So as I understand it the OGB will only be addressed in DAI if you did the dark ritual. Which leads to the question of how bioware will handle the alternative to there not being an OGB in the storyline. Will it be a noticable part that effects the game, or just a minor cameo easter egg, or conversation tidbit that can or cannot be mention. Either way, it will be interesting to see how they handle this.
I have to say that I'm kind of surprised that the OGB was not canon on whether you did the ritual or not. The moment when you find out that you or any other Grey Warden would die upon killing the arch-demon, and with Morrigan revealing her true intentions and her offer, was the classic twist in a story just before the climax. For such a momentous revelation and important part of the story development, I just wouldn't expect a major plot point to be dismissed so easily with the decision by the player. I just wouldn't have thought that her "saving something so noble", as she put it, would have been abandoned so easily from the dismissal by the Warden. Because of all the characters, Morrigan's seemed beyond the normal character developement of the others in that her character had a bigger purpose, as if she had her own agenda to accomplish and only had need for the Warden so far.
The OGB, to me, was such an awesome twist to the story that I figured would be brought forward through the series one way or another. Especially with Morrigan's sly smile that appears on her face when she leaves after the Warden has turned her down for the Dark Ritual. That was the "oh, oh! She's up to something" moment. Why would the writers have her do that at such a point? To me, the use of such a common troupe such a sly smile, is to tell the audience something is going to be done by that character, to be found out at a later part of the story. Slept with Ridoran? I don't know. She didn't say it was impossible for the ritual to succeed with him, just harder. And what if the saving of the Grey Warden's soul wasn't really part of the saving of the Old God' soul? What if she was just offering it to the Warden out of compassion, or to sweeten the deal to persuade the Warden to agree? Through conversations with her, she has admitted that she would lie to get what she wants. And she accused the Dog of manipulating people to get what he wants, and stated she does it too. So why couldn't she have been lying to the Warden to get what she wants.
So anyway, I hope that Morrigan's alternative plan concerning the OGB will be reveled in the next game, and not hand waved over by ignoring it or saying, "You didn't see any sly smile from Morrigan, and these aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along."
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