Alistair Thread - Lick a lamppost in winter!

I`ve played all the 3 choices (not counting killing him, never done it and i think i never will). My favorite, which is my canon, it`s making him king besides my Cousland but i agree that he seems happier as a warden.

I`ve only hardened Alistair in the playthroughs where i chose make him solo king or king beside Anora. A romanced Alistair (warden or king) or a warden Alistair is always unhardened.

Happened to me too. I sympathise.

The name of the mod is Improved Romance Scenes - Alistair. It does soften the line a lot. Plus it adds other... benefits.   

I didn't harden Alistair my first time either because that line is just so harsh. Fortunately, my persuasion skill was high enough that I didn't get dumped. Truthfully, my first playthrough I didn't know about changing Alistair. 

And this is why I save every half hour.  

And if I may be so blunt, a Cousland who does that is just using Alistair to ascend to power even though she is aware that he never wanted to be king.

Awesome art by therealmcgee 

Was anyone ever able to get Alistair and Anora to marry? I tried without success I don't know if I did something wrong or the game won't let it happen.

I did once. When I saw her slap away his hand in the ceremony, I reloaded and made him solo king. 

You need to have a pretty high persuade skill in order to get them to agree to marry.

I did it in 2 playthoughs with my only 2 male wardens  .  In one Alistair was married to Anora with Loghain dead, in the other one he was married to Anora and Loghain was alive. 

Ha! That should be everyone's rule.

Exactly my first playthrough, too! I went into everything blind though, didn't have anyone to warn me. (Although I hang onto to saves anyway.) I even went on to Awakening with Alistair dead... I think I was in shock or denial or something.  I felt so miserable. I changed it, of course, but until then... I was an empty husk.   Never again.

I thought that was mean-spirited but hilarious. I felt so bad for him because it was my decision that put him in that position.

Aww, that's kind of harsh. I don't think so. The way that my Cousland was seeing it was that Ferelden is gonna need a whole lot of work, it's basically jacked up and she knows that she and Alistair can put in the hard work, I mean look at how they just saved friggin' Thedas. And Alistair does become reconciled to becoming king if you harden him, so later in the game I didn't get a feeling from him that he was hating the whole thing at all.

And I can see that if you look at it a certain way it could be Disney Princess, but honestly, I think they're both very jacked up after all that. I think it's a tough road for them personally. I just didn't see a need for it to continue to be tough physically (i.e. endless camping foreeeevvvaahhhhh). BW obviously doesn't think it's a picnic either, because my Queen is off doing "cure for the calling" stuff and dealing with the Architect/Mother situation.