KnightofPhoenix wrote...
*resists referencing Inception....doh just did it*
Yes, that's what I mean. Subtle mind influence via blood magic.
Subtle mind control is possible, if Avernus is to be believed. Remember when he was talking about using blood magic on the nobility. He said he wasn't outright controlling them, just giving them a "push" in the desired direction.
So I think that subtly influencing the reigning monarch could indeed work, as opposed to out and out mind control.
Also, templars, while resistant to mind control, aren't immune. And Alistar, while recieving basic templar training, did not recieve all of it, and only starts with very basic templar skills. One could RP discouraging Alistair from developing his templar talents, keeping him from developing resistance. Leave him unhardened. It would actually work, in some ways, better than having Anora as Monarch. Because of Alistair's history as being raised by the Chantry, and being a templar, people would be even less suspicous, because:
1. They assume, as a good little Chantry boy and former templar, he would NEVER allow himself to keep company with an evil maleficar beyond what was necessary as a grey Warden, so most would assume, that as his chancellor, you're a good little circle mage.
2. That as a templar, he would be highly resistant, even immune, to blood magic or mental manipulations, and thus, your mind control efforts and successes would less likely to be noticed or suspected as such.
I actually considered this with my own blood mage playthrough, and my blood mage did all of the above, except she chose to have Alistair executed because she liked the idea of working with Loghain better. But I had worked out the above reasonings when I was originally trying to decide how I wanted to run that playthrough.
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