User blog comment:Nord Ronnoc/A Tale Of Two Game Series/@comment-4950455-20121113044051/@comment-1786741-20121113153646

To me, it seems Dragon Age takes a number of different aspects from various fantasy universes and adds it's own spin to it. I definitely agree with Ygrain that DA is heavily influenced by A Song of Ice and Fire: the Wardens/Night's Watch, a war of succession in a recently liberated land, dragons being rare and connected to magic somehow. The major difference being magic is far more prevalent and there's far more "fantastical" elements than the much more realistic GoT books.