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[vertigone]

WARNING: LIKELY TO BE SPOILERS FROM BOOKS AS WELL (especially Masked Empire and Asunder)

 

Okay, yes, the game isn't even out yet and it's a bit early to ask this question, but I thought it would be fun to think about and discuss anyway! If only to be able to come back to this thread after playing the game to see how close or completely far-fetched the speculations were!

 

Dragon Age II very much set the world state up for Inquisition.  The final act with the tensions rising between the Mages and Templars, and withAnders blowing up the chantry resulting in full-out rebellion of mages across Thedas. Setting things up for Asunder and the breaking of the Seekers from the Chantry.  Setting things up by plunging Thedas' balance into chaos and settings things up for the beginning of Inquisition with the Peace Summit. Of course, I believe we've already been told that the Mage/Templar conflict is a small part of a greater plan of chaos throughout Thedas that could be settled fairly early in the game if we wanted. But I have no doubt that by the end of Inquisition some plot points/situations/threads will be left open and unresolved to (hopefully!) set the stage for future games and books. 

 

To clarify: What events do you think will be introduced (or significantly expanded on) and left unresolved at the end of Inquisition to specifically set up conflicts for future material? Again, this is all just amounts to us trying to guess where the road goes while we still have blindfolds on, one headlight working, and somebody accidentally spilled coffee on our map and threw it away at the last rest stop. That was just a trying-to-be-clever way of saying that none of us really has the concrete knowledge to call anyone else's theories plain wrong (except for the developers, but I don't think they'll help us out here) -- so try to avoid urges to shoot down ideas and just ride the wave of wild speculation~

 

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One guess of mine:

 

Full-fledged elven rebellion.

At the end of Masked Empire, I really felt like this could possibly break out during Inquisition. Eluvians would be a huge advantage to elves. Sure, humans can use them too but nowhere near as well. I don't think their existence would be kept secret-ish for long: Briala is bent on using them to help the elves.  She told Mihris that she will only share their secret and help the Dalish if they acknowledged city elves are their equals and if they strove to help ALL elves in return.  Mihris said she'd pass that along to any Dalish clan she comes across... possibly setting up for a more unified alliance between Dalish and City Elves. I think the start of a Thedas-wide elven rebellion -- especially considering that communications could be organized across all of Eluvian network -- is a possibility. And if a rebellion were to start, its influence could be something that's left with very open threads by the end of the game. 

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I'm pretty sure full-fledged Qunari Invasion of Thedas 2.0 is on the horizon.

 

I think a war setting like that could make for a very good premise tbh. Perhaps in a game set in northern Thedas rather than south.

[Hero]

I get the impression that the events of Inquisition are gonna cause some world shaking changes and it's possible that the next game may at least partly cover how the people of thedas, including your character and companions, are adjusting to these changes

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I get the impression that the events of Inquisition are gonna cause some world shaking changes and it's possible that the next game may at least partly cover how the people of thedas, including your character and companions, are adjusting to these changes

 

...and that's when the Qunari, completely unaffected, take the time to strike. Buahaha.

[AresKeith]

...and that's when the Qunari, completely unaffected, take the time to strike. Buahaha.

"Everything changed when the Qunari attacked"

[Steelcan]

I wouldn't look to closely at the book, or even previous games for what's next in the series, the DA team in particular, but also the ME team, will tell the story they want to regardless of what happened earlier in canon

[Ninjasplaycardgames2]

Why not both? full fledged qunari invasion from one side and elven rebellion on the other, and we can have some more big bads pulling some strings  for their dubious plans :L

[vertigone]

I get the impression that the events of Inquisition are gonna cause some world shaking changes and it's possible that the next game may at least partly cover how the people of thedas, including your character and companions, are adjusting to these changes

 

...and that's when the Qunari, completely unaffected, take the time to strike. Buahaha.

 

Could totally work!  

 

The Tevinter Imperium seems to be locked in some kind of stalemate of a war between the Qunari.  Dorian wants change in the Imperium.  I'm not saying Dorian wants the Imperium to fall to the Qunari, but what if whatever changes/reforms he wants occur and weaken the Imperium (as big changes are wont to do with their 'growing pains') to shift the balance in favor of the Qunari? BOOM! Invasion 2.0.

 

I hope we'd get to see the Imperium in future material. The world/knowledge of gets bigger with each entry. Origins introduced us to Ferelden. The sequel took us from Ferelden to the Free Marches (well, Kirkwall). Inquisition is bringing us to Orlais (and also new areas of Ferelden)! With World of Thedas, Volume 2 coming out I'm definitely hopeful about seeing more of the world in future games and books.

 

So, yeah, a book set in Tevinter would be wonderful. Or in Par Vollen! Can you imagine one of the books told from the point of view of the Qunari? This should be a thing.

 

 

Why not both? full fledged qunari invasion from one side and elven rebellion on the other, and we can have some more big bads pulling some strings  for their dubious plans :L

 

Yes, definitely! Both previous games' story had multiple conflicts (often political and/or civil) into the narrative. Inquisition certainly will. I think there'd be enough material after it to do the same (usual disclaimer of this thread: pure, rampant, beautiful speculation).

[Mistic]

Interesting question. We don't really know at this point. It's very likely that the most important change that DA:I will bring to Thedas will be the creation of the new Inquisition, after all. The more information we have, the more it seems the Inquisition will stay after the Breach crisis. But that isn't a conflict, just a new faction to play with.

