! I've been waiting for something like this for a long while!

[@clannoire]

This is a 'rescue' theme; don't try to change my mind.

[@guddefulgaming]

That's what's beautiful about this. If you are lover, friend, or for, this theme fits. But it always is urgent, emotional and personal.

[@fencer1089]

It's a hunt for a traitor

[@cuervogris2087]

The dude is far more powerful and resolved than you are by the end of the game. If anyone needs to be rescued there, is you. Though that's what you might've been implying by your comment.

[@silverlegion9050]

If i live im going to stop you

[@GameslordXY]

@@cuervogris2087 Perhaps he meant salvation of the soul?

[@farigos4127]

I will never forget that it was music of Inquisition which brought me to Dragon Age franchise.

[@sethtyphon1771]

This is just to beautiful for me...

[@00dev]

thank you for putting this together!

[@MrMetalcraig]

Perfection! Thank you!

[@gzapray7203]

Never been so helpless and more determined during my final run at this DLC, especially at Nightmare with full trials on. Even if I died five times, I never got frustrated but instead tried again without complaining (usually I would rage, you should see me how I breathed fire when I failed several times during the Horizon and Collector Ship mission at ME2's Insanity playthrough) until I have them get to Solas to stabilize the mark. Damn it, my beloved Inquisitors Lavellan (Rogue/Assassin) and Trevelyan (Mage/Knight-Enchanter) deserve better shit.

[@yukimura6994]

Come on guys ! the wait is almost over ! we have to do everything in order to save Solas !

[@rethomore]

This will age like a fine wine in the next two or so years

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

If game would allow it I'd def help my friend complete his goals even if it ment my characters death.

[@katiet2497]

Love this so much... My go to when I need a pick-up. Thank you for posting.

[@emorfili2515]

Playing as Lavellan and listening to this 😍😍😍

[@finriltiengou7172]

Even better...Playing a female Lavellan in romance with Solas.

[@Hjalmar_an_Craite]

@@finriltiengou7172 Even better, playing a Lavellan who wants to make some scrambled eggs out of this egghead.

[@lindatepes8938]

@@Hjalmar_an_Craite no

[@cloudyar6726]

Will be twerking and crying to this until Veilguard comes out

[@YoungMrBlue]

Twerking???? Uhh dude no

[@denizcan6032]

@@YoungMrBlue uhh dude yes!

[@alexanderyuri796]

Go back in this game !!!!!!!

[@monsterhighwolf]

Damn my feels. Eggbf really crushed my heart. Can't wait for DA4.

[@TheDragonsRose]

Eggbf better be saveable by Lavellan in DA4 so they can go live their bittersweet romance in peace. That's all I demand.

[@adrianatoadere9118]

Welp... If frickin inquisition was this cool.... DA4 will break this worls out of its brains.

[@Elfinmaugetar]

the build up... omg the build up...

[@thedon9247]

What's the horn sounding instrument that plays around 1:30? it's quite an interesting sound.

[@Targolak]

I'm so sorry for being two years late, I never saw this comment before now despite checking this video out over all this time. You've no doubt moved on by now, so it likely doesn't matter, but somebody else might be curious. I believe it's a heavily modulated brass section with a flanging effect tied to it.

[@thedon9247]

@@Targolak All good, i still got the notification. Wasn't a huge fan of DAI, but i did enjoy the soundtrack in it a lot.

[@Targolak]

Yeah, the game definitely had its rough sides. I just rush Descent and Trespasser whenever playing it these days! Best parts of the game.

[@thedon9247]

@@Targolak For me the game peaked at the winter palace and dancing with the Duchess to the Orlais theme, but I agree the descent and trespasser were quite good highlights too in a lot of areas.

[@Targolak]

Oooh yeah, I LOVE the Halamshiral section as well! I just wish they did more with the actual Val Royeaux section. The city feels so tiny when the way Leliana described it in Origins made it feel like a huge, sprawling capital with a gilded upper class and a hidden dark side.

[@jessieg58]

“The Viddasala’s not killing Solas. I’M killing Solas!” - my Lavellan, absolutely done with everyone’s shit

[@Shadow-nu1np]

i dont know why but trespasser dlc reminded me a lot mass effect, the epic final and songs.

[@hermitcard4494]

This theme DESERVES a metal cover.

[@Nagoalc]

Call me a purist, but this theme is already so perfect, that I struggle to imagine any metal artist making it better.

[@hazyshade9648]

4:45

[@jamesfree2275]

A thought just Came to mind in the Jaws of Hakkon Expansion did Inquisitor Ameridan knew the Seekers? The Lord Seeker did say they were the original Inquisition so was it Possible Ameridan knew about the Qunari Threat years before!

[@roger5555ful]

Impossible Ameridan was self imprisoned hundreds of years before the Qunari wars

[@Will-sb4hf]

How do you extract these tracks?

[@hazyshade9648]

6:30

[@protodominichusplay]

Damn hate those Qunari spearmans they're slow my team!

[@Bvetrayed]

Tresspaser was an amazing dlc but imo the other 2 were pretty mid tbh.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

The descent was almost as good rich in lore,impactful moments including the death of Rin and the boss battle. The Shar-Batol were an absolute menace unless you your over leveled or had really strong gear. Goes as followed Tresspassor S-Tier Descent solid A-Tier, give Tidel Basin B-Tier

[@CyBerCat6410]

How do you go from Tresspasser to Veilguard... well when DEI sinks its ugly they/them claws into you i guess the final product is dogshit.

[@식기세척기-k4d]

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