It's time to decide:
WHICH OC IS CAUSING THE MOST PROBLEMS/DISCOURSE?
(DAO) LIR: Did anything to get back into nobility. This includes killing a child
(DAI) IRENE: Killed/bullied anyone not worshipping her. Spoiled brat and MEAN!
(DATV) CASTUS: Grave robber. Craves violence. Got his entire team killed
ADDITIONAL WORLDSTATE NOTES UNDER THE CUT (warning: long)
LIR COUSLAND: Warrior. Killed Connor at Redcliffe, and killed the mages in the Ferelden Tower (sorry Wynne). Killed Leliana to defile Andraste's ashes to become a Reaver. Prince-Consort of Anora (they do not love each other at all).
Ultimately, Lir hated becoming a Warden and just wanted to get back to noble life as quickly as possible, basically picking whatever would solve the problem of the Archdemon 'faster.' Sloth is 100% his demon.
He’s not exactly HAPPY to be going around killing people, but he doesn't really see it as a problem either. He definitely doesn't mourn anyone he's hurt. Lir just views it as inevitable; that's just how the Game is played, the 'lessers' being swallowed by their superiors. ICK! It’s why he’s a massive gaslighter with that high Coercion skill: "Sorry, it's just what has to happen! Not my fault!"
His party was Alistair, Morrigan, and either Zevran or Sten. Ali does have a moral code, but it's easy to bully him into doing bad things ... AND LIR DIDN'T KNOW ALI WAS ROYAL UNTIL THE END OF THE REDCLIFFE QUEST. It was so awkward and funny because at that point Lir had been like, "SHUT UP ALISTAIR SHUT UP ALISTAIR YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME AT ALL MY PARENTS ARE DEAD ALISTAIR," only to have that dropped on him. Due to the whole 'saving Loghain to marry Anora' thing, Ali got his own bad ending.
But Lir's ending isn't happy either. He truly thought after all that he can go back to his lazy life as a noble--a ROYAL now--whose not 'in-charge.' As if, after becoming such a horrible person, you can just turn it all off. The Blight was already working its way through his body fast, but I feel like he lives at most a couple of years after the end of Origins, the Blight ultimately taking him. He never knows peace ever again, which is what he deserves.
IRENE TREVELYAN: Rogue. Killed basically anyone who didn't agree with her (everyone in Judgement). Conscripted the mages only because the Templars didn't immediately drop down and worship her as Andraste's Herald. Gaspard rules so she can bully him into submission later. All companions were in the negatives approval-wise, except Bull, with most just leaving or even betraying her.
Fully believed she was saved by Andraste OR was in some way related to Andraste following her survival at the Conclave. As a result, she's entitled and mean, completely brash and immature. Solas was basically dealing with Elgar'nan again, if Elgy was reborn as a 19-year-old girl. Also, 110% a bigot, based mostly on what she grew up in under the Chantry ... but even THEN, it's still a lot. If there was an option to say something really really bad, she said it.
Her party was mainly the Iron Bull, Cassandra, and either Vivienne or Solas. Again outside of Bull, Irene did get their disapproval scenes and if there was an option to be violent SHE WAS.
Bull's betrayal hurts because Irene didn't kill the Chargers!!!! She just never did Bull's companion quest because she didn't like or trust the Qunari. Solas' betrayal only hurts in that he proves that the Mark was never from Andraste. She romanced Cullen but they're divorced/didn't follow through with the engagement because he was in a savior spiral and she didn't like that he was a person with feelings.
After Inquisition and Trespasser, she becomes devoted to serving the Chantry as the Inquisitor, ready to go to war anytime, anywhere.
CASTUS LAIDIR: Warrior. Got the entirety of the Veilguard killed and then dragged Solas into Superhell for shared war crimes. Castus was once forced to fight for Tevinter in their Navy fleet, so he’s very jaded on the whole “I fight for good reason" thing a lot of people in the story do. He just likes fighting because he now loves violence and associates it with getting a reward, since he has zero problem robbing from a corpse. Didn't help any organizations outside of the Crows because he loves killing Vints (not even specifically the Venatori, though he hates them plenty too). Didn't help any of his friends--well, allies, outside of Lucanis for the same reason. After killing Zara and Lucanis was exiled from Treviso, they stopped furthering their relationship.
Castus is very apathetic, so he struggles with being open and honest to any of his teammates or even Solas in his brain. He literally laughs when there are lore drops and calls it all stupid and pointless. He only gets excited whenever we get to talk about murdering the gods or Vints or otherwise. Again, maybe if he took things more seriously, people would be alive! (Also, unlike the previous 2, I wouldn't say he's a bigot exactly, but he is really annoying in his own philosophy of "We all will die anyways soooo why fight to change things? We live in a society!")
With only Lucanis being slightly close to Castus, the rest stayed on the lower end of approval. I DO THINK EMMERICH HATED THIS GUY. I think Emmerich either stayed at an approval of 2 or just made it to 3. Before starting the end of the game, it warns you if you haven't gotten enough support to stop the Evanuris, and everyone is BEGGING you to slow down. If you say "Nah, let's just get the job done," EMMERICH LOOKS SO PISSED, he starts shaking his head as his little disapproval window pops up. So good. Sorry you died, king. Neve also didn’t like Castus either, due to him sacrificing Minrathous ONLY because he doesn’t care for Tevinter and absolutely didn’t mourn the fact even people like the Shadow Dragons were hurt.
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