I think none will return except Solas as a mid game boss
The story maybe take 20 to 50 years in the future...so they just kill everyone who can be killed. Maybe they will make the hunt for Solas takes forever, everyone frustrated to death....and this open a new fresh story with fresh characters for DA4
The only one I think would return in the next games is Dorian as we will probably be heading to Tevinter/Qunari lands for the next installment. All the rest... its actually a good thing if we don't see them. They have no reason to be in Tevinter and many of their individual storylines are growing stale now.
Nope, time for a complete reset in all new lands and all new characters.
Edit: well except Solas, of course. He will definitely be in some future game.... though I would probably guess it will be DA5 ... not 4. I mean, if you are immortal... why rush things?
@Qis: I'd actually really like a story that takes a time leap.
However... there's a problem with that. Though not one I think is insurmountable or even undesirable.
We're at approx. 9:46 I believe of the current Dragon Age... ages last approx. 100 years.
In 99 the Divine looks for a portent to name the next age.
Let's forget for a second that Tevinter would have no reason to use this... or the Qunari. I think it' presents an awesome opportunity to "rename" the franchise.
Scene: The year is 9:99 - we're the current PC... and whatever it is we do personally shapes the name of the next age. DA:5 is actually called "Whatever" Age.
Many of these discussions are based on the final cutscene in Trespasser. Though I would not mind that at all, there were so many hints in the game to other developments that it is alltogether possible to me that DA4 would lead us not to Tevinter, but to another part of Thedas and that the game would help to set things up for a climactic DA5 or DA6. It could indeed be Tevinter, or Weisshaupt, Considering the amount of darkspawn in the last two games, there might be more time spent on the Deep Roads than in the Fade this time, though.
People returning would be depending on WHEN the sequel will take place, I guess. Regardless of who is next Divine, Justinia's writ is still available so the Inquisition might still be around, alive and kicking. Which would lead to many of its members being available as an NPC. There might be a new Inquisitor, as the current one with his/her love interest has retired, but that might not neccessarily be the case.
If my hunch is correct that DA4 would be more of a setup for the clash between Solas and the Elvhen gods, I guess only very few people from the original cast may become more than just a reference in the game, and that would also depend on the amount of time passed between DA:I and DA4.
The dialogue with Solas in Trespasser made me understand that **** is going down in a few years time?
And let's say DA4 has a considerable time skip. What was the Inquisitor doing the whole time then? The Trespasser ending points that they are going after Solas, and the whole scene probably didn't take much time in the future after Trespasser's events. I guess it could be written that the Inquisitior and whatever they were planning, initially failed (or didn't if it was a suicide mission), and they all dead now, but it still put a sizeable dent in Solas' plan. But that all is way too big not to be shown.. maybe?
This might be unlikely but I wander if we will see the Nightmare Demon return possing Hawkes or Strouds body?
Flemeth will return I believe too because if you remember that cutscene at the end, you see her blue essences escape into the Eluvian. Me and my friend have theorize that is how our character will be able to stop Solas in DA4. Her essences departed through that mirror and hit us the main character for DA4.
Dorian would be a nice character to see return but I think he would return to be like how Leliana and Morgan and Cullen were, not party member but there to talk to us.
We won't have dear old Coryphy-****** anymore. 
Yes, swinging it at the enemy like your slapping them with a fish. This is a dumb idea.
We had prosthetic limbs that allowed people to do pretty much everything they could with their real arm in medieval times(see Gotz of the Iron Hand), so why not in Thedas when they also have magic and the engineering capabilities of the Dwarves and Qunari?
Lol are you joking OP? All the people you listed are the most likely to make a comeback in DA4.
The final scene in Trespasser has the Inquisitor, their LI, Scout Harding, Cassandra and Leliana in a room together. If the next game's big bad boss is Solas and there's no other twist to it than just Solas being Solas, then these characters are bound to have some kind of appearance, as NPCs or as companions.
Or they might not, and to that I say wtf BW, what was that scene all about then.
I KNOW RIGHT? I feel like that scene is signaling that those characters are coming back. It might be just wishful thinking but one can dream right?
@Qis: I'd actually really like a story that takes a time leap.
However... there's a problem with that. Though not one I think is insurmountable or even undesirable.
We're at approx. 9:46 I believe of the current Dragon Age... ages last approx. 100 years.
In 99 the Divine looks for a portent to name the next age.
Let's forget for a second that Tevinter would have no reason to use this... or the Qunari. I think it' presents an awesome opportunity to "rename" the franchise.
Scene: The year is 9:99 - we're the current PC... and whatever it is we do personally shapes the name of the next age. DA:5 is actually called "Whatever" Age.
Maybe the vnext game set up is AFTER Solas destroyed the world....it is possible.
So everyone is dead...and it have been years...the hero is a survivor of a great destruction of the world
I'm down for more Morrigan, she's bae.
Also, I didn't know Cassandra could get married with Quizzy...?
You can't marry Cassandra...
