He gets crushed by falling rocks in the first 5 minutes. The Warden died of fantasy AIDS(assuming (s)he was alive after DAO). Or Flemeth is keeping them alive as sex slaves in Flemeth's Sexy Time Dungeon, the Day 1 DLC.
I hope for a faster and smoother DAO combat system with more abilities that work better against status effects, Skill Trees like DA2, attributes that are valuable for all classes, larger amount of skills per tree, specializations that have more abilities to them, and an equipment system closer to DAO. Also, better designed encounters, they were lacking in both games.