@ Leg Lamp:
Hear, hear! (or is it here, here? I can never remember)
I totally agree with you. I SO wanted to do the romance option with Alistair, but just could not follow through.
A few other points:
1. You don't have to sleep with Alistair to find out about the fact Grey Wardens have trouble having kids together. I didn't sleep with him, thinking that I'd probably have to marry him off to Anora. After you cure Arl Eamon, you can still talk to him about where the relationship is going and get that info. (Which is nice - seriously, Al, you're going to tell me AFTER the sleeping together we can't have kids. Maybe it doesn't matter to some people, but still.)
2. Mistress = (oh hey? that word got censored. hmm - edit - my bad). Seriously, I did not fight the blight, save the kingdom, and all else just to be the other woman. Mebbe this is coming from my human noble origin, but NO THANK YOU. This is a self-respect thing - or an avatar respect thing. Not happening. *shudder*
3. If you have married a hardened Alistair off to Anora, as Leg Lamp says, you get a friggin GOLDEN AGE! This is a good thing. You can save everyone - except Loghain, and in a way you do "save" him - and Alistair isn't even all that mad at you. He says you did what you had to. Thanks buddy - thanks for noticing finally.
4. Has anyone mentioned that letting Loghain live is not only a way to stay alive, but the PERFECT way to fully end his accusations against the Grey Wardens? He slandered you all - now he's one of you. Even his supporters can't stand against you now. By marrying Al to Anora and making Loghain a grey warden, you effectively get EVERYONE under the same banner (if Al is hardened, that is). This was my reasoning.
5. The REAL question here is - I think - are you going to do what Alistair wants (or thinks he wants - the man is so changeable) or are you going to do what's best for everyone? Yes, Alistair will be lonely (sort of, I think he and Anora will be okay). Sure, he'll be hurt by you, yes, he'll be a little bitter. But you know what? People were dying everywhere - the kingdom was in turmoil! Crappy stuff happened all over the place and for me to try and make Alistair happy out of all of the kingdom seems not only selfish and silly, but just plain wrong.
Yeah, if you push forward Leg LAmp's game ending mentioned here, Alistair complains that you are acting like "you're the only one who can set things right" or something like that - But he's just trying to have his Grey Warden cake and eat it too. The guy is not thinking straight. I hate to say it, but it's true. It makes him a totally believable character, but a lousy one to be making the decisions. Alistair wants the fem PC AND not to sleep with Morrigan AND for Loghain to die at the Landsmeet AND to not be king AND for Anora not to be queen AND for all the grey wardens to come back from the dead and do the happy dance with oghren. These are not all possible. And yet his insistence on having them - to the exclusion of any ending except for sacrificing himself, is ridiculous.
So sorry Al, we're doing this the easy way and making Loghain a grey warden.
Modifié par sagequeen, 15 décembre 2009 - 06:52 .