Ferelden is tiny compared to other places. To get to Tevinter we need to go through Nevarra. Antiva is also huge and Rivain and Par Vollen would both be equally interesting. I just wish i could find a map that has the actual country boundaries so i can compare and see who shares what borders and where. Unfortunately i cannot find two maps that actually show the same borders. Seems everyone is just guessing.
Thedas, if memory serves, is supposed to be one continent in a much larger world.
Ferelden is tiny compared to other places. To get to Tevinter we need to go through Nevarra. Antiva is also huge and Rivain and Par Vollen would both be equally interesting. I just wish i could find a map that has the actual country boundaries so i can compare and see who shares what borders and where. Unfortunately i cannot find two maps that actually show the same borders. Seems everyone is just guessing.
Maybe i'm looking at that wrong, but Tevinter and Nevarra look smaller than Ferelden.
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Maybe i'm looking at that wrong, but Tevinter and Nevarra look smaller than Ferelden.
It's hard to tell where tevinter starts and nevarra ends but they both look smaller to me too.
I could see bioware doing two countries at once again. Split between Tevinter and the Anderfells. They are going to have to get creative with the Anderfells though. Everytime I read about it the first thing that comes to my mind is Skyrim.
I say information in February, release in April.
Maybe i'm looking at that wrong, but Tevinter and Nevarra look smaller than Ferelden.
Most people look at Ferelden and think it consists of all the lands east of the frostbacks, but you've got to keep in mind The KIngdom of Ferelden doesn't include The Korcari wilds or the Frostback Mountains, they are independent territories held by the Chasind and Avvar Barbarians.
And Jader is an Orlesian city and we know that Orlais's borders extend to the mountain pass containing the entrance to Orzammar.
This would roughly be Ferelden's Borders:
As for Nevarra, we know they control the cities of Hunter Fell, Nevarra and Cumberland. We know they conquered Perendale from Orlais, and we know that after doing this they began an agressive expansion east toward Tantervale before being stopped by the Champion of Tantervale. So this would roughly be Nevarras borders.
Since Bioware said that they don't plan on doing any large expansion packs, I doubt we are going to any other nations until DA4.
Maybe i'm looking at that wrong, but Tevinter and Nevarra look smaller than Ferelden.
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Well we can't see how far south it goes but we see that tevinter encompasses that bay.
https://www.google.c...as%2F;3340;2505
take a look at this. It's not official but it's probably close.
That maps close but its got the Orlesian, Ferelden and Nevarran Borders wrong.
Ferelden Doesn't Control the Frostbacks and Orlais's Border with Ferelden extends a little more east than that because Orlais borders Orzammars entrance.
And Orlais borders to the north extend more, Orlais controls Andoral's Reach not Nevarra - we learn this in Dragon:Age Asunder where Rhys says that its in Northern Orlais.
Tevinter is probably larger population wise than every country but Orlais
Given that it seems to be a fantasy counterpart to the roman empire it might even have a higher population due being more urbanized than Orlais which would likely help explain why along with its magic its legions have fought off both the Qunari and the rest of thadas.
I would really expect/rather see a big DAI awakening style expansion where the Inquisitor goes north with a new set of companions (Cullen, Adamant Survivor, HoF, Harding and a mage)
For post epilogue play they are going to need to introduce at least a couple companions since you can be down to just Varric and Vivienne/Cassandra by the end depending how you play.
I would love if any new game was set at in less prominent position than the Inquisiton. I didn't hate it, but I feel like you lose that "Our little band against the world" feel which can be so awesome in rpgs, with how you basically represent a huge organization and most things revolve around its doings in the Inquisition.
That said, I would love a huge game with a main arc focused on your team rather than at the head of an organization, set along the entire east from the Free marches, Antiva and Rivain to Par Vollen, or parts thereof anyway. I feel like it'd make a cool setting. The contrast ranging from free commerce to fiery easterners to rigid qunari would provide a lot of possibilities.
I'm not going to cry whatever it is, though. I feel like DAI has succeeded in making me want more. 
I was thinking about this last night after my second PT, and I think we're heading for an elf rebellion, set in/near Tevinter. Solas's last words were basically "the People need me" , presumably meaning the elves, and Flemeth/Mythal basically sacrificed herself to help him. That's how I interpreted their final scene, anyway.
Depending on your choices in DAI, the Mage/Templar thing is sorted/decided now, and the enslaved elves are the next big world problem to be solved. Maybe with Dread Wolf as main protagonist.
If it means bringing back Fenris, I'm all for it.
Hmm I figured it would be defeating the qunari myself along with the slave situation I won't say just elves because humans and even some dwarves are slaves in Tevinter. I think you will get a chance to redeem and turn around Tevinter's fortunes in the next game.
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I really would love to see the Anderfels and Tevinter Imperium for DA4.
Although I still want to explore all of Thedas. We still haven't seen Seheron, Par Vollen, Antiva, Rivain, Nevarra, or Any Free Marches cities besides Kirkwall. Really hope we get to see all of these places before the series concludes:/
Ferelden really isn't that large, given its political nature and rather vague boundaries. As a general region, sure, but not as a kingdom.
Tevinter is so small because of how much it had to retreat, though it does have holds to the west I believe. It may be 'small', but it likely is the most urban area of all of Thedas (perhaps rivaled by Val Royeux, but maybe not even there). Its dealings with other races and kingdoms, despite the Chantry's/Orlais'/Qunari's best efforts, keep it going. Magic will always find a place of power no matter how much others strive to regulate, eliminate, or nullify it. It isn't the huge reaching empire of old, but the size on the map belies how 'big' it may feel when we actually explore and learn about it.
Ferelden is pretty much done, except for either small field trips there or some hypothetical huge SP/MMO game that revisits it.
Free Marches is actually not done. We only had Kirkwall and surrounding area, but most of the Free Marches is untouched.
Orlais I'd say is, I dunno, half done? It was definitely explored, but there's also a lot that could be done with it later on, especially for city life.
Dragon Age could go on for several more games and still not explore all of major areas of the main map of Thedas, let alone the continent(s) across the sea (I'm wagering on just two others, one of which the Qunari came from). The unknown lands to the west and south of Thedas may be important at some point too, especially given the names of the locations near them.
I can't really say that we have seen Orlaïs in Inquisition. Because of the story, we mostly interacted with the upper echelons of Orlaïs society and we have thus learnt a lot about the Game and all that. But we also lacked what we saw in both DA:O et DA:II : the small peoples. In Inquisition, they are to be saved and you don't really discuss with them.
In Origin, we had Lothering, Redcliff and Denerim, which allowed us to see various strata of the Fereldian society. And in DA:II, the game was designed to make us go from the bottom to the top of Kirkwall society.
I love Inquisition, that's for certain, but I hope that in the next DA, we won't be pushed so fast to the top, especially since we will probably explore lands which are totally different from the South (either the Anderfels, Tevinter, Antiva and Rivain, or even the Qunari lands) and I would want to see all of them, from the peasants to the nobles. Maybe instead of a Chosen One we could have a character whose goal is to actually become important, so he can change the world (and depending on how one play him, he would use brute force, intrigues or diplomatic skills). But I know that creating a game is an arduous task and I'll have faith in Bioware : after DA: II they made a successful Inquisition (at least for me) and I'm sure that they'll learn of what they did wrong (not actual consequences for most of the choices made) and what they did right (the companions, the existence of quests like the Winter Palace).
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