So I just got to the end of the quest and Kept the wardens *im sure cassandra hates my guts now*
im curious of how many people chose this option or banished them and their reasons for doing so.
(also if you have beaten the game feel free to tell me if this will kick my a55 later)
My elf grew up on the stories of the wardens, how they were one of the few organizations that branched the divide between the races and how that was to be respected. Ergo, she decided to keep them on to prove their worth again. That, and the idea of banishing them from Orlais repulsed her. Her thinking was that that sort of thing would be rather unhelpful if a Blight started there - for as much as she dislikes Orlais she wouldn't destroy a country to kill the nobles.
I just beat the game and kept the Wardens. As of right now, we are unsure of what ramifications will come of it.
I chose to spare them because it wasn't completely their fault. And there is a part of me that commends them for trying to end Blights permanently. I just wish they had gone about it differently. They were misguided and deceived, and I believed that they could atone. But I cannot fully fault them. It's the same reason The Warden for this story had spared The Architect in the hopes that it will eventually lead to something better for the world.
I banished them. I don't blame the wardens totally for trying to create a demon army and preemptively dig up and kill the old gods (though who knows, maybe just a warden is enough to turn a sleeping old god into an archdemon, they do after all carry the blight).
But this is the second time the wardens were manipulated by Cor. The first time in getting freed and now this mess that got a lot of good soldiers killed and valuable time and resources wasted. Some were convinced at the last minute to help, and blackwall has been a big help, but the Wardens are too much of a danger against this particular enemy.
I'll admit, I am sad to see the order fall into disgrace, and I sacrificed Strad to escape the fade. So the wardens are leaderless and living in exile. Thats gotta sting to be bond to a decimated disgraced aimless organization. I am curious to see if King Alistar has anything to say about the banishment later on.
To be fair I don't think you will be hurt for keeping the wardens. Most of the time if Bioware offers a secure choice and a risky but well intentioned choice, the well intentioned choice wins out while the secure choice just makes you a jerk and everyone else asking what if.
But I think from a logical standpoint, as a leader and military commander, if you had to raise an army to fight something released by mind controlled wardens and then lay siege to a fortress filled with mindcontrolled wardens, you would be pretty cautious of wardens too.
I banished them. I don't blame the wardens totally for trying to create a demon army and preemptively dig up and kill the old gods (though who knows, maybe just a warden is enough to turn a sleeping old god into an archdemon, they do after all carry the blight).
But this is the second time the wardens were manipulated by Cor. The first time in getting freed and now this mess that got a lot of good soldiers killed and valuable time and resources wasted. Some were convinced at the last minute to help, and blackwall has been a big help, but the Wardens are too much of a danger against this particular enemy.
I'll admit, I am sad to see the order fall into disgrace, and I sacrificed Strad to escape the fade. So the wardens are leaderless and living in exile. Thats gotta sting to be bond to a decimated disgraced aimless organization. I am curious to see if King Alistar has anything to say about the banishment later on.
To be fair I don't think you will be hurt for keeping the wardens. Most of the time if Bioware offers a secure choice and a risky but well intentioned choice, the well intentioned choice wins out while the secure choice just makes you a jerk and everyone else asking what if.
But I think from a logical standpoint, as a leader and military commander, if you had to raise an army to fight something released by mind controlled wardens and then lay siege to a fortress filled with mindcontrolled wardens, you would be pretty cautious of wardens too.
Yeah I can see your point I just felt I would give them a chance to prove there worth again for Stroud(?). And if I blight started again we would kind of be screwed with out them.
Well being banished temporarily during the war dosn't destroy the order. They are reduced and disgraced, but still around and hopefully capable of rebuilding. Plus blights usually happen every couple of centuries so there is time. As long as a few survive they can keep going and if a blight ever does occur their recruitment skyrockets anyway.
Also the fifth blight was not that long ago, so the wardens do have some recent living memory of glory going for them. Which will help.
I banished them but probably not for the reasons most people did. My choice was agonizing. Let Hawke die or let Alistair, my elf warden's(who is confirmed alive and researching the taint) lover. There was NO WAY I was going to let Alistair die. So... I made the choice. But then I got to thinking. If the game made me do that, is it going to keep trying to kill Alistair? So I banished the Wardens. I didn't want the possibility of Alistair becoming controlled and having to cut him down. I have no idea if that can happen but at the time of the choice I was really upset and it seemed like the game was going to keep trying to kill him off to me.
I'm bad at choices. 
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After seeing everything that went on as well as the sacrifice...I'd execute every Warden involved if I had the choice 
After seeing everything that went on as well as the sacrifice...I'd execute every Warden involved if I had the choice
To be honest grey wardens have always been pragmatic to a fault. They will use any tool available to them to kill darkspawn. This is not the first time that has included blood magic. The hero of feralden could have potentially been using the stuff all the time.
Guest_AedanStarfang_*
To be honest grey wardens have always been pragmatic to a fault. They will use any tool available to them to kill darkspawn. This is not the first time that has included blood magic. The hero of feralden could have potentially been using the stuff all the time.
There's a fine line between pragmatism and full-out insanity, siphoning a fade rift to summon a demon-god thing to "help" (right when have demons ever been helpful to people? It's like they haven't read their history books) is insane. Coupled with the breach, and the possibility of another blight, the actions the wardens made doubled the size of the threat to Thedas by unleashing a horde of demons.
Consider how badly they were portrayed in this game, I couldn't banished them.
Every Grey Wardens are hearing the Calling? Let's not investigate and just turn to blood magic and trusting some random Tevinter mage rather than a senior member of our own Order, because you know, nothing bad ever come out when you put blood magic and Tevinter together.
I kept them and they were quite useful in clearing the western orlais of darkspawn, and also attacking a rebel count there. After the last siege there was little juice left in them , but they did good
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