DA 4 Companion Speculation Thread (time for the new Scribbles and DHMG!)

I wouldn’t go with that either, to be honest. We just know that there are characters named Davrin who has a British accent and is a Warden based on his dialogue and Bellara who has an American accent and talks about ‘good rumbling’. We don’t know if they are companions nor what their races are. Everything in this thread is speculation.

But without timelimit.

I'm not sure what happened in your game, but in mine, literally the last words out of the  Inquisitor's mouth right before the credits rolled were,

"We will save our friend from himself, if we can."

That, to me, implies that they will be personally involved in the effort to stop whatever he plans to do. 

But this isn't the right thread for this discussion, so that's all I'll say about it here. 

I still need to have a Warden companion that's going through The Calling. I want some Thane in ME3 style pain in my veins please.

I believe that dragon age 4 should involve all the 3 old heroes and some of the old companions (if alive).
As in Me3, everyone should give their contribution, be committed to some extent.

The very existence of the world is at stake here. It makes no sense for old heroes to stay at home, or be engaged in some stupid subquest that can easily wait.
I mean, they are they forces of nature, people who kill old gods, old magisters, high dragons in avalanches... in the battle that will decide the fate of the world, are they in Amaranthine/denerim/Kirkwall to idle?
The fact that the warden has not act against Corypheus makes little sense IMO (but whatever, okay, let's say it was very very far from the places of events, and anyway Cory was identified later - haven assault - and after that, he was defeated in a relatively very short time).

But now it's different. The inquisitor knows about Solas and the threat. The Divine knows it. The leaders of the Inquisition knows it. FOR YEARS. There is no way that people like the Warden, Hawke, Alistair (if king or warden), and some of the old companions who maintain contact with them, are not contacted and somehow start to act against Solas

I'm just going to ignore this becoming another "Inquisitor as PC" thread.

It saddens me deeply that it seems that the only potential representation from Rivain seems to be a Lord of Fortune.  For a game about both the Tevinter-Qunari War and the Veil/Spirits/Elves, I would rather have a Rivaini Seer companion to discuss their view of current events.  They could talk about Rivain's relationship with the only other major pro-magic society (ignoring the Mortalitassi which seems to be mostly a nobles-only group).  There's also the potential for Rivain's relationship being strained with the rest of Thedas since the Chantry annulled their Circle for their traditional religious practices as well as their relationship with the Qunari since Rivain hosts the only Qunari settlement on mainland Thedas.  Then there's also the Spirit side of things with the Seers' positive relations with Spirits and what that means for Solas.

If we're only getting one dwarf again, I hope it's an Ambassadoria dwarf that explores the relationships between dwarves, Tevinter, and other groups like the Chantry, Kal-Sharok, etc.  Don't waste this one spot on Harding.

If a Grey Warden is a companion, I hope they do something with them figuring out Blight Magic, and working that in with the Red Lyrium Idol.

I hope that if an Executor is a companion, they don't end up wasting the mystery and intrigue of them like they did with the Red Jennies.

I'm not really looking forward to the likely Antivan Crow companion.  The Crows are boring as a faction, we've already had Zevran, and I don't see any big reveals coming from them.

I'd also enjoy the perspective of an Ancient Elf that was a follower of one of the other Evanuris besides Solas/Mythal or the Forgotten Ones and a Tevinter noble non-mage and what they deal with/what measures they take to try to get approval from their family and Tevinter noble society in general, such as becoming a Spirit Warrior to try to emulate magic.

Yeah, I'm already sour towards them as a faction.  I already detest how consistently the magical side of Dragon Age keeps getting swept under the rug so the boring stuff can take the spotlight once again.  That a Lord of Fortune is probably supplanting a Seer in what will probably be the game that would be the best fit for one just makes it worse.  It seems that "hope" will be a major theme for DA4 like "faith" was for Inquisition.  Hope for the elves (ancient, city, and Dalish), hope for the slaves of Tevinter, hope for the Lucerni to redeem and bring reform to Tevinter, etc.  Just have the Seer possessed by a Spirit of Hope, and the rest practically writes itself.  Bring hope to the elves of Tevinter and the Dalish by bringing them to the settlement Rivain already created for them in Llomerryn.  Help out the Tevinter-Qunari War by using their previous neutrality and current status as the only welcoming nation to the Qunari to broker peace.  Help out the Lucerni by gifting them potential knowledge given to them by Spirits.  Stop Solas by disrupting his Spirit Army and Elf Army in one fell swoop since they want to help both Spirits and Elves.  Since the potential for the Seer in all of these plotlines and themes is so high, I would even make them the hyper-important companion of the game a la Morrigan and Solas.  Of course, all of this is meaningless since Bioware would rather wipe their ass with potential and just make another Whedon-esque, "quirky" character that a Lord of Fortune will inevitably be.

Probably not much. I can see a lot of spirits going against Solas. Cole for example does even if made back into Compassion. So some based off virtues might be against him.
I can also see demons actually helping Thedas against Solas, even if only for selfish reasons.

Concept art designed to capture the mood of the game, rather than specific characters/plots/locations/etc.

Maybe Ghostrider could be everything but let´s be real that thing comes from the Mortalitasi.

How about "Balefire" for the green-flamed Spirit/Mortalitasi guy?

From an Old English word meaning either a funeral or sacrifical pire, often used in witch rituals. Would be appropriate for a spirit working for the Mortalitasi and a nice play on the Veilfire that either engulfs or is his face?

(Or is it the other way around and Veilfire derives it's name from the dev's making a pun?)