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[Walter Black]

While the wait for DA4 brings any amount of hopes, there are just as many fears. Rather than start yet another wish list, I thought it might be interesting to speculate logically on things that may or may not happen. Some events could fulfill your dreams, others shatter them, and some make you bust a gut laughing, but they are all things you could see actually happening in Dragon Age 4. Here are some of mine:

 

1. Taking into account all the people who stress that a new protagonist wouldn’t have the same connection to Solas that the Inquisitor has, the writing team will attempt to craft meaningful scenes of the new PC encountering the Dread Wolf, giving them more than enough reasons to want to stop or redeem him.

 

2. There will be a gay/bi KISA and/or Dwarven romance option, and they will inevitably fall into one or two camps; happy and mature but dull as dishwater, or so crammed with drama you can practically see the writers getting drunk on all the fan tears.

 

3. All the players demanding that we end Tevinter’s slave trade are in for a rude awakening. I don’t care how special snowflake the next PC will be, being able undo a centuries old institution in such a short time frame (game wise) completely breaks creditability. I expect taking the radical approach will end in disaster, even if only in the epilogue slides. Realistically, I imagine that the best the players will be able to do is denting slavery by providing limited but practical economic and social alternatives, provide support to the freedom underground, who may or may not have terrorist elements, or aid the Qunari. If none of this sounds “heroic” enough for you, well welcome to Thedas.

 

4. Conversely, all those players who bemoaned having no ruthless or downright evil options should get their wish; it is Tevinter after all. However, don’t be surprised if the writers make said options ridiculously Stupid Evil that end up costing you in the long run.

 

5. Since DA writers love subverting expectations, it’s not a given that the Companion who is a Tevinter traditionalist will automatically be a mage. They could explore any number of reasons why someone would want to support a system where they are a second class citizen; patriotism, they have magic in their family or the hope of mage children, brainwashing, they could be a gladiator who loves the violent lifestyle, or anything in between. It could also be interesting meta commentary on players who support and imagine themselves as mages, whereas it is more likely that if they actually existed in Thedas, they would be mundane.

 

6. At some point in the PC’s adventures they will come across gaatlok. Either an NPC or one of our Companions will suggest selling it to Tevinter. Should the player take this path, they will eventually discover that the much of Magisterium has already known the formula, and have been actively suppressing it. Despite giving them a much needed edge in the war with the Qunari, most Magisters balk a such a powerful weapon that mundanes could use. Bonus points if one of your Companions is a Dwarf and/or Grey Warden who snark how having blasting powder wouldn’t help against the Darkspawn at all.

 

7. Every Dragon Age game has had some sort of Spirit Companion; Wynne in Origins, Justice in Awakenings, Anders/Justice/Vengeance in DA2, and Cole in Inquisition. In 4 we will have the first optional Demon Companion, with the possibility of helping it evolve into a Spirit. However, if you don’t have enough influence and/or make the wrong choices, it could become a more powerful and cunning Demon. Alternatively, by becoming a benevolent Spirit they will not wish to fight anymore, and you would lose them as a party member.

 

These are just off the top of my head, I’m sure more will come later. What are some of your Dragon Age 4 conspiracy theories?

[medusa_hair]

I think there will be a companion who the PC is attracted to as an LI but they later find out is secretly a sibling...[insert soap opera music here]

[Ashagar]

Hmm, we will finally be given a chance to find out more about pre-andrestian maker beliefs and how it concrasts to modern northern and southern chantry beliefs. We might even meet a lingering group of prechantry/Andrestian maker worshipers in the hitherlands who we will likely have to save from the Qunari. We will also learn more about ancient humanity as it existed before and after the raising of the veil.

 

Two, the Kossith may reveal themselves as the people across the city and take out the Qunari(given they apparently drove them into exile in the first place) just to show how much more of a greater threat they are while they tear apart the north trying to stop Solas's plan forcing the protagonists to stop them for the glory of the Imperium.

[vbibbi]

I think there will be a companion who the PC is attracted to as an LI but they later find out is secretly a sibling...[insert soap opera music here]

But are we allowed to continue the romance?

