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After doing a bit of searching I found out that DA2 was meant to have an expansion called Exalted March (which in the lore is the name of religious crusades by the Chantry and a new March has been teased since the awakening expansion for Origins)
At the same time as the expansion was in pre-production Bioware was in process of making the Frosbite engine hospitable for their RPGs. And they found that to be a challenging task.
Eventually executive producer Mark Darrah came to the conclusion that if they continued on the path the path they were on: Exalted March and DA3 both would have suffered due to the engineering budget available and he made the call to can the expansion.
David Gaider, lead writer for the series, was not content with that decision and actually took a month off of work to cool off and process that.
Back in 2017 Mike Laidlaw, Creative director for the series, revealed a few of the concepted ideas for the expansion that they had in mind before it was cancelled.
The idea was that Exalted March followed the red lyrium chicanery of DA2 with the Chantry becoming VERY UPSET, while various aspects of the qunari started to make moves on the turbulent Free Marches (which is the region Kirkwall is in), and thus it fell to Hawke to stop things from going to hell (again) while working with Starkhaven and the pirates of the Armada.
They even made t-shirts for the project. At a Pax Prime panel back in 2012 they were all wearing them and the shirts had missing letters on them, and had a design like the game Hang Man... Because the story would have started in the hanged man. The missing letters on the shirts spelled out Estwach, which is where the Felicisima Armada missions would've been based. Beyond that they felt they had some really interesting stories to tell, and a cool chance to learn more about Sebastian's family.
David Gaider said the ending they had planned for the expansion would've been brutal for the fans insofar as some of their favorite characters are concerned. (Edit: It's been reported that David Gaider mentioned Varric was set to die at the end of the expansion.) Some basic plot points were carried over to Inqusition, and naturally changed as the context for them changed. The Temple of Mythal being a good in Inqusition is a good example of that. David Gaider has said he'll never go into detail on the story of the expansion because that'd be really painful thing to go through for him as a writer, and in the end: he wishes to leave what it could have been up to the player's imagination.
So I'm going to do just that: Here are my Predictions for what the plot would have entailed:
I always thought it was silly that Corypheus came back in Inquisiton, even though he was killed by Hawke in DA2, but after a replaying the Legacy DLC and with the retrospect that Inquisition provides in mind when you watch the epilogue cut scene of the DLC between Varric and Cassandra you can kind of see the writers were foreshadowing something (Edit: And the odd character shift with whatever Warden you backed could've hinted at him possessing their bodies similar to what Justice did with Anders, he's not a spirit, but maybe he had that capability.) And the fact that he does return adds flavor to the reason he was imprisoned by these ancient grey wardens in the first place and that he couldn't be defeated so the only option they had to imprison him. That leads me to believe he was going to be the main antagonist of that expansion, playing a similar role to Inquisiton. But when you play Inquisiton it's quite obvious his plot changed substantially from what it was in Exalted March, Solas wasn't invented at the time (Correction: Solas was conceived even before Dragon Age Origins released, David Gaider confirmed it in a interview. I speculate that Solas's story was meant to be the original plot for DA3 before they had to combine the story with Exalted March. They merged those two stories together and then throughout the course of development found that it felt better if they ended the story of Inquisition sooner with the Solas reveal. Leaving the latter half of the story for DA4. Which I believe will contain the original plot for DA3.)
I predict Samson would've been involved the in the Red Lyrium plot and the templars getting addicted to it, I think he would've been some kind of disciple of Corypheus, and then that got recycled for Inquisition, but it feels odd there, because without the expansion he was kind of just a throw away character in DA2 and his character taking on that role would've fit a lot better in the expansion.
Since it was called Exalted March, I imagine Cassandra and Leliana would've played a significant role in plot. Along with Cullen