Important choices

In dragon age there are hundreds of different choices, big and small.

However, most of these choices can be called "self-sufficient". In the sense that at the moment the player makes the choice:
a. it ends there (e.g. help or not Zerlinda)
b. the choice exhausts its effects shortly afterwards (e.g. side with mages of templars in DA:O: you recruit a faction and that's it)
c. the slides of the epilogue expose in an exhaustive way the various consequences (e.g. who is king of orzamarr, or the destiny of Blackwall or some other companions)
d. the next game/DLC brings to a conclusion the story left previously open (e.g. Iron Bull loyal to the qun or not)

Sure, bioware could bring back any character/situation, taking even small choices into account, but the fact that a particular choice has consequences (or that a particular npc/companion has "another round", like Cullen or Oghren) is merely possible, not necessary. The whole story may well have ended as we have seen, the circle is potentially closed.

However, some choices, by their nature, should have inevitable consequences. Consequences that cannot (or shouldn't) end with what we have already seen. Because they have  (or should have, realistically) an impact ON GLOBAL SCALE.


I will consider only the dragon age keep choiches.


1) the anvil of the void: if Branka is alive, what is she doing? Is she producing Golems? Or has the darkspwan managed to get their hands on it, with catastrophic effects? It is too powerful and potentially decisive a tool in the war against darkspawn to be simply "forgotten".

2) the architect: if he is dead, have his intelligent darkspawns dispersed or not? And if he is alive, has he continued his experiments? What are his intentions? Has he made other disasters?

3) Avernus and his research: if he is alive and free to experiment, what results has he achieved? Has he discovered something? (This could be linked to the Warden's search for a cure for the calling)

4) Fenryel: bioware introduced him to us as a marvel, an exceptional being, potentially very dangerous if possessed and equally lethal if educated and used by the wrong people. What happened to him? What is he doing?

5) Anders: if he is alive, he is a symbol of freedom for mages, and a dangerous enemy for Templars. Moreover he is out of control, possessed by Justice, a fanatic who I don't think would give up in front of an epilogue like Divine Vivienne. What is he up to? Is he still active?

6) The dark ritual: if Urthemiel's soul has been preserved, who owns it now? Solas? Or was it sent by Flemeth through the Eluvian (I think not but anyway)? To Morrigan? Is this an important factor? Does it only generically guarantee "more power" or does it have some special use/effect?

7) Who drank from well of sorrow: what repercussions does this choice have? Unpredictable arcane knowledge but also the risk of being somehow vulnerable to Solas? The inquisitor want to stop Solas... and Morrigan?

8) The fate and mission of the Inquisition and the Inquisitor (Trespasser last choiches), if the inquisitor wants to stop or redeem Solas and how he intends to do so.

9) generically, how stable or unstable is the political situation in south thedas? Orlias-Ferelden-Chantry triangle. Celine may be strong on the throne or not, Ferelden and Orlais on the brink of war or not, the Divine may have freed the mages or reconstituted the Circles...  there will certainly be several variables.



Are there others in your opinion? And which ones do you believe/hope will be adressed in DA: 4?

Personally, I would like to see more about 1) 2) and 6). And of course we are going to see more about 8) and at least have some codex/dialogues about 9).