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Well it works, I always felt sorta selfish. The fandom picks right up on that btw, I guess that's why the Cousland Origin has such a bad reputation. I wonder if the same people think it's selfish when the male Cousland puts himself on the throne marries Anora...propably not.
But is it selfish? I never see it that way for many reasons. Here is the way I see it:
1) putting alistair on the throne is not what he wants. He was tossed away as the bastard and neglected by everyone until eamon wants to grab for power by keeping it in the bloodlines. Keep in mind that eamon was the jerk who let that evil isolade manipulate him into tossing alistair aside. But now that it suits his needs, alistair must do his duty? But what duty is that when anora had been running the country because Cailan was not really ruler material himself? This is really all about Eamon. Don't kid yourself on that. Alistair even says if you tell him you are supporting anora and you want to run off with him that eamon would have a fit or something like that. So this never had anything to do with the country which was running fine for five years with anora doing with while cailan played at being king. It is about Eamon and his blood line BS and now that Alistair has use he expects alistair to do what he wants.
2) Alistair not only doesn't want to be king but he is not king material. Sure, they toss a few comments in there like he is compassionate and blah blah blah, but this doesn't dismiss that he didn't even want to lead in all the work we just did. He wanted to follow. He was happy to follow. Then at times he would get pissed at me for choices I made that he even seems to support at the time. Nevermind that he has been wholly shielded from the world living in the chantry. He's naive and too much of a good boy to make hard decisions and if you don't kill loghain he will even abandon his duty as a grey warden over it and risk letting a blight destroy everything. This is not kingly material. This is a man who would never really make a good king no matter how they try to sell it. They might toss in this hardening BS but it doesn't magically make him a leader, it just makes him cynical of anora. I finally realized that was the end goal of hardening. He only will want to throne because now he thinks anora is out for herself, which may be true to a degree, but she's been ruling for 5 years while Cailan played king.
3) Anora has been ruling so removing her from the throne would actually cause more chaos which she addresses though some might see that as a manipulation the fact is that it is actually true. In the middle of a blight, having a bastard son who knows nothing of being a king and happens to be a grey warden put on the throne in large part by the grey wardens just smacks of political maneuvering and would likely in reality (but this is not treated this way in the game because of game machinations) cause a civil war worse than what was supposedly taking place. Nobody knows him. He was put there by the grey wardens and he was a grey warden. The beloved queen (and she is beloved according to the game) is removed from the throne and will likely be killed if he is hardened. That shows making him king to be more selfish than letting her continue.
4) IF you are going to marry them then it's just another manipulation only now they are two chess pieces. It disregards that they would prefer to not marry. It's just straight out political maneuvering that doesn't even take into consideration what anyone would want. It is so heavy handed that it could abruptly end any romance you have with alistair which makes sense. I mean, really you are now having him marry the daughter of the man who he feels killed his father figure, Duncan - the daughter of the man who sent assassins after you. The daughter that he doesn't trust if he is hardened.
Yeah, I never feel like I'm being selfish. I feel like I'm the one who sees all the political maneuvering for what it is and hears what people's real motivations are despite how they justify it. Everyone really is out for themselves when you get to the landsmeet, and so you have to look at the motivations of everyone and see what makes sense the most. What I am certain of is that given that Alistair doesn't want to be king and didn't even want to lead as we gathered our armies and those two things alone say he should never be on the throne. What I am certain of is that Eamon has his own agenda and expects Alistair to bow to it even when he was horrible to him once Isolade, that ****** who didn't care that she just caused so much death in redcliffe for her own screwy reasons, demanded Alistair be gone because she was a jealous and paranoid shrew who could not see alistair was just an innocent child. Eamon's argument loses weight on that point alone. If he was so concerned about bloodlines, perhaps he should have considered that bastard or not, Alistair was still royal bloodline and should be protected rather than discarded so he could screw that shrew.
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