I love these threads, but, full disclosure, think (accurately) predicting what the next game will be like is pretty damn difficult and speculative-- after all, did anybody bet that, after DA:O, our storyline would begin at the same time with a one-race-option-only human, taking place pretty much entirely in a single city-state? And that our Warden wouldn't even make an appearance? No, nobody would have predicted that.
Having said that, these threads are fun (and I love some of the ideas), so here goes:
1. OP, I (respectfully) think many of the people you listed could well appear in the game. In fact, unless (and its possible) there is a significant time gap between DA3 and DA4's narratives, I would imagine pretty much everyone you mentioned may make some appearance. Some larger, some smaller. Solas? Solas will almost assuredly be in the next game assuming there isn't a time leap or a same-time sorta thing is happening. But barring that, it would be bizarre if he wasn't. Similarly, the Inquisitor and Dorian. Dorian because he's so successful and a fan favorite, and because Tevinter specifically. Inquisitor because that's how the game ends + he was our main character-- they always allude (if not outrighly have in the game) the main character from the prior game. Fans love this, it's great.
2. I do think the Inquisitor will be in the next game, but not because he will get a robotic slingshot arm or something (lol), but as a statesman/diplomat/leader. He specifically says "my adventuring days may be over," given dialogue choices at the end of Trespasser, but I think he will be an organizing leader for whatever takes place in the game. Maybe just at the beginning, but still-- I do not think he will playable, but as an NPC, def think it's a possibility.
3. The game seems pretty intent on Tevinter as the setting (though who knows?!), but I wouldn't be surprised if the long-discussed Seheron is accessible (since it's disputed territory of Tevinter and the Qunari, too), and, I'm not sure how this would tie-in, but at some point, the Grey Wardens HQ in the Anderfels will feature in. I think that could be a standalone story they are saving for a DA5 though, so who knows. But I just imagine at some point we will see Weisshaupt (and, if you made US, your Warden's armor! woo!!!).
4. Love the responses in this-- so cool to think about what they'll do! It's all speculative, but yeah, I definitely think we will be hearing from lots of Inquisition NPCs or companions, if not outright playing them. Like, that's what the Keep allows so easily now. They'll be some Codex entry somewhere in MInrathous that is like "blah blah Iron Bull has now conquered raiders in Northeastern Ferelden, etc." or whatnot, just as there was for DA:O in DA2 and DA:I, etc. In terms of actual playable again companions (like Varric in DA2->DA:I), I think Dorian is the best bet for that one. Maybe some returning from DA2, as well-- but Dorian makes the most sense to me for DA4, from Inquisition. Who knows though!
Cheers!
that's what I originally thought...
Well then you were right to think that.
Sadly, the only LIs that you can marry in DAI are Cullen and Sera. 
Sadly, the only LIs that you can marry in DAI are Cullen and Sera.
I KNOW RIGHT? I feel like that scene is signaling that those characters are coming back. It might be just wishful thinking but one can dream right?
I mean, why would they add that last scene if it wasn't foreshadowing at all?
What I'd like to know is if the rest of the (ex?)-inquisition knows about Solas and his plans.
If they do know, I don't see any reason for them to just chill and let someone else deal with it.. all of them already signed up for the inquisition, all of them being brought together for one specific goal, save the world. So it would be odd if they'd let this one just slide?
THAT IS, if Solas is the big bad of DA4 and if the whole game even has Solas. It could also be a story that happens in somewhere else in the Dragon Age Universe during DA:I, but I seriously doubt that.
We'll see, though. DA:I ended in such a ?!?!?! state.
Honestly I'm perfectly happy with keeping returning characters to an absolute minimum. If Dorian and Solas are the only returning characters from DAI, I'll be perfectly content.
@Qis: I'd actually really like a story that takes a time leap.
However... there's a problem with that. Though not one I think is insurmountable or even undesirable.
We're at approx. 9:46 I believe of the current Dragon Age... ages last approx. 100 years.
In 99 the Divine looks for a portent to name the next age.
Let's forget for a second that Tevinter would have no reason to use this... or the Qunari. I think it' presents an awesome opportunity to "rename" the franchise.
Scene: The year is 9:99 - we're the current PC... and whatever it is we do personally shapes the name of the next age. DA:5 is actually called "Whatever" Age.
i just realized in the next Dragon Age Game we won't have :
Cassandra, for she will be married to the inquisitor or she will be the divine
Morrigan, she will be dead or doing magic far, far away
Sera, she will be being rogue far away
Dorian, he will be in Tevinter fighting the state or the corruption
Solas, obvious reasons
Varric, mabye story teller?
Leliana, she will be spy for another organiaztonor she will be just too old
The Inquisitor: he loses the arm and can't do anything, he loses his powers
:C
please corret me if im wrong and/or add other characters
Gaider said that original story arc was to large and Bioware could not cover all the story, so it had been split into two parts (DA3 & DA4). So don't worry 
, perhaps some of them will appear again ^^ !
Either Hawke or the Warden won't return, that we know for sure.
Nothing could survive
that spiderthe Nightmare demon.
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