Should Kieran play a major role in the next Dragon Age? (Spoiler)

Flemeth already took it away from Kieran and likely passed it on to Morrigan. If it ever becomes relevant (which it should be!) then it will be through her, not Kieran.

I don't understand why people never seem to consider this. This goes for anything regarding the Warden as well. Those characters are dead/non-existent for a good chunk of people. They can never have a "major" role in anything.




This applies to Kieran as well. Most of those dead Wardens don't have a Kieran. The ones who romanced Morrigan but still died have a son, but he is just a normal kid, NOT the "Old God Baby."

Indeed although they can use save importing to allow roleplaying as for example Kieran (a normal person now) but without major affects, like allowing those that have Kieran to play as him with some NPCs calling you Kieran but act the same way they do with others with certain exceptions (like for example Morrigan having extra dialogues with those that roleplay as Kieran).

Sometimes minor affects can be enough though. many that had their Alistair or Loghain had fun with the fade quest in the game. Mike doesn't seem interested to allow roleplaying as the likes of Kieran though (which is understandable business-wise) so we have to settle for cameos or having them as optional party members best case scenario.

I'd love for him to be a companion in future games. And if he's an adult, i've talked to some who would love the though of romancing him.

But it really depends. If he is, it's likely said future game will have a lot to do with Elves and/or Old Gods. It also depends how far in the future the games take place. For Kieren to be an adult, we need at least another 10 years, give or take. So the chance of these story lines keeping up are not all that likely. The other chance is if Morrigan takes over from Flemeth as the puppeteer of fate and sends Kieren to help a future PC, but she seems to be against using him for her own ends.

It's also a little tricky to implement him since not everyone has him. If 50% of all wardens died then 50% of all Inquisitors never meet Kieren. Having a character that half of the players never meet can be difficult. The writers do do what they want, though, so they may write that Morrigan found another person to have him with. But, then, Morrigan is always in Inquisition no matter what the Warden does, as is Leliana even if you chop her head off or never meet her. The only other thing i can think of him being included in is a potential story of curing the blight. It can be assumed that he is immune to it as he was born with taint inside him (Morrigan says this is why the Old God Soul will seek him out) and he is helping a Grey Warden cure it. Many would be happy to be a Warden again, and i think it will be necessary if Thedas is to stop the Blights.

He's an inconsequential character now, since Flemeth took the soul. The only things that make him important are his family ties to Flemeth and Morrigan and potential fatherly ties to Alistair of the HOF.

If they do decide to give him a big role in future games, i think it could be interesting, especially if he has some differences depending on Morrigan's fate. You can help her and make her a softer, kinder person if you choose to help her have Kieren, or she can still be as manipulative as she was before if she doesn't have him with the Warden.

Never the less, i would say it is very unlikely we will see him again in more than a brief cameo or a mention. It's very fun to speculate what can be done with his character.

It's part of the problem of bringing back characters that have so many different fates. Connor has death, possession, save via the fade, saved via blood magic and so on.
But because "Death" is on that list, the most they could give is a brief cameo because there are wardens who killed him. 

I mean, given what he did to Redcliffe before and what he expects the Magister will do to it now, i can understand him being less than thrilled with being there. But they couldn't offer more than "HERE'S CONNOR", because he was a minor character with many fates.

Kieren has 2 fates. He's born or he is not. So a cameo with him might be easier, but it will still probably be far less than what people hope for.

Doesn't that punish the people who chose to not have him in their world states? They were all certain it was going to mean bad things. 

(Groan) No.

I haven't had a game where my warden died so as I said I wasn't sure if that had any effect on morrigan having a child or not and him having an old god soul. Guess I should've read into it or something a bit more. Even after I know how much a game could change I just didn't think of the fact that Kieran might not exist at all. But this is pretty enlightening as it shed some light on something i completely overlooked.

I get it though it could cause serious issues or be a completely different game if he was involved in anyway if he wasn't even born to begin with in someone's play through.

I don't understand why Kieran couldn't exist if we did not romance Morrigan. She could have him with anyone, after all. They should just have mentioned she had a son somewhere, to make it easier to use him in a future game.

But I'm one of those people that love Dragon Age games to be interconnected, although not dependable. I wanna see previous games characters showing up, getting older and having sons and daughters and they be at large in the world. That's what makes a fictional setting alive, to me.

They gave a reason she couldn't do that. Though I suppose we only have her own word for that. Still, would Riordan have helped her with that?

Grey Wardens would do anything to stop the Blight. And if the reason was because Riordan had been a Grey Warden for longer, well I doubt there's any proof if that theory is actually even correct or not. And besides, if they had wanted BW surely could've re-written certain parts of the game to make Kieran canon. It's their setting and rules, after all. 

But if it's just some normal kid, fathered by some guy, why is it important or meaningful?