I think that Cullen will be busy with the troops management (That if they go with 3 characters of each class. I personaly prefer 2 rogues and 4 warriors. I don't like the ideea of Cole as a companion), scribe girl with the traiding and Leliana with the spy thingies.
Wow, I never thought of it like that.
That would mean Leliana is the Inquisition's spymaster, Cullen its general, and the Scribe Lady your overseer of commerce and trading.
That actually fits with everything we know.
The way I see it we already have 2 archer rogues. The third one needs to be a "stab-stab-kill-kill" type. Think Cole would fit that role.
With 40? endings i wonder how many hours the game will be ?
Thank you very much for the info!
All this is getting me really excited because of how great it sounds. I'm really happy with the regions we'll be visiting, and all these new gameplay elements like the way you can affect the local region and the environment sound great. The lack of DLC companions makes sense, although I was still really surprised when I read it. It's for the best though. I guess this makes speculation about the companions both easier and more difficult at once?
Also, I'd like to clarify something about Sera-- is it confirmed, specifically, that there is an elven archer companion, who is named Sera, who is also the blonde elf we saw in the Tavern concept art? (Who is commonly called that because she resembles the Sera from the leaked survey?) Or just that there is a (female) elven archer? What exactly is know about her, beyond those two things? Sorry to bother you with questions, I just want to clarify this for sure before I jump to conclusions, considering how her appearance seems to be accidental and not intended on Bioware's part...
- "Bioware is promising a staggering 40 possible endings for the game, dependent not only on choices made in character generation but by actions taken throughout the storyline. [Mark] Darrah stresses, however, that the endings will all be meaningfully different from one another. You won't find 40 endings with only slight degrees of variation between them."
....Huh. There... seems to be slightly contradictory information on this subject going around? I think I'm going to wait until we have more sources on it before I believe anything.
Also, I, uh, was 100% convinced at first read that the thing with the bees was just trolling and/or a bit of joking around on their part. And apparently it's not? Unless my sarcasm-radar failed me again. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that.
I don't think Cullen was ever likely to be a companion - he was in the survey and in that War Room concept art, but David Gaider did say that many of those characters were NPCs.
(Ditto for Leliana and the Scribe Lady)
Yeah, for what it's worth my guess at the moment is that Cole is a companion, Cullen is an important NPC but not a party member, and Dorian was cut altogether early in production. That would leave us with one female companion as yet unglimpsed. (Unless it really is Leliana, but I think she'll be a non-party NPC too.)
No offense meant to the OP, but I'd like to see this article in my native language first. There has been so many rumors flying around that I'm not going to believe it so easily. Until I see the DA team confirm or deny this, I'm going to treat it with a grain of salt. Sorry. 
If it's online, please send a link.
Looking forward to seeing Kirkwall again. Prettiest city in the DA setting
Looking forward to seeing Kirkwall again. Prettiest city in the DA setting
WoG has already stated that we are not going back to Kirkwall.
Given that the Warden is almost certainly a companion, if Cole was a rogue and Dorian was cut, they'd need to have another mage.
(assuming that there really will be three warriors/rogues/mages, which I think is more and more likely)
I still think Dorian is the robed moustached guy - even more, now, because we can guess the names and roles of *everyone* else in that image, and they're probably either companions or leaders of the Inquisition's various branches.
No DLC companion is really interesting as it completely throws my previous assumptions about our remaining party members into question. At the moment I'm thinking it'll be either Cullen/Cole depending on whether Iron Bull is a rogue or a Warrior and a female Dwarf.
Yeah Nevarra!
Jar of bees! Wonder if we're going to craft them and have apiaries?!
I mean a Inquisitor/beekeeper would be cool.(I know not going to happen...but I can dream)
And I'm not sure why the Dales is now a country , used to be part of Orlais .Wonder if the elves are going to be more independant after the Masked Empire.
I'm not sure about 40 different endings.I'd like to see a dev comment on that.
Because it seems a lot if they are all indeed different , and I can't imagine how that's possible.
Different variations , sure .
And not sure how I feel about the Inquisitor having some strange power ...It explains the Qunari/dwarf /elf Inquisitor.But how does someone , not being a powerful mage , can close fade tear?
Wonder if it has to do with blood.It almost always has to do with blood.
I'm curious now , I hope it just won't be too strange lorewise.
No. Not bees. Why does it have to be bees of all things. (I guess this is what arachnophobes must have felt like when Bioware promised something even more terrifying than giant spiders.)
Other than that:
All of this sounds very interesting. Especially the info about the three dialouge wheels. What I would like to know is whether these wheels are somehow marked - meaning, will we know which of these wheels we're dealing with when we play the game? It probably depends on how the responses are written, but I would hate to think I was making a simple role-playing decision and then realize I've just sold Cassandra to a goat...
As far as the endings go: I call bullshit. And I mean that in the nicest way possible, because the article makes it sound like we will have 40 completely different and unique endings and that just doesn't seem very likely. I mean, I totally believe that there will be variations between the endings, but surely not different enough to warrant a playthrough for every ending or something. Sliders like DA:O seem the most likely possibility here and I am completely fine with that. 
I like the news about possibly changing the pitch of the Inquisitor's voice. It's been confirmed that the speaker in the 'Discover DA' video was the male Inquisitor, was it not? I didn't particularly like the sound of his voice (it seemed too forced to me) and I'm willing to bet that the other voice available will be higher (and more fitting to an elf, for example), so being stuck with that wouldn't appeal to me. Not that the male Inquisitor's voice will matter much to me, but the principle stays the same for the female Inquisitor.
