I do think Fiona is Alistair's mother, based on The Calling and the WoT timeline correction. I agree that, if they were to meet, she probably wouldn't tell him since she didn't want him to face the stigma of being the child of an elf and a mage to begin with, and why would that change? Especially if he's King Alistair. I totally agree that the Landsmeet would throw a fit if they found out about Alistair's elf or mage blood... Remember that Connor being a mage was a serious problem for the noble Guerrin family, and to draw on DAII, the Kirkwall Amells are disgraced by having magical bloodlines, too.
Since Theirin dragon blood is a thing in the comics, I seriously wonder if that's how Fiona was cured of her darkspawn taint (babies pass blood and other cells along to their mothers while in utero). But then it doesn't make a lot of sense that Alistair could become a Grey Warden at all - and he definitely does, since he can sense darkspawn in DA:O. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that the Theirin dragon blood can only fight off darkspawn taint over time (it wasn't something that happened all at once for Fiona, either), and wouldn't immediately nullify the taint taken on during a warden recruit's Joining. If this is the case, Alistair might eventually be free of the taint himself.
In the Epilogue of The Calling, Fiona tells Maric "[The taint] is gone. The mages at Weisshaupt weren't sure if it was because the First Enchanter's brooch sped things up artificially, or... at any rate, all the corruption vanished." She also tells him that they performed test after test on her (if you were one of what must be many resentful Grey Wardens, wouldn't you want to know if a cure existed, too?), and were recalling her to Weisshaupt permanently in order to keep an eye on her. She never elaborates on the "or..." It occurs to me that she might be wondering whether Maric/being pregnant with Maric's child might have had something to do with her miraculous recovery, but this is left up to fan speculation.
It seems to me that another reason Fiona might want her son to be raised in isolation is because she doesn't want the Grey Wardens experimenting on him, too. This would be a logical progression if the Weisshaupt mages decide that Remille's brooch wasn't responsible for the increased rate of corruption and its subsequent reversal, after all. We do not know if the Grey Wardens let her go with her baby, or whether she is AWOL in order to take the baby somewhere safe. It is just possible that Duncan, a close friend of hers in The Calling, knew or believed that the effects of the Joining would not be permanent on Alistair, and that's why he didn't have a problem with putting Alistair through the Joining. It is also possible that the older, more experienced Duncan in DA:O was just doing his duty as a Grey Warden, which includes doing whatever it takes to end a Blight - even if that means poisoning your friend's son, a promising young warrior who could also be heir to a kingdom.
What this means for DA:I, if anything, remains to be seen. They might meet, they might not. But I have doubts that a King Alistair will ever learn that she was his mother, because the problem with having elf/mage blood in the Fereldan royal line remains. Other versions of Alistair might find out.
Modifié par ladyiolanthe, 18 juillet 2013 - 03:25 .
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