Let Loghain join isn't moronic, is what a character who live under the Warden philosophy would do.
Let Loghain live was the best and intelligent decision that i could have made,in totally resonance of the belief of the GW and an immensely rewarded trust over Riordan.
As for th life vs death argument it doesn't work with me because it's not tempting at all,the ritual has nothing to offer to me
not even a strategic advantage since Gaider confirmed that with it or not a GW is the only one who can negate to the AD to rebirth,it is an help for the old god not for me.
Morrigan may well believe the ritual does what she says it does, but the idea comes from Flemeth.
And if you are not a mage, you are in no position to judge whether or not Morrigan is a particularly good mage.
I am saying precisely because you have no idea whether or not it will work, and the fact that if it does you have just saved the essence of something that could cause a blight again, there is not much temptation.
Recall, our argument is how strong the temptation of the dark ritual is if all it does is save the life of the Grey Warden if the Grey Warden lands the final blow.
And I am arguing it is very weak.
I think taking anyone at face value wihout any basic understanding of what they do is stupid.
I'm not a doctor, but I have studied enough biology and chemistry can I can double check if my doctor is a quack.
It is just absurd to make a choice on an area of expertiese taking someone whose competence you can't judge at face value.
A Fair point about planning to kill her after, however. To that, though, I would simply have to say that my meta-game knowledge prevents me from considering it, since the game plays it straight that you let her get away and I don't write fan fictions.
I would think it doesn't matter what Morrigan says. Even if you trust her, it's a matter of competence.
I trust my best friend, but if tells me about how we could build a nuke toghether, I'm not inclined to listen to someone who's closest experience with science was a first year seminar.
Even if Morrigan is the sweetest angel on the planet that could not tell a lie and only wants puppies and flowers for everyone, she could very well be wrong.
At the least she is asking you to save an old god, which according to someone ( the chantry and also Solas) is a false god.
So we've got two levels of blasphemy in the ritual: blood magic and saving an old god.
What I am saying is as the player, you know nothing about what Morrigan is offering. Even if you are a mage, you have no understanding and no one of understanding the process.
You are shooting blind.
If you have Alistair (assuming that you as a male elf don't care about his fate or of Ferelden or about humans) There is a very reasonable chance that Alistair does not die, since you've overcome an insane amount of obstacles.
You could have killed two dragons, a pride demon, a super-golem, a broodmother, not to mention effectively an army of soldiers, werewolves and darkspawn plus enough abominations to put the templars to shame.
Basically, if you suppose you as the Warden has awesome odds to survive, you have to suppose the same applies to Alistair.
And if you think Alistair has a huge chance to die, then so do you.
So what I am saying is that her actual potential payoff is only if you are left alone, and the odds of that mattering are astronomicaly low in either possible case.
What I am saying is simple: Alistair has no more of a risk to die than the Warden. If the risk for Alistair dying is enormous, it is the same for the Warden. So the dark ritual in that case is nothing but for the special scenario where the Warden lives and Alistair dies, which is incredibly unlikely beacuse all signs point to both dying. And if the odds of the Warden living are high, then the chance of Alistair doing the same is higher.
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[ Morrigan argues that even if Riordan/Alistair/Loghain has agreed to take the final blow, it could still fall to your character. She approaches it purely from the angle of avoiding death in the event that you have to slay the Archdemon.]
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But that's a stupid argument - you could very well get an arrow through the throat at the gate. It makes it no more likely you'd survive at all.
Effectively, if there is no payoff of true freedom, suddenly the relative cost of th dark ritual increases [b]enormously[.b], and in my view that relative risk is what acts to destroy the temptation.
The DR isn't give to you a benefit,it's a benefit for the Old god.
You could have made Alistair King because you prefer him to Anora, which is very different.
And it does not have to be Alistair; it could be Loghain.
They are simply your spare Grey Warden.
More importantly, there is a difference between caring about Alistair/Loghain and caring about Alistair/Loghain enough do die for them or summon Cthulhu.
I don't care about neither of them and for certain i will not revive an old god to save them.
It only matters how likely you think your spare is to live relative to how likely you think the ritual is dangerous.
And I am saying that the degree of temptation falls dramatically if the only thing that it does is remove your worry of your spare dying at the cost of saving the life of the false god.
Because seriously, this is what Morrigan is asking you to do: save the the false god life.
If Hespith was one of the last 3 living beings that could become brood mothers, saving her untained soul isn't quite the good deed.
We don't know whether or not the old god could return as an archdemon again.
That is a risk that you are taking with the ritual, provided it does what it is designed to do (which ironically from DAI,it wasn't it's function was to spare the soul so that it could reach Mythal later).
As for Morrigan arch story for DAI,i don't really care since i never find her to be an intreasting character,and neither is Kieran given the fact that he was just a plot device,Solas arch was more entertaining for me.
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As we know there is no love between those two. 
