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[Beomer]

Minor DAI spoilers follow

 

tldr; A DLC about the HoF (or a generic Warden for whose HoF is dead), looking for a cure for the Calling.

 

The idea cropped up in this thread pertaining to the future of the HoF.

Now, briefly put, I am a HoF supporter but I realize that the devs and a large fanbase have a different view in mind, so like many other fans who share my view I have accepted the fact that we will have a new protagonist every game and the HoF's story is mostly done.

In which case I feel it wouldn't be amiss to finally end the story all together instead of dragging it out in bits and pieces. This will also let BW close a thread about which there has been a lot of complaining (something that will most likely continue for every future game where they bring in past characters).

So here's a idea. DAI has already said that HoF is out looking for a cure for the Calling. Two ways this can now go is that they don't find it and die, or they just stretch the story, in which case fans would clamour for further cameos.

Now DAI's story already has a lot of stuff about the blight, taint and red lyrium. IMO it should not be very difficult to fit in a plot line about how the taint can be removed. To this end a DLC featuring the HoF and a few token companions like Witch Hunt should not sound too outlandish.

It can be a short DLC. The HoF can have two or three voice choices, there need not even be a lot of dialogue. The DLC can end with the HoF finding the cure, a nominal decision whether to reveal it to the world or not, and finally riding off into the sunset with their LI (if the LI is alive), or just returning to Weisshaupt or whatever place the call home.

The LI need not even make an appearance in the DLC. A dialogue/ reference about the future plans would probably suffice.

This DLC would tie up a lingering thread and open up an interesting plot point for future games.

Thoughts would be appreciated. Specially what the devs think 

[Fufunette]

I support totally!!!
But I'd add that a lil show of her/his LI would be highly appreciate, That is not really hard to do I think. :3

Please Bioware let us have a great end for our lovely warden~ é.è

[Wulfram]

I found Hawke jarring enough, and that had the advantage of the voice acting to provide a connection. Rather not have the Warden

Also, some LIs have commitments that makes riding off into the sunset impractical

[Beomer]

DAI Spoilers follow.

 

 

I found Hawke jarring enough, and that had the advantage of the voice acting to provide a connection. Rather not have the Warden

Also, some LIs have commitments that makes riding off into the sunset impractical

 

True about the LIs, if they want to keep using them. Let us consider for a moment the possible LIs. There was Alistair. He can already be killed in DAI meaning he won't have a big role in the future.

There was Zevran. Did not show up in DAI apart from the War Table. Of course it does not mean that he won't show up in the future either, but the possibilities of involvement in major plot points are slight.

Then there is Leliana. This one's tough, but I doubt we'll see her majorly involved as a companion again and I really doubt they'll just kill her off in the future since it will ****** off a lot of fans. Thank God DG is not GRRM. Anyway, again some kind of happy ending can be made for Lel and HoF, I'm sure.

Lastly there's Morrigan. This one's the toughest because I'm sure the writers aren't done with her. Writing her happy ending can also involve writing about Kieran, luckily though they have already solved that puzzle by taking his OG soul. However you can let Morrigan drink from the Well of Sorrows so that's an issue. One I cannot get my head around, but come on, DA series has good writers, I'm sure they will be able to figure something out here.....no?

[Dune01]

I think that having the Warden/Hero of Ferelden is a great idea and actually has a easy(I guess) and unique way of implementing him in the conversations. Imagine your Inquisitor meeting the Warden to help him in his quest. So obviously your PC is Inquisitor. You say something from the dialogue wheel. And then?

Camera pans to the Warden and there are numerical/Origins like dialogue options. So you choose for the Warden too. That way there wouldn't need to be a canon personality or a VA for the Warden, rather let the players decide. Just look at Tales from the Borderlands, they did that wonderfully. Just now, the Warden would be AI controlled in combat, and controlled by you in conversations. Maybe you could even add him as a companion so you get to control him too.

Hope this wasn't confusing(but I think it slightly was).

[Maclimes]

Minor DAI spoilers follow

 

tldr; A DLC about the HoF (or a generic Warden for who's HoF is dead), looking for a cure for the Calling.

 

 

If the HoF is dead, then you'd use the Orlesian Warden Commander from Awakening instead.

[Taleroth]

Right after they implement Blood Mages, Arcane Warriors, Spirit Healers, and a ton of other specializations that don't even exist in the current system.

I'm not even totally opposed to it on those grounds. More that I don't see this DLC satisfying the same people asking for it. They're going to want a Hero of Ferelden DLC in DA4 and DA5. Him looking for a cure was just a way to get him out of the way for the Inquisitor. A way to justify not bringing him back despite people asking him to be brought back.

And some people are turning around, taking that excuse, and saying it's the way to bring him back... Nothing will every satisfy the people who want him to be included again except killing him. And that's where these requests are going to lead. With him failing to find the cure and dying in the Deep Roads.

I don't want that.

[Beomer]

I'm not even totally opposed to it on those grounds. More that I don't see this DLC satisfying the same people asking for it. They're going to want a Hero of Ferelden DLC in DA4 and DA5. Him looking for a cure was just a way to get him out of the way for the Inquisitor. A way to justify not bringing him back despite people asking him to be brought back.

And some people are turning around, taking that excuse, and saying it's the way to bring him back... Nothing will every satisfy the people who want him to be included again except killing him. And that's where these requests are going to lead. With him failing to find the cure and dying in the Deep Roads.

I don't want that.