[Nefla]

Solas takes more years than we thought to carry out his plan and the inquisitor does nothing about it, (he or she simply sits in a wheelchair all day reminiscing about the good old days and then dies a few years later of no-handitis) HOWEVER the new protagonist is not the inquisitor OR an unrelated random but the inquisitor's future child all grown up.

 

Solas: "What did Cassandra tell you about your father?"

Quiz Jr: "She told me enough, she told me you killed him! (by dissolving his hand)"

Solas: "No, I am your father! I impregnated the inquisitor and you were born!"

Quiz Jr: "That's not true, that's impossible! The inquisitor was a male Qunari and so am I!"

Solas:"...Silence! The fade and such!"

[ComedicSociopathy]

I think there will be a companion who the PC is attracted to as an LI but they later find out is secretly a sibling...[insert soap opera music here]

 

 

But she's just so hot!!!

[lynroy]

Calling it now, there will be cheese.

[Patchwork]

Solas will be a side villain in DA4 rather than the big bad. 

 

The Inquisitor will make an appearance but many fans will be unhappy about how it's done.

[Donk]

We will be introduced to the first ever homonomerous ciswhite agendered super duper saiyan LI and companion.

[Al Foley]

Daisy Ridley will be voicing a Scavenger of Old God and Darkspawn artifacts from the Tevinter city of Jakku.  And will be a potential romance option.  

[Cute Nug]

DA will continue it's transition to a tedious derpy MMO game and new content will be released as subscription based DLC.

 

Shard hunting will be a preorder bonus.

 

Since Star Wars is the latest popular thing to copy Sandal will be revealed as the secret dark master of Solas because there can only be two. The master Sandal and his apprentice Solas. The Tevinter empire will join them cuz Empire.

 

Spirits and demons are manifestations of the light and dark side of the force locked behind the veil but it will be called the Derp cuz copyright.

 

DAI was the Phantom Menace reveal.

 

DA4 with removing the Veil will be Return of the Derp.

 

And it will be revealed Solas is the father of Quizzy and Sera who are Derp sensitive twins separated at birth. Or maybe he is Quiz Jr. daddy and Quiz Jr. will loose his hand before he brings Solas back to the good side of The Derp.

[Donk]

The Derp Awakens.

[Matriarch]

I would guess that instead of putting the new PC through meaningful encounters Bioware will insert the Inquisitor into the game as a more active cameo than the previous ones. For example:

 

 - I would imagine the Inquisitor has knowledge and some power (even if the Inquisition was disbanded) and so he/she would aid the new PC. Like the advisors or morrigan in DAI.

 

 - The PC would learn about Solas through the Inquisitor and/if friends, adapt (or not) his/her POV to the Inquisitors and act accordingly.

 

 - As a new feature never experienced before, I wouldn't be surprised if they made the Inquisitor a temporary controllable character alongside the PC during some meaningful quest.

 

These are my thoughts, what do you guys think?

[Beerfish]

Solas is going to be the non RAWR power hungry villain everyone is asking for.  You will understand his motives but will still have to stop him.

 

You will be a seeker.

 

Part of the game will finally delve more heavily into the Tevinter Qunari war.

 

We will finally get some answers on Kal Sharock.

[vbibbi]

 

But she's just so hot!!!

That is a pretty cat! Oh, and I guess she's okay too.

[Arakat]

Solas takes more years than we thought to carry out his plan and the inquisitor does nothing about it, (he or she simply sits in a wheelchair all day reminiscing about the good old days and then dies a few years later of no-handitis) HOWEVER the new protagonist is not the inquisitor OR an unrelated random but the inquisitor's future child all grown up.

 

Solas: "What did Cassandra tell you about your father?"

Quiz Jr: "She told me enough, she told me you killed him! (by dissolving his hand)"

Solas: "No, I am your father! I impregnated the inquisitor and you were born!"

Quiz Jr: "That's not true, that's impossible! The inquisitor was a male Qunari and so am I!"

Solas:"...Silence! The fade and such!"

 

I totally read Solas' lines in his voice.

[rapscallioness]

The title of this thread makes me feel like a Freemason...level me up to that 3rd Degree, Babby.

