It'd be nice if Bethany or Carver were the ninth companion like Ash or Kaidan in ME3. Whether that'd work with them being Warden or Circle/Templar idk.
Isn't the 9th companion almost guaranteed to be Cole though? I thought he might also be a decent romance when I saw him but apparently he... has a reason he can't be that I can't say without the spoiler thingy which I also don't know how to do.
I know almost everyone knows but I saw someone getting a dressing down for revealing this very piece of information.
I like Bethany, she was sweet and I wish I could have had her in the party more instead of her disappearing off to the circle but Carver was an a**hole to my Hawke. He had some chip on his shoulder about being a younger brother or something that I really don't care about. I almost took him to the Deep Roads without Anders... but I didn't