Morrigan thread - "Tis cold in my tent, all alone..."

I thought she was gone in Redcliffe but instead you say she was in a dog form somewhere?Even if that was the case a Warden with the ring was unable to sense her?

Or maybe you are reffering to the dog in the chantry nearby Sten,but that looks like more those dogs the warden may have rescued in the Alienage rather than Morrigan wolf form.

This all comes down to taking an optional storyline and bringing it to a mandatory one. Now, regardless of whether the OGB ever existed, all of the power lies with Fen'Harel. If Mythal had the OGB, it went to him. If she didn't, he still has her power. Now they can just make slight tweaks to any plot involving Fen'Harel to reflect the OGB, but any plot about power can still happen since he has Mythal's power anyway (or so it seems). If they didn't do that, then the OGB could never play a significant role at all since there are a bunch of people who don't have him. It waters down the effect of that decision for sure, but I think it was just a streamlining decision, to be honest.


Also the DR doesn't make it possible to end the Blight. Merely to dodge the consequences of doing so but it does so at the cost of the Old God in charge continuing to exist. It might be that if its host gets Tainted, it becomes an Archdemon again. It might be that Solas now has it after the epilogue of Inquistion. It might even be that it's a threat on its own merits, without needing either. A Warden who eliminates these possibilities, even at the risk or cost of their own life, is following "whatever it takes" better than one who does the DR,that is a fact that will always remain regardless of the implementation of the consequences.

Basically everyone's default waifu.

I don't want to attack Morrigan(sigh again..) Doing so would require her to return, and that is something that has happened far too many times already. I would rather she never appear again. If that means that she gets to retire to Plot Armor Palace on Writer's Pet Island, so be it, as long as she's gone,Bioware made it so that Morrigan survives everything you throw at her even in DAI. I think that's enough of a concession. To force us to see her again....ugh no.

Morrigan's whole "I want to preserve stuff just for the sake of preserving it, even if it might have some terrible consequences for myself" is actually one of the weakest aspects of her character. Going back to the end of Origins and the Dark Ritual scene(I've always refused it), that very much plays out as if Morrigan had some kind of motive for doing that beyond simply preserving the soul of an Old God to just have for the sake of having. So just reducing all of her character motivations down to her wanting to be repository of ancient knowledge just for the sake of knowledge seems kind of bland to me.



So when you get to Inquisition and she wants to slurp up the Well of Sorrows... just because? Which actually kind of grated on me when you do it where she has a kid because it just sort of makes Morrigan look real short sighted, naive and selfish. Which is likely the point given her sort of comeuppance with respect to being bound to Mythal/Flemeth in that case. But I don't know what other ominous warnings they could possibly have tossed in about the Well of Sorrows having some big catch to it and yet Morrigan jumps right in anyway. Seemingly when she didn't even know what the thing was about 30 minutes before you got to the Temple. At that point, I think there is a fine line between wanting to have this philosophical, high minded desire to preserve any and all ancient knowledge and maybe exercising the slightest bit of discretion when you possibly have a kid and lover/husband to think about and you presumably have very little idea what you're jumping into.




Then what confused me about the Morrigan and Flemeth reunion scene is after you leave the Eluvian, and Morrigan says "she wanted the Old God soul all along", and I'm thinking to myself, well duhhh, that's why she gave you the ritual and told you to follow the Warden in the first place? Did you forget? Then she says she doesn't know what Flemeth intends to do with it, and I'm even further baffled. Well, why did you want the OGS? Did she not give you any further instructions beyond, "make sure you seduce that warden and get laid with him so you can get prego and get that Soul".

I just think that Inquisition basically revealing that Morrigan had no grand plan all along and was just accumulating power/knowledge for no particular reason is rather anticlimactic and even retroactively makes the Dark Ritual choice seem even more banal, knowing that not only nothing comes of it but that seemingly Morrigan didn't have much of a real thought out plan for it either.

And this concludes Dragon Age Origins for me

I love both Morrigan and Leliana equally.  So I always have a hard time choosing which one to romance.  I love how ice cold Morrigan is in the beginning, but she begins to warm up to you after she gives you the ring.

Give a woman a break. Maker's breath!

Being fond of certain characters, more so the problematic ones, comes with a price. Steel yourself because there is probably more to come. 

Some more fan art from Deviantart of our favorite Witch of the Wild:

I want Morrigan to grab me with her powerful witch hands and whisper: "This is my swamp".

Yeah, that's one of my favorite pics.  Dat ass.