Chanda wrote...
Ooh, I just saw the new website and watched the new Inquisition video. Nine companions! Woohoo! So I haven't checked, speculation on who they are? Anyone have a list? I'm going with:
Cassandra
Varric
Vivienne
Cullen
Iron Bull
Sera
Dorian
Scribe Girl
Cole
Four girls and five guys. DLC character will probably be female to even it out.
Pure speculation here, but I'm going to go with 3 from each class:
Cassandra (confirmed)
Grey Warden (male, appears in video footage)
Cullen (speculation)
Varric (confirmed)
Sera (appears in video footage)
(another rogue - Cole???? unsure)
Vivienne (confirmed)
Dorian (possible appearance in concept art)
(another mage)
One of the things people complained about most vociferously with DA2 was that each NPC had a fixed role in the party. If you didn't like Anders, you had to play a Spirit Healer yourself or do without. If you didn't like Isabela, you either did without a melee rogue or you played one yourself. Etc. But characters like Varric have iconic roles. An easy compromise would be to introduce a third character who didn't have an iconic skillset and allow the player to spec them out however they wanted. Varric will never use any weapon but Bianca, but if you don't like him, no worries, there's somebody else you can spec as an archer.
There's going to be gender parity, I'm sure, so I'd expect either or both of the unspecified followers to be female. They won't both be male.
Anyway, this is rank speculation. It doesn't include the Iron Bull (sorry, moto), but I'm not really sure if he'd fit in a way that would allow Cullen to be there. Given the millions of "Don't make the only healer Anders!" threads that popped up after DA2, I'd be really surprised if they'd be willing to risk having only two mages.