From the moody horror of Origins to the gleaming high fantasy of The Veilguard, few series have changed as much as Dragon Age

Dragon Age is celebrating its 15th birthday, a mere week after the launch of the fourth game in the series, Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It's a geologically short period of time, but for videogames it might as well be a century, and much about the series has changed since we first stepped into the muddy boots of one of the last surviving Grey Wardens back in 2009.

This marked BioWare's shift from D&D RPGs, like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, to a universe of its own creation. The name and first screenshots...