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[Maverick_One]

In Origins I thought Tarleton Howe was Rendon's father, but in Awakenings the one Nathaniel mentions is not Tarleton Howe when he was talking about how his grandfather joined the Grey Wardens.

[DracoAngel]

Yea, I don't understand it either.

 

Nathaniel mentions his grandfather is Byron Howe. But in the novel The Stolen Throne Byron was apart of the Rebel Force and supposedly was killed during the Orlesian Occupation.

 

From the Howe wiki:

 

"During the Orlesian occupation of Ferelden, Rendon's father, Tarleton Howe sided with the occupiers and was hanged by the Couslands after they captured Harper's Ford. His uncle Byron became the new Arl of Amaranthine who joined the rebel cause in 8:97 Blessed. Like his uncle, Rendon Howe also joined the rebellion led by the future king, Maric Theirin"

 

So... I'm a bit baffled as well

[Hydwn]

I think the canon was still kind of fluid during the first two novels, and they hadn't quite figured it out, yet.  Like how Antiva is called "Calabria," and how the time frame of The Calling doesn't make a huge lot of sense.

 

(That last one led to the infamous error in World of Thedas, which suggested that Alistair had been conceived two years after he was born.  Alistair's time-travel powers were never explained.  They changed the dates in an errata )

 

That said, Katriel was the one who tells us Byron Howe was dead, and it doesn't sound like she actually saw the event.  At that point, she's an unreliable witness, as she's carrying that message as an operative for the enemy.  Maybe they thought Byron Howe's death would be a blow to morale?  Maybe Byron Howe escaped, crossed the Waking Sea, and joined up with the Wardens?  

[Han Shot First]

Where the books or other outside sources differ with the games, I'd rank the games as a higher level of canon. 

[theskymoves]

Maybe Nathaniel Howe's parents were cousins. 

[Malfrun]

Maybe Nathaniel Howe's parents were cousins. 

 

that would explain a lot.

[Hydwn]

Where the books or other outside sources differ with the games, I'd rank the games as a higher level of canon. 

 

I would too, but the devs have made a valiant effort to reconcile them, or explain what they think is the canon version, and where they've commented I tend to go by that.

 

Besides I can think of at least one thing between the novels and the games where I take the novel as canon (spoilers for The Calling and DAO follow):

 

Spoiler

If we restrict ourselves to game-only canon in the event of a conflict, then Alistair's mother is indeed just a serving girl at Redcliffe Castle.  Everyone says that and no one disputes it.  It's only in the books that anyone mentions the possibility of Fiona as his mother, and we know the writers consider that to be the case.

[Merle McClure II]

And I personally preferred Alistair's backstory before it got beat to a pulp by the retcon stick, and unless it's spelled out IN-GAME at some point in the future I'll happily ignore it. -- I mean seriously, what purpose did changing Alistair's mother from a serving girl to a Grey Warden actually serve in story terms?