hawkman96j wrote...
This is true, however when I say lost I mean it in every sense of the word. I mean after 10 years
Seven.
of hearing hawke and company's humour and mannerisms, after spending all this time with them, she can hardly carry on a conversation without getting confused.
Not true. At first, because she's inexperienced around human society, she is confused by their mannerisms. But I believe that during the later years -- Act 2 and Act 3 -- that she actually is very humorous herself, but it often goes unnoticed. Either because the companions still see her as her Act 1 self or, for the players, the voice might throw them off.
And she can carry on a conversation without getting confused. Look at how she responds to Anders' (near) murder of Ella.
And also after seeing all of the damage that careless blood magic can do time and time again, she continues to use it without really grasping the damage it can do.
She does grasp it. She remarks that summoning Demons into corpses is ghastly, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. When you bring her on Fenris' Act 2 quest, she similarly remarks that using anyone as a go-to gas station for magical fuel is also ghastly.
She knows how it can be abused. She knows the dangers associated with it. She finds all the methods of abuse to be abhorrent and abstains from using them over the course of the entire time we know her.
And though the Chantry likes to preach blood magic leads to more cases of abominations, there's no actual evidence of this. Not a direct case, at any rate. Blood Magic is tied to the physical realm and not the Fade. The best argument one could make -- and it's my belief as well -- is that blood magic leads to Mages becoming
overconfident and arrogant and thus are more prone to letting their guard down, which leads to possession.
But that's not the same thing. That's an indirect correlation which blood magic is not necessary for. And Merrill is not overly prideful by Act 3. Arguably, one could say she is in Act 2. But in the Fade quest for Feynriel, she and all the other companions were mind-controlled by the Demons -- a power Desire Demons and Pride Demons share, but are hesitant to use because they deem it "crude".
They'll only use it as a last resort when their manipulations fail them. And even so, that requires them to be in the Fade and not sundered from it while also being trapped in a Demonic Buddha statue. The Fade is the source of that power. Removing them from the Fade and sundering them from it -- and trapping them -- renders their power as being incredibly weak, wherein they can only employ subtle manipulations, illusions, and other minor things that don't pose an immediate threat.
And even after seeing the damage it can do (killing the keeper and her entire clan) it appears to me that she still won't give it up, or at least take a serious look at what she is doing with her life.
Merrill did not kill Marethari. Marethari condemned herself by choosing to become an Abomination. Saying that Merrill is responsible is flawed logic, because it attempts to nullify all responsibility people bear for their own actions. Furthermore, employing such logic also means that you could just blame it on the Warden for discovering the thing in the first place.
It's flawed logic. Marethari chose to become an Abomination because of what she speculated the Eluvian would do, when in the past she's said she never wanted to research them in the first place -- more then likely she came to that conclusion by Audacity's manipulations.
The clan similarly chooses to attack Hawke and company if Hawke tells them the truth, because by Act 3 they are not trying to think rationally. They just want a scapegoat for all the troubles they've suffered and think that Merrill's the perfect one, due in large part to the slanderous lies Marethari spread about Merrill which furthered the rift between Clan and Ex-First.
They think she's to blame for their troubles. She's not. Marethari kept them on that mountain for years, when logic dictates that she should've moved on as staying in one place just invites trouble for the Dalish from neighboring settlements.
Merrill is blameless.
Modifié par The Ethereal Writer Redux, 10 février 2013 - 05:41 .
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