One of the reasons it took me so long to start a second playthrough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is that recreating the Inquisitor, the protagonist of 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, is a painstaking process. I loved making an older version of my Inquisition hero the first time I played through The Veilguard, but the game doesn’t offer the option to import your Inquisitor into new playthroughs like it does with new hero Rook. As a result, you have to once again dive into each customization option for the Inquisitor and fiddle with the sliders until you get them looking just right, and while I enjoyed doing so the first time around, the prospect repeatedly killed my momentum when I thought about starting a second playthrough. However, fans have now found a workaround that allows you to easily import your Inquisitor from another save file and it’s pretty easy to do, if also a little convoluted.
I first came across this solution when it was posted on Bluesky by user @saewuvv. If you’re starting a new playthrough of The Veilguard and want to import your Inquisitor, the first step you’ll need to do in the character creator is skip over importing altogether. Tab over to the Finalize section of the character creator and open up the Past Adventures menu. This is the one that lets you customize your Inquisitor and a few of their past choices. Once here, open the Edit Inquisitor menu and go to the Appearance tab. From here, customize any option, literally anything. It can be a slight change in their head shape, their hair color, height, or whatever. The point here is to make the game recognize that there is an edited version of The Inquisitor in the character creator associated with this new save file, which adds a new option on the screen of presets, signified by a pair of bronze scissors. Your screen should look like this:
Now tab over to Finalize and go back to the screen to customize Rook. Tab over to the Lineage screen, and it’s here that you’ll import your Rook. Doing this will allow you to customize your hero again, but also, if you do the above steps before importing, you’ll be able to import your Inquisitor by clicking on the scissors icon on their customization screen. It’s a weird workaround to the lack of a proper, built-in option, and I wouldn’t be surprised if BioWare patched in a way to do this without all the convoluted menu navigation, as it’s clear the functionality is there. Luckily, once you’ve imported your Inquisitor, they’ll look the way you want through the entire game now that BioWare’s squashed a bug that made them revert to one of the default faces during the game’s finale.