Role of Inquisitor and Inquisition in DA4

I try to share my thoughts:

What we know:

Varric: "We got your back, I got your back."
That means for me: the network that was ones the inquisition is behind you. That doesn't mean they are fighting with you but they are helping out of the shadow and Varric is the contact in the shadow. Because your back not by your side.

"the people in charge aren't addressed the issues" (or somthig like that it was) Varric:"Dragons, Deamon, Darksporn even the dread wolf"
Does Varric enumerate the issues? I don't think so, because the people in charge know that Solas is a issue and in TN they adress it clearly.

So with that in mind.
I think while the people in charge (4 factions/4 short stories) fighting Solas, we will wage a guerrilla war of all robin hood (joplin) against the real evil.
Varric: "a kind of person they never see coming" We are not dealing with just one person here as the evil.

Varric:"there is always someone bent on breaking the world" If he means Solas what i think, at the beginning of the game Solas hasn't turn down the veil. If he does in the game, it went wrong and the evil get out. but what I rather think, is that the evil is already there and solas has no opportunity to turn down the veil.

"You don't have power" This is definitely a matter of interpretation. Is power a title or force? For me power is more force, so we aren't a crow or mortalitasi as example.

Solas:"they called me the draed wolf what will they call you when this is over."
That with the puzzle pieces from above:
I think we will get a bad title as well at the end. They will named us because they don't see what good think we have actually done.
the hero doesn't get the hymns of praise.

back to the actual question.
Solas, the inqusition and the inquisitor will be part of the game, but we won't see them much.
Solas speak with the new protagonist. i hope the inquisitor will be there as well. But the game focus on a greater evil.

A last think they were often say original. I hope that mean they take a good look at DAO.

If she does Solas will know that. We will never be actually recuited. I see Varric stumble upon us, while tending to one of his spies.

I guess it would be because Charter was just under Leliana in the days of the Inquisition? At the very least one would think that Solas would know of her, at the minimum. It only makes sense that he would not only familiarize himself with the top brass of the Inquisition, but also those serving immediately beneath them. There is also a theory that Charter either is, was, or will become one of Solas's spies. Which....I mean, it's not impossible. But from what I heard, her reaction in Tevinter Nights seemed to be too genuine for me to think that. Her being a former agent also seems vastly improbable given how Solas treated Felassan. It's a not a theory I personally subscribe to, in any case. 

But the idea of Solas still having an agent in the Shadow Inquisition isn't entirely off the table either. Every organization worth it's salt tries to vet its members, but there are still times when they get infiltrated anyway. Against someone like Solas, are we really certain the Shadow Inquisition is spy-free? Or if it is, will it remain that way? 

Solas know the main people of the old inquistion. people as charter harding and the rest of the gang. so his spies keep an eye on these people. You follow people and see who they meet. the only possibility is that you run into someone from the inquisition and it looks like a fleeting encounter to the spy.

I hear you. Red Lyrium, the blight, and those odd blighted monsters from the pools... doesn't sound like anything Solas would get involved with. Remember that The Executors are an enemy of Solas, and we have no idea why they are interested or what their intentions are. They also haven't shown up in the marketing as a faction that will be "fighting by your side." So my money is on them, and them connecting with the Evanuris, or whoever those two figures are in the latest mural.

Gosh, there is so much chaos. Qunari, red lyrium, Solas, The Executors, possibly The Evanuris... I can see why the world was on fire in the DWR mural.

Solas is not attacking anyone outside getting ride of people who are trying to stop him or getting in his way and he doesn't need to be physically there to do that. Red lyrium, Darkspawns, Qunari invasion, monsters infested ruins will always appear more important threats in-game.  Corypheus had real armies. Solas plays in the shadows and use people without them knowing.

Solas is near omniscient with godlike powers and knowledge on top of it. The only time where it would make sense to pit him in a battle against the protagonist would be after he executed his plan and he is weakened. But nobody knows how, where and when he intend to do what he is planning and I don't see him sharing the info.

