TripLight wrote...
*Is mesmerized by Payroo's Gif of Awesome*
I was wondering something ladies and gents. As I sit here watching "McHale's Navy", I began wondering, because Tom Arnold throws a do not want vibe, and my mind compensated and drifted off to Bruce Campbell, but I digress...
Had Anders not merged with Justice and didn't come to Kirkwall in lieu of any letters or lack thereof from Karl(stayed with the Wardens, kept Pounce), and Hawke still did wind up in that Pit. Do you think the situation of mage/templar would still have come to a head? The destruction of the Chantry wouldn't have happened, of course, Anders wouldn't have been there to make the bomb.
And how different do you think Hawke's rise to power so to speak would have been without Anders there?
So many questions and answers and hypothetical and theoretical situations are eating at me, and I just wanted to see someone else's opinion or ideas on this.
Good idea fodder for AU fanfics.
Are you asking about Kirkwall or the continent as a whole? Kirkwall is utterly, hopelessly f***ed unless someone replaces Elthina and Meredith with more effective and more humane people people, respectively. And moves the Circle out of Kirkwall because it's sitting on a hellmouth. Kirkwall eventually implodes, but maybe the templars start it if Anders isn't around. Maybe a blood mage cabal kabooms the entire city by accident, maybe mages as a whole don't get blamed.
Don't know about the inevitability of war all over the rest of the world. I think things could have gone very differently, others don't, but I don't want to sift through the scarily long Anders thread to find that discussion.

Hawke's rise to power is probably just the same, provided the Deep Roads expedition finds a map somewhere. Varric's clever, he would have found another Warden or another way to find an entrance.