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[Ahalvern]

You get to tame a dragon with a look if you drink from the well! Yeah, I'm shallow like that.

 

Honestly, I'm an elf. Even if the price is too high, it doesn't feel right to let Morrigan drink from it. Plus, you get those nice lore bits from Ancient Elven texts. If in the future the power will help me piece out this mindboggling elven lore, then so be it. Also I agree, it makes things more interesting going forward. I feel more involved in the overarching elven story of mystifyness. I also feel better having saved the mother of my love's child from bigger consequences in the future.

 

But yeah, taming a dragon was cool.

[Petrikles]

I am still split and have saves with both choices.

 

Save 1: My Dalish Keeper would have no problem and also feels the obligation to drink herself. However, she knew by that point her LI Solas well enough to feel that he was very very uncomfortable with her drinking it. Together with her own magical knowledge about a geas, she decided to put her trust in her LI and pass this very, very tempting occasion to find out more about the ancient elves. She finds solace in the increasing indications (from Solas and other hints) that the ancient elves were not exactly the pinnacle of lawfulness and today´s elves should probably not really go back to the old ways, anyways. The same reasons apply for her to agree to remove the valasslin by Solas.

 

Save 2: My Dalish Keeper felt the need and obligation to use the unique occasion to access ancient elven lore. She also kept the valasslin. Knowing about her LI Solas feeling very uncomfortable, she is nevertheless a strong willed elf who can keep her own counsel. Solas in the end acknowledges her decision and sees wisdom in her, as not seen since the days of ancient elven, and also confirms her beauty despite with a valasslin or not.

 

 

So, both alternatives can be played with perfectly valid RP reasons which go beyond mere distrust or power hunger. But I be damned if I knew which version should be my cannon playthrough!

 

Only two things bother me: No discussion and explanation of that woman spirit from the well; and why is it the Inquisitor holding the Velluvian open and passing through as last, even if she did not drink? I am pretty sure the latter is a bug and hope the former is, too.

[Todd23]

Yes. When I heard "those who drink will be bound to the will of Mythal", I didn't want to risk anything happening to my Morrigan, least of all her losing her freedom in any way. So I drank it.

You can imagine my sigh of relief. Even followed by my rage as it was.

[Eveangaline]

I did my first run. I was playing a dwarf who thought her resistance to magic would keep her from being too effected. Did not go as she planned.

 

Gonna let Morrigan have it this time around, I'm playing a mage who knows what that kind of temptation can lead to.

[Thargorichiban]

I wish there had been an option to dunk Solas' bald head right into the well.

[Shahadem]

Really no replies. It's like the most important choice. In my humble no point of view. Or maybe people just haven't reached that point. 

 

It really isn't an important choice. Actually there are no important choices in the game if you think about it. But this one least of all, especially since Bioware did such an awful job with it. It is impossible for something that has no soul or mind to exert will, especially since will isn't really a thing at all and is rather used to describe how strongly someone pursues a goal or action, so the idea that a pool could contain the "will" of the priests is ridiculous. Just as it's ridiculous that drinking water would allow someone to control you later on. And there wasn't any point to that since the DA universe has already established that a blood mage could use blood magic to physically control your body.

[Uccio]

Yep. Inq is expendable and my Warden needs his Morrigan.

[Horia_Long_Xiao]

Hello.

Can anyone please send me a save game from the point before you decide who drinks from the Well of Sorrows?

Contact me if you can, thanx in advance.

Happy gaming

[aerisblight]

yes I drank from it....

 

... it tasted like chicken.

[Ieldra]

This decision hurt. More than any other decision in any of Bioware's games.

 

My main Inquisitor is defined as much by her passion for knowledge as by her disdain for gods and their influence over people's lives. So this starts as a value conflict of the highest order. Then add that if she doesn't drink, Morrigan gets the curse, and Morrigan is my favorite NPC of DA.

