The Water God wrote...
Exactly helping people is a waste of time for her. Which is why she's not such a good moral character, she even thinks saving a village full of people is a waste of time when you're party is clearly capable of doing it.
Yes, she doesn't support aiding Redcliffe, but it honestly doesn't factor into winning the war or stopping the Blight. Morrigan makes the case that the Warden should focus on the imminent threat of the Blight and not on aiding the people of a single village. It's the same attitude she takes when you resolve the food dispute in Lothering. Considering these are the kind of people who typically shun Morrigan and mages like her, I don't see why anyone is surprised she has no empathy towards them. No one in this story is completely good or evil, they are all flawed. You can't become King or Queen unless you're a Human Noble, the people often criticize the idea that an elf is even a Grey Warden despite the fact that an elf stopped the last Blight, and the Denerim alienage was purged[/i] with no one giving a damn.
This is a society that keeps elves in a confined space, preaches how mages are evil and has some backward attitudes towards women. Murdock himself mentions his surprise if the Warden is a woman and his added concern if the Warden is also a mage. And everyone there is human because the homes of elves who manage to get out of the alienage and don't know their place are burned down. Should Morrigan suddenly have sympathy because these villagers, who likely would kill her without hesitation if they knew she was an apostate and weren't in fear of their lives, suddenly need the help of someone they would otherwise kill? Playing as an elven mage, plenty of people make note of the race and their distrust of magic.
The Water God wrote...
We all know she lives on a survival of the fittest concept. Which is a pretty stupid concept, the whole point of Morrigan's story is to let her know it's okay to give into emotions.
But I don't really know how you can make a fair case of Morrigan not being evil by the fact that she's losing approval for the Warden not being focused on his job. That's usually why Sten is losing approval, and he doesn't consider helping the Lothering folks a waste of time (In fact just walking away loses approval from him.) And Morrigan's approval isn't effected if you just walk away. Showing she doesn't really care either way.
She's pragmatic. The Warden is facing with stopping a threat that could destroy the world, and Morrigan encourages choices that enpower the Warden. Morrigan's decisions regarding the Anvil and the blood ritual at the alienage seem to focus more on enpowering the Warden to end the Blight than anything else. As for Redcliffe and Lothering, is there a reason she should care about a village of people who would
kill her if they knew she was an apostate?
The Water God wrote...
The point is Morrigan was raised by Flemeth. And so far Morrigan has started painting Flemeth as somewhat of an evil character. It seems Morrigan following Flemeth's teachings has elected to take some of the more cruel paths. The warden is supposued to show Morrigan that not everything Flemeth says is true.
True, Flemeth raised Morrigan, and the Warden can establish a real bond regardless of those teachings, but I honestly don't see how she can be viewed as evil for her perspective. Morrigan's focus is on the Blight, on stopping an outright apocolypse, and in her POV, you're being side-tracked out of sentimental reasons that have nothing to do with the ultimate goal of defeating the Archdemon. She doesn't want to help because she thinks stopping the Blight that threatens the entire country is a greater concern than one single village. I don't see how anyone can honestly accuse her of being evil when Morrigan simply says what's on her mind, and supports the Warden regardless. Unlike Sten and Zevran, she never tries to murder the Warden, regardless of whether she likes the Warden or not. She's pragmatic, she wants the Warden to focus on the task at hand and not on side quests that do nothing to further the goal of ending the Blight. But many see her as evil because she's upfront about her perspective, and always mention the dark ritual despite the fact that she's honest about this, too.
To address the OP, I don't see how anyone can seriously think that she's evil because she wants to preserve the soul of an Old God no one understands because of Chantry Propaganda, something that would be extinct once the next two Blights transpire. All she wants to preserve an Old God, and is forthright about her plans to raise a child outside the influence of the Chantry. She tells you the truth, and unlike Sten or Zev, doesn't try to kill you at any point in the game if she dislikes you (and in a scene cut from the game, simply leaves if she discovers you never killd Flemeth). Morrigan is an interesting character. I don't see how her as evil, considering how she's helping the Warden save a nation that's hunted her down since she was a child and would kill her otherwise (in fact, in a scene that was cut from the game, you could actually turn her over to the templars if you sided against the Circle). Nothing Morrigan says in WH indicates that the child will be evil or used for an evil purpose. There's absolutely no evidence that the baby will be evil.
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