Companions Lineup for Veilguard

Well, now that this leak has been blown out of the water by the lack of E3 announcements, I'm curious what folks are thinking would be a good companion pool for the next Dragon Age game. Past or present characters throughout the series and/or new ones entirely, let me know what you'd like to see. For the purposes f this thread, I'm including 'advisors' as well as full companions. Heck feel free to give your temporary companions you'd like to see as well.

DA:O Lineup:

DA:O:A Lineup:

DAII Lineup:

DA:I Lineup

I think none of the previous companions should come back as a companion.

I think Dorian should be there as an Advisor/Contact but that's it regarding old NPCs that we become close with in the new game.

I suspect that some if not all the recent comic book characters will be involved in our lineup. So Marius as a warrior, Tessa as a rogue(crossbow maybe), Vaea as a rogue(dual-wielding), Aaron either as a Warrior or maybe an adviser character, and Mae as a mage companion or adviser. As for returning DAI characters, I see Dorian and/or Charter returning as adviser characters and Harding showing up as a rogue(bow). Don't know if they all will, but at least some. So so far my guess is:

Advisers:
1. Dorian
2. Charter
3. Aaron

Mage:
1. Maevaris
2. ????
3. ????

Rogue:
1. Vaea
2. Tessa
3. Harding

Warrior:
1. Marius
2. ????
3. ????

As much as I would love for Merrill to return, unfortunately she and Nathaniel can be dead so we won't be seeing them in any major role. Maybe a cameo, but that's it. 

I don´t think we have this time "bridging" companion who was a former one.
But DA 4 will have a companion who represents the Inquisition.
And the obvious and easiest one for Bioware is Harding.

Dorian is not impossible but in DAI you can sent him away or even not recruit him.
Also Bioware don´t like to use former romances again.

In my opinion Dorian is a major character and Leader of the Lucerni Faction who
has like DAI Leliana not the Time to accompany the DA 4 Hero.
But we get the similar Maevaris.

My bets for Starting and essential Companions.

Harding (Rogue)
Maevaris (Mage)
Maevaris Warrior Templar Bodyguard who will do something shocking at the End.
I don´t say that he will betray us but if DA 4 continues the tradition of Morrigan / Anders / Solas
when this Guy.

It made sense that Inquisition / Harding first contacted the Lucerni Faction for Recruitment.

When 6 optional Companions

Warrior:
-A female Dalish Warrior like Ariane who didn´t follow Solas
-A dwarf Grey Warden Veteran who isn´t Oghren. He can die in Awakening.

Rogue:
-Female real Tal Vashoth. Maybe Shokrakar herself?
In-Engine Description: "Shokrakar is a female qunari who spent her life rebelling against the dictates of the Qun, and finally escaped. She was always too aggressive and too opinionated to fit the Qunari idea of proper female behavior, and rebelled repeatedly against every profession and part of society the priests tried to force her into. Her name literally means rebel in qunari. She bears hefty emotional and physical scars from years of enduring re-education camps, but is triumphant about having gained her freedom. She is forthright, confident and impossible to intimidate. Visually, she should show the scars of her background, but have a relaxed, open demeanor, since she has finally achieved everything she was fighting for"

A male elven Fog Warrior. I know they had Warrior in the Title but from Iron Bulls and Fenris characterizations of this group
they sounds more Rogue like than Warrior.

Mages:
Calpernia. My favorite. I really want to see her as companion. A former "Villian" and troublemaker is always interessing (on paper).

And a human older mage from the fraction that is Alexis Kennedy writing on.
I believe his "Goth Mages" are of course the Mortalitasi.

Last Words. More than 3 known characters are less likely.
DA 2 had Anders, Isabela and Merrill.
DAI had Cassandra, Cole and Varric.
I honestly believe that DA 4 continues this tradition with Calpernia, Harding and Maevaris.

Ser Aaron and Vaea are great but i don´t think they are more than a cameo or questgiver.
Marius and Tessa i don´t care. Maybe Marius should be killed off so we can romance Calpernia.
Or they separate from eachother.

I think Dorian is a definite for the next game as our contact in Tevinter who will brief our PC on all aspects of his culture. There was no point in them sending him back to Tevinter in every scenario, including romance, if they were not planning on doing that. So far as I am aware, he also turns up as the official ambassador to Tevinter even if you did not recruit him. However, since this is a possibility they may bring back someone else as the link to the Inquisitor, relaying messages and ideas for where the PC should go next.

The likely person to fulfil this role is probably going to be Carter, as she has now cropped up twice in the comics as the official link to the Inquisition. Personally I'd rather have Harding any day but it will likely be one of those two because of the Trespasser epilogue that said Leliana was training them up to replace her.

I do not feel any other previous characters from the games would really be appropriate as the majority have no reason to be in Tevinter, or every reason to avoid it or could potentially be dead (so excluded from consideration on those grounds). At the most they will probably only turn up as cameos. Most likely candidates would be Isabella, as ship's captain should we be required to travel by sea, Cole, although this could be complicated by what you chose to do with him, Cassandra, in a plot that takes you to the region of the Hunterhorn Mountains. Also there is a strong likelihood that Morrigan could pop up at some point, filling the role once occupied by Flemeth.

Previous antagonists turning up again, either filling the same role again: The Architect (if Corypheus could survive being killed so could he) or changing sides to become your supporter: Calpernia, since her fate was left ambiguous, even in World of Thedas 2, so there is enough wriggle room for them to bring her back.

As for characters from the comics, they might use Maevaris but she was very much David Gaider's creation, so they could avoid her on that account. I hope they don't use all the new characters they introduced in the comics as that would fill slots that could otherwise have been occupied by totally unique ones. The most likely ones to be included as companions would be Aaron (Warrior) and Vaea (rogue), as they were heading in the direction of Tevinter at the end of their story, but it is possible that, say, Aaron would only be included on a temporary basis and then be killed off, leaving his distraught side-kick needing rescuing/comforting.

As we are heading north into new territory, I am hopeful they will introduce some new classes rather than re-cycle old ones. There are plenty to choose from within Tevinter society to cover mage, rogue and warrior roles, plus some from outside, such as the Fog Warrior or Fog Dancer, which I would really like to see. A Kal-sharok dwarf would make for a change provided they do make them sufficiently unique as they should be.

The companion lineup will probably be influenced by romances, and what kind of combinations we haven't seen yet. But of course they've said that they come up with the characters first and then assign romances, but devs can lie.

I hope they start with as clean a slate as possible, especially if we're going to have a new PC.
Dorian as an advisor, and I'd love to see Maevaris also. I wouldn't mind seeing Charter/Harding back in expanded roles, whether as advisors or companions.

I second what pessimistpanda said though, about Mabari - I'd love to have another one.

Nnnnnnonononono, if we are going to Tevinter, then we should definitely get an armored up primate companion/pet!

warden I'll take numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Hisoka can have the rest.

Sure. 

A non human type character

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