Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...
It's explained, but the explanation makes no sense unless Marethari was unaware it could come back to life, since she was the one who said it was threatening the clan. She sent Hawke to kill it and presumably expected it would stay dead.
Merrill's explanation just felt like a convenient way to explain the re-use of a boss fight, at least to me.
Marethari's not exactly a smart person. She's, frankly, an idiot after Merrill leaves the clan of her own accord.
But also take into account that after it threatened her clan and was slain, no one in the clan would go to it and try to bring it back to life. I think Zevran going there and bringing it back to life to guard him was something she didn't expect. So it wouldn't be that she didn't know it could be brought back to life, but that she didn't think anyone
would bring it back to life because at the time we slay it, the only people who know about it are Hawke, his friends, and the clan.
And the only people who might know the "It'll guard us if we give it reason to, no matter what" schtick is the clan, who suffered the deaths of four people due to it -- so they're not going to be eager to test out that theory.
Like I said, it seems likely that either A) Marethari's an idiot,
she maybe didn't know, as you said, or the most likely possibility C) Zevran was a wild card that caused it to be brought back to life.
Face of Evil wrote...
I actually took it that he was in the city for other reasons than a lecture by Meredith.
I think what Bioware was going for was him establishing a political alliance between at the very least Kirkwall and at most the Free Marches, like Maric attempted to do before him -- what with the looming threat of an Orlesian invasion.
Which makes sense, given that Kirkwall and Ferelden both share a common enemy: Orlais. And he wanted to see Hawke, a native Fereldan and Champion of the city. Hawke could then apply his influence -- which isn't really shown properly if you want to have a political story, but anyway... -- to sway Kirkwall over to Ferelden's aid.
Like I said though, this isn't
properly conveyed, but I think it's what they were going for.
Add in the possibility of Starkhaven assisting Kirkwall would then be assisting Ferelden and you get a good thing.
I also imagine Alistair might've tried to get Nevarra on his side, because they too share Orlais as an enemy. But that's not really implied anywhere as being on his agenda.
XCelfa wrote...
Well, possibly because he was a Grey Warden.
The Wardens became very politically involved during the Blight and the Thaw. So much so that the First Warden in Weisshaupt is arguing for them to become such elsewhere and hoping that the Arling of Amaranthine serves as an example as to why the Wardens need to be involved in politics.
That isn't to say it doesn't ruffle the jimmies of the Chantry, the populus, and perhaps even some individual Wardens. It does. Hell, someone is moving against the Wardens as we learn in Act 1's Avernus sidequest. Still, there are reasons for saying why Alistair should and shouldn't have joined in.
Though he did, to an extent. He and his group had to kill whatever Qunari were attacking them. That we only see them fighting about a dozen or so with Hawke's aid doesn't mean more weren't killed elsewhere by his group's hand.
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