Merrill - “It's a Keeper's job to remember.”

Jul 26, 2018 8:09:05 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

That said, I'm of the opinion that Audacity was never interested in Merrill but their target was Marethari.

I think this was true and Audacity played Marethari perfectly. He allowed her to think his target was Merrill but all the time his real focus was Marethari. Then he finally succeeded in persuading Marethari that the only way to protect Merrill from him was to allow herself to be possessed. Marethari was a fool. I don't know what Audacity's range was for possession but I would have thought sealing the cave with a rock fall would have been a better option. If Merrill (and Marethari) believed that she need Audacity's help to activate the mirror and she had to be in physical proximity to him to communicate, then block off all access. Better still, just destroy the eluvian or bury that under a shed load of rock. Why in the hell did Marethari even let her bring it with them when they left Ferelden?

I actually think feel sorry for the rest of the clan because clearly Marethari didn't care about their safety enough. If she had a debt to Flemeth, then honour it herself but leave the rest of the clan out of it. However, once the debt was paid, get the hell out of there, halla or no halla. It was that simple.

I should mention that the reason this quest so upset me is that I usually play elves if I can and my first Warden was a Dalish one, so this was his family.   I had received a boon that should have seen my family living safely in Ferelden.   My foster mother was still there at the end of DAO.   Then suddenly I find the majority of them had left for Sundermount, lost all the halla and apparently all the children as well - conspicuous by their absence since I had helped the storyteller teach a group in the Dalish origin.   In the end I had to headcanon that the clan had split up and the group with my foster mother and children was still back in Ferelden.