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

YEAAA it's my favorite time again (wild spec based on lil morsels, properly able to begin now with all this material) and I have Big Nostalgia for those bygone days

(disclaimer: I know it's just concept art and what that means. I just am excited and really just enjoy overanalyzing and speculating w/e the outcome is, I don't get Expectations TM or Bitter Disappointment TM)

OK anyways

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So I don't think the guy in the concept art is Dorian. Why's he got a sword and wearing Crow armor? I still think he will appear in the game though so that doesn't bother me. 

SIGN ME UP for Qunari Wife. I am looking... respectfully.............

I think our chances for Qunari lady companion are good tbh given how many times she appears, past comments and dev reactions, I'll eat my hat if we don't have a lady qunari companion this game.


and whoever this is, if anyone (hope he's someone)



well I love him, your honor

current party guess just for kicks:

- Bellara
- Davrin
- Lady Qunari
- Skellington
- Lucanis
- Maevaris
- Harding or another female dwarf
& 2 more.

Have to be a bit careful size wise when looking at the roster image the placement of the characters has some more up front and some more to the back so for instance the one holding the (gun?) may be shorter than they look because thy are more up front, could even be dwarf.

Companion is Bianca.....holding crossbow Bianca  

I think you could be right about this. The first two images are very early concept art and the third one how he was finally realised. The second and third one show definite similarities. The top one might be Dorian but it doesn't follow that he is a companion character. Morrigan accompanied us on a main mission without being a companion but to offer advice as you went along (plus having her own agenda as always).



Agreed but why does that transgender character have to be Maevaris? Why can't they be an entirely new transgender character? Maevaris may well be in the game as a contact but she really doesn't fit the powerless theme unless she had a very dramatic fall from grace. Mind you that could be an interesting concept to explore.



I think it would be strange to showcase these two if they didn't have major roles. Also, it would make sense that they were characters that did not appear in any of the promotional shots, just to keep us guessing, particularly as PW said that not all those in the concept art we see made the final cut and some did that we did not see.

Davrin is a Grey Warden and there were other technical shots with Grey Warden symbols present, plus the landscape shots that are clearly the Anderfels/Weisshaupt. So I think it is a fairly safe bet Davrin is a companion but his race is as yet undetermined.

Bellara does make me think of Dagna with her breathless enthusiasm but other than that and the talk of rumbles there is nothing that definitely says "dwarf". Still there is a female character called Bellara, likely a companion for the same reason given for Davrin.

I think the buffed, bare-chested, probably Lord of Fortune, is going to be a companion and he doesn't appear in any of the other line ups either. However, the Lords of Fortune did feature heavily in Tevinter Nights, which is why we were already speculating that we were likely to get someone from this newly introduced faction as a companion.

Female Qunari is also a fairly good bet for a companion, since she appears in more than one concept art and people have been asking for one for a long time. It could be Rasaan if she is an actual Qunari but could also be a Tal'Vashoth or Vashoth. The one in the 4 person shot seems to be a dual wielding rogue.

The underwater scene could be misleading about companions and anyway Morrigan wasn't a full companion in DAI but just accompanied us on a major mission, so Dorian could be the same.



The guy on the right hand side of this picture seem likely to be the same guy as is on the left hand side of the 4 person image. The guy in this picture is just more developed from the rather cartoony 4 person line up. If so, then appearing in more than one image is promising for him to be included. It does seem unlikely to have two dual wielding rogues though, so may be the Qunari lady is a dual wielding warrior or this guy is. They were a thing in DAO. At the moment several of us think this guy could be Lucanis from Tevinter Nights but it is possible that the character changed from the 4 person one to the one in this picture and, given the armour, it could even be Davrin. However, it seems likely the "Assassins Creed" looking character three from the right in the 8 person shot is the same guy, in which case it does seem likely to be a Crow but I suppose they could be a Tevinter Sicarri, although it seems more of a Crow look.

The archer with the pigtail seems likely a dwarf owing to her height in relation to the guy. Possibly Harding but she is someone known to Solas, so more likely a new character.

The woman on the far left of the 8 person picture seems likely to be a mage and could be the one in the above picture. As we can't see her ears, she could be an elf as she looks shorter and slighter than the other characters in the line up.

I think I covered seven possible characters so far: 1 mage (slim lady); 3 rogue characters (one archer dwarf and two possible dual wielders, human and qunari); 2 warriors (Davrin - could be a dwarf and Lord of Fortune - human); one unknown (Bellara). So Bellara could be an elf mage or dwarf? If the dual wielder "Crow" is really a warrior, then Bellara could be a rogue, possibly artificer. That leaves a mage slot, that could possibly be glowy skull head and another mage slot - possibly a Vashoth saarebas, may be the guy next to glowy skull head.

