While it's easy to forget, Dragon Age: Inquisition has a multiplayer mode. That's right, long before the disaster of Anthem, BioWare was tacking multiplayer modes onto its single player games, and they were about as popular as you would expect.
However, judging from the concept art for this mode, ia very unexpected character was considered for a slot in Inquisition's multiplayer mode: Anders. This would have been after the events of Dragon Age - and his character design very much reflects that.
This comes from recently revealed concept art for Inquisition, showing multiple rejected character designs for the multiplayer mode. It didn't take fans long to identify that one of them is almost definitely Anders, with his blond hair and similar robes to what he wore in Dragon Age 2.
The biggest giveaway though is his character description: "There are many reasons for mages to flee to the wilderness. From Templar persecution, to the crippling guilt of starting a war that threatens to burn the world to ashes." Don't know why he's feeling guilty, mind you. He did nothing wrong.
Even if that wasn't a dead giveaway, we then have the fact that this hermit character looks just like previously...