Good evening all!
I have a question about the advisers (kind of Cullen question so bear with me) and I wanted to get your thoughts.
In one of the earliest gameplay videos, the Inquisitor went to a mage stronghold and found Leliana, who had been captured and tortured by the mage the Inquisitor had been sent to defeat.
My question is this: do you think that mission was specifically geared for Leliana (recruitment quest, maybe)? Or do you think that quest entails choosing an adviser to investigate the stronghold, meaning that any one of the three advisers could be in that scene?
I'm kind of thinking that it's a adviser recruitment quest but am not 100% sure -- I mean, who would send Josephine to a mage stronghold? But since the game is all about choices, it could very well be that you can indeed send the adviser of your choice to investigate that spooky castle.
That being said, any of you already planning a rescue mission if it's Cullen chained up in there? (let the drooling commence!!) 
That mission if we're given the choice of who to send is probably going to be very difficult for me to pick?
On the one hand, Josephine is the diplomat and she might actually be good because she'd enter the situation ready to talk and try to open a dialogue, rather than go guns blazing like Leliana and Cullen would. Aside from bringing his dead son back to life (who might have been killed by Leliana in her initial assault of the place, we don't know?), Alexius doesn't seem that too far gone to not be reasonable if you could maybe talk him down? The only reason it goes wrong in the version we've seen with Leliana is because she slits his son's throat out of spite, causing him to flip out. On the other hand, if it's a trap and was going to go south anyway, then I'd rather not send Josephine to be tortured.
Similarly, Cullen and Leliana have both been tortured in the past and it's left it's mark on them in a profound way. Leliana's torture (and implied other abuse) after being betrayed by Marjolaine was something that shook her to the core and left her searching for direction before Dorothea rescued her. Similarly, Cullen's torture at the hands of the blood mages and demons in Uldred's coup caused him to distrust most mages for the better part of a decade afterward. Sending both of them into another situation that could lead to the same kind of traumatic experience is something I'd want to avoid at all costs.
It's a pain because since we know it can go badly, I kind of hope we'll have the option to go in ourselves? Having the Inquisitor be the one getting tortured and having our friends bust us out is something that we've not really seen before, as we've always broken out of jail long before any harm to our characters too place?
I do hope that the "Lovestruck fool" smile is an actual thing in the game.
Wasn't that Alistair's default expression in Origins?
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