With the whole demon summoning affair, and taking into account that very few(perhaps zero aside from ex-Wardens) people outside of the Wardens know that they're necessary to permanently kill an Archdemon, the Wardens might be suffering a bit of an image problem.
With the losses at Adamant including the possible exile or absorption, it seems we're in for a period of time where the political influence and military power of the Wardens is in decline despite the recent Blight.
From a narrative perspective, the decline of the only force that can stop the threat of an Archdemon and the accompanying Blight means that the threat will inevitably arise.
The big questions are what form it will take and how the Wardens will react.
Could be the Architect(even if he was killed body-swapping has been introduced as a possibility), or it could be the remaining two Archdemons will be awakened by the Wolf's activities.
Now Wardens are remarkably reticent on the matter of why they need to be ones to kill the Archdemon, even loyal Blackwall refuses to elaborate to the Inquisitor, it is quite possible that they will refuse to explain how Archdemons are destroyed to nations under assault, instead preferring to wait until the country in question accepts their aid or the Blight overwhelms the country and progresses to a land in which the Wardens are accepted.
Let's face it, the Fifth Blight would've completely overwhelmed Fereldan before Loghain accepted Warden support and it was only through a series of unlikely coincidences that a singular novice Warden was able to set in motion events that stopped the Fifth Blight.
I believe we could see huge portions of Thedas consumed by the next Blights due to the decline of Warden power, which could be the setup to an expansion for Inquisition or very large DLC.
At the end of the game, the Inquisition is hugely powerful, and more or less represents an ability to draw upon a multi-national coalition of forces.
What other force could hope to present a real challenge to the Inquisition? A qunari invasion seems unlikely to be sufficiently powerful because the lone country of Tevinter could hold them off for so long(also given the potential alliance it is unlikely they would break their word and invade). Tevinter could try and invade Southern Thedas, but that too would seem ill-considered given the power of the Inquisition.
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