Regarding Davrin and Bellara, I think it's interesting to consider the accents.

Davrin has a British accent. That correlates with Ferelden, Tevinter, the Marches, & the Anderfels. So that doesn't tell us too much, especially since the concept art makes it seem likely that we'll end up visiting Weisshaupt at some point. Most of the people that we've seen with British accents have been humans and elves, but I suppose that there's no reason why we can't see a dwarf or qunari with a British accent if they were raised in Ferelden, Tevinter, the Marches, or the Anderfels. We just haven't seen it so far. All of the dwarf and qunari characters have had American accents, regardless of their origin. Look at Varric -- he was born on the surface and raised in the Marches and has no trace of a Marcher accent. So I tend to think that Davrin will be a human, maybe an elf, very unlikely to be a dwarf or qunari.

Bellara has an American accent, so that's more intriguing. The only cultures with American accents are the qunari and the dwarves. I might be wrong, but I don't believe we've seen any characters with American accents that weren't dwarf or qunari. And, given the nature of both qunari and dwarven culture, I also just don't think we are going to see an example of a human or elf with an American accent. So I tend to think that she's more likely to be either qunari or dwarf. Her voice is reminiscent of a dwarf (like Dagna), but we just haven't seen enough lady qunari to know if some of them have higher voices as well.

That being said, I'm not fully convinced that both (or either) are companions. They highlight them, but it could be because they wanted to highlight the actors and acting, and not the characters. Both VAs are returning VAs from previous games. So while it's certainly very possible that both are companions, it's also possible that one (or both) of them are important NPCs (like Dagna or Bianca and Riordan or Clarel).


ETA:  Forgot about Tallis.  She had an American accent and was an elf aligned with the Qun. So Bellara could theoretically be a human or elf that has strong connections to either the qunari or dwarves.

Do you forget how she kept her position in spite of being transgender in the first place? She's in with the Dwarves, which makes her in with the Lyrium supply.

I love your avatar. 😁

About accents..... I think you're probably right. DAO had plenty of elves with American accents, but since they started going Irish/Welsh with the Dalish and English with the city elves (well.... Sera and Fenris anyway), I think that's been retconned. But then Lia and her dad had American accents in DA2, if I recall correctly..... and Bellara does sound vaguely elfy. 🤔 Kind of a mystery! Somehow Harding has an American/"dwarf" accent despite growing up in the Ferelden countryside. Maybe she got it from her parents.

I'm wondering if the elf in the action shot and the man in your avatar are supposed to be the same character, just reimagined as human/elven. Maybe Davrin?

This is what I think PW was getting at with his comments. They started off with that concept picture of 8 characters, where to be honest they strike me as mostly human, apart from the obviously Qunari lady on the left hand side and glowing head on the right. Then they started to adjust them by race or class. So the human roguish type character in the 8 person line up could well be the elf character in the 4 person one.

Interesting. See, I think that the 8 hero pic is the more recent one. The fact that it ends the video so prominently. It looks like more of a promotional piece in its style than the concept pics. That’s the one that I’m basing most of my spec on. If someone is in that, I think they are in. If they are only in a concept piece then I think they were either concept only or potentially an early idea that didn’t make the cut. And of course, it’s vague enough to allow them to make some tweaks without it impacting it too much. So the sweet spot for me are the ones that we can clearly line up between the 8 hero pic and the concept pics. Because it means, to me at least, that they are in while also providing some details on the character. It’s shy I’m so certain that the Qunari lady and the Veilfire Face are both in.

I love good spec!

It does kind of concern me that in the shot with eight characters..... absolutely nobody has dwarf proportions. Even if you take into consideration that some are in the back/foreground, everybody's way too tall and slender to be a dwarf D:

Though I do think that looks like Harding with the bow and long red braid in the other pic.

I agree that I think those two are a given. It is the others where things may be a bit more fluid. Ideally they would have 2 of each race and Skellington, making 9 in all, the same as DAI but it is possible the line up is less than that. If the promo shot includes the PC (place holder shot) then that would make 2 of each class, warrior/rogue/mage and Skellington (possibly with own unique spec). That would mean there may only be one of certain races and more of another, probably human but possibly 2 humans, 2 dwarves, 1 elf and 1 qunari.

They don't like adding former LIs as returning companions. 
Also how would Isabela work for the theme of powerlessness? She's an Admiral of pirates.