Addai67 wrote...
"Playing army" is no small thing in a feudal society, especially one in such a precarious position as Ferelden. Return to Ostagar gives us a glimpse that Cailan is underrated as a strategist, too. I don't deny that they make a good ruling couple, just as I think hardened Alistair + Anora is a good ruling couple. Eamon does acknowledge that Anora is capable.
It's a factor of the story, I think, that the game gives you an actual choice to make with pros and cons on either side. If it was too obvious, it would be less interesting. Of course, you can tell that in my mind there is no real choice. 
And that is the beauty of the game. You can rationally choose many options, all of the making sense. Both of our reasons, from different perspectives are sound. I can understand why people are hesitant to let Anora have the throne on her own, especially if she betrays your character during the game. She is Loghain's daughter, and she is pretty unscrupulous in pursuit of the throne.
nor do I think your choice or reasoning are inferior to mine. I was just providing my own reasons why I prefer to let the ice-shrew keep her throne, and I often play selfish characters that have no intention of sharing Alistair with her or any other snotty, icy noble wench. My human noble, who finds the idea of becoming queen tedious and confining, likes the idea as well.
If you are playing a character who is noble, has a strong sense of duty, tradition, and family, then it would make perfect sense to toughen Alistair up and put him on the throne to preserve the bloodline, as well as give him what most nobles would consider his blood right and duty. Or a non-noble, such as an elf, would see that Alistair is far more tolerant and compassionate towards her people than the standing nobility, and would see him as a better ruler who could improve the plight of her people over Anora, who doesn't seem to be doing jack for the elves, even overlooked crimes committed against them. For other Origins, who are outside of the norm of ferelden society, it's a pretty open book, since for the most part, they are either unaffected by ferelden politics, or don't see a reason to care. Dwarves have their own government and system, the Dalish roam free and will violently defy any attempts to oppress them, and mages probably could care less, since it's the Chantry holding their chain, so one ruler could be as meaningless as the next.
Consider Loghain's father and his reaction to Maric. The perspective you're giving is Loghain's, not a general one. Wherever it was known that the Prince was still alive, people rallied. Granted that this was mostly the army and not necessarily the villagers (as with Gwaren), but as you rightly say, people were first trying to survive.
very true. Maric surviving certainly added more emphasis, legitimacy, and desire to join the rebellion, because it meant to the people that they still had a rightful king to fight for. However, let's say Loghain had never found maric, and maric died with his mother. I think that, had some other noble or commoner felt inspired, and took up the fallen banner and had the strength of personality, that the rebellion could have concievable continued, and people would have fought for them because they were getting rid of orlais.
There were mini-rebellions all over, but someone had to rally the Fereldans as a nation. The legend of Calenhad and the mythos of the Theirin line did this. Whether another legend could have done the same, that is possible. In-game you do see that the Hero of River Dane mythos carries Loghain farther than he could have gotten otherwise.
here, you are correct. Legends and history have an awesome power. Loghain would have never gotten away with everything he did were he not shrouded in his own legend, and people had a large amount of hero worship-trust for him.
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I was really impressed that they had that in there!
He's just too adorable!
