I almost always chose to take the Dark Ritual, mostly because I am incredibly interested to see what will happen with that. I did it for purposes of plot, and because I wanted my Warden to live, even though it was very tempting to have my Warden die after Alistair breaks up with her. Have him live with the guilt...
Yes, a small part of me is evil.
My canon Warden, Saruman Amell, always did the Ritual, because 1) He romanced Morrigan, 2) Wants to live, 3) Is a little bit evil and 4) Thinks that the Old Gods are cool.
My Warden-Commander did the Dark Ritual, because 1) I was romancing Morrigan. 2) I couldn't put Alistair through that. He's to much a brother in arms.
Most wardens who romanced Alistair had him do the ritual, but one was really annoyed she had to punch him out to keep him from wasting all her hard work, and another wanted to be the hero. The most interesting reason I could think of one of my Morrigan-romancers had for doing the DR was that he just wanted one last night with Morrigan. The rest of my wardens usually did it so Alistair could rule or remain a warden. Honestly, I had one warden do it just to see Loghain in Awakenings, and another who didn't want Zev to lose anyone else. All kinds of reasons.
Redemption and warden king ending as well as stabbed Morrigan for an absolute win.
I regret having done the ritual,would not give that much power to Morrigan,so if I have the option of ending the life of the Old God Baby (which will already be a boy ) I'll do it .
My canon Warden, Saruman Amell, always did the Ritual, because 1) He romanced Morrigan, 2) Wants to live, 3) Is a little bit evil and 4) Thinks that the Old Gods are cool.
My canon warden, always refuse this ritual 1) He cannot be corrupted by love or romance 2) he can live thanks to Loghain if he want to live 3) He is a Saint among the devils and demons and the bad peoples of Ferelden 4) The Old gods deserve to die always.
My canon warden, always refuse this ritual 1) He cannot be corrupted by love or romance 2) he can live thanks to Loghain if he want to live 3) He is a Saint among the devils and demons and the bad peoples of Ferelden 4) The Old gods deserve to die always.
I liked your Warden
My male Warden romanced her and did the ritual with her. He also followed her through the Eluvian.
My female Warden romanced Alistair and persuaded him to do it with her.
It's not really metagaming. There are just as many reasons to do it as there are not to. And it's pretty insulting to say that anyone whose Warden did the DR is a clown and a coward.
No, the devs can't make the OGB a "big thing", but Gaider already said he has a more important role than a cameo. And they're not going to kill him off just to balance out the US.
I don't see it as "spitting in the faces of Duncan and Riordan". Heck, Riordan would have LIVED had he not gone kami-kaze on the archdemon.
ANYWAY, to get back on topic...I almost always do the ritual. I'm curious as to what will be done with the OGB, and whether his father will have any impact at all on him/the plot. My canon Warden did it because he loved Morrigan, my female Warden did it because she loved Alistair, and I have a Warden somewhere who made Loghain do it. The only one who didn't was this big pro-Chantry anti-any-non-Chantry-approved-magic extremist.
My canon did the dark ritual, mainly because I romanced Morrigan. I am curious to see how this will play out, but as another mentioned I am slightly regretting that decision at this early point.
In my first playthrough I did the Dark Ritual since I didn't want my Warden to die just yet and I figured, "With a name like that, this will cause some problem in a later game,". I will be a little disappointed if the OGB is more or less a good guy. In most of my other playthroughs I did the ultimate sacrifice since it reminded me of the old Greek tales where only until a person died heroically they became a hero.
I did Dark Ritual because: 1 my quasi-manwhore Rodrick Cousland would become king. 2 could have sex with Morrigan without romancing with her. Why he quasi manwhore? he romanced, banged Leliana and ditched her for Queen, banged Morrigant for Dark Ritual, spent sovereigns to Brothel, banged that elven mistress or lady in waiting in his origin, didn't bang that dalish woman, because i didn't want to screw up (pun intended) quest.
It's not really metagaming. There are just as many reasons to do it as there are not to. And it's pretty insulting to say that anyone whose Warden did the DR is a clown and a coward.
No, the devs can't make the OGB a "big thing", but Gaider already said he has a more important role than a cameo. And they're not going to kill him off just to balance out the US.
I don't see it as "spitting in the faces of Duncan and Riordan". Heck, Riordan would have LIVED had he not gone kami-kaze on the archdemon.
ANYWAY, to get back on topic...I almost always do the ritual. I'm curious as to what will be done with the OGB, and whether his father will have any impact at all on him/the plot. My canon Warden did it because he loved Morrigan, my female Warden did it because she loved Alistair, and I have a Warden somewhere who made Loghain do it. The only one who didn't was this big pro-Chantry anti-any-non-Chantry-approved-magic extremist.
Hello? we are talkiing about those monsters the old gods, the dragons of slaves andorhal, the dragons of the beauty that corrupt Urthemiel, the dragon of Chaos zazikale, if they are imprisoned is for a good reasons. And nno good hero can sacrifice the life of a child to destroy his/her souls for a serpent.
There is no chantry, no extremist, I'm not a chantry supporter, i see only an etichal choice.And by the way Morrigan's plan is very stupid, without Riordan's sacrifice (who pretty much allow the warden to be able to fight the archdemon) the dragon is able to fly away from the battle, we do not have the F-22 raptor to engage him in a flying combat,. What then? the child would be aborted because the archdemon escape thanks to his wings from the battle?
Lets see, I have five Wardens that I plan to carry on in DAI as a world state.
First four are Amell, Cousland, Tabris and Mahariel. They are all females. Some romance Alistair, others have a fling with Zevran. All of them choose to make Loghain become a Grey Warden and slay the Archdemon while Alistair marries Anora to become King.
My fifth Warden however is a male Aeducan. He did actually have a pureblood Dwarf son with the noble-hunter and made sure that his son was accepted into House Aeducan while he was in Orzammar crowning Bhelen. But he also romanced Morrigan himself, killed Loghain at the landsmeet and did the dark ritual to save himself and/or Alistair. He did pursue Morrigan in Witch Hunt and went through the Eluvian with her.
So either way it'll be interesting for me to see the differences.
Origins is also bugged to where if Loghain performs the ritual his NPC doesn't recognize this factor and after the Archdemon is slain he is completely clueless and curious as to how the **** the Warden survived, even though the ritual was performed by and explained to Loghain prior to the Archdemon's defeat.
O_o?Strange he did recognize it last time I played!
Don't know...mabye because I was friends with him or mabye it has something do with having Alistair married with Anora and having Loghain alive at same time...but he did in end said that he does know that reason why he and I live is that thing with Morrigan.I will even try to screenshot it for you.
Well here it is 
"So it appears Morrigan's ritual did as advertised."
"I can't help but wonder if the price was worth it.I shudder to think what the witch will do with any child she conceives."
So yeah he pretty much does recognize it 
Modifié par AnneLadyx3, 12 novembre 2014 - 07:01 .
My human noble Warden had already romanced Morrigan. I did the DR and although selfish for a good character such as the Warden in my game, he made it up for that by leaving his good old life as the "Hero of Ferelden" to raise the child with Morrigan and make sure he passes some of his "goodness" to him. My Warden didn't do the DR just to save himself however but also to make sure that Alistair survives as he would become the future king of Ferelden. As for Loghain, I had my Warden execute him for the things he did. Didn't seem fair to me to give him a chance after the betrayal and the many attempts of murdering me and my party.
I still think its very selfish to do the DR if you are not sending the Warden to the portal with Morrigan, and having Alistair or Loghain do it seems to me so wrong on so many levels.
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