Recent articles with new info:
IGN- This is a video
PC Gamer- Interview with Mark
IGN- Dragons & Dragon Combat
AUSGamers- lots of information here
God, I hope Leilana isn't a companion. I really don't want to choose between her and Varric.
Wonder if she's romancible. That'd be fun, but I'd want to know more about the others.
! Based on one of the articles, it sounds like we'll have three main factions/pillars representing politics, military, and spies.
! Leliana's basically been confirmed as the spymaster who handles that represents the spy side. With that information, its safe to assume Cullen represents the military, and the other unknown lady in the group picture shot represents the political pillar. Assumably, these people are important npcs apart of the Inquisition, but not actual companions you take on the field.
! Also, Leliana's unlikely to be romancable since I think they've said their averse to previous romance characters being romancable in future games. You might still be able to get a dance and song out of her.
Also, David Gaider's response on the characters having different sexual preferences:
I understand there are some people who prefer the idea of being able to romance any character who is able to be romanced, with any PC. That may have been a happy by-product of the system in DA2, for them, but that was not its purpose. Its purpose was to allow more than one option for every type of player, no matter who they were. That remains our goal.
As Mark Darrah tweeted earlier today, we have characters that are gay as well as bisexual and straight. I'm not going to discuss numbers or any further details at this point, so you can make of that what you will, but that allows us to tell more types of character stories without having to resort to ambiguity. Those stories exist for players who don't romance the characters as well, and that's also important_._ The rest will come as we discuss this aspect of the game in detail, but I'd hope the Dragon Age's team's expressed interest in inclusivity would provide us some benefit of the doubt until that happens.