There is no alternative plan for the ogb, she will not sleep with Riordan as he's to tainted or any other warden and she has no alternative way of making the ogb since when you refuse the ritual Urthemeil's soul enters the warden that took the final blow via the taint and the clash destroys both souls.
Also Gaider already shot all of these down, if you refuse the ritual there is no ogb, she has no alternative of doing so, the ogb can't and won't ever become canon.
Lol and no to your second post aswell, she wasn't lying and Gaider refuted all that sorry.
David Gaider
May I put this to rest?
If the player didn't do the Dark Ritual, or didn't get Alistair or Loghain to do it, then it wasn't done.
Had Morrigan figured out some way to otherwise do it, then nobody would have died when the Archdemon was slain.
If she had some way to go about getting the Archdemon's soul without resorting to the Dark Ritual as she proposed it, then why did she go through all the trouble?
David Gaider
I'm not sure where the "but even if they refuse, the other Grey Wardens of the world may not have the same resolve..." comes from.
Speculation on the part of the article writer, perhaps? Regardless, if the player refused the Dark Ritual then it was refused.
There is no Old God Baby
David Gaider
The problem here is that people have a strange idea of what "canon" means-- almost a paranoia, really.
We have a default canon, which applies if you import nothing.
So if someone comes to DAI with no import of previous games, they get a certain set of previous decisions being presumed-- and those tend to be ones that don't promise future content.
The Warden of DAO is dead, because why would someone who's importing no save (and is possibly a brand new player) care about their Warden still being alive and involved in the plot?
There is no OGB, because why would that person care about Morrigan having a child from some game they possibly never even played?
As for things which don't involve future content, like the sex and race of the Warden, yes-- those we just decided on at some point.
So the default Warden who died was a female Dalish elf.
A default should not concern you in the slightest, however, if you intend on importing-- which I assume everyone who's hanging around on these forums a year before release likely is.
How we'll do that importing is the subject of a future reveal, it's true, but I'm uncertain why a fan would be concerned about the default settings of a version of the story they'll never use.
And if your version of the definition of canon is "it overrides my previous story", then rest assured that will not happen.
The story may not go exactly as you want/expect (as in Leliana being alive, if you killed her in DAO), but that's not the same as those previous actions being treated as if they never happened at all.
If we ever decide to move Dragon Age over to one canonical story in-between games, I'm almost positive we would give lots of advance notice to allow fans time to rend garments, burn effigies, and send cupcakes.
Until that point, just wait for news on the import feature.
David Gaider
There are some people saying on the forums that they expect the Dark Ritual to be the focus of an entire game, like "Oh, I think I should be playing the Old God baby and everything should revolve around that."
Again, with that we have to make a completely different game for the person who did the Dark Ritual or didn't do the Dark Ritual, and we can't do that.
So if you did the Dark Ritual, if and when we brought Morrigan back, you should get something extra for having done the Dark Ritual, for having imported it, and it affects your game in some important facet.
It may not be as important as some people like, but it can be important, and provided we have the time to create the content...ideally there would be unique content, as much of it as possible for these variations.
David Gaider
If Morrigan had a child, then any involvement of Morrigan in the plot would need to take that child into account.
And, yes, that would have to be more than an off-hand mention by her of having a child stowed away in some extra-dimensional cupboard.
David Gaider
Hmm. How can I put this?
The results of the Dark Ritual, if it occurred in DAO, will have more than a passing reference in DAI.
Beyond that, you shall have to wait and see
David Gaider
"While I won't discuss how the Dark Ritual decision will affect future games, I can say (and have said) that the choice won't be ignored-- it's pretty fundamental.
So Morrigan will have a son only if she either romanced a male Warden or if the Dark Ritual was performed... and in only the latter case will that son be the so-called OGB.
David Gaider
Whether how the Dark Ritual affects future games is considered sufficient is a different matter completely. Considering that some people have expressed that the existence of the OGB should be the entire plot around which such a game revolves, it's perhaps unlikely.
That kind of expectation can't be helped. Regardless, the choice will neither be ignored nor made into a footnote".
David Gaider
Loose plot threads do not constitute an entire story, short of those people who feel their personal plot thread of "I had a child with Morrigan" or "I'm ruling Ferelden at Alistair's side" should be the basis for an entire game, regardless of whatever anyone else did
David Gaider
If you mean the so-called "Old God Baby" will exist, regardless of whether the player took the Dark Ritual decision in DAO or not-- I can categorically say that this assumption is incorrec
As you can now see those are all from Gaider, there seems to be a limited amount of quotes you can have in your posts anyway here's a link where some quotes from Gaider I posted previously.
http://social.biowar...2817/4#17551213
The ogb isn't going to be all that important and his position as a main character rests solely on the timeline which is 10-11 years and if you choose to do the ritual, the other child will be factored in but he won't have much of a role either.
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