I would agree that it makes no sense that Duncan would not have passed this along. My own view of Alastair is that he is a "go along to get along" individual. He does not want to lead, does not want to be king and so leaves the HoF to do all the heavy lifting. The very first time I ask him about the ritual he says try not to think about it. Fair enough. Then the first time at camp I ask if there are any other surprises I should know about. Nope. Not a single word about the you too can be a ghoul. The point is that Alastair appears to deflect questions and only approves of you (if you tell him you did not want to be a Warden) if you give the prescribed positive response. I always play as a conscript elf, and the fact that Duncan is human and humans treat elves like slaves and the fact that Alastair de facto gets me to do the real work (game armor of course) and his deceptiveness have always aggravated me. Once he gets what he wants, all is well. When he does not he becomes angry and runs off to be a drunk. He is not from my perspective a strong character.
And as a female city elf? I joined the Wardens because the only other option for the actions I'd just performed (murdering a young noble ****** and his friends who'd just raped my best friend Shiani with intentions to do so to me) was to be hanged to death as an "example" of a bad elf in front of a group of humans who would never know the real story. my elf accepted responsibility for her actions so the Alienage would not suffer; and Duncan stepped in and saved her from that fate. Extending her life from days to years and giving her a chance to be more than just someone's elven wife. She was obviously a leader who can handle herself, and Alistair deferring to her strong leadership abilities just made sense; was actually smart on his part, I would have butt heads with him otherwise. Didn't mean I didn't take his input into account, he'd been a Warden longer than her anyway. I also found his romantic interest very real, fell for him hard. Never hardened him, and listened to him when he was being honest about not wanting to be King. Not everyone is meant to be king or a leader and people shouldn't accept the job just because they should. Alistair's father Maric was miserable for shoving himself into it, for example.
When my city elf unarmed Loghain, and the idea of an execution was presented, my elf felt the first bit of doubt upon her the whole game; my elf looked at Alistair in question and the game had him actually nod in encouragement. But serious respectful like, not creepy gleefully. And Loghain had his first lucid moment where I could see a glimmer of who he used to be, said goodbye to his daughter, and I lopped off his head. I didn't get the whole Riordan speech about Loghain becoming a Warden. I didn't get to hear Alistair argue about it. I didn't NOT kill Loghain when the moment came. I didn't make a softened Alistair, who makes it very clear he does NOT WANT TO BE KING, into one anyway. so he never broke up with me for his new responsibilities. Origins is an amazing game, and my choices led me to not seeing a single bad side of Alistair. So, I hear/read about these other Alistair personalities and the thing is, although that does paint a bad side to him, he never did any of those things to me. He will forever be the first video game character I fell in love with and I am not very interested in the choices that would make me see those other sides.
If that was my experience, I'm sure it was many others' experience, and therefore I totally get why they would have a problem sacrificing Alistair in the fade.
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So in my mind, until proven otherwise Hawke is still kicking.
