Which characters DO you want to return in DA 4?

...I feel like we've had this conversation?

Probably should have put it in air quotes but yeah whatever the term you apply to him...and to be fair I was growing less confident of the term as I continued to type that post...the point is that he has 'issues' with other races that he is working past.

Its going to be very difficult to see Mythal...though I suppose not impossible.

It's more like he thinks everything in the modern world is trash. Which is understandable, since he lived in the most advanced and powerful civilization in Thedas' history.

I'd really like to see Isabela, Fenris, Dorian, Sten, and Harding, for starters, as characters who I both like and would fit well given the setting and framing of the game, and I'd especially like to see Shale, I need more murderous deadpan golem snark in my life. And Solas, too, of course, but that pretty much goes without saying since he's inextricably tied to the main plot now.

None. How big is the World of Thedas, that ALL of these people just happen to know each other -and not only that-  but be involved in such possibly world changing events? I've heard the theory of six degrees of separation but come on. Return characters are getting beyond a joke at this point.

*IF* the story takes place in Tavinter, then Dorian. Otherwise, NONE! Because they have no business there and are just being shoved into the story for the sake of fan service, which in my opinion, does the character a disservice.

If you still rely on slavery, how advanced are you really?

But Varric being in Tevinter would make zero sense. Especially if we follow the epilogue of Trespasser.

Notice my use of the word "rely". Slavery is primitive, in the same way that hunting with a spear is primitive. An "advanced" society like the ancient elves, capable of the kind of magical wonders that Solas (vaguely) describes, shouldn't have needed slaves. What did they do, that couldn't already be done with magic? What were they kept for? Fun?

Beisdes, there is no objective measure for "advancement". A society can be advanced in some ways and not in others, and whether or not a society is "advanced" in any particular way is relative to the individual observing the society.

So yes, I think the presence of slavery in a society belies a distinct lack of advancement. Either you lack the technology to do away with it without your society collapsing, or you lack the imagination to conceive an alternative.

Thank you for this very well thought out reply. I appreciate it

The inquisitor as protaginist.

Given that there are so many options for lelinana and cassandra I count them out for anything big. So I will avoid characters like that that can be doing other stuff to that degree.

Scout harding
issabela (even if you give her to the arishok she escapes so she could easily show up again as an LI if hawk didn't romance her.

Fenris

Iron bull There is some variables here since he can die in tresspasser but it is completly optional since your choices will come from dragons keep.

Oghren

Shale

That lady elf in the DA2 dlc (tallis I think was her name)

There are others but that's all I can think of.

First i believe Flemeth is dead and won´t come back. Also didn´t her voice actress Kate Mulgrew say that DAI was the last time for her?