Dual Protagonists in Dreadwolf?

I wonder how plausible it would be to have your PCs romance eachother in game. I'd really like having an Avvar/Tevinter romance eachother over the course of the game.

It’d be really easy to do a dual protagonist system with the new PC and the Inquisitor. Even games that aren’t RPGs have been able to do it for a long time. Since we know we’ll have some Inquisition connection in our party, just have them be the one to keep both sides up to date with what the other is doing if they don’t want to have us control both in a conversation. As for split I’d have most go to the new PC as they deal with various plot lines, while maybe Solas-specific quests are done with the Inquisitor.

To use an example of a game I replayed recently, like how Halo 5 mainly followed Locke while the Master Chief appeared in a few missions more focused on Cortana.

I know they won’t. But that’s not the point of this thread.

Yeah, unfortunately that is the best case scenario since it’ll at least be better than them showing up as a NPC and being completely bastardized.

I, for one, bow to our Bioware overlords. Whatever conflict there was between npc!Hawke and my Hawke, I tried to reconcile with retroactive roleplay. After all, whatever they decide is canon and that's that. 

Besides... thanks to Hawke's three basic personalities, s/he still was recognizable enough that I could feel like that's my guy. The Inquisitor isn't an impossible task, but s/he would have to be limited to spouting heroic and inspiring lines, much like the HoF in that letter. And that's completely fine by me, because DA4 is not her story, which means there is no need to go deeper into the character.

You know, it's funny. Everyone talks about how bland the Inquisitor was, but that "lack of personality" allowed us much greater roleplay freedom. If the Inquisitor is boring, that's because the player is lazy.

Still hate that stupid line of reasoning being the excuse, since it ignores how we surprised Solas continuously throughout the game.
Doesn’t even need to be at the end of the game when we do Inquisitor missions. It could be that while the new PC does the other quest lines causing a distraction for Solas, we have a mission where the Inquisitor uses that same distraction to achieve their objectives in that region as well. Have it be sort of a chess game between them and Solas. Then when we do get near the end yeah have differences depending on what each protagonist wants and maybe even let the player choose whom they want to play as for the finale.

I mean it does seem like Solas won’t be the immediate threat in Dreadwolf, and if the immediate threat is The Evanuris and/or Forgotten Ones, I can definitely see our PC working with The Inquisition to not only defeat them, but to also gain information about Solas and his past. That would certainly put Solas in an interesting position.

some people specifically play these games to see the old casts and sometimes can't adjust easily.

That would be an interesting option, particularly given how Solas likes chess, so obviously thinks he is a good strategist and able to out move the Inquisitor. I suppose a lot depends on whether they want to continue with the idea of the Inquisitor being the distraction, whilst the new hero moves around unnoticed. Either way, it does leave a way open to have parallel paths being followed by each. It is also entirely possible that one of them stumbles on another threat that needs to be dealt with, follows that path and then it brings them back to cross with the other.

As I've already said, it could present some very interesting options with regard to the resolution if the new hero and the Inquisitor had differing ideas on the matter. It might also be a possibility that all 3 (Solas, Inquisitor and Hero) have to put aside their differences in the face of a new, greater threat.

I have to admit, I've always felt it unlikely they could just leave the Inquisitor's story where they did and expect us to be content with just codices to explain their complete absence from the action. It would be different if the threat came from someone other than Solas but it seems clear that he is going to be the focus, at least initially, unless the 2020 trailer, 2022 cinematic and the Missing were intended to mislead us.

Choices haven't mattered since they brought Leliana back from the dead for some players. I mean ... 

And I agree. It's fine to dictate an established canon for your story, just don't present choices to the player like it actually matters.

This aspect of Tales from the Borderlands was one of the best parts of that game.

This was certainly what DG maintained when he handed over his position as lead writer to PW, which is why Trespasser did feel a bit like a trailer for the next game in which the Inquisitor would still be the main PC, just not called the Inquisitor any more. It would certainly make sense if DA:D was simply Inquisition Part 2 that this would be the case and there are elements of this in the fact that, no matter what you decided at the end of Trespasser, the Inquisition does continue on in some form. However, one thing that has definitely been confirmed is that we will have a new hero for DA:D, which means it won't simply be the second half of DAI.

If the story of DAI was split owing to being too large for one game, it follows that originally the Herald/Inquisitor PC would have been the protagonist for the whole story, or are we to believe that had it been issued as one game, the protagonist would have changed half way through? So, from that perspective, the narrative has changed from the original concept and thus it is entirely possible that the plot may have altered too, in which case it will have a narrative that does not rely on what was set up in DAI (and its associated DLC) beyond the fact that Solas is present in both. Just as you don't need to have played DA2 and Legacy to understand the narrative in DAI or the characters involved that have crossed over from that game.

In fact, as we now know, there should have been an Exalted March expansion to DA2 that would have dealt differently with various plot lines that were set up in DA2, including Corypheus and the rise of the Red Templars. After its cancellation, the essential elements of these had to be included in DAI, which is presumably what caused it to become too large to contain its entire narrative in one game. So, it is possible that DA:D will be a similar sort of hybrid, with the continuation of the Solas narrative leading into something else that was always meant to be the next stage on from the narrative that should have been wholly within DAI, but was vague enough in its conception that the current writers did not feel compelled to follow it as originally envisaged.

Same here. They seem to be making explicit certain aspects that previously were left ambiguous, so I do hope we are finally going to get some definitive answers. However, that could point to it being a turning point in the history of Thedas that will alter the setting in some sort of profound way, or, as Flemeth declared to the Inquisitor that they were: "Herald of a new age."