What are the chances the Warden is still alive during DA4?

Bioware wouldn't dare kill the warden off, that's just asking for pissed off fans.

But no i dont think they're dead or close to it, since i'm pretty sure it's actually around 30 years until the calling. Also i'm hoping bioware didnt just bring up this plot thread just for it to go nowhere, especially since it could give us more insight into the blight and i'm a sucker for lore.

Anyways i think the cures out there, and that the warden was successful in finding out more. However i don't think they have a working cure yet, and it's going to get passed on to another warden more suitable for the research.

As for the wardens fate, i hope bioware leaves it to headcannon. I love my warden but her story should have ended with the first game. There's no way bioware can write a new ending that pleases everyone.

That being said I'd like to think she gets cured and lives peacefully with zevran although i can just picture my tired and weary warden, too tainted for the cure, spending one last night partying with friends at her 'funeral' before venturing into the deeproads never to be seen again. What can i say, i'm a sucker for tragedy

Since the time before the calling is smaller when you join during a blight, and callings can occur after as little as 10 years or less, the HoF could have theirs start any time from now, or it might have started already. Which might be why they're off in the deeproads trying to find a cure, and could already be dead by the time da4 starts even if it starts not very long after trespasser (Leliana's romanced epilogue is time vague but tells us they’re at least alive shortly after trespasser in so far as the soft canon nature of epilogues can).

I would have been fine if they just never mentioned what HoF’s currently doing and let me headcanon it. But since they’ve gone down the road of explaining their absence with a plot thread I think they probably will have the Warden find something, otherwise they end on 'the last thing your warden did before they died was fail' which is a pretty terrible ending to tack onto the HoF after their pretty satisfying DAO and DAA endings.

That said I don't see bioware actually curing the warden, why continue to leave a loose end dangling when you can let it die the way it's already supposed to and not have to worry about it anymore. So I think maybe the Warden will find some piece of vital information, maybe on curing the taint, maybe on something else to do with the blight or other deeproads/ancient secrets, and then they'll die fighting and/so their companion/s get out of the deeproads with it.

We could find out about it from said escaping companion/s telling us the story and info. Or if bioware’s feeling more fan servicey they could do a dlc in which you play the warden through their final quest, but I think the former options more likely.

Chances of alive wardens in DA4, well depends how many time passes and how the cure quest goes, so really all is in the writers hands, as they refused to give a closure in DAI.

The Warden is still alive, probably. But they will not be in the story. And that's a good thing.

As much as I like for my favorite characters to continue into the next episode, I'm always afraid that will get them killed. They always seem to be safer, never mentioned again. 

Yes, the Warden may be dead in some playthroughs, but for plenty of people they were alive and kicking in DAI. 

I agree that it's unlikely that they'll show up again as either a PC or an NPC- my question is whether or not they would survive to see the events of DA4, or whether its more likely that they'll be dead. Mostly I was just looking for people's thoughts on the Warden's survivability given that their lifespan is shortened and searching for a possibly dubious cure.

As far as the Warden's actual lifespan goes, I know in DA:O, Alistair said 30 years, but I heard later that was retconed into 20. I'm not sure what the actual span is now, but between 20-30 years seems reasonable to me. I'll go with that lol.

I don't want the Warden to ever be mentioned again in games.

If the HoF is alive, let us headcanon his or her life from now on.

If dead, then let the Hero rest in peace.

I think the longevity of the Warden can be affected by various factors including, as pointed out above, the age at which they undertook the Joining. Being a Warden during a Blight is meant to shorten the time to their Calling but since the 5th Blight lasted only a year I am not sure how much of a difference it made.

In the Last Flight, Garahel and Isseya had only recently joined the Wardens when the 4th Blight started. By the end of it 10 years later, Isseya was definitely showing the effects of increased deterioration, whilst Garahel was less so, although since he did the ultimate sacrifice and the novel focuses more on her,it is hard to know how badly he was being affected. There is some vague suggestion that the rapidity of her decline may in part have been due to her use of blood magic but I may be imagining that.

So let's say living through a Blight did accelerate the deterioration in our Warden, that would account for the time factor being reduced from 30 years, which is what Alistair was told for a period between Blights, and 20 years given later. It is not clear how extensive the false Calling was but since Corypheus was mimicking the arch-demons call and then this was amplified by the Nightmare demon, it could be said that this was effectively having a similar effect on Wardens' deterioration as a real Blight would. If that was the case and it in any way reached as far as our Warden, then their lifespan may have been reduced further.

In which case, by the close of Trespasser I'd say they have anything between 1-5 years before they have to think about undertaking their last journey to the Deep Roads. Since no mention was made of them finding a cure in the epilogue where they romance Leliana, I think it is unlikely they will get a reprieve unless something is turned up by our new PC in the next game.

I am guessing The Warden would be around the same age Duncan was in Origins in a Inquisition/DA4 timeline.

I don't want to know anymore on the warden. 

Ha. BioWare have said repeatedly that the HoF will not appear in any future games.

If players have a viable Keep save, there might be a reference to them (or more likely to their death) but it would be a fleeting mention at best, I reckon.

Even if the character is alive, the chances you'll be seeing the Warden are ridiculously slim.

DA:O is about the last bioware game where the player character's purpose was more directly a vehicle for a self inserts into the story than a distinct developed character on their own.