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if such factions exist I hope we WONT be able to please them all
sort of like the houses in morrowind or the thief guild and dark brother hood
u have to pick a side eventually ....
also see witcher for awesome branching choices that some times lead to insanely different outcomes
as far as i can tell from fan talk their is this templar mage thing going on and this is great
any more like that ?
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I'll toss you a like for mentioning Morrowind.
As far as factions are concerned, not really sure to be honest. The mage-templar conflict is the only thing that has been set in stone thus far, but there may be others out there.
We know that you will have to confront the Grey Wardens at some point, for whatever reason that may be. Other parties you may be forced to ally with or oppose?
I'm curious to see how Alistair is going to figure in all of this, and what stance he is going to take in relation to the Inquisition.
I imagine at some point the PC will also be forced to decide whether he/she is going to support or oppose Morrigan.
Well,there's also the Elven rebellion going on...
And a civil war for the throne of Orlais
Here's what we have so far and will probably be the main ones.
Mages
Templar's
Elves
Celine's army
Gaspard's army
Venatori
Grey Warden's
Who knows how many more will be involved though.
Okay here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
And yeah I too hope that we wont be able to please all of them so we have to make some hard choices. Certainly having the choice to make a compromise between certain factions but I doubt some factions will be able to tolerate some others (for instance red templars and mages).
good good
if done well this could be epic
There might be minor factions we can "hopefully" add to our Inquisition forces
And a different mini ending depending on how we dealt with each faction. 
hope some of them get pissed if u aid one faction over another and got all crazy on ur face
In some cases I think we will be expected to choose between factions:
mages or templars
Celene or Gaspard
However, with others I think we will have no choice but to destroy them:
Red Templars - because they are all crazed on red lyrium
Venatori - because they are a crazy cult who are dedicated to keeping the Veil open (at least it looks that way based on what I have seen so far)
There might be minor factions we can "hopefully" add to our Inquisition forces
I hope that this is the case as well.
I also hope that some of these other "minor" factions include the fantasy elements of the DA setting. I would love to be able to recruit the various supernatural entities around Thedas to my Inquisition to bolster my 'normal' forces; and not just because I like the 'alien' parts of the setting more then the human conflicts, but also because these creatures would offer aid in a way that no Human, Elf, Dwarf, or Qunari could.
I know that I would much rather have a handful of Golems guarding my keeps then a whole battalion of human warriors; chiefly because Golems don't need to eat, or sleep, they have immense (rock crushing) strength, they can take a heck of lot more punishment before falling, and they don't question orders. Likewise, even the most attuned Dalish hunters pale in comparison to the raw, beastial instincts of a Werewolf; not to mention that the natural weapons and armor of the were creatures means that I don't have to supply them with arms like I would for my regular forces.
I do hope that such alliances are not the psychotic, evil choices though. I don't want to have to burn a village to the ground and then impale all the children on spikes just to enlist the help of the Sylvans for my army, for example. Something that doesn't have a direct human analogue, or isn't immediately identifiable with human preconceptions, or cultures ≠ Evil Monster and I hope that such factions are presented with more depth then that.
I am going to have to disagree with the OP and say that I don't want all choices regarding the factions of DA:I to be binary in nature, I would like to see compromise in the list of options as well. Instead of having to pick only the mages, or only the templars, I would much rather have the ability of working towards or forcing an agreement between both factions. Obviously, I wouldn't want the middle ground choices to reward more allies then picking one faction over the other; in fact I would submit that such a compromise would net players with a smaller boost to their forces then if they just helped the templars or the mages. Maybe in order to get both sides to agree to work together you would have to eliminate the hardliners from both faction's leadership, the act of doing this however will negate any bonuses that you might have got for keeping said leaders in power.
In some cases I think we will be expected to choose between factions:
mages or templars
Celene or Gaspard
Given what transpires in "The Masked Empire", I'm hoping an elven faction can be a third option, for those of us who have no interest in assisting the Orlesian Empire in regaining it's footing.
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