We now know what the box art for Dragon Age 2 looks like thanks to the
official DA2 website. In fact, the same image is used as header of the said website. If you look at the dragon's wings, you'll notice that the bottom appears to have silhouettes of several people. I labelled sixteen, but there are probably three more there.

I wonder if all them are companions, or are there NPCs thrown in as well. Maybe they are all non-recruitable characters that play a major role in this sequel. They could also represent any player character we could create; the hero being Dragon Age's version of default male Shepard.
What do you think?