I'm thinking Vivienne and Solas too.
Blackwall seems like a "mentor" sort of character and those characters are never romanceable.
As for race gating I think the main reason for that are animation difficulties so the story explanation is probably built around that. I think they will probably only exclude dwarves and/or qunari because of the sizes. As for who might be race gated I have no idea... I've seen a lot of believable explanations for all the characters.
Omg. So much hate for you right now!
Nobody look at that spoiler!!!!
LOL. That tv movie gave me nightmares as a kid. The guy on the rocking chair and the kid brother scratching on the window.
I personally think Solas is likely considering his VA's tweet. I wouldn't mind Blackwall, especially thanks to a certain DA artist. They are likely to keep gender ratios however, thus vIv is almost certainly an option.
I'm hoping for Viv, not Solas though. Hell, with all of the public outcry we could even be getting Varric as a Race gated Romance.
Guest_Doctor Whom_*
Bioware, create a romance subsection for all of these romance threads.......please......
Seriously. I honestly don't get how people care about an aspect of the game that back in the day we used to laugh at as a little side thing. The tumblr-generation is why we can't have nice things.
I'm hoping for Viv, not Solas though. Hell, with all of the public outcry we could even be getting Varric as a Race gated Romance.
Varric was already confirmed not to be a romance just a day or so ago, I see it being Vvi and Solas and either both of them being gated or it being vivi and cullen gated or cullen and solas gated
time to grab a beer and set back am enjoying this
Varric was already confirmed not to be a romance just a day or so ago, I see it being Vvi and Solas and either both of them being gated or it being vivi and cullen gated or cullen and solas gated
Well, that is slightly disappointing though the chances of me ever playing a female Dwarf are so astronomically small that I'm not bothered.
I hope Cass isn't race gated. She's the only M/F romance I'm interested in. I don't really find Scribbles attractive, and Viv just seems like a ******.
If viv is race gated I'm guessing the other race gated is a guy, so that'd be either cullen or dorian since we know IB isn't, and we know that it isn't true that both the unannounced ones are race gated.
But Solas doesn't look like that.
Solas looks like a Cathar from SWTOR!!
...There, I said it.
I honestly have no clue who the race-gated romances could be now that Varric's out and IB is open for all. If I had to guess, I might say Cass and Cullen would only go for Andrastians, but that would leave them with humans only, right? Since the elf Inquisitor is dalish, and I don't get the impression that carta surface dwarves have much use for human religion. I suppose it's slightly possible the qunari Inquisitor might have been raised in the Chantry...
I also feel like they're the likely remaining romances. Vivienne for balance and Solas because of something David Gaider mentioned in a presentation he gave Spring 2013. It was a GDC talk about Sex and Sexuality in video games. He mentions a romantic scene in DAI that a male writer thought was great but made the female writers uncomfortable. After a discussion, it was scrapped. Hearing it described (it is a 50 minute talk and I can't listen to it all over again to quote him, but my impression was it was kind of dream like, there but not there kind of thing) it makes me think the character involved is Solas.
Of course, I am extrapolating this and could be wrong.
Here's the presentation if you're curious, its quite good:
http://www.gamasutra...ty_in_games.php
The last two will probably be Vivienne and Solas, but I certainly wouldn't mind if Vivienne wasn't an option. Not every female companion needs to be available to the Inquisitor. Maybe she has more on her mind than getting into a relationship? Stranger things have happened. *shrugs* However it turns out, as long as Solas is available to fem!Inqs, I won't be giving two licks about who the last LI is.
I know it sounds horrible, but the darker side of myself would love to see Solas and Blackwall as options with Vivienne joining Cole and Varric as Friends Only. The forums would turn such a lovely shade of crimson. Might even be worth purchasing stuff to make S'mores alongside all the popcorn and apple cider I'd need to sustain my gleefulness at the impending chaos.
Told you it sounded horrible. I'll go sit in the Bad Person corner with Wynne, then. 
Seriously. I honestly don't get how people care about an aspect of the game that back in the day we used to laugh at as a little side thing. The tumblr-generation is why we can't have nice things.
You nailed it.
Seriously. I honestly don't get how people care about an aspect of the game that back in the day we used to laugh at as a little side thing. The tumblr-generation is why we can't have nice things.