The prolouge section is gonna be interesting. I've speculated in the past that some decisions about the Inquisitor's past might be made through dialouge with another person and it seems that will indeed be the case. (And let me tell you, I LOVE game prolouges, when there's nothing more important to do than talk to people and get familiar with your character.)
It seems that we will have a lot fo influence over our environment and it's gonna be hella exciting to see how it all plays out in the final version of the game. Bioware really seems to put a lot of effort into this game and it shows!
Now, back to the *shudder* jar of bees. (Apart from being absolutely horrifying,) the first thing that made me think of is that it seems like a bit of a crude, make-shift invention. It doesn't seem like something a proper merchant would sell. And then my brain immediatly jumped to the possibility of having an inventor in your party or at least somewhere in your homebase. (Kind of like...what was his name? That inventor dude in Baldurs Gate II I never used 'cause he kept dying on me.)
And you know who I would love to see as an inventor who comes up with all sorts of crazy stuff? Dagna. Repeat after me: Daaagnaaa. I think she's been mentioned in a previous article (emphasis on 'I think') and I can imagine that her fascination with magic might have led her to try and emulate it - without having magical powers of her own, which would quite nicely lead to a change of career path for her.
(Disclaimer: I fully admit to being shamelessly biased. I just want to have Dagna in my party - or at least as an important PC. And I'm sure the devs always get a good laugh out of our baseless theories. 
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This information sounds good, though will be waiting to read it in my own language before taking it as legit. Especially the '40' endings. Sounds well too much. More like 4 major endings with minor differences between ending slides. Thanks OP though!
Also, confirmed Iron Bull & Sera?! -fails to sit calmly-
Behold! the herald of your destruction!
Spider-bee!
Thanks for posting, this is all really cool!
40 endings is... staggeringly ambitious. Awesome, but ambitious.
It kinda sounds like an amusingly excessive reaction to the ME3 backlash - people were angry with three endings, so let's give them forty?
Assuming an "ending" is a composition of several "main plot threads", that can be the case.
So for example you could have :
1) Continent-spanning conflicts
- The issue with the Fade (Destroy/Control/Synthesis)
(And yes, I know I am mean, but Bioware should not be left to live ME3 down, not after that whole "artistic integrity" display of hubris)
- Mage/Templar War (Likely connected with the Fade Tears)
- The Elven Question (possibly continental issue of rallying Alienages and setting up an Inquisition-friendly Elven State in the Dales)
2) Regional Conflicts
- Orlais Civil War (Celene or Gaspard) (Bonus : Elven Alienages and the Dales)
- ??? Ferelden Legitimacy Troubles ??? Mac Tir (Anora) vs Guerrin (Eamon/Teagan/Alistair) ??? (Ferelden) (Orlesian spill-over also possible) (Bonus : Elven Alienages)
- ??? Kirkwall rule Succession ??? void left in the wake of death of Meredith and/or disappearance of Hawke ??? Civil War In Kirkwall, Involvement From Other Free Cities ??? (Free Marches) (Bonus : Qunari Invasion Part 2)
- ??? Nevarran Royal Troubles ??? Sickly king a puppet to necromancer mages ??? Possible Tevinter Angle ??? (Bonus : Accentuated Mage/Templar violence) (Nevarra)
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If all of the above contribute together to paint a final picture, yeah, I can see 40-ish endings.
IF Bioware is serious about it and isn't just lying hyping.
Given that the Warden is almost certainly a companion, if Cole was a rogue and Dorian was cut, they'd need to have another mage.
(assuming that there really will be three warriors/rogues/mages, which I think is more and more likely)
I still think Dorian is the robed moustached guy - even more, now, because we can guess the names and roles of *everyone* else in that image, and they're probably either companions or leaders of the Inquisition's various branches.
If they scraped Dorian and if he really was supposed to be robed moustached guy I hope that they gave Rhys his looks. I don't know why, but I always found moustache guy as a good interpretation of how Rhys might look.
And not sure how I feel about the Inquisitor having some strange power ...It explains the Qunari/dwarf /elf Inquisitor.But how does someone , not being a powerful mage , can close fade tear?
Wonder if it has to do with blood.It almost always has to do with blood.
I'm curious now , I hope it just won't be too strange lorewise.
I actually thought that this is the case for a long time. My explanation to why the Inquisitor has this power and survives The Veil Tear : when the Veil tears, demons come pouring out from the Fade. People tend to forget that benevolent spirits exist in the Fade and that they might also be cast out in the confusion . What does all this has to do with the Inquisitor ? I think that s/he's a vessel for Fade spirits (something like Wynne was), but I think that there are a lot more spirits in the Inquisitor and that they are keeping him/her alive and give him/her the Veil closing power and maybe other capabilities unique to him/her.
Nevarra.... Mwahahahahaha... Now, to invest more research and study into blood magic and the School of Spirit... 
I actually thought that this is the case for a long time. My explanation to why the Inquisitor has this power and survives The Veil Tear : when the Veil tears, demons come pouring out from the Fade. People tend to forget that benevolent spirits exist in the Fade and that they might also be cast out in the confusion . What does all this has to do with the Inquisitor ? I think that s/he's a vessel for Fade spirits (something like Wynne was), but I think that there are a lot more spirits in the Inquisitor and that they are keeping him/her alive and give him/her the Veil closing power and maybe other capabilities unique to him/her.
A benevolent spirit angle a la Wynne for the Inquisitor? Sure, why not.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Flemeth herself rescued the Inquisitor.
She did rescue the Warden and Alistair. She also rescued Hawke's party. Why not the Inquisitor?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if we don't see Flemeth early in the game again. It seems like that might be their trend.
Seeing as the interview is highly likely to be done in English and the magazine is in English, why do people need to "read it in their own language" since that involves an additional translation.
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