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

He was nicknamed Skellington on some of the early pages of this post. How about Calidus? That means glowing in Latin and whilst he probably comes from the Grand Necropolis in Nevarra the Mortalitasi were founded by a Tevinter mage so probably use Tevene a fair bit.

No, according to the lore biotics and kinetic barriers are not able to protect people from environmental or slow moving things.

Ooooooh, I like this!

I wonder if any of the characters in the 4 short stories we just got will be companions?

Viper the card dealer with magical suppression abilities thought by the mages of Minrathous to be just a tale.
Tarquin, his ally, a Tevinter Templar who exposes Venatori collaborators.
Strife the grey haired ex City, now Dalish, elf investigating the Arlathan forest. Seemingly even more dangerous then when he spied on the qunari in TN.
Irelin, the shape shifting Dalish elf of clan Morlyn, ally of Strife.
Evka a grey warden taking her new recruit back to weisshaupt in TN when they stop to rescue a village from werewolves, in this story we see who inspired her to become a warden as she promises "I've got the next ones." After Warden Lawrence saves her.
Lucanis Dellamorte"the demon" grandson of the First Talon of the Crows. A reckless assassin with a sense of justice whose been hunting Venatori. The question is, is he really dead?
Illario Dellamorte, Lucanis' cousin, more interested in getting the job done quickly and looking good. Unlike his cousin Illario wants to become Talon, but worries their grandmother favours Lucanis.
Viago and Teia are both Talons, and amoung the few surviving Talons after the qunari got one of them to turn on the others and like half of them were assassinated. So I doubt they're gonna be leaving Antiva to join a ragtag squad any time soon. The Talons are probably all busy co ordinating with the monarchy to try and secure Antiva against the qunari. (And promoting new talons)

If Lucanis is dead ( probably as a result of his reckless and not thought out plans or the many bad guys he pisses off) then i could see illario going after those responsible which could result in him becoming a companion. Or him sending another crow in his stead if he were to achieve Talon status. I don't think Caterina Dellamorte is retiring any time soon but she's old.
If Lucanis is alive and faked his death, (whether because he didn't want to be a crow anymore, to take himself out of the running for Talon status, or to avoid his enemies and/or allow him to approach his objective without them knowing be was coming) I could see him being a companion himself.

This was the line that made me wonder "The rant was approaching the end. He’d repeated this speech like an actor rehearsing for a particularly infuriating play for hours downstairs as his composure crumbled"


Viper is so creepy and wierd

Tarquin: We’re the Tevinter you forgot. What do we want?
Viper/the dealer:*Puts up ominous hood ominously* Everything


Evka's cool, i already liked her in Hunger, however if that male warden dialogue we heard in the behind the scenes video was a companion then we're probably not getting two warden companions.

Can anyone give an update to someone who hasn't been able to check up on DA4 news since the teaser in 2018, like myself? For example, what is this art? Are these characters just fan theory and speculation or is there enough information to create these characters more or less accurately? Honestly, they look amazing- all of them, so I'm low-key hoping this is more than just fan art. Like, I am incredibly curious about the three on the left, especially the female qunari, and the male warrior next to her. 

Is crow lady a side character or suspected to be a companion?

Also, who is leggy?

So it seems that few characters are showing up in multiple concept art pieces.

Lady Qunari - rogue?
Lady Crow - rogue?
Dark haired Battlemage - mage
Veilface - spirit (mage?)

I’m thinking these four are feeling more and more likely to be companions at this point. We’ve seen each of them a few times now. If that’s the case, that’s about half of the companions. And still no warriors making enough of an impact in concept art. A few leads to go on, sure, but none that seem as obvious as these four.

I didn’t even realize that the middle person on that new concept art was a warden. He(?) looked so generic that I assumed he was a stand in for the PC. But you are totally right. Davrin is looking very likely as a companion now. Before I wasn’t sure and to be fair, that specific character might still be a major NPC. But warden warrior likely, agreed.

But if a bummer we still haven’t gotten a warden rogue yet though.

This is probably true. Surely it would make far more sense to have 3 different figures, representing the 3 different classes that the PC could be, rather than showing 3 different companions? Also that would explain why there is one obviously male, one obviously female and one who could be anything behind the helmet.

Yes, and just before Varric says "I've got your back", he says "we've got your back", just after we've seen these three people. So I think that the shot between the legs is implying the new PC, then the next 3 represent the factions we are going to be involved with. At present I think that looks like:

Human - Crow
Dwarf - Kal'Sharok (I really hope so)
Elf or Spirit - Executors/some other previously unknown faction but may be elemental connected with the titans.

I'd be happy with those.