[wright1978]

3. All the players demanding that we end Tevinter’s slave trade are in for a rude awakening. I don’t care how special snowflake the next PC will be, being able undo a centuries old institution in such a short time frame (game wise) completely breaks creditability. I expect taking the radical approach will end in disaster, even if only in the epilogue slides. Realistically, I imagine that the best the players will be able to do is denting slavery by providing limited but practical economic and social alternatives, provide support to the freedom underground, who may or may not have terrorist elements, or aid the Qunari. If none of this sounds “heroic” enough for you, well welcome to Thedas.

 

 

Personally i worry they will go down the route of slavery eradication. They've already introduced Dorian and his faction whilst inquisition showed sweet Leliana could talk the Chantry into changing its ways.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

I would bet that Cullen, Leliana and, Morigan, Flemeth and/or Mythal are there somehow. Perhaps just cameos but, that bunch is a DA staple. Varric and Cassandra would not surprise me.

 

Of course Solas will be in there. Dorian mighe be there as well, he is a Tevinter Ambassador now, so it could work for a cameo, or him being in a role similar to Josephines in DAI.

 

Of course the PC will be our choice fo races, I think they learned not to lock us into playing one race, thought that may be only human or elf in Tevinter. Perhaps like DAO, we will ahve a different prologue depending on our race.

 

More reveals of Arlathan, pre andrastian humans, the Qunari past and, why so dag blasted many Tevinters in DA2 especially, have slightly pointed ears. (Kossith, elf?) Also whom dis we unmask arcoss the sea? Will we find out? Is there another group or race we have yet to meet?

[vbibbi]

Personally i worry they will go down the route of slavery eradication. They've already introduced Dorian and his faction whilst inquisition showed sweet Leliana could talk the Chantry into changing its ways.

Dorian's faction doesn't have a stance on slavery, that we know of yet. Dorian himself wasn't too bothered about slaves, he was more focused on reforming the decadence and corruption within government. Now Calpernia...

[Ash Wind]

The Mage/Templar war was the big build up from DA2, which was basically neutered in DAI with a few scenes.

 

Similarly, the threat of Solas’ plan will be neutered in DA4… It will turn out that Cory was the originator of the orb and the rift, and that Solas is in fact an escaped lunatic and pathological liar who made up all the BS he spewed, and doesn’t have the capacity to end a rash, let alone the world. At the end of Act I the new DA4 protag will knock him on his ass and Solas will flail and cackle wildly as he’s dragged back to the asylum.

 

Then the true storyline for DA4 will reveal itself… Sandal’s turn to the dark side…. Of course, there will be 6,000 fetch quests intermingled with the 14 minute main story [okay, a bit of an exaggeration]. 

[AnimalBoy]

I just want a non human female (Dwarf, Qunari) love interest that my male character can romance.

[Illegitimus]

Personally i worry they will go down the route of slavery eradication. They've already introduced Dorian and his faction whilst inquisition showed sweet Leliana could talk the Chantry into changing its ways.

 

I think it would be substantially easier to convince the Chantry to accept nonhuman priests than it would be to get Tevinter to give up slavery.  I doubt, however, that an attempt by Leliana to abandon clerical celibacy will stick.  

[Donk]

The title of this thread makes me feel like a Freemason...level me up to that 3rd Degree, Babby.

 

It's the 33rd degree actually. Then you will sworn into the inner circle... which is only one part of a greater inner circle.

[Walter Black]

One of our potential Love Interests will be bigoted towards something the Player can be; race, religion, class, whether or not they are a mage, etc. However, unlike previous hardliners (I’m looking at you Sera), this character will acknowledge that their prejudices are wrong and are trying to change. The player can aid their enlightenment, but old habits die hard, and ultimately we will have to decide whether or not the LI is worth it.

 

It will possible for the Player to become entangled with a Love Interest who also has feelings for another. Unlike Aveline in DA2, it will be possible for us to woo our chosen. However, whether or not the romantic rival could be just as good, if not better for the LI than the Player will remain ambiguous throughout the game. Thus we will have the dilemma of standing up for our desires and winning the LI, or sacrificing and allowing the other characters to be happy. Expect much Forum Rage over the mere suggestion that anyone could make a Love Interest happy other than the All Mighty PC. Oh, and unless of the writers is a fan of Jade Empire, suggesting a threesome will automatically blow your chances  .