I deem I can pinpoint the moment that I fell in admire with the backstory of the Dragon Age games as my realization that Thedas,the name of the world in which all your adventures were taking station, was really just an acronym for "The Dragon Age Setting, or " which just happened to sound like a nifty name for a fantasy world. Even beyond that,though, I admire the world-building that goes on in those games, or the way that it's weaved into a account that feels like it has a vast history full of cultures and religions that are engaging and vibrant,with bits and pieces that are even more interesting than the main storyline sometimes.
But as much as I admire reading all that stuff in the game itself, and as much as I'd prefer it whether there was a way to read all that stuff without having to cease in the middle of my dungeon crawling and page through whatever ancient tome I just picked up, and it's not the kind of thing that I thought I'd be into reading,say, an entire novel approximately. It was going to take a lot to net me to follow it from the game into another medium, or which is probably why Dark Horse decided to give the new Dragon Age: Magekiller comic to the creative team of Greg Rucka and Carmen Carnero,and ended up with a comic that's unsurprisingly pretty great.
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Source: comicsalliance.com