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[Mechler]

 As we know there will be 10 companions in Inquisition. A few leaks actually give names and characteristics for a few, but we don't really trust them, do we? What we need are real info to know what to expect from our characters. Well, based on Origins and DA2, we can find interesting patterns that could help us figure out how to deal with our characters. So let's see:
- The Shield using tank warrior will be a redhead(Alistair, Aveline)
- The ranged rogue as well(Leliana, Varic)
- And for that matter, the dwarf(Oghren, Varic)
- The idealist chantry supporter is a royalty(Alistair, Sebastian)
- The two handed sword user will be the provider of Qnari lore(Sten, Fenris)
- The tough-girl love interest will be half naked(Morrigan, Isabella)
- The apparently sweet girl will have some dark secret(Leliana, Merill)
- You will first see the female rogue in a bar(Leliana, Isabella)
- The melee rogue will at one point leave the party if you don't have a high enough approoval(Zhevran, Isabella)
  - Also these two will at some point mention either that they were tied up, or that they want to be
- The offensive mage gets involved in the plot because of Flemeth's orders(Morrigan, Merill)
- The healer mage is slightly undead with a benevolent Fade spirit keeping him/her alive(Wynn, Anders)

Did I leave out anything? No, I tink that is all. Correct me if I am wrong somewhere.
We shall see wether this remains true for Inquisition. But my guess is, yes.

[David Gaider]

Mechler wrote...
As we know there will be 10 companions in Inquisition.

No. There will not. I have nothing to say on the survey, which I assume this number is based upon, but I am telling you this number is incorrect.

Well, based on Origins and DA2, we can find interesting patterns that could help us figure out how to deal with our characters.

Not quite. There are indeed always going to be some things you can find in common between characters, but those aren't things that we plan. The thing you can reasonably expect, and which we do plan for, are:

1) A range of character classes, and within those classes a range of primary class abilities (so, to take DA2 as an example, we had one Warrior who was Sword+Shield and one who was Two-Handed Sword).

2) A range of races.

3) A range of viewpoints, representing different aspects of Thedas but-- more importantly-- representing different sides of the central conflicts in DA3.

Considering we writers tend to deliberately try for different types of characters each time out of the gate, I doubt looking at DAO and DA2 for some kind of pattern is going to be very helpful-- short of the above. Mind you, if someone can look at Mission from KotOR, Leliana from DA and Tali from ME and decide that they are all the same characters... well, then I imagine blurring the differences enough can provide you an archetype which might be of some use. I'm not really sure what use that would be, however, since there's so much wiggle room within an archetype it would tell you precisely nothing.