Which characters DO you want to return in DA 4?

Orghen just to see how many people his return would piss off.

I have always been an Oghren fan but I get the feeling I am in the minority. I like how irreverent and obnoxious he is.

So we have an answer concerning some returning characters if not companions. Perhaps it is possible to work out a pattern for who else might return. So far they have confirmed:

Evka/Antoine: First introduced in Tevinter Nights. Also featured in DA Day short story and the Missing.
Strife/Irelin: First introduced in Tevinter Nights. Also featured in DA Day short story and the Missing.

Thus I think it likely that Viago and Teia from the Crows will also be seen in game since they appear in all three.  Also Caterina Dellamorte who had a major appearance in Tevinter Nights, is First Talon and Lucanis' grandmother so almost a given she will feature, particularly as these 3 were the only surviving Talons in Tevinter Nights and the Crows are a major faction in the game.

Companions that were introduced in Tevinter Nights and/or featured in short stories/the Missing: Neve, Lucanis, Emmrich.
Companions linked to factions introduced/featured in Tevinter Nights/the Missing: Taash, Davrin, Bellara.

On the whole there does seem to be a focus on more recent media for returning characters. That is all to the good as the following appeared in Tevinter Nights and/or recent comic series:

Dorian (Major appearance in Tevinter Nights, also featured in the comic series Deception and companion in DAI)
Vaea (brief appearance in Tevinter Nights - main character in Wraiths series - unlikely to be seen but not impossible)
Maevaris (only in Tevinter Nights but did feature prominently)
Sidony (only in Tevinter Nights but strongly connected with Mortalitasi and in DAMP)
Myrion (only in Tevinter Nights but close connection with Veil Jumpers so may be one of them)
Hollix (only in Tevinter Nights but is a Lord of Fortune so may be seen in Rivain)
Bharv (same comment as for Hollix)
Gatt (appeared in Tevinter Nights and was the Ben'Hassrath contact in DAI.  Said in TN he was in contact with Varric)
Charter (appeared in Tevinter Nights, comic series and DAI but Harding and Varric would seem to be the main agents of the Inquisition)
Tessa/Marius (featured in two different comic series but not anywhere else - unlikely to be seen)
Cassandra (featured in the Netflix series and was training in the Hunterhorns in the epilogue to Trespasser - outside chance of being seen)

I don't really see anyone else featuring as many have varied outcomes depending on your world state.   Possibly alternative content if they are not present but depends on how extensive the world state in the CC is.   Seems unlikely to me.   More likely just mentioned in conversation if at all.    However, with 700 voiced characters in game anything is possible.   Nevertheless, they probably wish to avoid characters that were previously voiced  and featured prominently in game as that would mean keeping to their original VA, rather than have perhaps one VA doing different voices for many characters.

Did they? I didn't know that was definite. Not that I'm bothered as I've already explained elsewhere why I would rather not see them.

I thought that Bioware would own the rights to the characters but would give him notification if they were going to use them and possibly he might get some royalties. To be honest, I doubt we'll see any of them but they did give Vaea a cameo in Tevinter Nights, which was totally out of sync with the timeline as the Antaam had already attacked the mainland in the short story but when I queried it with the author of the comic he said she was heading north from Kirkwall after the events of his first comic series and before those of Deception. So I don't know why the author of the story in Tevinter Nights used her at all in that case as Deception had come out a year before Tevinter Nights so there was really no excuse to get it wrong and to be honest her role was so small in that short story it could have been anyone from the Inquisition. It was the fact that they did use her that made me feel that left the door open for her to be in DAV.

Sorry but i highly doubt that Bioware won´t have a handful more characters which are known by the casual gamer who only played the games. Sure Veilguard featured more new and novel mainly Tevinter Nights characters but Veilguard is still a sequel and i don´t think that many will care that much about the novel characters.
Same goes for DAI besides Cole those characters were fine but i won´t say that i was overjoyed in seeing them ingame. So yeah there should some known returning characters.

After today's combat video with the confirmation of



I REALLY want to see the architect. Could he become an unlikely ally?!


Sorry if spoiler tags don't work. Don't really know how to on my phone since I don't post much haha

Hmm, the Architect could be an unlikely ally if he is to make an appearance.   For that matter, what of the other Magisters?   Leaving aside Corypheus who may or may not be running around the Fade, so far, according to what we have been told, one of the remaining five has been eaten (if the dwarf's account is to be believed) and another has gone crazy (the Madman of Chaos serving Zazikel after the death of their Arch-demon perhaps).   That leaves three others unaccounted for, two of whom are the high priests of the Old Gods/Arch-demons yet to arise, Razikale and Lusacan, which means:

Because of locations Dorian and Isabella would both be fun to see. That and they are so much fun to interact with.

I was hoping to at least see Cole again. Boo.

Yes! Cole is so important. (As number one (and only one, tbh) solavellan supporter) He also keeps with touch with Solas, if made spirit, after events of Trespasser.
It sucks we are likely not hear from him, as he doesn't appear in worldstate choices.