*hugs Loghain* Bah if you don't like him, that's more Loghain for me!
OK, seriously... A lot of the characters are multi-layered so if you take time to dig a little deeper, you'll find someone a little more sympathetic, or at least understandable, underneath. Morrigan
does have a heart, as does Zevran. Leliana isn't just about the Maker. Sten actually has a pretty good sense of humour. Loghain really is trying to do the right thing for Fereldan, though he's going the wrong way about it. Wynne...urgh...well I struggle to justify Wynne.
One reason I really enjoy playing mages is that I can leave
Wynne at the tower. Yes, you're forced to take her on the Circle quest, (well, you can kill her, but I feel bad about killing the other mages who are with her. Except for Keili, silly cow) but you can dump her after that.
I love running into Ines in Awakening who hates Wynne and says "the Fade shines out of her bum."
Wynne comes across nice and motherly at first but she is a hypocrite. She spends half the game lecturing you on your duties as a Grey Warden but if you're a mage, when she runs into Aneirin she suggests to you that you return to the Circle and become First Enchanter. No lady, I'm out of that prison, thankyou very much. And, y'know, warden and all that.
There was a thread on here a while back suggesting that her fade spirit was really a pride demon. Wouldn't surprise me.
Still, on games where I'm not playing a mage and am not planning on doing the dark ritual, I pretty much have to take her. And that ticks me off. I wish we could have had Jowan instead.
Eamon. Now there's a man I can't like and I get increasingly angry with every game where I'm forced to go look for the damn ashes. Now I'm obviously coming from the angle of someone who likes Loghain and Anora, so Eamon's attempt to replace Anora with Alistair doesn't sit well with me. First and foremost, here's a man who sends the son Maric has entrusted him with off to the Chantry because his stupid cow of a wife stamps her daintly shod foot...who has spent much of Alistair's childhood telling him that he mustn't have any ambitions to the throne yet as soon as Cailan is dead, does a complete 360 and starts pushing Alistair at the throne despite the fact Alistair doesn't want it and despite the fact Anora is already popular with the commoners and well respected by the nobles and foreign leaders. Essentially, he wants to put a clueless, untrained, untried and reluctant king on the throne instead of a capable ruler who has five years of practise during a time of crisis. He's a fricking idiot and I wish there was an option not to go for the ashes just so that I can leave him to die.
Then we have his stupid Orlesian **** of a wife, who by keeping Connor's mage abilities secret, made it possible for Jowan to poison Eamon and then the whole Redcliffe debacle to happen. Had she not done this there would have been no need for Jowan, no poisoning, no demonic possession of Connor and no villager deaths. She has blood on her hands and she won't even take responsibility. In her favour, she will allow herself to be sacrificed in order to save Connor. That's her redeeming feature, and one I take advantage of quite often.
Cailan - I don't hate him, but I think he's a ****** and Loghain did the right thing leaving him to die. He is actually slightly deeper than the game makes him appear - whilst he comes across as a glory-seeking fool with a head full of storybooks, I think he's more of a tragic figure who is so desperate to escape from his father's shadow that he tries to be larger than life. And it bites him in the arse, so to speak. Still, he has a lot of a power, and there's nothing more dangerous than a fool with power (especially a fool trying to ally with Orlais. It may have been 30 years since the war, but chevaliers are still allowed to rape women and inviting a bunch of them into Fereldan isn't such a great move, IMHO).
Aside from that, I dislike that reverand mother in Lothering, that stupid cow Keili in the Circle (being made tranquil is the best thing for her), Anora's elf maid (purely because of the stupid accent) and Marjolaine (ditto...but at least you can kill her). Oh and quite a few of the Dalish.
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