DA4 - dual protagonists?

I like the overall structure you describe.

Having just finished a third play through of DAI, what strikes me is that they leave this character with unfinished business in a way that did not happen with either the Warden or Hawke. Sure, at the end of DA2, Hawke is 'missing' but we all know that Varric knows where they are, and the templar mage thing isn't as personal for them as the Solas thing is for the Inquisitor. And the Warden's story was biased towards the ultimate sacrifice, so I didn't feel as let down not seeing them again, though I understand for people who's character married Alistair, had other ties, might feel differently.

I hope BW take this opportunity to continue what they started, making a unique tale of coming back from a true setback in life. The loss of a limb. I think this could be so inspiring. Imagine having to work hard at RP-ing coming back to full fighting form in the beginning, the satisfaction of learning some new prosthetic weapon that actually would make you better than before in combat. Dagna has so many ideas

Plus, if the stage of DA4 is large enough, involving many areas of the map, including the seas, dual protagonists could actually complement each other, without necessarily coming into contact until late game anyway. Just my two cents.

I agree. By the end of Trespasser, my Inquisitor had become the very picture of fury and determination. If anything, I thought her personal journey was just peaking. She had spent a large part of the main quest questioning her new-found identity and powers, then embracing it for the good of Thedas, and now she has shed it. But her strength endures, and I would love to see her as the person she truly is, or can be.

Oh god, no, please..... Wait, isn't the purpose of dual storylines so that we can play the Inquisitor as protagonist? As others have mentioned, it would be a waste not to use her, someone with a personal history with Fen'Harel.

I'm glad your Hawke was okay. My Hawke however was the complete opposite of the thing masquerading as Hawke in DAI. 

So have they said for certain that the Inquisitor won't be the PC in DA4. I know the whole conference thing from a while ago where Trespasser wrapped up the story(what a laughable notion) but did they say anything more recently than that that leaves no doubt? If so link please. 

Definitely don't want Dual protagonists. Think the focus should remain on a single new protagonist rather be diluted.

Of course, Hrungr. I think though, that it's possible to wrap up the role of Inquisitor without retiring our character. The Inquisition, after all, will either be disbanded or a token "peacekeeping force" in DA4, and our character will no longer be the Inquisitor. I didn't read it as meaning that our character will be wrapped up along with the Inquisition. Perhaps it's wishful-thinking on my part, but it really didn't seem to me, the way Trespasser was written, that our character's role would be over in any way. (After all, if you disband, she declares: "I have a world to save. Again.")

I would also like the Inquisitor (or former Inquisitor) to come back as a pc or dual pc in DA4. With Solas as the antagonist it seems strange to have another pc finish the story. It seems a waste to finally have a more personal antagonist and then not have the pc come back.

I don't like having former pcs coming back as npcs, though. I hope they don't do that.

Yeah, I think they've been very clear on this point. Again, it's not to say they can't change their minds, but at this point it's more a question of how (as an NPC) will they be used.

I think what gave me hope to see this character continue was the interview a few years back with David Gaider who said originally that DAI had twice as much main story line they had to cut in half.

www.fm96.com/syn/60/89642/vgs-bioware-interview-dragon-age-inquisition-a-restrospective

So logically, I'm assuming that if they had made the original sized DAI, they couldn't have just switched characters halfway through, the whole story would have to tell the tale of the Inquisitor, whether or not they disband the Inquisition at the halfway point.

Realistically, to attract new people to the series, they will likely go with all new character and let us use the Keep to bring over as many choices as possible. They are known, however, for changing their minds on the fly, as in offering the Exalted March DLC for DA2, then cancelling that idea to just go ahead with Inquisition's development, integrating some of the story from that into DAI.

So if they see enough of us want real closure with our characters in the game, maybe they will at least offer a huge side quest involving just our Inquisitor so we can tie things off with Solas. At the end of Trespasser, it becomes a personal promise to either save him or stop him, or both and the payoff won't be there if the Inquisitor isn't there. To me, it will just not fit.

Trespasser, while good in many ways, does not do what they set out to do in finishing off this character for good. There's just too much loaded in with the Solas thing, and really, the picture in one of the slides of the prosthetic hand/weapon kind of promises that all isn't over, and they aren't now out of the fight.

Bah, we the fans demand it.

Agreed.  Personally, there is no way my inky would allow someone else to deal with Solas.  It is unfathomable.  Unthinkable.  Impossible.  

Inky is really the only one who could take Solas down, through love or revenge. But knowing EA owned Bioware, they'll screw it up.

How do you figure? Unfinished personal business or not, taking him down should be as simple as putting something sharp in him and then doing something with his spirit so that it doesn't keep following his agenda like Mythal's did.

Edit: Okay, so maybe "simple" wasn't the word, but still: why is Inky the only one that can do it?