Poor Cailan

Nope.  No cut scene.

Oh well.

Maybe I'll start over since I know what I'm doing now as a mage.

Reload before you went to RTO?

I felt bad for Cailan before I even got that DLC because of crap I said to him when he first meets the Warden.

Best is obviously "I killed an Arl's son who raped my friend" and the reaction you get from that.

Also sort of felt bad for Duncan when you and Alistair say outlandish crap after returning from the Kocari Wilds (I forget the line exactly, Alistair is talking about dancing in front of the Darkspawn in a dress or something).

Yup.  Done all of that.  Killed the Ogre (btw:  Leliana takes such glee in it if she gets the kill!) and the necromancer (no spider on that field, but they came out when I head back in to the tunnel (I'm used to the cut scene right there and going out the door up the hill).

It's still sad seeing Cailan that way though.  Brought a tear to my eyes.

Agreed. At the Ostagar camp he had a bunch of quarrelsome allies acting like spoiled brats who couldn't put aside their differences even in the face of a greater threat. Who kept peace between all of them - yep Cailan. While I believe he is a genuinely optimistic person in life, so it looked natural when he did it, I also believe a part of it was a mask for the sake of morale. I wouldn't say though it was pure manipulation on his part as he really does exaggerate Grey Warden's powers and he really is naive. But, partially - yes. Kings are trained at raising the troops morale. It's a skill, not just a natural ability.

Trusting Loghain was a flaw. Has anyone else noticed that essentially Cailan WAS trying to do exactly the same thing our Warden was trying to do? He called on mages to fight and he wanted the Orlesians  and who knows who else that got rejected by some sulky allies who didn't trust x or y or z to come too. He was trying to assemble all allies - and even went out of the box to call on Orlesians. It was Loghain who robbed him of having at least twice the number of troops he had by yelling, 'Don't invite these here! and I rather retire than allow y to fight at my side!' Well, he ended up listening to all those 'warnings' and didn't.