Lace Harding - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

I am fine with Harding as companion with romance.

What I most love about Lace Harding is that when you look at her character arc, it follows the basic hero's journey enough that she could easily have been the player protagonist of her own separate game, or fit seamlessly into one of the DAO style backgrounds.

She started out as a local farm girl in the Hinterlands, who ended up running across Inquisition scouts and impressing everyone with her helpfulness and detailed local knowledge. A few days later, she returned and surprised everyone further by asking she could join their ranks, having already accepted the call to adventure before it had even been issued to her.

From there her character progression included quickly rising to the position of Lead Scout, surviving the attack on Haven, travelling all across Ferelden and Orlais and witnessing the final battles against both Corypheus and Hakkon.

Her completed sidequests included hanging out with the Avvar and members of the Legion of the Dead, having a potential workplace romance with the Inquisitor, inspiring a catchy-as-hell tavern song about her and even making an appearance in Varric's book.

(She even loots dead bodies for gifts for people like a video-game protagonist!)

Here's to Lace Harding, badass protagonist of the greatest (mostly offscreen) Dragon Age game so far!

Even former Insider shinobi602 wants Harding as companion.
Post 19: "Scout Harding needs to be a teammate in the next one."
www.resetera.com/threads/what-companions-would-you-want-in-dragon-age-4.91905/

While I wouldn't mind them making Harding's romance in DAI official, if they do that I'd hope the next dwarf romance would be a guy rather than another lady dwarf.

On par? Sebastian and Hawke get married, lol. How is that on par with "You can call me Lace."

It was just flirtation with the hope of something more.

I meant in terms of content. Both of their romances were pretty sparse.

Have to agree. Harding is basically a given at this point... it would be more shocking if it turned out she would not be romanceable companion.

Maevernis is much less likely for me. She will likely appear in the game given where we are going, but she'll either be an advisor or some side character.

Yes, it's an opportunity for BW to make a statement... but because of the volatile nature of the issue, I'm guessing they're going to make a transgender character just a side-piece... I doubt they're brave enough to weather the inevitable shit-storm that would brew for being the first game to include a transgender romance option... especially with EA worrying over Anthem flopping. They will likely try to play it safe.

But who knows... the game is 3 years off at least. More progressive minds could prevail in that time.