David Gaider (“In Your Heart”, June 2015 issue of PC Gamer)

I’ve been putting together a character spreadsheet. Alistair’s row is the most complex row in the whole fucking sheet of roughly 1500 people.

He can have, canonically:

• three different death dates (or none at all)

1. 9:30 if he’s executed at the Landsmeet in DA:O
2. 9:31 if he dies to archdemon in DA:O
3. 9:41 if he’s left in the Fade in DA:I

• two different spouses (or none at all)

1. f!Cousland
2. Anora

• ten different overall outcomes of DA:O (not counting romance options)

1. dies to archdemon
2. dies to execution
3. lives and exiled from Ferelden
4. lives and stays warden, player lives and Alistair is Kieran’s father
5. lives and stays warden, player lives and player is Kieran’s father
6. lives and stays warden, player dies to archdemon
7. lives and becomes king, player lives and Alistair is Kieran’s father
8. lives and becomes king, player lives and player is Kieran’s father
9. lives and becomes king, player dies to archdemon
10. lives and becomes king, Loghain recruited

• four different outcomes of DA:I (assuming he’s alive)

1. is king and thus lives
2. is drunk and thus lives
3. is warden and lives
4. is warden and dies

I don’t care where you stand on Alistair, the boy deserves a break from the whims of the writers demands of the plot.

(via haddietana)