 

Bioware writers are evil sadists

 

I couldn't justify drinking from the well with this Inquisitor, but man, does it hurt to forego that ancient knowledge. At least someone has it. Better than being lost.

[actionhero112]

No way that's gross. Who knows how long that water has been there? 

 

I've played enough Oregon trail to know that's how people die of cholera. 

 

Easiest choice in the game imo. 

[Aaleel]

My Elven Inquisitor did since she took responsibility going forward of what happened from the ancient elves and felt it should be her.   My human Inquisitor told Morrigan to knock herself out.

[Lukas Trevelyan]

You get to tame a dragon with a look if you drink from the well! Yeah, I'm shallow like that.

Thought I was the only one who feels that way xD Honestly taming the dragon scene was the most scene for me in the game, a chill ran down my spine as my inquisitor just turned blue and tamed it, and the soundtrack playing during that scene was the best. 

[Lukas Trevelyan]

You know what would've been REALLY cool? If as a mage, you get the option to learn how to turn into a dragon yourself. 

[Cha0sEff3ct]

I never do because I don't want to be tied to the will of Mythal. I wanted to drink from the well with my elven inquisitor as she deserves all things connected to her elven roots and also romance Solas but then if he takes Flemeth/Mythal's essence is she bound to him? It's sounds kinda romantic at first in that eternally bound kind of way but it seems more of a control type of bondage. I don't like the idea. Maybe if Solas seemed a little less creepy.

[Violetbliss]

I let Morrigan drink because I saw how much it meant to her, and my Qunari mage was playing it pretty careful in all things. Deciding to trust her I backed off. Plus, Sera was giving me some serious looks.

[Gearwar2805]

I tried both, to see the difference. There is none. But you get to fight a cool dragon if you drink that stuff.

[CoM Solaufein]

Tastes great, less filling.

[Uccio]

Yep. I would not endanger my Morrigan. Inq is expendable and Morrigan needs to go back to my Warden.

[KaiserShep]

I wish there had been an option to dunk Solas' bald head right into the well.

I'm picturing a Qunquisitor picking Solas up and giving him a geas swirly.

[Sjofn]

My dwarf inquisitor could not say NOPE fast enough. My dalish inquisitor, on the other hand, was not going to let some shem lady he barely knew get her grabby hands on all that elfy knowledge.

 

Most of my Inquisitors won't drink, though. Just seems like a terrible idea. They have enough issues!

[Ieldra]

I would like to add that I love this decision. I said it hurts, and it does, but it's nonetheless the best decision setup in DA so far for me. It's not just "either X or Y dies" but meaningful and personal, deeply connected to what my Inquisitor believed in. And - *looks at ME3 with disdain* - it's set up in a way that makes perfect sense within the story and the conventions of the genre.

 

The only downside is that I have a hard time varying this decision with different Inquisitors. I can't find a justification for drinking from the well for any Inquisitor I would want to play. They'd all be much too wary of the possible downsides, and none of them has a mind for the "sweet sacrifice of duty". Possible rationalizations are "I don't want Morrigan to have it", "I can break any geas" and "I don't mind being bound to Mythal's will". None of them feels strongly enough about the first to sacrifice their free will for it, none of them is overconfident enough for the second, and my Dalish mage had her world upturned by the events of the story and she now questions everything, and after Solas has removed her valasslin she is of no mind to be bound again.  

 

So....it really hurts to see Morrigan bound, but better her than me. I'm just glad it's not my Warden standing there. That decision would be impossible to make.

[SolNebula]

In my first run as a human I let Morrigan drink since well....why an andrastian human would care?

 

In my second Dalish run I'm planning to drink the Well myself to regain the old wisdom of the Elven.

 

In both case I did that with the Sentinel consent, no way I'm going to kill Ancient Elves.

[SiIencE]

Depends i let Morrigan drink several times, took Solas with me there for the fun of it (he knew exactly what that place was the damn lier!) This time i'm gonna drink it myself to get the achievement to recruit the dragon.