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This is last one of my "Gray Wardens Secrets".I never liked Riordan. Really. When he suggested that Loghain should join Gray Wardens I thought I'll get choked. I just can't imagine Duncan saying such thing.
So when he said that gray warden has to die to defeat archdemon I knew Marika will die. I knew that Riordan somehow won't be able to do it - it would be to easy - and I wasn't willing to sacrifice Alistair.
As You see I took an opportunity to show hardened Alistair. I'm little tired of seeing fanarts where he's blushing each time someone speaks about his intimate life. He is not some teenage girl, right? He is man, for heaven's sake!
So, this is it! This one closes "Secrets" series. If you like Marika, don't worry! I have many stories about her in my mind, more or less funny.
Just be patient.
Heh, I preordered Dragon age 2, and just can't wait to get it in my hands.
Until then I play DA: O again, this time as elf mage.
Secret No. 1 [link]
Secret No. 2 [link]
Secret No. 3 [link]
Secret No. 4 [link]
Secret No. 5 you're here!
My DA character Marika Cousland. Dragon Age by Bioware.
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No, those were just short scenes 
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I completely agree with you about Alistair. Yes he can be modest, even shy, and that's part of his charm, but there is way more about him! Really like the final panelΒ Β
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Thumbs up for the Harden Alistair.
an wonder who have worst temper, Marika or Faryen my elven grey warden >.>...
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Marika is not that bad - she's just impulsive
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... then my Warden have worst temper >.>......
read alot of your work with Marika an she is wonderfull.
still sure that Riordan is going to have a black eye >.>
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Duncan was recruited off the gallows; his crime? He murdered a warden in a pickpocketing gone wrong. His recruiter was Genevieve, the warden's wife, soon to be Ferelden Commander of the Grey. Just something for Ali to chew on when he says that we can't recruit Loghain.
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I know the story - he doesn't. He's an idealist. I'm not sure how he would handle the truth about his birth either. Anyway, being idealist is not such a bad thing when you're surrounded by traitors and scums, believing that things can be better and actually wanting to make them better - not a bad attitude at all. Marika wouldn't recruit Loghain anyway, not because of personal revenge (ok, that too, she wouldn't handle him in the same room) but because she believes that if someone betrayed once he will betray again when given an opportunity, and she doesn't want to wake up in burning castle... again.
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That's a completely fair assessment about Loghain. But, Alistair's response is completely emotional; understandable given how close they were, but I hate how you can't get him through that grief stage of lashing out, frothing at the mouth. I have a hard time killing someone who surrendered; even more so with his only child in the room (I'm too soft for DA, I know it, but I figure a Cousland might have hang-ups about family too!).
I also wonder, what Duncan and Cousland talked about on the ridiculously long hike from Highever to Ostagar. Maybe try to ameliorate some of the seething resentment that *I* can't go through the Origin without building? The similarities (in role-reverse) to his Conscription would have a chance to make some common ground.Β Sort of a "Genevieve hated me as much as you do now, but both of us were Recruited for a reason, not randomly or for cruelty's sake", then they start to bond.
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Well, of course, but we all must understand that the game follows some story and probably to build up the tension we are not given all possible choices (which would be impossible).
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And killing Loghain is not just about vengeance and emotion. It is also reasonable. The quest in Orzamaar showed conflict on throne won't fully end until one side perishes. The warden and Alistair have learned it the hard way. And the game does include an option to execute Alistair should the warden side with Loghain and Anora, it seems Alistair will never be safe with Loghain spared.
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well, when you lock Anora away she says clearly that she would have Alistair killed if she stayed on the throne, only because he's Maric's son and he's potential rival heir to the throne... so, yeah.Β
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Arghβ¦ Duncen should be happy to be deadβ¦
Riordan will have a problem, if i he canΒ΄t cill the Archdemon...
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Haha! yeah! Thanks for passing by and leaving a comment!
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So was this Alistair hardened in his personal quest? I know he says "hardened", but was he actually hardened, or is he making a joke about Marikia's temperament? Love it!
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Both! But here refers mostly to her hard temper. I'm glad you like it!
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Alistair was always too sensitive about his intimate life.
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lol yea i hated that part to. i think we were all like "Damn he aint ganna make it to kill the Archdemon, he's only had like 5 mins of game time." xD lol i did all the endings for the achievement but i HATED having to lose Alistair for loghain. i do remember my first playthrough though, i was an elf mage(and pregnant for realz at the time) and when Alistair dumped me cuz i was an elf i wa ballin! xD lmao! srry i kno that doesnt really have ne thing to do with this i just thought it was funny. xD srry for that
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only elissa cousland can marry and be queen. otherwise she's Alistair's mistress if he is king, which is how i'm going this current run since i'm solona amell, the human mage and cousin of the champion of Kirkwall,Β hawke
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He should join the Wardens, eh?
ALISTAIR, TAKE THIS SWORD AND OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
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livin inside the Volcano hardened me enough xd COΓOELAMADRE HAHA nice one
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Pssshss when I heard that I thought that was actually silly. The soul of a god destroyed by the soul of a mortal?! Really... anyway, I admired him... until that last part in which I felt like strangling him. Woo!
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Yep, it was stupid. But what in the Gray Warden Order isn't to be honest?
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Whoa. I... I honestly cannot say. Umm... friendship?
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I can't say how much I love Alistair in that last panel.
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Love how you capture expressions so well.
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Thank you so much!
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loved this and hardened Alistair and Zav in the last part. i was just wondering is it possible to keep Alistair when you make Logain a warden?
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No, it's impossible. He always leaves if you spare Loghain.
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awww 
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I think Loghain is not worth it so I always kill him, even as any other character - he just pisses me off!
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I love this series, but I particularly liked Alistair's comment at the end. That was priceless.
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I like your depiction of the hardened Alistair too. I think too often people make the men in Dragon Age too soft and squishy. The are men, for heaven's sake!
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More than that - those men are bloody fighters and warriors, sure sometimes nice and funny, but they kill other people - no squishy sissy could do that, you need balls to do that even if you're on the light side of the force.
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Agreed. Just because you are good does not make you soft. Aveline and her husband Wesley are great examples of this. I did enjoy seeing Alistair turn into a man in DAO. As much as I enjoyed seeing Warden Carver grow up in DA2.
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