Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
Oh my god....being mocked and chased around the Landsmeet meet chamber by a predatory and triumphant Loghain who just bumrushed you with his 50-year old hard body and is zeroing in for the kill, like my Warden is some prized game animal whose flesh he wishes to devour...........
It would not be terror I would be wetting my knickers with......:wub:
Yep --that's pretty much exactly what it's like. I smiled even as I cursed him, and squirmed on my couch in more than just fear of losing the game. . .
Poor Mahariel. She's really no match for him. The best thing I can say for her is she had the sense to choose him over Eamon/Alistair.
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. My most fun duel with him was, like yours, by my Mage, who is one of my canons, and whose duel with Loghain takes up most of Chapter 1 of my fic --nearly 100% accurately. :innocent:
). I may actually have liked him a little too much, because when he abandoned the field at Ostagar, my Duster took it very hard and was pretty much blinded to anything except "WTF how could he do that and Duncan's dead and Alistair is all sad and all the Grey Wardens are gone and I'm stuck here on the surface with my future cut out from under me before it even got started and --AAGGH! I hate you Loghain!!" I am also still realtively new to these types of games so I still --at the time, anyway, though I hope I've grown out of it-- had a tendency to believe everything the "good" characters told me without questioning either their motives or their own sense of perspective or reason. So when people said "Loghain is trying to tear this country apart" or "He's gone mad with desire for power" or "He's the reason we lost Ostagar, and Cailan, and the Wardens", my Duster just nodded and thought "Well, that's what these people have told me, so it must be true!" *facepalm* That attitude lasted for that one playthrough, after which I started paying more attention to what was going on around me, what people were really saying and the various points of bias from which they might be saying it. I have since come to a conclusion that echoes parts of what Skadi and KoP have already said --that Loghain is first and foremost a patriot, and last of all a politician. But secondly he is a general, and his major mistake in his behavior after Ostagar was to think of and treat the banns as though they were subordinates in his army --and to assume that they would jump on board and do whatever they needed to do to unite their country after the death of Cailan and prepare to face the Blight. The best course of action in a crisis being, of course, to shut up and get behind their General, their hero. Oops. . .His second biggest mistake IMO was to get in bed with guys like Uldred, Caladrius and Howe in order to achieve his goals. I'd like to think that there was something else he could have done --although the Banns and the Wardens kept his options pretty limited. 
