thinking about the battle of ostagar; don’t text

I’ve played DAO countless times and like any other game player, I’ve played gorier games. The brutality of Ostagar - not just the violence, but the desperation and fear thinly veiled by religious fervor - is striking. I always sit and listen to the mother give her blessing to the Ferelden soldiers: “should you fall in battle, you will not have failed your king, you will have served your Maker.” She says this confidently, mournfully. It is a eulogy for soldiers who are already dead. HoF can help in small ways (like finding the flower in the Wilds to cure the mabari), but the lingering dread fogging over the ruins obscures any good deed or flame of hope.

I think about the Circle mages who are relegated to the tower, allowed out in this instance to fight for a country that treats them like dirt. I think about Cailan who is young, inexperienced, and justifiably confident. What reason would he have to think that they wouldn’t win?

And Loghain, on whom, after all these playthroughs, I still can’t completely make up my mind. He represents Ferelden itself: strong, stubborn, and cold. I sympathize with his deep-seated hatred of Orlesians and his frustration at Cailan’s naïveté, but leaving the king’s entire army to die or be taken by Darkspawn (an especially harrowing thought for women) seems unthinkable. He claims that Maric would’ve been appalled to see Cailan “hand” the country over to the Orlesians, but Maric would’ve been horrified to see the cowardice of retreat and the senseless disregard of hundreds of lives.

After all the ways the universe has tested me over the last 20+ years loosing Robin Williams and now Matthew Perry have been the coldest.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | November 11, 2011

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When the people who would start a war over a single crumbling wall ignore a large Elven ruin to the south, it bodes disaster. There is beauty and curiosity in the forest, such as trees that rise tall as towers, but those who travel too deep into them never return.