Okay, after reading some of these responses and doing some thinking, I am now convinced I made the better decision. Hawke is still an influential (and very powerful) figure in Thedas, plus he has Merrill and Carver to live for. And Varric... nope, couldn't do that to Varric. The Champion can do more for Thedas alive than dead, while unfortunately all Stroud could do would be to try to lead a bunch of potentially corrupted Wardens in exile.
In addition, Stroud's sacrifice is the perfectly leads up to my Inquisitor's next choice - to have the Wardens join the Inquisition. It convinced my Inquisitor that if any of the remaining Wardens were anything like Stroud, then perhaps they were worth saving. Plus Stroud would want my Herald to give the Wardens a chance, and this would be a way to honor this wish.
Does this make sense RP-wise, or am I contradicting myself somehow?
I...think (think!) she's referring to the fact that Hawke flipping out all over Loghain (or whatever Warden is there, actually) is so at odds with how she sees her headcanon Hawke, that the difference is impossible to reconcile. I sympathize. My headcanon Hawke sided with the Templars because a runway train is impossible to stop if you stand in front of it, but you might be able to steer it a little bit if you along for the ride.
Meredith is the runaway train, in this case. My Hawke sides with her because she sees it as the best way to guarantee Bethany's survival.. When DAI Hawke definitively states that it she sided with Meredith because there were just to many bloodmages, I had to sigh. Oh well.
That had nothing to do with why the choice was easy, though. The world can benefit from the presence of the Champion of Kirkwall far more than it will from any one Grey Warden between times of Blight. Even if that Warden is the last one in Orlais to have not surrendered his senses to rank stupidity.
Yeah, unfortunately with this kind of protagonist cameo there are bound to be some OOC bits. I'm still glad they put Hawke in the game though, thankfully for me the ooc parts were relatively few. Thing is though, it seems to make a lot of sense that even a nice Hawke would flip out about the wardens's blood magic - to me, Hawke should be seriously ****** tired of that **** (by the way, I'm referring to Kittn's posts). Come on, 7 years of idiot blood mages crawling out of the woodwork every 2 seconds, and you expect Hawke to not get a little worked up when someone defends them? Still, who am I (or Bioware) to tell anyone what their characters should feel. I empathize with anyone who feels their Hawke was really out of character in DAI.
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