...and brought down the Archdemon...
Thing would have just kept flying otherwise. Wardens don't have griffon divebombers anymore y'know...so, yeah, Riordan was pretty key.
I can already see the griffons becoming the equivalent of the eagles from LOTR.
Each game we'll ask why the heroes didn't use the griffons because it would make traveling and whatnot so much faster.
Yes lets just have exactly three Wardens, no more, just one two and three, during an entire Blight, and simply pray to the Maker they don't all die in the process of getting anywhere remotely near the Archdemon, yes good plan.
Let's not forget that early detection is key! Duncan recognized the Blight for what it really is before even the rest of the world realized that there was a Blight. To this day, based on various codex entries, people (mostly outside of Ferelden) believe that the so-called "Fifth Blight" wasn't really a Blight.
Despite keeping the old treaties safe, and rescuing the Warden and Alistair from the Tower of Ishal, and let Morrigan accompany the party. I don't see her doing anything else that benefits the war effort to stop the Blight, but yeah...without her it could be worse.
I'm just gonna assume that she has some powers of precognition (she did tell Maric that there will be a Blight in Ferelden), and knew that the Warden and Alistair is all that she needed to save from Ostagar to stop the Blight.
I lose all of my respect for Vivienne when she says the Wardens are nothing more than a relic of the past. Seriously, do I have to throw her to the darkspawn so she can see how important the Wardens are. Do we really need darkspawn to roam the surface to remind us that they are always a threat to all, and without the Wardens...Thedas is doomed.
I'm sorry, the EO?
Same with Solas. For a guy who loves history and historic battles so much, he sure is quick to dismiss the Gray Wardens as whole. There are still 2 potential Blights in the future, and that is assuming that only the Old Gods can become Archdemons, and that those dragons were indeed Old Gods. For all we know, any high dragon of sufficient power can become an Archdemon.
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To be fair, Gray Wardens didn't exist before the First Blight. So, even if the order were to die out, and a new Blight appears, I'm pretty sure that some clever mage or knowledgeable historian can conjure up the Joining Ritual all over again.
To be fair, Gray Wardens didn't exist before the First Blight. So, even if the order were to die out, and a new Blight appears, I'm pretty sure that some clever mage or knowledgeable historian can conjure up the Joining Ritual all over again.
It took 90 years for someone to create the Joining. Hell, it's implied in DAI that the idea to drink Darkspawn blood was given to the designer. There's no guarantee the same would happen again. Especially since Thedas is much more fractured now. In the First Blight, the Archon said all hands on deck and the entire continent stood against the Darkspawn. Now, it's more likely that the other nations would see the Blight as an opportunity to expand. Morons.
Well the fifth blight ended because so fast because the grey wardens were saved by Flemeth and the archedemon attacked Denerim in a year after the begining of the blight similar with the fourth blight. And of course because of Riordan because that guy had forced the Archedemon down. But in the fourth blight the wardens had the opportunity to kill the archedemon as fast as in the fifth blight. But it seems they lacked the balls of steel as someone said of Riordan. By the way did anyone ever raised a statue for him as a warden to aspire if you are a grey warden?
Yes lets just have exactly three Wardens, no more, just one two and three, during an entire Blight, and simply pray to the Maker they don't all die in the process of getting anywhere remotely near the Archdemon, yes good plan.
Hell they might die in a totally non-fighting related event like a rockslide which they can't really do anything about and the entire world would be f*cked because of that. 
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