In Dragon Age: The Calling, the elven Grey Warden Mage Fiona, and King Maric, concieve a child, a child that looks like Cailan, and is born human, no half-elves in Thedas, all interbreeding between humans and elves apparently turns up humans.
Okay, given that, the timing is rather perfect....isn't it, that this child born between Fiona and Maric and Duncan even volunteers to watch after it. Fiona specifically tells Maric to tell him nothing of his mother, to let him believe his mother was human, and to let him live a life she cannot give him.
At this point of the story, we are at epilogue of the second book. The timing of the birth and the circumstances surrounding it are absolutely more or less perfect.
So then we have Duncan, the rogue that he is, to look after the child, perhaps taking the child to Redcliffe, and finding a convenient situation where a peasant woman has just died giving birth to a child, perhaps the child she was giving birth to died with her, to be replaced by Alistair, using the womans death in child birth as a cover story for the childs true identity...but to achieve this, Duncan would have to have the cooperation of Arl Eamon, who would foster this illusion, even to Alistair even providing Alistair with a locket with a picture of his "mother" in it.
The fact that this child was taken in by Arl Eamon, while explainable if you accept the fact that Maric was somehow a lecherous womanizer that begat a child with servant at Redcliffe Castle....is impossible really to grasp given an understanding of the Maric character and his relationships in the books, he was not a lecherous womanizer, all the women noted that he had anything to do with he had deep connections with, so I cannot see, somewhere in the last 20 or so years of his life between the birth of the child between him and Fiona, and his apparent death somewhere previous to the Origin's storyline beginning, him becoming some dirty old man boffing the servants while visiting Arl Eamon on some state oriented visit.
So with that in mind it is impossible to accept that Alistair is anything other than the second child of Maric, concieved with Fiona in the Deep Roads. To believe otherwise is to believe there is a third heir of Maric somewhere in Ferelden, something Duncan nor any other character in the game alludes to.
So you have Alistair, who is brought up under the watchful eye of Arl Eamon in Duncan's stead, who is told that his mother was a human woman that died giving birth to him, perhaps even Goldanna believes this to be true, and Alistair, who neglects to mention it the entire game til after Arl Eamon is revived, is aware of his royal roots, but is completely of the belief that while his father was Maric, his mother was a human woman that died giving birth to him.
At 10 hes packed off to the Chantry and he becomes a Templar, only to come back under Duncan's wing and be made a Grey Warden...which is an odd decision on Duncan's part given his oath to look after the child, but, in a way he does look after the child, by ensuring Alistair is kept out of the worst of the fighting at Ostagar, but submitting Alistair to the taint, knowing its risks and costs, does raise a few questions.
But the simple facts are, is theres either a third heir of Maric, or Alistair is Fiona's son, and given the timing of the birth, the understanding of Maric as a man who isn't wandering around sticking his "sword" into anything with breasts and a willingness to lie down for him.....Alistair is the only reasonable option as the product of the union between Maric and Fiona.
Given the visual and behavioral age of Cailan at Ostagar, which would be potentially 22 to 25, this can only mean that Maric's death occurs somewhere within 15 to 16 years of the events in The Calling, and we can assume at least a few years have passed since his death and the opening of the Origins story line because the kingdom seems well settled and beyond Maric and acceptant of Cailan and Anora as its rulers, and there is no indication of when Maric died or how in any of the Codex information I have so it must have been a natural passing, and Loghain as of the time of Origins appears to be in his either late 40s or mid 50s age wise.
So while it is entirely possible that Maric may have fathered a third child in the time between the end of The Calling and the beginnings of Origins, I find that to be less than likely as an actual reality, since the birth of the child between him and Fiona is all too perfect to explain Alistair's royal bastard status....and surely if there was a third heir to Maric's throne, it would be a visible plot element in Origins...but Alistair is the only other known child of Maric. And it seems almost impossible to me that Duncan would have hidden Maric and Fiona's child so perfectly as to have completely forgotten about it himself up to the point of his death at Ostagar.
So, this leaves the reader/player to come to the single conclusion that the requests of Fiona at the end of The Calling were followed so perfectly that even Alistair believes Goldanna is actually his sister...when in truth she is not.
So in closing, Alistair's whole life is a lie, he's been lied to since he was old enough to understand, by Arl Eamon, by Duncan....and its only the reader/player that can make the connection and realize that heir to the throne or not, Alistair doesn't even know the whole story of his birth and no one that knows the full truth appears to be willing to shed light on it...which at the end of Origins if Alistair is made king, would be Arl Eamon, he would be the last living person to potentially know the truth...and he would stand at Alistair's side as an advisor to the throne for the rest of his life at that. To protect the secret forever?
So...again the story and the game argue with each other in my mind, but the book is winning. Alistair is the bastard son of Maric indeed, but his mother was not a servant at Redcliffe Castle, his mother was a Grey Warden Elven Mage...which makes Alistair being sent to the Chantry at 10 all the more ironic. Is it out of a potential concern by Arl Eamon that magic may be in his blood and the best place to hide it is amongst the Templars?
What a complete mindjob this is....if its true.
Modifié par SLPr0, 23 novembre 2009 - 02:07 .
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