Filament wrote...
Who's to say Audacity couldn't have done the very same with Merrill's pride? "Those other mages are sloppy and get possessed, but I know the risks, I can handle it."
Remember Wryme? He did the same thing to her and she knew something was wrong, but she was forced to believe it like Wryme was tugging at her heart.
She would've known if Audacity was doing something similar.
I'm drawing a distinction between it being inherently tainted physically rather than merely radiating taint as a consequence of that to which it's connected, where if the connection were severed it would stop being so tainted. Maybe Audacity's "cleansing" was actually "rerouting."
I had a counterpoint to this, but I forgot what it was because I'm really tired =/
I imagine she might have learned it while with Flemeth... it seems a fairly undeveloped point (I only remember one banter with Alistair really addressing it) but she's supposed to be pretty learned.
As far as the scrying ritual goes, the book could have simply had locations in it. Or maybe she did do a scrying ritual... that doesn't mean she consulted a demon to do it.
Or does it?
Anyway, my point is that Morrigan has so many things to do in a very short amount of time, and given how Witch Hunt doesn't go into depth about her hunt for the Eluvians, it's possible she was rushing through it more than Merrill was.
Merrill probably carefully studied each piece of lore for who knows how long to make sure she was understanding it correctly and extrapolating the right things. I've had similar things happen.
Merrill thinks so...maybe not but she sure seems that way. Anything that Hawke does that favors demons or BM she gives +friendship.
I wouldn't say it's favoring demons so much as "Try to play the demon before he plays you", which Hawke can do to demons quite a bit in the game. The Warden can too.
Marethari wasn't an abomination in the typical sense at all. She had strength enough to imprison the thing inside her until Hawke and company came then *let go* because she knew they could defeat it. If she wasn't a living prison the whole clan would have been dead by the time we arrived. Yes?
By that logic, Anders isn't a typical abomination either. Or Wynne. Or the Baroness. Or Connor.
Granted, Wynne and maybe Anders need a new name because "abomination" has a very negative connotation, as it implies they're meatball flesh sack wearing drunkards.
FieryDove wrote...
I know you love all things Merrill but really. Do you think Merrill would have believed her or even listened to her if the keeper said all your work is going to kill you and much more, including the entire clan? Many people including Flemeth give advice and it goes in one ear and out the other. What good would telling Hawke do? Well maybe Hawke could then stop any contact with Merrill from that point on or try to talk reason to her, but see above.
Merrill didn’t defeat the Varterral, Hawke + Merrill and co. did. Not to mention She was looking right at my Hawke when she says seek it out slay it and I will give you the tool. So Hawke gets the tool and Marithari hopes that Hawke who is a friend can talk to Merrill and make her see reason. But she already knows it will be pointless but what the heck.
I miss the older Merrill from DAO. She was knowledgeable, self-assured and not babbly with Shem’s she never met before. She didn’t age she “youthened” in DA2. I feel the old Merrill would have been better suited for this role than an innocent *younger* Merrill was.
But this Merril is probably a more popular choice romancewise. Rival Merrill however seems much more lively.
Would Merrill have believed it? Probably not, but Hawke could've then thought about the information he was just given and ask himself: Do I believe Marethari? Do I keep supporting Merrill?
and other questions.
Then, he can either choose not to believe Marethari, or decide that Marethari was right and try to convince Merrill that she needs to stop, especially if he's told this information before handing the Arulin'holm to Merrill.
Had that happened, I would be questioning myself on what path is really right for Merrill. But Marethari made it clear throughout both DAO and DAII that the Eluvians were best forgotten. Marethari doesn't even say how she found out Audacity would use the Eluvians (something I don't believe for a minute). Did Audacity tell her or did she actually stop being so mired in fear and do some research? We don't know. But it wouldn't make sense for Marethari to find out something so important like that if she suddenly started doing research into the Eluvians and spent less time on it than Merrill.
There's also the fact that the clan hates the Eluvians just as much as she does, so any research she did into them would have to be done by herself and in secret, which might be hard for her to do.
and the elven agreement was between Merrill and Marethari. They are the only two people there who know anything about it. Making a deal with Hawke, who knows nothing about elven ways, makes no sense.
Merrill is the primary person there making the agreement with Hawke and company as little more than witnesses.
Modifié par The Ethereal Writer Redux, 01 septembre 2011 - 11:56 .
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... gambling on the off chance of Marethari just being that much of a fool... sounds far less likely to me than him having multiple contingencies.