 

Given the trend in other games, I think it's reasonable to think that conflicts that have been hinted several times but not seen in DA:O, DA2 or DA:I may appear in future games. As others have said, the Qunari are prime suspects, especially after DA2. A game set in Tevinter or Rivain, for example, would be expected to have a very important Qunari plot.

 

However, it also means that conflicts that were resolved in previous games won't appear again, or at least not with the same importance. The Elven rebellion and the Mage-Templar War are favourites to be resolved in DA:I.

 

I hope we'd get to see the Imperium in future material. The world/knowledge of gets bigger with each entry. Origins introduced us to Ferelden. The sequel took us from Ferelden to the Free Marches (well, Kirkwall). Inquisition is bringing us to Orlais (and also new areas of Ferelden)! With World of Thedas, Volume 2 coming out I'm definitely hopeful about seeing more of the world in future games and books.

 

Well said, World of Thedas may provide more clues. Apart from the already mentioned neverending Tevinter-Qunari conflict, WoT pointed out to a succession crisis in Nevarra, the mysteries surrounding Kal-Sharok or the speculation that the First Warden wants the throne of the Anderfels. Who knows what WoT2 can bring.

 

So, yeah, a book set in Tevinter would be wonderful. Or in Par Vollen! Can you imagine one of the books told from the point of view of the Qunari? This should be a thing.

 

If written well, it would be a fascinating read. But only if it's about a Qunari whose thoughts were molded like a true Qunari, like Sten.

[vertigone]

Well said, World of Thedas may provide more clues. Apart from the already mentioned neverending Tevinter-Qunari conflict, WoT pointed out to a succession crisis in Nevarra, the mysteries surrounding Kal-Sharok or the speculation that the First Warden wants the throne of the Anderfels. Who knows what WoT2 can bring.

 

Oooh, I was completely unaware of the existence of the First Warden and his(her?) royal ambitions!

 

I'm looking forward to getting more familiar with the Grey Wardens. Yes, we played a Warden in Origins but our experience within the organization was limited what with the whole 'everybody but you and Alistair getting killed by darkspawn' bit.  

 

In the first game we kind of got the opportunity to say "screw the Wardens' rules, I do what I want!" if we wanted. In Awakenings you're rebuilding the Warden presence in Ferelden -- you don't interact with anyone who has been a Warden longer than you -- and again have a good bit of autonomy from the traditional Order as you focus on ruling Amaranthine and on your interactions with the Broodmother and Architect. And in DA:II Hawke's interactions with the Wardens was, understandably, from an outsider persective of "you're not a warden so we're telling you as little as possible".  (Although all that was likely intentional and went well with the respective narratives.)

 

But between Last Flight coming out and having a good ole' establishment Warden like Blackwall as a full-fledged companion, I'm excited about possibly seeing/learning more of inner workings (and politics!) of a well-established part of the Order.

 

~And now excuse me as I spend a good bit of time clicking through the Wiki about the Wardens.~

[Wolfen09]

the qunari invasion is being set up nicely, but i dont see that for next game....  they teased it in origins and majorly teased it in da2, they will probably tease it again, and have the 4th game set it up for #5.

 

Im thinking some heavy work in tevinter for the 4th game, to help set up the invasion in the 5th.  They have been having tevinter involvement more and more since origins.  In origins we saw tevinter in the ruins, history, and endgame alienage quest.  In da2, we went to an old tevinter city, fought tevinter slavers for Fenris, band of 3 discovered tevinter experiments, hawke discovers red lyrium with possible link to tevinter, just a whole lot more exposure in general to tevinter.  Inquisition, we have a former magister as a companion, venatori are from tevinter and are enemies, and im sure even more exposure will come....

[vertigone]

the qunari invasion is being set up nicely, but i dont see that for next game....  they teased it in origins and majorly teased it in da2, they will probably tease it again, and have the 4th game set it up for #5.

 

Im thinking some heavy work in tevinter for the 4th game, to help set up the invasion in the 5th.  They have been having tevinter involvement more and more since origins.  In origins we saw tevinter in the ruins, history, and endgame alienage quest.  In da2, we went to an old tevinter city, fought tevinter slavers for Fenris, band of 3 discovered tevinter experiments, hawke discovers red lyrium with possible link to tevinter, just a whole lot more exposure in general to tevinter.  Inquisition, we have a former magister as a companion, venatori are from tevinter and are enemies, and im sure even more exposure will come....

 

Well when you lay it out like that then I'm really hoping we get to travel to Tevinter for Game 4. I listened to the Interview with Gaider on Lady Insanity's channel (here) a month back and remember it had some interesting info-bits about Tevinter society (particularly around the 20~ min. mark).

 

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Also! I remember somebody opening a thread some days(? week?) back about Sandal's possible 'prophecy'. If it is some type of foreshadowing, the line "one day the magic will all come back" seems important.  What magic? Where did it go? What's it returning to? I can't remember whether dwarves actually had magic in the past or not -- whether that was something that was stated or hinted at somewhere in the source materials or just something I assumed/imagined.

 

That line coupled with the bit about "when he rises" could very well be what we deal with in Inquisition, but if any kind of long-gone magic returning returns in force it'll probably have repercussions after Inquisition's story ends.

[powerXmad]

All out world war between all the lands in thedas. With an orgin story for each. This probably won't be it though.

I just want to go to tevinter.

[Karlone123]

What I think and what I would like to see is a large Qunari invasion.