Basically, "stopping Solas" requires either:
- Solas to have an idiot ball,
- lots of random luck, 
- working for Solas for most of the game and doing an "heel turn" at the end
- working for an equally powerful entity that can protect you from him and knows as much as him

The last one could work with Mythal, but my impression from DAO/DA2/Gaider's comic/etc is that she wanted the Veil down too...

And the last two don't have much place for the Inquisitor/Inquisition outside cameos.

Thanks for sharing. It takes real courage to throw something like this out in the open. I don't have anything as well developed but I do have six different ways DA4 could be written where the Inquisitor is not the Protagonist. In no particular order...

1: Designated Survivor. We've already talked around this one. The Inquisitor and team do whatever they are supposed to do to stop Fen'harel and fail/die. Varric has a letter to open in case of emergency with the Plan outlined. He just happens to know the right former Nobody for the job.

2: Plan B. The Inquisitor and his team are on Plan A. Instead of relying on just this one Plan to save reality, he/she/they have another plan and route it to Varric to find the right Tool for the Job. The Fortunate One might even be introduced unknowingly carrying said Plan and open it (totally by accident, of course ) and gets drafted.

3: The Greatest Story Never Told. Credit where credit is due, I got the name and some details from a Justice League : Unlimited episode I was watching with my kids. The Fortunate One just happens on another disaster that's just a by-product of Fen'Harel's plan, like say releasing the Forgotten Ones. While the Inquisitor cleans up her/his mess, the Fortunate One is cleaning one up the Inquisitor doesn't know about.

4: The Aragorn Gambit. The Inquisitor and team are running interference so Fen'Harel never turns his burning eyes on the Fortunate One who is executing the real Plan. We've talked about this one. There is one variant where the Fortunate One is actually doing the interference for the Inquisitor. That would be a twist.

5: Lower Decks. Like the Star Trek episode and later series of the same name. The Fortunate One is just running part of a massive, decentralized scheme the shadow inquisition is trying to beat Fen'Harel. This one works because the plan needed to take down the Veil and somehow neutralize the Creators has the be HUGE, so the counter can also target multiple parts, understanding that if one part fails, then the whole scheme could be ruined.

6: The Trachenburg Plan. This was a plan used by the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon where they basically retreated from the large army lead by Napoleon and worked against his somewhat less capable generals seeking to slowly bleed the French Army dry while avoiding a disasterous defeat. The Fortunate One is not going head-to-head with Fen'Harel, but looking to find and defeat lesser helpers to drain just enough power to weaken the Dread Wolf.

EDIT:
Remembered a seventh option
7: The Face Turn. The Fortunate One IS one of Fen'Harel's lieutenants. Then she/he discovers some part of what the Wolf plans that just can't be countenanced and turns to the Light Side with some help against the worst of Fen'Harel's powers. Oiled up pecs and cute name for finishing move optional. 
 
Just a few thoughts from a hack...

That's what Solas claims, but he tends to be very wrong with the long term forecasts of his plans...

Sandal's prophecies in DA2 suggest nothing will change outside more magic around: "One day the magic will come back. All of it. Everyone will be just like they were. The shadows will part, and the skies will open wide."

That's what he believes will happen (everyone dying).

Just like he believed Corypheus would die "booting up" the foci and he would just have to swoop in and pick it up.

Just like he believed the Elves would be fine and freed after he put up the Veil instead of their entire culture, based entirely on magic, getting destroyed causing even more in-fighting between the survivors and weakening them which lead to Tevinter enslaving most of them (again).

Solas always miscalculates. It fits into the "idiot ball" territory (it's caused by narcissism thought) and it works great with "random luck".

Saying that, it doesn't mean there will be no damage or that the post no-Veil world won't be a shitshow...

Hanako, what WOULDN'T be insulting? Why don't you actually detail how you think DA4 should go?

Or - totally new approach - the DA4 protagonist will be a Chosen One with just the right superpower/artifact to counter Solas: immunity to petrifaction or some such.