Should you show mercy or kill the mayor in Dragon Age The Veilguard?

One of the many key decisions you must make early on is whether to spare or kill the mayor in Dragon Age The Veilguard. Like BioWare's other titles, each choice you make in this game will affect the narrative and might even lead to a different ending. The decision to save or kill the mayor of D'Meta's crossing is one such choice, and it will have several consequences based on your actions.

This article will go over the choice you're offered and the consequences you have to face once you decide what to do with the mayor in Dragon Age The Veilguard.

Note: This article dives into spoilers for a few parts of Dragon Age The Veilguard. Please proceed with caution especially if you do not want to be spoiled.

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Should you save or kill the Mayor in Dragon Age The Veilguard

You will arrive in D'Meta's Crossing to find it has been infected (Image via Electronic Arts)

After you recruit Bellara and return to the Veil Jumper camp in Arlathan Forest, you will be asked to locate the scouts who were sent to a small village called D'Meta's Crossing. Unfortunately, the settlement has been overrun by blight and something feels terribly off in the place.

Interacting with the villagers will reveal an interesting fact - the mayor of D'Meta's Crossing is certainly behind everything that has been going on in the village. Progress through the Shadows Crossing quest, and you will find the mayor at the very end, covered in blight. He will confess that the Evanuris were behind the attack, tempting him to give up the villagers in exchange for gold and other riches.

Here you will have three options.

• Save him and let him go
• Save him and Exile him to the Grey Wardens
• Leave him there to his fate.

Choosing his fate will boil down to a few key consequences that you have to face later on:

• Choosing to save him will be approved by Neve, but Harding and Bellara will disagree
• Choosing to leave him will be approved by Harding and Bellara, but Neve will not agree with your decision
• Choosing to leave him will also unlock an additional side quest A Growing Corruption, where you will have to fight him, or rather his corrupted blighted state, later on in Arlathan Forest.

The fate of the mayor in Dragon Age The Veilguard certainly does not affect the ending in any way. However, if you intend to romance Neve it is better to exile him to the Grey Wardens, earning an early approval point. On the other hand, if you want to romance Bellara or Harding, leaving the mayor to his fate in Dragon Age The Veilguard is your best course of action.