Set after DA2 with a new mage protagonist, Anders' body was never found and he shows up much to Cullen's ire, who is only not trying to smite the mage because The Inquisitor said so.
Anders: “You know, glaring at me isn’t going to make me
disappear, templar.”
Cullen: "Were it up to me -"
Anders: "But it's not up to you. Our fearless leader forbid you from 'harming so much as a single hair on my head', remember?"
Cullen: "After what you did in Kirkwall, death is better than you deserve,"
Anders: ....
Cullen: “Hawke executed you.”
Anders: “Try not to be too disappointed. She missed. The
blade didn’t damage anything fatal. If it’s any consolation, it was
excruciatingly painful.”
Cullen: “How do I know that your demon isn’t keeping you
alive, or using Anders’ corpse and claiming to be him? Is it really Justice in
there?”
Anders: “Justice is gone… Hawke’s knife only missed because he
pulled as much of his energy as he could in its path.”
Cullen: “How can a knife kill a demon? They only die if the
host does.”
Anders: *snarls* “For the last time, Justice wasn’t a demon!
He was a spirit. All demons are spirits but not all spirits are demons.”
Cullen: “So whose idea was it to destroy the Chantry then?”
Anders: “Whose idea was it Tranquilize and rape mages?”
Cullen: “There was never any proof of that happening!”
Anders: “Yet Hawke and I walked in on a templar about to do
just that. Alrik wasn’t the only one either. Countless mages were abused and
you did nothing! You keep saying your job is to protect them but once they’re
in the Circle, your protection disappears. I couldn’t stand by and do nothing.
They were innocent!”
Cullen: “So were many initiates and brothers and sisters in
the Chantry you destroyed! Many of whom were scholars that had promising ideas
for making the Circles better.”
Anders: “A better prison? How lovely…”
Cullen: “Elthina was most impressed by one particular
scholar, a devout Andrastian who felt deep sympathy for the mages’ plight. She
had a theory for allowing mages freedom while maintaining vigil over them and
you destroyed that. Indiscriminately and without thought, you obliterated
someone who was fighting for the same cause you are. So, again I ask, whose
idea was it? The man? Or monster?”
Anders: *sigh* “Maybe it was both of us. Spirits can’t
perceive the world as it is, only as we feel about it. I can’t say for sure
that I don’t harbor such desires deep inside… I’ve always despised the Chantry
and its doctrine but I can’t imagine doing what we did that night in Kirkwall,
now that Justice is gone. I do know that he sacrificed his existence for me.
Hawke’s blade had spiritual properties. To protect me from its edge, Justice
exposed too much of himself to its effects. It killed him.”
Cullen: “That’s… surprising to hear of a spirit doing such a
thing.”
Anders: “Because they’re not all demons. Some are good.”
Cullen: “Just as you claim not all mages are the same.”
Anders: “If they were, would you have fallen in love with
Hawke? Would you be following the command of a mage now?”
Cullen: “I have orders…”
Anders: “Always the dutiful one… Shouldn’t you be back in
Kirkwall? I heard about Meredith’s demise. Why aren’t you enjoying your new
post as Knight Commander?”
Cullen: “I was never assigned to that position.”
Anders: “Oh? It seems like you would be the Order’s logical
choice: religious fanatic, blind rule follower, you don’t care to distinguish
mages from monsters and you’re really very bad at your job…”
Cullen: “Take care what you say, Anders…”
Anders: “Or what? You’ll drag me to the Gallows? Oh, right –
you aren’t a templar anymore. I’m surprised Hawke didn’t run you through when
she finished off Meredith.”
Cullen: “…Hawke didn’t kill Meredith… Even at the end she
begged the Knight Commander to stop her madness.” *shakes head* “The idol
consumed Meredith until only a husk remained.
Hawke never wanted her dead.”
Anders: “That still doesn’t explain why you were kicked out
of the fraternity and branded a traitor.”
Cullen: “The rest of the Order felt it was my betrayal of
Meredith that drove her to lose her last shred of sanity.”
Anders: “You… you betrayed
Meredith?”
Cullen: “She went too far.”
Anders: “Leave it to the Chantry to pin the consequences of
a raving madwoman’s depraved ambitions on one of their own. That idol consumed
Bartrand’s mind too. That’s what it does to the one who wields it. So I
wouldn’t accept too much credit for Meredith, if I were you.”
Cullen: “I’m… um… not sure how to take that.”
Anders: “I suppose it is a bit much to expect a templar to
show gratitude to a mage…”
Cullen: “I-I.. uh, th-thank you… I think…”
Anders: “Well, you did use my name...”
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Qunari cracking jokes can be amusing.
(j/k)
But once he's in that bro category, I'll be dead set against him being an LI. I'm weird that way. I wonder if Black Whirlwind was the inspiration for Iron Bull though. Jade Empire is a Bioware game... 
Now if only they'd make a Zu knockoff for an LI,,, 
