Lady Jess wrote...
Ohhh sounds interesting. Jaina's a bit of a...well, ****. She likes sex dammit. And she's really NOT Alistair's type. She's too...pragmatic? I think thats the word, she'll sacrifice Isolde becaue...Jowan's HERE why WALK to the friggin TOWER. She'll side with the Werewolves (before we get Zev) becaue Zathrien lied like a sack of crap, and the dog growled at him and that says something. Yes, Im serious. She'll spare the Anvil because hey, Golems to fight the blight? yes pls. (hence not even recruiting shale). She'll even Anul the circle, and side with the templars. The templars remained neutral, the rest of the mages can rot for all she cares for the way she was treated.
Yet I think during the time she is romping with Alistair she'll realize she does want love...but not with him. Way too much difference. But Zev can worm his way in.
Heh, some of our game choices will have been similar but with different reasoning. Idun is not ruthless, in fact as I imagine it, having to become a big destructo-mage is taking a toll on her personally. She also doesn't want to use blood magic for its own sake. Her clan made a Faustian bargain with Flemeth and she got caught in that, learning blood magic as a side... "benefit." She understands that it's a curse as much as a blessing and thus it doesn't take much persuasion for Alistair to convince her that it is something for dire need only.
As I think about the Dalish approach to magic, it seems that they are more tolerant of the so-called darker forms of magic because they don't have the same superstitious fears of them as the Chantry does. But for that very reason, they are more adept at handling them and even more no-nonsense. If you don't have the templars as a crutch, you have to take things in hand yourself. Idun annulled the Circle, killed Connor, and as I saw it, she was on to Zathrian before it even came out that he was an abomination, too. She wasn't going to kill him for that reason alone, because in my conception the elves have made such bargains before, but neither was she going to allow him to continue destroying people, either. She didn't kill his clan, but forced him to end the curse.
Because she is basically Chaotic Good, she and Alistair will have a rocky relationship but to my mind they are both on a generally heroic path and it still works. The rockiness and contradictions are what makes it interesting.
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Spamming this shot again for tops, because to me it captures well the almost grim tenderness between these two. Yuki keep your hands off!

Modifié par Addai67, 15 juin 2010 - 06:05 .