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Was Alistair officially confirmed to be a child of an elf?
It's heavily implied, but not outright stated. Alistair claims his mother was a serving girl at Redcliffe that died giving birth to him, but we do know that Maric and the elven mage warden Fiona had a child together. Fiona explicitly asks Maric to tell the child his mother is both human and dead, and she asks Duncan to watch over him. So that means one of two things: Marric had more than one bastard child (possible) and Duncan is either watching over both and we haven't met the other (somewhat unlikely) or broke his promise to Fiona and ignored her child (unlikely). The law of conservation of detail pretty much pins Alistair as Fiona's son.
In that case, who the heck is Goldana?
Here's the deal. Alistair's birth is a "big" enough thing, being the son of a king, to warrant a national conspiracy. Now, Goldanna corroborates Alistair's belief that his mother died in childbirth, but you should understand that in a medieval-like society, death by childbirth isn't at all uncommon. If you kill Connor, Isolde bears Eamon another child but dies giving birth to it, so even the upper class aren't immune to it. Furthermore, Goldanna states that
she thought that "the babe was dead", implying that she may have even seen her mother give birth or at least known of it, but did not grow up with Alistair.
As such, I think Alistair being from the same mother as Goldanna was a cover story crafted by Eamon and his associates. There was a serving girl in Redcliffe who was pregnant around the same time as Fiona, and both she and her baby died during childbirth. They paid Goldanna to keep her mouth shut and told Alistair his mother died, and no one's the wiser.
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