Ok but who the hell are the race gated romances now? Varric and Iron Bull seemed like the only two that made any sense to be. And both are not....
That's kind of one of my concerns right now. It would be fine if they had to decided to confirm the rest of the romances and race-gating when announcing Varric wasn't going to be an LI, but now people still have to worry about who will be the last two LIs and who are the two race gated romances. Varric was by far the most obvious to race gate (even if I had preferred he wasn't). Now who is? I'm hoping that the unannounced LIs are both bisexual and race-gated and in the case of Viv that makes sense but Solas doesn't seem to likely to be race-gated. I can understand arguments for Cullen or Sera to be race-gated but I really hope they do not race-gate one of the straight or gay romances. That would be awful.
I also love both Sigrun and Dagna. They're great. I hope even though she isn't an advisor that Dagna is at least somewhat significantly involved.
As much as I would like to see either of them return for the next game after Inquisition, though, I'd prefer they don't just to get the chance to see some new dwarf characters and not have to go through the agony again of waiting to see if the returning dwarf character is a romance. I really hope we'll have a new dwarf companion next time around, particularly a female one who is also an LI. Having both a male and a female dwarf companion who are both romancable would be even better, while I'm busy dreaming.
I'd love to see Sigrun again! She was my favorite companion in Awakening. At the very least I'd love to have another member of the Legion of the Dead party member in the future or...ooooh what if in the next game one of the dwarven backgrounds is a Legionnaire? Now that would be cool.
Oooh that is a great idea for a dwarven background. Never thought of that before. I would love it.
I've been hoping for a Silent Sister companion myself. Although I'm not sure how they'd pull that off what with the Silent Sisters being well...silent.
hah. That would be hard. They would have to make it so the PC was capable of signing but that would probably we hard to explain away for all the different race backgrounds.
So, just to get conversation going. Now that we know that Varric isn't an LI, who are you guys planning to romance ? I'm hoping for Blackwall, but it's not likely he'll be an LI. I suppose I can go with Dorian on my first playthrough. Assuming he's not gated to Dwarves.
For my first playthrough it is going to be either Sera or Josephine. Technically, I told myself if Varric wasn't a romance I would first play a female qunari who romances Josephine and then a female dwarf who romances Sera. It was the only way I could get myself to decide between a female qunari or a female dwarf for my first playthrough, but I don't really believe myself...
I think I'm going to have to wait until I'm playing the game to decide between those two.
Dorian I also love but he'll have to wait for a hypothetical third playthrough that I'm afraid I won't get to. If I do, I'll romance him with a male elf mage. I don't have problems playing male characters, but I'm just way too excited about playing a female dwarf and a female qunari this time and well, my Hawke was male anyways.
Varric was my first choice, but I still have three characters I'm interested in almost as much as him is so ultimately I'm pretty lucky. Really, my main problem is since I like all three of my possibilities so much it makes it a hard to choose who to romance the first time around.
Varric would have been an easy first choice as a returning character.