Should you help Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard?

Choosing Dragon Age Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso is tricky because it’s presented to you very suddenly without giving you any warning or time to prepare. Both cities are threatened by the Bane Dragon, ruled by one of the evil elven gods in the Dragon Age The Veilguardwhich means that whoever does not choose to help will suffer greatly. You also have to consider which companion you care the least about, as Lucanis and Neve have ties to Treviso and Minratus respectively. To help you make this difficult decision, I’ve listed below the results for choosing to defend any city.

Obviously, there are spoilers ahead for what happens after you make that main Dragon Age Veilguard choice.

Dragon Age Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso choice explained

Dragon Age The Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso's choice of protection — (Image credit: EA)

Your decision to help Minrathous or Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard largely depends on your own preferences and which companion you don’t want to upset – in short, Treviso’s defense will annoy Neve and Minratus’ defense will annoy Lukanis.

Otherwise, Minrathous’s help does have a bit more impact due to Venatori being there, but the consequences for each choice are very similar, causing things like sidequests to automatically fail and for the Companion to Veilguard Dragon Age become hardened – an effect that makes them deadlier but less supportive in combat, and reduces the rate at which their bond grows. Any city that isn’t defended will also feature new side quests that show the wider ramifications of your choices, and you’ll have to unlock all of Veilguard Dragon Age’s fast travel beacons again.

Dragon Age The Veilguard Minrathous or Treviso's choice Neve's hardened status after Treviso's help — (Image credit: EA)

If you’re not happy with the result, you can always reload the save, especially since you made this decision shortly after recruiting Davrin to your Veilguard team, and there’s no way to avoid it. Since automatic sidequests are an important aspect of both options, you can load an even earlier save so you can clear them from your map and journal in both Minratus and Treviso before doing the Warden’s Best Friend quest.

If you need more details on each choice, here’s what happens if you choose Minrathous or Trevisio help:

Help Minrathous in Dragon Age Veilguard

Dragon Age The Veilguard protects Minratous from an attack by a destroyed dragon

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If you help Minratous in Dragon Age Veilguard, the following will happen:

You fight the Blight Dragon in Minrathousonly to have one of Evanuris’ evil gods call him away.
Venatori cannot perform a coup and shadow dragons keep them in check.
however, Treviso is affected by late blight thanks to the Blight Dragon attack. As a result all Treviso side quests are automatically failedand later there are new ones associated with the consequences of late blight.
Lukanis gains a hardening effect and stays in Treviso to help out until you unlock the rest of the companions.

Help Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard

Dragon Age The Veilguard protects Treviso from an attack by a destroyed dragon

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If you help Treviso in Dragon Age Veilguard, the following will happen:

You fight the Blight Dragon in Trevisoonly for this one of the evil gods of Evanuris is called away, though the city is mostly spared.
The channels are not clogged and many civilians were saved.
however, Minrathous is affected by phytophthora thanks to the Blight Dragon attack. This gives Venatori the opportunity it needs to take over, increasing its presence throughout the city.
It also means all Minrathous side quests are automatically failedand later new ones appear related to the consequences of infection, in particular on Shadow Dragons.
The leader of the Shadow Dragons, Viper, dies was struck by the Defeat.
Neve gains a hardening effect and stays in Minratous to help out until you unlock the rest of the companions.