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Wrap-up: People who need smacked with a halibut
Couldn't there have been a way to write the game and be all dramatic about stuff without NPCs leaving out huge relevant pieces of information that they should have totally brought up earlier?
I can actually understand Duncan not telling the Grey Warden PC all the stuff he was supposed to. The new recruit has just undergone a physically and emotionally challenging Joining, there's a huge battle looming... you know, the New Employee Orientation can wait. It's not like he knew that the Order was about to be exterminated.
But Alistair? Was totally around long enough to have gotten New Employee Orientation. That really should have been taken care of.
Alistair, while you were continually whinging about how you didn't want to be the king, did the thought ever enter your pretty little head that maybe you should mention the "I probably shouldn't have heirs because I'll pass the Taint to them" thing? Because it would have been really useful to know that before we actually had to pick candidates for the throne.
Also, the proper time to tell a lady that, if you and she were to make a baby, it would be a horrible Tainted abomination is before you go to bed with her, not just before you break things off. Just a thought.
Dude, Riordan, you were totally there in Arl Eamon's castle, in the same bloody room, during the 'let's make Alistair king' conversation. This might have been a good time to volunteer information like, oh, the price of killing the archdemon? Or your idea to recruit Logain? Springing that stuff on us in front of the Landsmeet was Not Cool, and you either entirely lack forethought or you are just really dim.
Seriously, Morrigan. If you had told us all of this, oh... any time before the night before the battle? You would have looked much better. I get that you were trying to use the pressure situation to get us to make a snap decision, but girlfriend, if you are going to withold like that til the last minute and then be stingy with the details on your plans? A Warden can't help but think you're not saying more because you know I'd say "no" if I knew, especially with the "but I've had another couple look at this car and they'll be back this afternoon" sales pitch.
But then again, Morrigan isn't one-tenth the manipulator she seems to think that she is. (Which is a nice touch and I give the writers credit for it.) So this one I can forgive as being in-character for her.
I can actually understand Duncan not telling the Grey Warden PC all the stuff he was supposed to. The new recruit has just undergone a physically and emotionally challenging Joining, there's a huge battle looming... you know, the New Employee Orientation can wait. It's not like he knew that the Order was about to be exterminated.
But Alistair? Was totally around long enough to have gotten New Employee Orientation. That really should have been taken care of.
Alistair, while you were continually whinging about how you didn't want to be the king, did the thought ever enter your pretty little head that maybe you should mention the "I probably shouldn't have heirs because I'll pass the Taint to them" thing? Because it would have been really useful to know that before we actually had to pick candidates for the throne.
Also, the proper time to tell a lady that, if you and she were to make a baby, it would be a horrible Tainted abomination is before you go to bed with her, not just before you break things off. Just a thought.
Dude, Riordan, you were totally there in Arl Eamon's castle, in the same bloody room, during the 'let's make Alistair king' conversation. This might have been a good time to volunteer information like, oh, the price of killing the archdemon? Or your idea to recruit Logain? Springing that stuff on us in front of the Landsmeet was Not Cool, and you either entirely lack forethought or you are just really dim.
Seriously, Morrigan. If you had told us all of this, oh... any time before the night before the battle? You would have looked much better. I get that you were trying to use the pressure situation to get us to make a snap decision, but girlfriend, if you are going to withold like that til the last minute and then be stingy with the details on your plans? A Warden can't help but think you're not saying more because you know I'd say "no" if I knew, especially with the "but I've had another couple look at this car and they'll be back this afternoon" sales pitch.
But then again, Morrigan isn't one-tenth the manipulator she seems to think that she is. (Which is a nice touch and I give the writers credit for it.) So this one I can forgive as being in-character for her.
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Well it did get pointed out that the reason that the new Wardens are kept in the dark for a while is because they would not have as many recruits as they did if more things were out in the open. And Alistair was in the middle of a sudden pitched battle with the main character after The Joining so he had a few other things on his mind at the time.
Would have been nice for him to point out the shortened lifespan and spreading corruption by the first night in camp after leaving Flemeth's hut though...
Also, the proper time to tell a lady that, if you and she were to make a baby, it would be a horrible Tainted abomination is before you go to bed with her, not just before you break things off. Just a thought.
I could see where that would lead to a very awkward conversation.
But then again, Morrigan isn't one-tenth the manipulator she seems to think that she is.
It's almost as if she wants to do the Right Thing in the end, despite her arrogant attitude throughout the game.
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But she's way broken. If it was Wynne telling me she'd be raising this Old God to unknown ends, I might buy it, because Wynne isn't going to raise the kid to think that love and compassion are hideous weaknesses, and that the strong deserve what they can take and the weak deserve to have it taken from them.
So I think she really does think she's trying to do a Right Thing, but it's a Right Thing in Morrigan-world (and more ominously, in Flemeth-world. Grandma ain't been sitting in that swamp for generations for nothin'). Seeing as the last Old One to interact with humanity taught the Tevinters blood magic... I'm just not seeing this as a Good Idea.
I think her conflict at the end is that she also really, really wants the Warden to think it's a Right Thing, too. The Wardens were supposed to just be a tool for her to use, but suddenly one of them is a real person whose good opinion she values. Not enough to keep her from her goal, but enough that she regrets that the goal couldn't be shared.