exactly! the ending doesn't suggest a new protag AT ALL. regardless of whether you disband or continue, the inquisitor is still looking for solas and there's the whole fact that whole choice makes you 'weaker/stronger' and idk am I being too hopeful?
i had a whole reply typed out so let’s see if tumblr is stable enough to post it this time :)
but yeah, it’s not like with the warden or hawke where they pretty explicitly disappear. the ending cutscene was very much saying we are going after solas, we are going to tevinter, we are going to save our friend from himself (by death or talking).
for such a huge decision point at the end, dissolving or keeping the inquisition, and not play the inquisitor in the next game, would really leave that decision as something you’d just hear in ambient dialogue? or something dorian would mention off-hand.
the only issue i can see is reconciling everyone’s endings into one coherent things that would make sense going into da4. dissolve the inquisition, and everyone went their separate ways. keep the inquisition and everyone’s together, varying on your decisions re: personal quests.
that’s why dorian’s ending in the dlc is pretty linear. he’s obviously going to be in the next game. but everyone else is pretty much done, so it’s the inquisitor and dorian against the world? (i am 110% okay with this)
there would be no emotional impact of a new protagonist going up against solas and trying to stop him. what would our little tevinter person care? some elf trying to end the world? kill him.
but the inquisitor comes with that built in emotional connection to solas (whether you hate or love him) and solas to them that can’t be built upon with a new character at the head.
but this is da and they’ve always had new characters, but this is the one time i really, truly want to play the same protag again. :/