I like the idea of BW using their canon Warden. It would alleviate all of these threads, but the rage would be internet shattering, since BW's canon Warden is a DE female, who died defeating the Archdemon. It comes full circle to my idea that BW wrote themselves into a corner by adding the DR, a choice they probably thought would be a lot more popular than it was, thereby allowing a "one off" protagonist to stick around. Not to mention the "scandal" of the OGB. Raise your hand if you recall all the threads about how the Inquisitor was the OGB. *raises hand* Raise your hand if you remember Word of God striking down that absurd theory. *Raises hand*
"But we just want the Warden to get the recognition he/she deserves". They did, in Origins/Awakening. My not so canon Warden was a jewel, as far as the wardens were concerned, since I let Amaranthine burn to save the Keep. It's not like the Nobles were any different from Howe, and didn't "deserve" their fate by trying to undermine what I was assigned to do, rebuild the Wardens in Ferelden. Holy crap, that means, as far as Amaranthine is concerned, that I'm no better than Anders in DA2, right? I'd say that any survivors of that debacle would be pretty anti-HoF, if not anti-Warden. After all, they were sacrificed to save the Warden Stronghold.
See what I did there? I used my canon story to write the history of the 5th blight. The Warden doesn't come out a hero, as far as Amaranthine is concerned. Oddly enough, my canon Warden was pretty close to BW's. A F DE, who romanced Alistair, but was dumped by him for being surprised to learn that he was heir to the throne. The end result was that, since a Shem is a Shem, and betrayal is betrayal, she allowed Loghain to live, and banished Alistair. She told Morrigan to take a long walk on a short pier for the DR, and died ending the blight. Events in Awakening were perpetrated by the Orlesian Warden. But Rob, why is this your canon ending? Because it was the most satisfying of all my playthroughs. If you check, you'll see that I have all of the achievements for DA O. I have played every possible scenario, and this one was the most satisfying of all of them.
Could I have really played all of those scenarios out if I "hated" the Warden? It's too bad I lost my HDD in the period between Origins and now, because all of those save games would be available, and I could have some, presumably, wild variations on the theme, but in the end, my canon Warden sacrificed everything for Thedas, including her life. That was the best playthrough of all of them. Is it any wonder that I can let her go? She shined out in the ultimate definition of hero. She wrote the book on self sacrifice to save others. That's why that's my canon ending, that's why I don't want to see BW forced to write the Warden in for some fan service. Because the reality is, that's all it would be, fan service. While not a bad thing, for my canon game, and let's all be realistic here, that's what the motivation is, everyone clamoring for the Warden is doing so for their own benefit, it breaks it. They have to spend all that time and money trying to work it out so that they offend the least number of people possible, for something that I may never see, and I'm not alone in the US, or in telling Morrigan to take a long walk on a short pier for the DR, so I'm not the only one that may never see it. In the end, the star of the show is Thedas, and that's what we've been told, time and again, since the inception of the IP.
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