What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Finally made my final decision concerning my DA world state, and went with my Amell as Warden after all

So far I've finished up her origin story as well as Ostagar and she's just arrived in Lothering having intimidated the bandits into standing down

Are you sure?

Hm...good question

One of my male Wardens (coincidentally a Dalish Warden) had the same dilemma, romancing Morrigan and not wanting to thrust a maybe malicious entity onto his unborn child. Him sparing Loghain was purely along the thought of 'the enemy of my enemy'...'cause he thought that hey, these people kinda (used to) respect him even if he did some highly questionable things in the past few months. But yeah, when Morrigan came to him with her plan, he refused to do the ritual because...we don't know anything about the old god's soul and who's to say it won't affect the child when it's born. Plus he'd killed Flemeth for her, who (according to what Morrigan read in her grimoire) wanted to force her soul onto Morrigan...so he also viewed it as highly hypocritical of wanting to force this onto their unborn child whilst Morrigan had fought tooth and nail to prevent her mother from doing the same to her.
So yeah...that was my Warden's reasoning at the time. Speaking of which, I may need to replay him as my second canon world

You may not be a hero - depends on your pt, but a coward? Let's look at the evidence (getting my Perry Mason hat on...).

By this point in the game you have faced death more times than you've celebrated birthdays (family included).

• As a raw recruit you battled your way through the Tower of Ishal
• You faced down Abominations and demons and blood mages (oh my!) to resolve the problems at the Circle
• Brecelian Forest. Werewolves. Revenants (some of these could be avoided, though).
• Dwarven politics and the Deep Roads, which one is more deadly? 
• You're still alive and fighting.
• You could have easily (and justly) killed Loghain after winning the Landsmeet. Instead, he's with you, arguably the more difficult choice: can you really be sure he won't stab you in the back?

"Surviving doesn't mean not being a coward" I hear somebody say. Ok, then, answer these questions:

• In battle, did you routinely hang back and let your companions do the bulk of the fighting or were you right in there slashing, spellcasting, firing arrows?  
• In Redcliffe, did you turn away or did you fight the dead men walking?
• Did you routinely avoid confrontations wherever possible? You could have left Honnleith before clearing it out. You could have not accepted a lot of side quests. Even if you couldn't avoid them, did you try to avoid them?
• Did you accept deals or lay down your weapons rather than fight?
• Even though the game forced certain paths on you, did you ever argue against those paths (I'm thinking back mostly to conversations with Flemeth after your rescue from the Tower of Ishal)?

There are logical reasons for letting Loghain kill the Archdemon. It's really just a delayed punishment from the Landsmeet. No matter how you slice it, he's too old to have become a Warden and probably won't be around for much longer. [IMO Inquisition stretched the point by having him as a possible Warden]. Somebody will have to deal with the aftermath (the darkspawn aren't just going to poof into nothingness, they have to get back to their holes and will cause trouble on the way) and Loghain is a liability, there's too much resentment over his actions. You know the end of your Wardenhood isn't going to be pleasant. I could argue death by killing the Archdemon is easier than a slow corruption ending in death. 

Welp, those are my thoughts, fwiw. 

@sonya

Probably not, since Loghain had to argue a bit before my Warden accepted his request.

And staying with my Morrigan is more my reason than my character's motivation.

Norstaera

True, the other choices have to be taken in consideration before making a true assessment.

Okay so...Minerva made her way through Orzammar and the Deep Roads, still have to go back there for a few quests later on though
Oghren joined the team and met up with Felsi later on when we went to Lake Callenhad

On the way to the Circle we got ambushed by Antivan Crows so Minerva decided to have one of them join her little group, ergo Zevran joined us as well.

Currently at the Circle, Minerva argued quite a bit with Greagoir's decision to shut down the doors, but decided to do his work for him and scout out the tower in search of survivors and her old mentor First Enchanter Irving.
Wynne turned out to have returned from Ostagar safe and sound and was protecting several mages who'd survived the fighting. After some talking she decided to help Minerva.

So yeah...going to tackle the Circle tomorrow

Today Minerva saved the Circle of Magi...and got minor depression because of it.
I head canon she mopes around a bit after this due to her not having been there to safe her friends. Also...Cullen's choice of words would haunt her for quite a while She eventually does forgive him, but it takes her quite a bit to come to terms with what happened.

After doing that I traveled back to Orzammar to finish up a few quests there, such as Dagna's and Shale's companion quest.
Back at the camp Morrigan revealed some less then happy things about her mom, and asked Minerva to kill her. Er...sure, we'll do that...eventually.

Strangely enough so am I I love using the Golem form in that section and using it to punch the Ogre in the nether regions With ergards the lighting I must admit DAI looks gorgeous with ray tracing. I know tha tgame was buil tbefoer tha ttec hcame int obeing but it really works well. Even Skyhold looks gorgeous with it.

Yeah it's a creepy one that pretty well done that especially you're companions reactions to the place.