Tamyn wrote...
DaerogTheDhampir wrote...
It always seemed to me that Alistair is NOT Fiona's kid due to the messed up timeline. Maric had sex with Fiona after being all sad and depressed after Rowan's death. Alistair was born while Rowan was still alive, iirc.
Yes. Thank you. I don't know why people do not bring this up more often. Alistair was born while Rowan was still alive. Eamon, Loghain, and Maric all knew this. Fiona's kid was born after Rowan's death. Alistair is years older than Fiona's kid. There's no way they could make up Alistair's son-of-a-maid-in-Redcliffe background for Fiona's kid since Alistair was already alive in Redcliffe before Maric met Fiona.
That's probably because Alistair's age and character was changed many times over the course of DA:O's development. He was initially supposed to be a lot older, in which case it would have made sense that he had been born while Rowan was alive. However, after being redesigned, he was also made younger. Perhaps the dialogue with Loghain was not changed to suit (I think he's the only one that mentions that Rowan was alive when Alistair was born) or perhaps he's just really bad at judging ages.
Maric would have had to make up one heck of a story to throw Loghain off the scent after all. Perhaps the maid thing with Eamon was a convenient story to latch onto. Perhaps Eamon was all "Hey I have this maidservant giving birth soon.. let's just lie to Goldana." Eamon is a sneaky bastard after all, he'd so something like that.
I'm in the "Fiona is Alistair's mother" camp because it just makes sense. The way the epilogue is written in The Calling.. it's definitely meant to lead into the story of Origins. It even mentions that the child looked a lot like Cailan, something a few NPCs like Anora mention in regards to Alistair. If you want to get into genetics, he has dark eyes like Fiona and even has a slight affinity to magic (which is why he made a decent templar).
Also, if Alistair is NOT FIona's kid, then there is another heir out there and that isn't in character for Maric. The guy has had his heart broken 3 times and produced 2 children and has enough issues with being a poor father figure. Do you really think he was keen to hook up with someone again and produce yet another child that would he couldn't raise properly? He WANTED to raise Alistair with Fiona but the circumstances just weren't right. I think after Fiona he would have given up on opening up to women again and certainly wouldn't be interested in fathering any more children.
Of course, we won't know for sure until Gaider comes out and says it though.
Modifié par leonia42, 16 octobre 2010 - 07:51 .
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, I think Maric's a great character, and not a scummy man, just probably very lonely with both Rowan and Katriel dead. Poor puppy. 
for the Theirin boys, and a big 
for Maric.