 

I'll have to disagree with you there. Just like you, none of the people clamouring for the HoF want him killed off....if that is done it will probably be done by the devs as a surefire way to get rid of the issue all together.

That said, I really really feel after going through many HoF discussions after DAO, before and after DA2 was released as well as now, that majority of the people just want a definitive closure to the story, just like what had happened with many fans after ME3 ending. The people who actually want to keep playing HoF as the protagonist in every game is most likely a very small minority. I haven't seen more than half a dozen posts asking for that in all the past years. The others simply want a definite ending. Hopefully a happy definite ending.

[Taleroth]

if that is done it will probably be done by the devs as a surefire way to get rid of the issue all together.

Exactly.

 

That said, I really really feel after going through many HoF discussions after DAO, before and after DA2 was released as well as now, that majority of the people just want a definitive closure to the story, just like what had happened with many fans after ME3 ending. The people who actually want to keep playing HoF as the protagonist in every game is most likely a very small minority. I haven't seen more than half a dozen posts asking for that in all the past years. The others simply want a definite ending. Hopefully a happy definite ending.

We've had three "happy definite ending." None of them were enough.

The only ending that can be more definite won't be happy. See my signature.

This isn't ME3. We're not in a limbo where we're not sure if the Warden is dead and if Leliana will ever go home because all the roads exploded.

[movieguyabw]

Admittedly, after getting the letter from the Warden where he talks about looking for a cure for the calling; I doubt Bioware is going to up and kill him off.  (At least I hope they don't go that route)

 

Personally, I would love to see the HoF show up in a DLC for Inquisition.  Not because I feel that his story needs closure (I would like to hear that he's cured himself, though) but more so because I like the idea of my different PCs teaming up with one another.

 

If they're going to do a DLC like this remains to be seen; but I know I'd be thrilled to see my Inquisitor and Warden fighting side by side.  Afterwards, yeah, him and Leliana can ride off into the sunset. 

[Beomer]

We've had three "happy definite ending." None of them were enough.

The only ending that can be more definite won't be happy. See my signature.

This isn't ME3. We're not in a limbo where we're not sure if the Warden is dead and if Leliana will ever go home because all the roads exploded.

 

Your signature makes a good point 

I do agree. It is relative to where a hero's story stops. I know that some fans would just keep asking 'and then what' even after the HoF gets a happy ending and that will continue till he remains alive. But I'm sure that a larger number will take an ending with the LI and be fine with it.

To which end I hope they make this DLC. If people still annoy BW after that asking for a return of the HoF, I'll copy your signature and join you in telling them to cease and desist lest BW kills our Wardens in frustration. 

[Vanth]

I was a bit surprised that there wasn't a quest to find out how to reverse tranquility. It is even states in the game that it is possible, so it seems an obvious thing to include. 

[movieguyabw]

Just because it wasn't done in this game, doesn't mean they won't explore it in the future.     I'm sure we'll get a "reverse tranquility" mission in a later game.

[Beomer]

I was a bit surprised that there wasn't a quest to find out how to reverse tranquility. It is even states in the game that it is possible, so it seems an obvious thing to include.

The tranquility cure mission is pretty much certain to come up, although I'm not so certain that it will be a mission to find the cure since by what I understood, the cure was already given in the seeker book. It probably just needs to be verified.
I doubt though such a mission will feature the HoF.

[massmp]

I think is it is time to start a petition. I´m a huge HoF-supporter. So I´m with you.

[Chaos17]

I want to see again my warden if that DLC idea come true

[Beomer]

I think is it is time to start a petition. I´m a huge HoF-supporter. So I´m with you.

You mean an off-site petition?

[Beomer]

Come on guys is this all the support for this DLC? Where are all the Warden fanboys? Has everyone left for their calling already 

[saladinbob]

I'd rather see the Warden and his quest to cure the calling be DA4. If it has proper PC controls I might even buy it.

[Beomer]

I'd rather see the Warden and his quest to cure the calling be DA4. If it has proper PC controls I might even buy it.

 

That's cool too. DLC/ Expansion/ Next game, whatever we can get. Thing is this idea should be floated up there long enough that one of the bigwigs takes note.

[Kantr]

It's a shame we can't have a book about the Hero of Ferelden looking for a cure, thats what you get with customisable characters alas.

 

It's a technical nightmare to bring back the HoF in-game

[Namea]

I would love this. I still adore all of my wardens and I truly wish their stories weren't done, or at least that they were wrapped up instead of just "Oh yeah, she's out there somewhere but she's not going to help with this world ending threat here beyond sending you a damn necklace." 

 

I am also very annoyed that the orlesian warden (if your warden died in DA:O) from DA:A was never even mentioned. It's like they don't exist!

[Dominari]

What I expect ... a.k.a my wild guess ...

Curing the calling will be a key plot point in DA:4 which will be set 350-450 years forward. New blight comes, Wardens are just a half forgotten legend. The Inquisition has become an oppressive, tyrannical theocracy using mages and the new Templars as their elite stormtroopers. The Qun and the Inquisition (basically most of Thedas) are openly at war. Thedas is overrun with darkspawn, quinari and zealot troops of the fascist Inquisition regime. The world is a crumbling ruin at the start of the game where we see the PC running for his life from a pack of bandits/slavers/clergymen. Until an old elven man saves the PC and takes him to the last unknown and forgotten corner of the world where shanty huts are built against the half fallen wall of an old fortress once known as Weisshaupt.