Just for fun: Create your ideal DA4 party

This is my short list from which to make a final selection.  I realise I have detailed far more than I would be allowed but I have indicated where I would compromise or mix and match to get my ideal party.

MAGE

Rivaini Wise-woman: This means it would be another character with an indwelling spirit, like Wynne and Anders, but this is a wisdom spirit so not only benign but very knowledgeable. The Rivaini culture is a very old one so the possibility for some interesting lore there. Plus the wisdom spirit may consider removing the Veil is going to be a very bad idea for spirits, which is why they are opposing Solas. The spirit may also have some ideas for protecting against him.

Fog Dancer: One of the spiritual leaders of the Fog Warriors and opposed to both Tevinter and the Qunari. Again, they come from a very ancient human culture, so lots of interesting lore and possibly unique magical skills. The cloaking fog is one such example. They also maintain they learned at the feet of the elves, so may have some knowledge that is useful concerning Solas as well.

Vashoth or Tal-Vashoth: I will not call them saarebas because that is a Qunari term and they are no more dangerous than any other mage. Ordinary Tevinter people may baulk at their appearance but they are able to operate there quite legitimately simply because they are an unleashed mage. Everyone knows how the Qunari treat their mages so the Magisterium would think getting a mage of that race on their side is to be encouraged. How can they trust them? Why would any mage want to go back to that? However, if they are Vashoth then they could be part of the Tevinter Siccari, who apparently take the families of their agents hostage to ensure their loyalty, because being a Vashoth they are likely to have a family that they care about (what about their child?) The Siccari may be assassins but they do have mages in their ranks. The Siccari are also recruited from slave and Liberati families, in other words they are not citizens of the Imperium but a further inducement to their loyalty may have been provided by offering citizenship to their family after a period of time.

If we must have a mage specifically from Tevinter I'd rather it was not from the Altus class as we have already had that in Dorian, so if not the Vashoth mage I have described, then perhaps a human Laetans or even an elven Liberati (also in the Siccari and kept in line through their family). However there is one exception I would make here.

Justicar: The people that the authorities bring in when the Templars cannot deal with criminal mages. They sound a bit like the Tevinter equivalent of the Seekers, only with magic, and people you really don't want to mess with. Don't care what background they are from, Altus, Laetan or Liberati, I just would love to have one of these along for the ride.

ROGUE - plenty of scope here.

Tevinter Siccari: If we don't get a Siccari mage then a straight forward non magical assassin would do. They would still likely have access to lots of useful magical items to assist them. Dorian says that they could reputedly teach the Crows a trick or two, so they sound lethal. However, if they are only being kept in line because of the hold over their family then plenty of scope for conflicted loyalties there. Either human, elven or even Vashoth. Possibly even a casteless dwarf.

Lord of Fortune: I'm pretty convinced we are going to get one of these as a companion. Since they originate in Rivain they could even come as a companion of the Rivaini wise-woman, perhaps as their helper/bodyguard. Of course the LoF could equally be a warrior but let's go with rogue for now, probably like an Articifer in their development and expertise. They seem very colourful characters generally, literally wearing the evidence of their various ventures around their person and have knowledge of lots of different places. Very good at poking around ruins and turning up old relics. Once again they could be any race but a dwarf would be good. It would make a change from the standard Carta type we seem to encounter topside, although I suppose that would make them a bit too similar to Varric.

Ben-Hassrath: To offset the Siccari. If we are a group dedicated to stopping Solas then I can see one of them asking to tag along, may be even officially recommended by the shadow Inquisition, who they seem to be loosely working with. Although I suppose they could be under cover, may be claiming to be a member of the Anti-slavery movement. Probably human in that case as least likely to arouse suspicion of being connected to the Qun or Solas.

Legion of the Dead: Except the Kal-Sharok version of this. This spec hasn't been seen since DAA, presumably because it is dwarf specific, but I'd really like to see one of them in my party again. I also really want to meet a Kal-Sharok dwarf because there is so much to learn there.

WARRIOR - There are several backgrounds I detail above that could equally be Warriors, so if we don't get them in one category, I'd really like them in another. So we could have a Lord of Fortune or Kal-Sharok dwarf warrior if not a rogue.

Fog Warrior: These people have excited my imagination ever since Fenris first told us about them. Then the description of their culture in WoT only made me want one of them more. Plus Iron Bull admits they have integrity even in opposition that he could admire. As with the Lord of Fortune/Wise-Woman combo, you could equally have a Fog Dancer/Fog Warrior but that seems unlikely so I'll settle for one or the other.

Mage Killer: (I'm not sure of the spelling of the official Tevene term for this) Anyway, a warrior who has been specially trained to fight mages. They could be a Tevinter Templar, which would make sense, or a freelance, like Marius, but someone who was a slave who managed to survive the system and the training to get as far as they have.

