Thank you so much for your patience with our first preorder update for our first wave of Dragon Age items!
Dual Wield Studio has navigated a challenging situation over the last couple months. (Note: content warning for suicide and suicidal ideation/action in the link, which goes to a social media post on Bluesky that explains the challenging situation being navigated.)
Please note, as well, that although BioWare is navigating their own challenging situation, all these products (and more!) are continuing to progress and will release.
Good news, though–moving forward, we will continue to do monthly updates, which we’ll send via email to those of you who have preordered, post to our website, and share on social media.
Each update, we’ll go through all the products in this collection, and potentially preview the other Dragon Age merchandise we have in the works (it’s so cool, y’all).
Without further ado–
Dragon Age: Solas Keychain Plush
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Note: Pending licensor approval.
We’re currently in Round 3 of sampling this bad boy. The pictures you see are of Round 2, which is super close to being done!
We have to make the bottom of the eye a darker violet, and then adjust the design so that the misalignment of the side detailing won’t happen (spoiler alert: we’re planning to move the design behind the seam!).
Dragon Age: Blue Lyrium Dagger and Red Lyrium Dagger Pins
Note: Pending licensor approval.
We just reviewed Round 2 of sampling these daggers.
We’re still working on refining the Red Lyrium Dagger Pin enough to show, but the Blue Lyrium Dagger Pin is close. We’ve gotten the enamel thick and glowy enough with this test, so we’re having the manufacturer make a few more to ensure consistency before sending to BioWare for approval.
Dragon Age: Gloaming Lantern Enamel Pin
The Gloaming Lantern Enamel Pins are done! They’re currently at the factory waiting for one final element–the backing cards.
Note: Features an early prototype casting sample of the pin.
These will be the backing cards for all the pins we make for Dragon Age. They’ll be foldable so that they double as a display stand for the pin! They’re really neat and entirely the brain child of our Creative Director Zara Varin.
Dragon Age: Solas and Rook Prints
We just ordered Round 1 samples of the standard versions of the prints. We’re working with an independent US printer to make these as high quality as possible, and we’re still hashing out the printing specifications for the premium prints.
These samples will also test the manufacturer’s ability to package the prints. Tentatively, we’re exploring each print put in its own flat envelope with cardboard inserts to protect the print as much as possible during shipping.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Companion Keychains and Companion Standees
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We’ve put in the bulk order on these and our manufacturer is starting production! We aim to have an update on ETA to our warehouse with the next post.
As a reminder: your preordered items will ship together. If you only ordered the Keychains and Standees, those will get sent out once they’re received at the warehouse and passed our QC process. If you ordered other items we’re still working on, the Keychains and Standees will ship with the other items when they’re ready.
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Thank you all again so much for your patience! We’re excited at the progress made on these items and look forward to sharing more next month.
As a special treat, here’s a sneak peek towards the future and how, soon, Solas may have company…
