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

I don't think so, even if you let him be possessed. If you kill him in the Fade it simply makes him tranquil and that can now be reversed.

He can end up in Tevinter, made tranquil or possessed and that is the last you see of him. I've checked. Whilst you meet people he has controlled with his magic and they now refer to him as the Dreamstalker, you don't see him again. So technically the Dreamstalker could have headed for Tevinter as well.

By Act 3 he was in command of his magic enough that he could save a girl from rape on the Storm Coast by making her assailants attack one another, even though he was in Tevinter. So after three years he was doing what Mihris says in Masked Empire that the Dreamers of old could do. After 10 years training who knows?

I have to admit that after romancing a string of either bad boys made good by my PC, or good guys who turn out to be not quite the good guys I took them for, I'd really like to have a shot a genuine hero. I don't mean Alistair, Cullen or Sebastian because they don't fit the remit with me. There is something with each of them where their behaviour at some point doesn't match the hero persona.

May be it will be Davrin. He sounds like a genuine hero from the VA clip and then there is that concept art of a Warden protecting a woman and her baby from dragon fire that makes me think that is Davrin too. He doesn't even have to be a romance if he can be my stalwart friend but easy on the eye please. Still, whatever the case, Davrin or not, I will leave Bonnie Tyler to make my case for me. Actually some of the lyrics in the third verse seem particularly applicable.

A Lord of Fortune is a great PC background. It allows any race/gender/class combination to work without any issues. It's a little generic (plucky mercenary hired for a "simple job" turns into a hero), but it's standard fantasy set up for a hero's journey story. And with the emphasis on them in Tevinter Nights, it feels purposeful. A way to establish a little lore before introducing it into the game.

On a related note, if and when we have a game set in Rivain, Antiva, & the rest of the Marches, I am confident that we'll have a Raider of the Waking Sea background. Another background that is easily worked into any story.

That's also my concern if the 8 hero pic really does represent the party members.  Maybe the gun lady is the crossbow wielding dwarf from the concept art.  If she is, though, she looks an awful lot like Harding.  Who (don't get me wrong, I'm excited for but) doesn't bring any new dwarf lore with her.  I really really want a Kal-Sharok dwarf as a party member.  And I also hope that our exposure to the Ambassadoria is more than just a quest or two.  


I feel confident that we'll get tons of new qunari lore (I'm already bracing for all of the pearl-clutching about "retcons"), but as a proud and true dwarf stan, I'm feeling a little nervous for them right now.  Very very little dwarf concept art from a place where it should be rich and abundant.

There seems to be a noticable lack of dwarf love... both male and female.

Which is why both the 8 person and 4 person line ups can't be the final version and it might be better to look at the concept of what they are as a class rather than their race, because in the 8 person line up they are predominately human. Even if the PC was going to be restricted to just one race, it would be unthinkable that they didn't have every race represented in the companions. There is a good chance that this time round we will be getting a female dwarf companion, whether that is Lace Harding or not.

This was the original sketch and he probably made the necessary adjustment for the final version but even here she is going to be considerably shorter than the man in front of her when he stands up. The Lace Harding thread has also drawn attention to the scar on her left cheek that doesn't appear in the final version because her head is directed the other way. Of course, that could suggest that whilst this was originally depicting Lace, the later version could be a different dwarf lady, which is why he turned her head the other way, or may be he realised it would be too much of a give away to show the scar, so to keep fans guessing he turned her head.

No please not. I don't like her at all.

First I want to thank.
@daveliam for creating this thread.
@bioware for this clip or teaser.
and the whole community.

So let us begin.


This is a concept art for the companions i belive. I would be surprised if we go fewer than 9.

I go from left to right and count them.

1)
She is a women with a nice dress. I think she is a noble women. I don't see any weapon so it isn't clear which class she is. As mage she could be a tevinter noble, as warrior or rogue she could be antiva noble. (Some said she is Francesca Invidus, but i don't think that. Bellara is an option. I don't know) I like her she is sexy but not cheap. She could be a good romance option. (I would play a male protagonist in the first round for the first time, when we got her.)It can be but i am not sure. Maybe she is this person:

I call her ravenwomen, because she reminds me of catwoman. At day she is a slave to her status and in the night she help the innocent. With a good backstory she can sell the game.
Typ: royal + robin hood.

2)
A qunari woman. I don't see any weapon. she have wavy hair and long horns. A romance option. And i don't see her in any other concept art (There are two qunari woman i think.) I am not a fan of the horns, but I am happy for those who wished for her.
Typ: strong woman

3)
I can't connect with this character. I don't care about him. He could be darvin, but i have a better option.

4)
He/she is interesting. I only can tell He/she is human, but nothing more.

5)
Where should i start. She reminds me of Quasimodo. I don't know what she have on her back, but for me it looks like a humpback. Where she drop her weapon. Mix with lara croft. The weapon looks like a gun. She have something to cover her eyes. A mask i believe. I am interested in her story.

6)
A mysterious man. I love mysterious man. He has a sword so warrior is his class, i belive. Romance option please. (Maybe Executors. Hiding a fish skin under his cloak. )

7)
No qunari please. with white or silver hair would be wonderful. A person like Dedue from fire emblem three houses. Than you captured me. So many good romance option. (O:1/I:2/ and now 3 )

8)
A skeleton. As companion maybe, but i would like it more only as part of the story. Mortalitasi are quite interesting.

than one drwaf as romance option. Companions finish.

Now advisors:

This are our new advisors as concept art. I go from left to right and count them.

1)
I would say the man from Tevinter. Who is connected with Dorian.

2)
The male elf from the warden. This is Darvin for me now. Till bioware say something else. I hope the warden be strong this time and not a crying group of babies.

3)
The crow and with them the heists.

4)
qunari advisor. Maybe the connection to stan if he got his sword back.

this are my thoughts.

In the last games we have as companions. only 1 qunari and not more than 2 elves and 1 dwarf, that make 4 with 4 human an 1 skeleton we have a group of 9.

I don't like any of them. They are all bad written. I like Varric because of DAI. I hope they don't take a leaf from DA2's book.