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[grcywardcn-a-blog]

but i mean really, there's no other reason fiona became cured of the taint. it's not because fiona has a baby--grey wardens can have babies, it's just extremely rare:

She smiled sadly down at him and shushed him quietly, rocking him in her arms. “The chances of a Grey Warden conceiving are not very large,” she said quietly. “Yet here he is. Amazing, isn’t it?”

[...] “Maybe not, then. What do . . . what happens normally when a Grey Warden has a child? It must happen, surely.”

“It does. We give the child up. I told them I already had a place in mind.”

From The Calling by David Gaider

so obviously it's common enough for wardens to have children that they have an official-unofficial proceedure to follow when someone does give birth. so fiona having a baby isn't the deciding factor, because otherwise all wardens would be women and they'd all need to get pregnant before the calling happened.

again, all evidence seems to point to it being maric who made the difference here. his line is supposed to have dragon's blood in it, which i think that combination of human and dragon blood does unique magicsl stuff. i mean, maric has one of those brooches himself when they go into the deep roads. he had some potions too, one's that i wouldn't have been surprised to learn were laced with the taint. it'd make sense--if remille wants orlais to prosper, then getting rid of the ferelden king would be an important step. but the taint never appears in maric, despite the fact that he seems to take the potions and wears the brooch. it could be argued, of course that the potions aren't laced and that the brooch needs a pre-existing bit of taint to work with in order to spread the corruption. but i feel like maric's blood has something to do with it as well.

of course, the question is now: why is alistair able to join the grey wardens if his dragon blood should technically protect him from it?

maybe it's been so diluted by this point that alistair doesn't have many of the dragon blood benefits. maybe the spell that goes along with the joining overrides the dragon blood, or the blood can't fight the taint when so directly introduced to the body. who knows? bioware certainly doesn't

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duncan mentions from world of thedas, vol. 2 (also feat. alistair and the architect)

[tabristairclub]

Little Weirdo by indevan

Summary: A collection of short fics about Devyn Tabris, teenaged elf warden freak baby. Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Major Character Death Category: M/M Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types Relationships: Alistair/Male Tabris Zevran Arainai/Male Tabris Characters: Male Tabris Alistair (Dragon Age) Zevran Arainai Shianni Cyrion Tabris Wynne Leliana (Dragon Age) Oghren Language:English Stats: Published:2013-05-13 Updated:2014-10-08 Words:16224 Chapters:29/? Comments:1 Kudos:43 Bookmarks:5 Hits:1402

[thecybermanwhofelt]

// ♥ : Name one thing about the way their emotions work that they despise. ☆ : Would they ever wish upon a falling star? If so, what would they wish?

♥ : Name one thing about the way their emotions work that they despise.

    Alistair hates how sensitive he is. He always has, honestly -- now more than ever though, seeing as it could literally kill him if he got too emotional. As a child, he'd always be the one kid who would seemingly cry over everything.     As an adult, he'd still cry at almost everything to be honest, including movies (which his wife, and sometimes his children would rib him for), music -- simple things. Not to mention big things, where he'd sobbed (i.e; the birth of his children, his wedding day, weddings in general, etc.)

☆ : Would they ever wish upon a falling star? If so, what would they wish?

    He has on many occasions, wished on falling stars, even though he knows that it's quite impossible to have wish granted by a meteor. It's the human in him, still hoping -- still somewhat wanting to believe in magic, or something.    He's wished for many things, including happiness, his own body back -- or maybe a new one, at the very least, even death at certain low moments in his existence.    But mostly, he's wished for his family to be alive, even if it meant him never being with them again, or him never having a human body again. In this universe (which is parallel to his own in which he came), they don't exist -- and neither does he. He's the only Alistair McNeill in this universe with his face.. Or the face that he had.     ---He wishes that they were alive and well, more than anything else.