Happy Birthday, Curious!

I rivaled her, and she got angry when I chose not to help her, or even when I talk down on blood magic. She believed Audacity was going to help her and she wouldn't lose anything. It took Merethari dying, because she went after the demon herself, for Merrill to realize that the demon was merely using her.
Merrill does want to take responsibility for making a deal with the demon - no one else in her clan thought it was worth it, least of all her own mentor. Restoring history is what the Dalish are all about, but it seems like after the incident involving Mahariel, the clan was more interested in surviving rather than preserving and searching for history. I personally never held a candle to such an endeavor, but the light in that clan seems to have been snuffed out - and for understandable reasons.
But Marethari put the clan in danger by remaining near Kirkwall because she was much more concerned about Merrill. Marethari did not want to lose anyone else, so she put everyone else in a bad position. Not only that, but Marethari allowed a demon to possess her and then she went back to the clan to wait for Merrill to return. Merrill is her own person, she left her clan because everyone was hostile towards her, no one would help her; she also left because she possibly knew her work would lead to possession and she did not want to endanger her clan...like the Keeper did.
Merrill was thinking about the Dalish, Marethari was thinking about Merrill. Marethari had the audacity to take away Merrill's responsibility.
Those are my thoughts on it, anyway. It took me a long time to come to that conclusion. I still don't necessarily agree with Merrill, but Marethari did worse in my eyes.
Oh, almost forgot!
Inquisitor Question Time
A lighter question this time! Everyone has certain tasks, studies, family unions, things they find tedious and boring. What completely kills your Inquisitor's enthusiasm (that has nothing to do with fighting undead and listening to over-dramatic villains with a God Complex)?
If you ask Anais to clean up her "unorganized" papers and books, she will groan and give you the "do I have to?" look. There is a sense to her chaos, and she likes it that way; if she cleans it up she won't know where anything is. So, not only is it tedious to her, but also anxiety-inducing. XD
Another task she finds tedious is gathering ingredients for potions and such. She would ask her men to gather it for her more often if they weren't busy doing something more important. Plants bore her to tears.