Spirit Warrior: I love to see one of these again, particularly if we don't get a Rivaini Wise-woman as this could be our alternative for someone with a spirit guide/helper except in this case they are not possessed, simply have a strong relationship with spirits of the Fade. May be this could be our Grey Warden connection.

Animal companion: May be a mabari but why not something else?   We're going north so plenty of scope for exotic animals that have been trained to assist.  May be a big cat or even a bird, although that would require them to include flapping wings in battle just for this character.   I'm not talking about mounts here but an actual companion, like in DAO, or alternatively one you can summon, like in DA2.  Utterly loyal but good at sensing when someone else is untrustworthy. 

• New Char, Race: Human/Elf(?), Gender: Any - Those who aren’t born into a House (most of them) are bought as children, orphans or slaves. Though I’m not sure what’s to stop them from buying a Dwarf or Vashoth orphan other than less opportunity and less demand.  or

• Possibly Lucanis Dellamorte, Human M - the reckless assassin with a sense of justice known as ‘the demon’ who has been eliminating members of the venatori for an anonymous benefactor. Grandson of the First Talon.

• New Char, Race: Any, Gender: Any or
  
• Possibly Lace Harding, Surface Dwarf F- Lead Scout of the Inquisition, daughter of a trader and a seamstress who preferred to tend her neighbours sheep so she could explore the hinterlands.
  Guided Inquistion soilders through her homeland then joined the cause and rose to the top of the scout ranks.

• New Char, Race: Any, Gender: Any. Less Likely if PC Background. Adventurers and treasure hunters who take on jobs for a price. Examples might be to break into an ancient tomb and liberate its treasure from the traps and creatures. A lucrative bounty to hunt down a dangerous creature menacing a town. A contract to steal a magic item from a public event. Or payed to bodyguard and guide a client through dangerous locations. Based out of Rivain but no apparent barriers to foreigners joining, since one was invited to in the book.

• Probably New Char, Race: Human/Elf, Gender: Any. The Mourn Watch faction, elite guardians and keepers of the Grand Necropolis, was introduced in TN, whether because we’re going to be seeing them in da4, or to differentiate grave guardian mortalitasi from other necromancers we might meet, or to make it clear there are multiple faction in the mortalitiasi I am uncertain. However as specialised mage fighters who deal with settling spirits inhabiting the dead in the deepest part of the necropolis: they are experienced with entering ancient places where no living thing has tread in a long time and in dealing with “greater dead” or more complicated spirits. So a Watcher, while not typically someone who might stray far from the necropolis, would certainly have a useful skillset as we deal with solas’s spirit army and hunt for information in ancient places.
  

• New Char, Race: Human/Elf, Gender Any (I'd prefer a Laetan or ex-slave here but thats me)
  
• Possibly Neve Gallus, Human F – A Laetan Mage with more Templars in her family then mages. A private investigator who looks into cases that Templars won’t touch because the people in power tell them not to. Who’ll continue looking into a case after the client thinks it’s closed because she doesn’t. Who has a dwarven crafted prosthesis leg below one knee and faced a cult bent on destruction.
  
• Less likely (might be more npc suitable) Calpernia – Human F, Ex-slave*, Ex-Lieutenant of Corypheus, commander of the venatori, a now fractured faction after Corypheus’ defeat with many trying to fill the power vacuum left behind. Freed by him, and betrayed by him, which she may or may not have learned from the Inquisitor. Wanted to free slaves and make Tevinter great again. Now that she’s had the opportunity to see her gods true face, and the aftermath of her choices, perhaps she thinks she can forge her own path.
  
• Maybe Francesca Invidus, Human F – A young Altus with a strong talent for plant magic, and sympathy for slaves, whose family was involved with the Venatori. Though she was kept out of it. She is the heir of House Invidus as her brother was recently killed by Antivan Crows and when she attempted to rescue her father from a misguided attempt to restore House Invidus and the Venatori he attacked her and tried to murder her friend forcing her to kill him.

• New Char Siccari, Race: Any, Gender: Any. I think the best choice for this would be the Siccari. The Tevinter network of spies and assassins mostly made up of freed slaves whose families are promised safety as motivation and a threat to pressure their agents to perform. This would fit into the theme of specialists and spy networks working together, and provide insight into the life of a liberati. Potential drama in the companion quest of helping them get out from the thumb of their boss.
  
• New Char, You could also use a skilled soporati or servant ala Irian Cestes (she was an elf: body guard? Combat trainer? unclear), or an escaped slave instead of a liberati to get that lower class perspective. They don’t have the obvious plot connection that a siccari has but they could if, like Irian, fen’harels gang tried to recruit them for their skills.