| Killiana1a said: Alistair is lovable if you find dumb and logically insane endearing traits. Morrigan really exposes Alistair for the tool he is in their exchanges. My beef with Alistair, now that the thread is offtopic, is Alistair is recruit everyone and anything at the beginning of the game, yet is too blind by his own hatred for Loghain to not see the value of Loghain as a Grey Warden. Loghain as the hero of Riverdane who freed Ferelden from Orlais is a very important political figure with many noble supporters, thus it would make sense to have Loghain on your side because of politics and because he is a badass sword and boarder. Furthermore, how can Alistair not see Loghain abandoning a hopeless battle as a wise military decision? Why would Alistair want to endanger all of Ferelden just because some headstrong, naive King Cailan wanted to fight against overwhelming odds? Loghain made a perfectly rational military decision, eventhough it cost him politically. Alistair not seeing this conveys the depths of his lack of fitness to be king. That is why I always let Anora rule alone or choose to backstab him and marry Anora. Honestly though, the most complex character in DA:O is Leliana by a longshot. She undergoes a very dramatic transformation in her character from the start to the end. Alistair on the other hand, does undergo a transformation if you harden him, but is more or less still the same at the Landsmeet as he was right after Ostagar. |
Can't believe I'm defending Alistair but:
At the start of the game Loghain's decision not to support the King and the Grey Wardens leads to the deaths of the only people that Alistair truly saw as family. Duncan was like a father figure and the other grey wardens like siblings to him. With that in mind why wouldn't he want vengeance and justice? You expect him to just forget about the other Grey Wardens? I think it's totally justified that he'd want Loghain dead even under the circumstances.
And Loghain's decision obviously wasn't a good military one. It was based off of ignorance. He effectively let the vast majority of the Grey Wardens who are needed to defeat the blight die, and would have doomed all of Fereldan had you and Alistair not survived. Not only that, but throughout the game there is no indication that had Loghain followed through with the original plan that they would have lost. In fact the opposite is true if Loghain had simply flanked the Darkspawn as he was supposed to have done in his own plan (not King Cailan's).
