Oh wow, my Warden was definitely willing to offer any help she could provide and tried to let her know that she could always count on her when she needs her, but she never offered to go through the Eluvian with her. Too much risk there, no way she'd do that with Leliana out there waiting for her. Kinda sad thinking that's probably the last time they're ever going to see each other.
The Warden friendship moments in Witch Hunt were pretty feelsy, though.
W: "I didn't come here to fight you."
M: *some expression between conflict and sadness* "I...did not think that you had."
Aww.
Where was Leliana during Witch Hunt anyway? I always wondered what her thoughts were on my Warden's sort of unlikely bond with Morrigan.
All Morrigan ever wanted was to be loved. That's why she became so protective of Kieran. He loves her like only a child can love his mother and it changed her radically.
I can imagine the moment her inner walls crumbled to dust: when Kieran smiled at her for the first time. There is something about a baby's smile that just gets you right in the feels. And then as he grew the stories he would tell her of things he saw, people he met and things he did that day. That childlike wonder would have gone straight to her heart since she never got a chance to enjoy it herself.
Morrigan and Leliana are both dreamers who wanted to love and be loved, but were denied true affection by women who manipulated them for their own ends. Interestingly Morrigan gets to confront Flemeth directly and we see Flemeth try to make it right by her at the end even if she doesn't tell her the whole truth. Leliana never had that. Marjolaine was wholly unrepentant while Justinia never apologized to her face. It was through hidden messages and a post mortem confession relayed by a spirit to the Inquisitor and then to Leliana.
Oddly appropriate when we think how direct Morrigan is while still concealing some information (like the fact that she can read Elven), whereas Leliana is more subtle and indirect. Morrigan also bares her heart in that scene with Flemeth and Kieran while Leliana keeps her back turned when she asks about what Justinia said in the Fade.
SYMBOLISM!! *ahem*
They really did branch off into two wildly different paths, didn't they. The role reversal between Leliana and Morrigan has always been one of the more interesting things in this game. Another good parallel is that Morrigan could have become a mother, while Leliana might as well have just lost her's.
And strangely, them more or less switching places seems to have caused the two of them to get along better than they ever had. I guess they both see things from one another's side now, somewhat. They're still two very different people with two very different lives behind them, but I reckon they can both find common ground now on the basis of having come a long way since they last spoke.
I like to think there was some off-screen scene that really should have been an on-screen scene where Leliana and Morrigan take a stroll through the garden, reminiscing about the old days, the past ten years, their mutual friend in the Warden, Kieran, so on.
Ah, Leliana and Morrigan. Such delightful bundles of character development they have been.
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The Witch Hunt feels were so much better with high friendship. It's a pity you couldn't flag high friendships from Origins in the Keep, so it could be represented in dialogue with whichever character wasn't romanced. You could in a sense with Varric for DA2...
Also my Stolen Throne is very rusty, but didn't Yavana sort of explain this - something about misunderstanding the Grimoire's text? 
Seriously though, I think the only way it's in any way conscionable for me is if you have Alistair as a Warden. God, that would have been horrible!! Though mind you, I barely recognised DA:I Alistair, so I probably could have convinced myself it wasn't him. 
