put on your shoes; the fair land's a-calling
Random 2 a.m. musings about Dragon Age: Origins, which I've been playing through again instead of editing my big bang. Steam tells me I just hit 300 hours logged in this game. Oh my god.
So, uh, Alistair is the secret bastard prince (that everyone seems to know about, but yanno). There's always been the possibility that if Cailen died he might end up claiming the throne, which is why, for instance, Duncan protected him from the battle at Ostergar, and it's implied that it's why he was recruited for the Grey Wardens in the first place rather than being allowed to complete training as a Templar...
But when you look at it, why was he made a Grey Warden in that case? Drinking darkspawn blood in the Joining guarantees that a Warden will die of it after ~30 years, and any child conceived will "carry the Taint (ie the darkspawn magic poison stuff)" (which is a bit wtf anyway but hey it has plot relevance at least?). I mean, for a King both of those things are rather less than ideal.
I would be a bit more forgiving of that if it were ever mentioned by anyone during the part where you're running around trying to set up who you think should claim the throne! But no one ever mentions it, argh. Not even sole-surviving-Warden-guy. It seems important!
This is why I support Anora for the throne. Well, and she's pretty awesome. I used to support the two of them marrying, but since the above occurred to me I feel it would be wrong.
(I think maybe Anora never marries anyway, which makes this all moot since no heir's produced either way. But I genuinely can't remember. And maybe that'll be part of the plot of the third game!)
Your takeaway message: I am using too much logic here and am also now wondering whether Grey Wardens are ever made via STIs. I bet there's fic of it.
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So, uh, Alistair is the secret bastard prince (that everyone seems to know about, but yanno). There's always been the possibility that if Cailen died he might end up claiming the throne, which is why, for instance, Duncan protected him from the battle at Ostergar, and it's implied that it's why he was recruited for the Grey Wardens in the first place rather than being allowed to complete training as a Templar...
But when you look at it, why was he made a Grey Warden in that case? Drinking darkspawn blood in the Joining guarantees that a Warden will die of it after ~30 years, and any child conceived will "carry the Taint (ie the darkspawn magic poison stuff)" (which is a bit wtf anyway but hey it has plot relevance at least?). I mean, for a King both of those things are rather less than ideal.
I would be a bit more forgiving of that if it were ever mentioned by anyone during the part where you're running around trying to set up who you think should claim the throne! But no one ever mentions it, argh. Not even sole-surviving-Warden-guy. It seems important!
This is why I support Anora for the throne. Well, and she's pretty awesome. I used to support the two of them marrying, but since the above occurred to me I feel it would be wrong.
(I think maybe Anora never marries anyway, which makes this all moot since no heir's produced either way. But I genuinely can't remember. And maybe that'll be part of the plot of the third game!)
Your takeaway message: I am using too much logic here and am also now wondering whether Grey Wardens are ever made via STIs. I bet there's fic of it.
Posted at http://frith-in-thorns.dreamwidth.org/104012.html with
comments.