Yeah, the audible lines might have been rearranged, but it's from a scene which was cut from development. As it stands, while it isn't the final product, it does give us an insight into what motivations the writers considered canonical for Morrigan.
rapscallioness wrote...
Morrigan is all about self-preservation. Her own survival. I don't think she was scared, tho. I think she just didn't give a damn. She wanted this OGB--for reasons we are not privy to in any way, or shape. When she didn't get that, she left. We have no idea if it was for some benevolent reason,or not.
Her actions up until that point show a character that really doesn't care abt others. She is rather ruthless. Like w/her encouraging you to keep the Anvil and use it for yourself.
You have no idea what the bigger pic is, or for that matter if Morrigan is looking at the bigger pic.
I don't think Morrigan would have deserted before then because she was waiting to approach the Warden abt the DR. And I have no info that tells me that she wants to do this DR simply to try and save the Warden's life.
Saying for all we know--she could be sending mystical from afar--is speculative in the extreme. For all we know..maybe she wasn't.
What we know is that she left right before the final battle if you did not do the DR.
Removed material from the final product doesn't count.
Honestly, I luv her ruthless nature. But she is ruthless and only cares abt herself. That's how she comes across when you only befriend her. Idk what the romance was like.
I wouldn't change her for anything, but don't paint her as all sweetness and light and self sacrificing. And we simply do not have enuf info to accurately judge what it is she is doing vs. what it is she wants vs what it is she feels she has to do.
You're confusing ruthlessness with selfishness. Morrigan makes it clear that she prioritises herself above all others, but is
very honest about the reasons why. That's simply her upbringing. She isn't being deceptive. She lays things out and says this is the way things are and respects your character's right to choose as you see fit. Likewise, she won't necessarily approve of your decisions, but, again, is honest about why.
Nobody's saying Morrigan is selfless. I was just pointing out that there's very little about her actions which, seen through a prism of pragmatism-at-all-costs, isn't at least marginally understandable. The journey her character goes through, in the events of the story (assuming your character treated her relatively well and gave her some character-specific gifts), is to
learn compassion, which was clearly eroded away at a very early age, to the extent where she actively avoided it, seeing it only as a weakness just leads distraction.
Nevertheless, she is also very clear that, "What I want... Is unimportant." She doesn't ditch you because of self-preservation. Nor is it a sudden hissy-fit. She makes it clear that what she asks is of paramount importance and it becomes very obvious that she considers it incredibly important - world-changing, even.
The only time she really speaks of personal desires is in regards to wanting to experience life outside of her home environment. She's ruthless, absolutely - but so can every character be. Lelliana is ruthless about not letting you taint the ashes, for instance. When it's something a character considers oif absolute importance, above and beyond themselves, that's how they react.
The ritual just happens to be Morrigan's trigger, that's all. Except that, instead of seeing it as something to kill you over, she simply departs -
exactly as she told you she would.
Moreover, keep in mind that her mission was
not to face the archdemon. She actually makes this clear early on, through a specific dialogue exchange (I think when the Redcliffe castle child possession is being discussed), that she is there solely to assist to a very specific extent and that things like teaching her mother's abilities
may be considered a part of that jurisdiciton, but only if she personally deams it so. And she's quite right... Your character's getting on perfectly well without those massively advanced skills - which Morrigan, justifiably, could suspect might be used against her. She doesn't give others an advantage over herself if she can help it, not because she's 'evil', but simply because it's been repeatedly rammed home into her, from an early age, as a lesson. She even openly calls herself foolish for the honest mistake of simply not realising Flemeth wanted to possess her! Anyone else would simply say they couldn't see it coming, but Morrigan castigates herself for this quite harshly... To me, that speaks a lot as to her personality, since it emphasises how most of her annoyance with others is because she
does treat most people as she'd treat herself... She can't imagine herself labouring under the templars and chantry and, thus, perceives the Circle as unworthy of assistance. Your character points out to her that she could've been in the same situation? She just says she'd commit suicide!
So, in my view, a lot of that animosity is there because she doesn't have much in the way of empathy. She can't
understand why someone's let themselves endure certain things, so, she dismisses them as not being worth her time - or only worth her time as a source of passing amusement. It isn't spite for spite's sake. It's just Morrigan not comprehending the world in the same way others do (which is heavily reflected in some of her DLC's dialogue responses).
Again, if her reasons for leaving were purely about cowardice and fear of dying, she would have left earlier. she had countless opportunities to do so, but didn't. It's
all about the ritual and she's very honest about it being to do with something beyond just her personal desires.
That it happens to coincide with staying alive isn't something she should be faulted for.
Maybe the third game will prove me wrong and she'll be retconned into a pantomime villain, mwah-hah-hah-ing as she eats her own child's heart and extends her life a thousand years and sets fire to all and sundry. But if those were her intentions, she'd have likely gone down the route of dealing with demons, heavy use of blood magic and living in the Tervinter Imperium. That's what everyone else with that mentality seems to do and there's nothing stopping her.
But personally, given what we've seen of her actions, I suspect things are a lot more complex than that. If this is where Bioware decides to go, it would hugely devalue the character into a superficial cartoon of why she did what she did. Morrigan's more the type to understand that ruling the world is more trouble than it's worth, even if she could do (and happens to feel that if a tyranny was overthrown, judging by her comments on the dwarven mission, it would be a largely good thing). She may be fully signed up to the survival-of-the-fittest philosophy, but that doesn't mean she's vindictive to the exclusion of common sense.
Using the anvil? Pragmatism. Just with an absence of compassion. One of my
own wardens chose that, too, simply because they saw the blight as something world-ending, against which any advantage needed to be taken. It may not be a philosophy everyone agrees with (and most of my others didn't; but even then, it was more about engaging loyalties than altruistic reasons), but that doesn't make it selfish or evil.
Same applies to Morrigan's (and Shale's) approval of wanting to contaminate the ashes. It's not because they care one way or another. It's because they think indulging fanciful legends over a practical advantage against dawkspwawn, here and now, is a stupid idea.
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