Returning and new characters for Dragon Age 4

What about a clash between the companions wishing to preserve Thedas and those wishing to restore a Pre-Veil world full of magic?

Are you Team Skyhold or Team Skyfall?

Team Hulk Shale.

She deserved like the Hulk a lot more attention than the others.

I really hope we will get in DA 4 a cool retransformation quest for her.

The Qunari agree to drop their hunt for Isabela, but demand a revision to the Llomeryn Accords insisting that;

Aveline: It seems a fair compromise... I think you should grin and bear it.

Isabela: Like I've ever needed the Qunari's permission to "grin and bare it" before, why should I start now?

Seriously? I even think that Morrigan won´t get a cameo.

But as companion?

Bioware don´t like to bring back Companions who were Romances in past games.
I guess you want her also as a romance in DA 4?

Sorry but the chances are really bad.

Edit: I believe we get 3 established characters like in DA 2 (Anders, Isabela, Merrill) and DAI (Cassandra, Cole, Varric)

For DA 4 that would be likely the obvious ones.

Calpernia, Maevaris Tilani and Lace Harding

This is the same argument. Bioware don´t want to use former Romances as Companions.

But don´t worry Dorian is a major NPC with presumably a lot more screentime than anyone else who is returning. Even Solas.

He is the Leader of the Lucerni fraction and of course one of your allies.

Bioware will write him out like Leliana so he cannot accompany the Hero.

But Maevaris can.

And Lace Harding is the Companion who represents the Inquisition or the Inquisitior.

Why not Dorian?

Well in Inquisition you don´t have to recruit him or punch him out the Inquisition.

Therefore he is not the best candidate for the job if Bioware don´t want to retcon him.

But Harding is. She is no romance. Bioware confirmed its was just flirting.

And is always in the Inquisition and cannot die.

And what is your counter-argument for mine that Bioware don´t want to use former Romances as companions?

First if there is any character who is Bioware in Love its Leliana.

Own DLC and countless appearances in Games/DLCs or Novels.

And still she didn´t return as companion in Inquisition.

Your another argument is irrelevant. I know that in the Mass Effect Trilogy former romances made a return.

Do you know why? Simple you play the same Hero Shepard through all 3 games.

In DA 4 we play a new Hero or maybe the Inquisitor. But not the Hero of Ferelden.

Edit: Found a old PCGamer Interview with Mark Darrah. I don´t think that he has chance his view that much.

"  PC Gamer: Fair enough. What is your criteria for determining which characters do come back? Actually, not simply from the dead, but I mean from game to game. Why would Varric make the cut and not somebody else?

Mark Darrah: That's a good question. Some of it's based on just what the writers are excited about writing. But also, we look for a certain amount of balance between the character. There's a bunch of things that we're trying to do for balance. You want a certain degree of balance between the classes. You want a certain amount of balance between the genders and then a certain amount of balance between the romance options.

If you've had a character in a previous game that was a romance option typically we won't bring them back because they carry a lot of extra baggage with them. You're not going to have a romance option come back and certainly not have them be a romance option again because there's a lot of baggage that comes with that.

The player might get angry as well. “But they're in love with my previous character forever and ever and ever. How dare you?” I think there's validity to that. You can start to cross off a few characters because of that. We often don't bring back characters, at least not as followers, if they were previously romance options. You might see them. Alistair comes back because we can do cameos and have them have an influence on the story.

But additionally, some characters, Varric's a very good character because one of Varric's primary motivations is he's the guy that's got your back. He's your friend. He's a very good character to have because it's good to have someone in your camp no matter what. That makes him a very attractive character. It makes him an interesting character to have because he offers a nice counterpoint to a lot of other kinds of characters.

The other thing that causes us to bring someone back is someone that we're just simply not done with. That the arc is incomplete. Isabella between Origins and Dragon Age 2 is a good example of that. We introduced her, but there's just a lot more to be done with that. That's actually usually how we choose. Often characters move. We don't reuse followers very often. Obviously, we are reusing Varric. We typically promote secondary characters between games.

PC Gamer: Right, so someone graduates from being a quest-giving NPC to being a companion.

Mark Darrah: Yes. "