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[bluonblu]

I'm loving the game so far, but there's one point I'm finding really, really hard to swallow: the reason given for Alexius' support of Cory is that Felix had been infected by darkspawn and was dying. 

 

Why did Felix not join the Wardens instead? Becoming one is the only sure way of delaying the inevitable. Even if Alexius suspected there was a high mortality rate during the Joining (he's a well-informed magister and the Joining is a blood ritual), would that chance not have been more advantageous than trying to do the thing no one's managed to do in the oh, last thousand years? 

 

On the other hand, I find it difficult that no one else would propose this either. Not the Inquisitor, not Blackwall, not Dorian - even after Alexius is stopped. And yes, I realize that by then they are worried about uncharacteristic Warden activity (or rather: lack of), but there's Stroud roaming the lands (or Alistair, or Loghain), so it's not completely impossible to locate one. Yet no one even proposes it!

 

Was there an explanation here that I missed? 

[Abyss108]

The joining is a warden secret, no one else knows about it. They wouldn't have any idea that wardens become "tainted" and survive it.

[Teshayel]

The joining ritual is supposedly a big secret, so no one outside the Wardens should know about it. 

 

Ninja'd 

[Deanna]

No explanation that I heard. But the Grey Wardens dont always recruit someone just cuz their infected with the blight. Maybe Felix didn't want to be a Grey Warden and its not common knowledge that becoming a Grey Warden is a cure.

[Basement Cat]

No explanation that I heard. But the Grey Wardens dont always recruit someone just cuz their infected with the blight. Maybe Felix didn't want to be a Grey Warden and its not common knowledge that becoming a Grey Warden is a cure.

Not to mention it's not really a cure so much as a delay.

[Lianaar]

Even if he is aware of it, he is serving Cory, he knows about certain aspects on disadvantages  to being a Warden.

On the other hand, he didn't want his son to fight darkspawn, he wanted the son to be rid of the taint. Cory promised him cleansing, not a prolonged life. Alexius already prolonged the life of Felix by magic. That was not his goal.

[bluonblu]

Hmmm, I see your point. (Sort of ) 

 

He's already managed to prolong his son's life and would be more interested in finding a permanent cure. I still think with the effort he must've invested in helping Felix, he could reasonably have learnt of the Warden option, but it's true they don't exactly advertise or take any and all applicants. 

 

Still, allying with Cory seems just so dumb. I mean he's the walking/talking manifestation of the Blight. If he could've cured anyone, I would have expected he'd start with himself first... 

[Lianaar]

I am not sure he allied with Cory due to this only thing. He was an idealist first, but his personal drama and his fields of research led to much sourness and displeasantry.
If you consider Corypheus, he is a magister from ancient times, of Old Trevinter, when the mages had immense power. He knows of things none else does and can offer knowledge and insight others don't, while he is also playing on the patriotism. He is telling the people, that Maker, who is but a limitation on the mages even in Trevinter - doesn't exist. He offers a different path, one filled with power and knowledge. He possibly didn't start by asking people to turn into monsters. Probably the process was smooth and slow, step by step until people no longer knew where it all began and how they stepped over the red line. Cory says: you foiled plans years in making... so it wasn't a haphazard, here I am, now I am your god, worship and serve me.

I can easily imagine how he just dripped information here and there, and allowed people to find him instead of seaking them out. Maybe even make them believe they can rule him and harvest him until it was too late. It is more surprising he could not use the taint on Felix, but probably because he was not the Ruck sort of blighted person.