I can't roll my eyes hard enough for this comment.
Quoted from the Blackwall thread:
I think you should brace yourself because I'm pretty sure he's not an LI. He's and old Grey Warden who joined the Wardens because the isolation hold an ideal he was proud of. He loves being isolated so I don't think he is interested in a love life. Not even sure if he's interested in having friends.
But I don't know. I could be wrong. I have been before. I was really sure Varric would be an LI and I was dead wrong there. So there are still hope. Just don't bet on it and get you hopes up to much.
I sort of wish all the companions could be LI's so that everybody could be happy. But most of all, I wish Bioware said if they were or not when the presented the characters when they know how important it is for their fans. Not forgetting that it would save them some headache.
Apologies to Ashelsu, who is not trying to burst anyone's bubble.
That's because you can't read writers' minds and don't know their intentions, what story they want to tell with these characters. Taking Varric as an example, his story was not complete. They could choose him getting over Bianca and finding future with the Inquisitor (as Varric's fans hoped). But apparently that was not his story, it felt wrong for him. It's even harder to speculate about new characters which we know almost nothing about. You say Blackwall likes isolation. Well...
I see a guy who likes to spend his time with his friends and laugh heartily over their jokes (even slightly vulgar). (Btw Gaider commented on this picture and said it reflects their personalities perfectly, so I'm not pulling this out from the air).
Also, while I have my own preferences, I won't go to Solas or Vivienne thread to explain them that they are wrong and should feel wrong. But I guess it's very naive of me to expect the same courtesy from other people.
And here:
I also think it will be Vivienne and Solas. Blackwall just doesn't sound like an LI. He joined the Wardens because of the ideals of isolation and he's old.
Change the record.
And that the two race gated romances will be Vivienne and i have no idea.
Who do you think the two race gated romances will be? and most importantly why?
I agree I think it's going to be Vivienne and Solas as well.
Solas because GDL said "You will not be disappointed!" and he's an elf (race reasons) we've pretty much had a male elf to romance in the past 2 games I don't see why they would stop now. I don't think he will be race gated though because it has been said he is open minded.
Vivienne I think would be an LI because well she is a female....and that's about all I got on that theory. 
@op
This assumes that both the remaining romances are companions. Cullen and Josephine are romance options but not companion/squadmates, so one or both of the remaining romances could also be NPCs.
Of course it really could be Vivienne and Solas/Blackwall - I just thought I should point out that they're not the only options, lest anyone get their hopes to high and be disappointed.
@op
This assumes that both the remaining romances are companions. Cullen and Josephine are romance options but not companion/squadmates, so one or both of the remaining romances could also be NPCs.
No, it's been confirmed the last two romances are companions, so the options are Solas, Vivienne and Blackwall.
@op
This assumes that both the remaining romances are companions. Cullen and Josephine are romance options but not companion/squadmates, so one or both of the remaining romances could also be NPCs.
Of course it really could be Vivienne and Solas/Blackwall - I just thought I should point out that they're not the only options, lest anyone get their hopes to high and be disappointed.
I thought it's been stated that all romance options are companions/advisors.
Also, I had wondered, before looking at your signature, if your user name was based on John Sheridan saying it. Personally, I think Delenn had the best delivery, for alien reasons, but either way, niiice.
Seriously. I honestly don't get how people care about an aspect of the game that back in the day we used to laugh at as a little side thing. The tumblr-generation is why we can't have nice things.
I think it may actually be only one race-gated one now. They said two back when the Bull was going to be gated (mostly to save on animations for all the different heights) - thus the disclaimer "anyone he think won't break" for his, ahh, bedroom hedonism.
However, Patrick Weekes John Epler ended up doing all the animations himself (he apparently didn't want anyone to miss out on the Iron Bull's happy-go-lucky majesty) so IB is no longer gated.
That would leave only the one race-gate.
If I remember rightly, Gaider said the unannounced ones are NOT gated, which means whomever is has been announced already. We know Josephine isn't gated, so that leaves:
Cullen
Cassandra
Dorian
and Sera.
I suspect it will be either Cullen or Cassandra shying away from qunari, seeing as they both have strong Chantry backgrounds and the Chantry considers the Qunari heathens (and can't tell the difference between any qunari, be they Qun or Tal'Vashoth).
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