Should Kieran play a major role in the next Dragon Age? (Spoiler)

No, because his existence is far too optional, and removing the need for the Warden to father him removes any personal significance he has to players.

At the end of the day, Bioware's main point of story development in DA is their own in house cannon. In their cannon, the HOF was a female Dalish Elf(?) that make the ultimate sacrifice. So i wouldn't hold out hope for major meetings from Kieren unless they pull a Leliana and magic him into the game. Which is their right, but that interferes with people's own cannon. I'd love for him to play a major part, but the unlikeliness is very high.

How do I know?
If she cared she could had tried to meet him via well of sorrow regardless of him having the former AD soul,but in the Altar scenario she simply doesn't care at all to even bother to search him nor he cared to ask anything about him to Morrigan.
That seem to me enough of an evidence to claim that she only cares to meet him for the AD soul.

I think it's the other way around - the OGB doesn't matter (the importance of said devoured/removed soul is, in my estimation, overshadowed by the power Flemeth or Fen'Harel wields at the end of the game) and the Warden is completely ignored and out of the picture. So the Warden may as well be dead and the OGB may as well have never existed. That speaks more of an US canon than an OGB one.The only difference it's about two scenes that EA originally didn't even meant to be part of DAI(The whole well of sorrow narrative branches were a DLC of DAII)but Gaider insisted on that and imho it forced a little bit the main plot of DAI.

She will do nothing. Solas will do nothing. It's over. As long as the Dark Ritual was only one of several ending choices, dividing the lore between world states where the Old God soul does and does not exist at the same time, this entire subplot will never amount to anything. Flemeth removing the soul from Kieran was the end of the road for this whole thing - now the soul doesn't exist in anyone's world states, and the writers can move on to the plots that affect every player.


The different wardens informants filled the same role,they don't make any difference to the narrative.

I disagree of them being unable to create exclusive contents for Non-DR players they could had done that if they wanted simply by developing more the Altar of Mythal and fill that place with more characters Abelas alike instead to leave it empty like it was.

The changes those world states had were quite minimal, though, if i recall correctly. They basically changed what minor quests are open to you and mentions of the Warden changed.
I'm pretty sure the books are cannon, but they don't have all that much to do with the Warden or Morrigan, the two people Kieren's existence depends on. So there's no reason to mention them, really.

DA2 had 3 stories you could import, but DAI only had the one. While i know keep is not that much to go on, here is what their default is

dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Keep  (scroll down to it)

They obviously know and account for every choice that you can make, so there's a huge change we will see Kieren again. They say it's pretty much a 50/50 split between those who have him and those who don't, although that doesn't account for those who had a human Kieren son. (Romance stats could tell them that, though) What i'm saying is there is very little chance of him having a MAJOR role, which is what this thread is discussing. I think it's important to note, though, that currently the Inquisition cannon is that Morrigan drank from the well, meaning she is tied to Mythal forever now, and we know what happened to Flemeth. Although i doubt Flemeth is gone, there is a chance Morrigan will assume her role as puppeteer of fate. In which case, Kieren could be around whenever she is. That's just speculation, though.

I do love the thought of him becoming a companion when he becomes an adult, but i think that is too much to hope for. This is because people who didn't have him in their games either 1)Won't get a companion 2) Will have him forced on them or 3) Have a completely different companion in his place, which may be a little too much for Bioware to have to deal with. But they could pull a Leliana on him if they have a good enough reason.

I don't see them doing anything,waiting 10 years to continue an optional path isn't that smart imho,but since they said that DAI was a game splitted in two parts you may be right.

It costed them nothing to put some exclusive ancient elf with his own dialogues in the Altar of Mythal.

It's either that or leave it incomplete. Which is worse?
But what would the in-universe explanation for him being exclusive be? What I'm trying to say is that content exclusive to one path should have a decent explanation for why it's exclusive.

I don't see anything weird with a priest of Mythal being available near the location of the Altar either. But what I'm asking is what the in-universe explanation for him being exclusive would have been.

Whatever the case with DAI, I think it is pretty clear that they are trying to wipe the slate clean so far as the majority of characters are concerned when it comes to the next game, so there will be few awkward carry overs to accommodate from earlier ones, particularly those before DAI. We are heading north, where the majority of people have no business to be.

So the only people, other than Solas (and possibly the Inquisitor), likely to return are ones who have a specific link to Tevinter: Dorian (cannot be killed and becomes a Magister regardless of whether you were friends or not, or even recruited him); Calpernia (ambiguous death as never see the body and people steered towards sparing her (CoJ) or never even meeting her (HW); Maevaris (although she was the creation of DG and he is no longer around); Harding and/or Charter (because we are told in the epilogue to Trespasser that Leliana was training them up to be her replacement). It is also possible they might bring back Tallis (because she is another person you cannot kill and has a Qunari connection). It is also vaguely possible that Cole could return in some sort of cameo role. 

Most other people from DAI have no reason to be in Tevinter and are shown in the epilogue to be engaged doing their own thing down south, including Hawke if they survived because they are now back in Kirkwall, so you can happily head to Grey Warden HQ without people expecting to see them (same goes for Stroud, Warden Alistair or Warden Loghain by implication - their business with the Wardens finished before we got there).  So if they appear at all it will be as codex entries or letters, not as actual characters.

I say this because Kieran, whether as an ex-OGB or not, has no real reason to be up north. Even if Morrigan should pop up again, it is highly unlikely she would want to risk bringing her son with her. Unless they fast forward the plot several years, he will still be a young adolescent and thus not even the right age for companion material. So there is no logical reason to include him even if they could find a way around the US, so why would they waste time and effort in trying to accommodate him?

Oh my gosh, that default world state of all three games is so far off from what I did and all of my PTs so far.

US which is whatever...  We got our cure letter, but it makes me worried they're not going to follow that plot line, regardless of HoF involvement.

 didn't help find Sten's sword? <- how can he even return to his people to be the Arishok if he's shot on sight? NEar all of the side quests were not completed, which who does that, but I noticed it didn't matter one way or the other when I clicked them for my worlds but then, why even have the tiles for them? And Connor dies, but Ser Landry lives- we see connor in the live games, but I've never met Ser Landry since the first game. 

Both Avernus and Sophia killed? Why? Avernus is such an interesting plot point and they've already introduced the Cure plot line.

Hawke died in the Fade? That's canon? Sigh. At least we got a slide about returning to Kirkwall with friend Varric if we didn't do that. They'll leave Hawke alone now.

But what I'm most irritated about is teh Trespasser choices. Why is bull's betrayal canon? Why is keeping the Inquisition canon? Why is killing Solas canon? @_@