How would your Wardens rank the Fade, Deep Roads, and Temple of Sacred Ashes though?
Oh ho, now that’s a question! You know how to appeal straight to my heart.
Catalina is traumatized by the Deep Roads. Straight-up goddamn traumatized. She’s been freaked out enough by this entire “Grey Warden” shit since Alistair told her they’re gonna die young to the Calling, so then between meeting Ruck, the dwarf ghoul, and then the damned broodmother, Cata just has a bit of a mental break, does not even contemplate for a second siding with Branka, and then probably screams the entire way back to Orzammar. And if “circumventing that allegedly inevitable Warden death” wasn’t a primary motivator from when she found out about it - she spares Avernus to continue his research because fuck it she doesn’t want to die - the Deep Roads seal the deal, and there’s no way she wouldn’t take Morrigan up on her deal, or the Architect on his.
Having a Warden-Commander who would do anything to not go into the Deep Roads is also just conceptually kind of hilarious, I’ll be honest.
Avrian and Iveta, as the half-suicidal guilt-ridden clusterfucks, do not like the Temple. Staring down a specter of their pasts telling them to move on just opens that wound up wider. Avrian has also already run into Tamlen again, before that, so this vision of Tamlen looking okay telling him to move on kind of rings hollow to the way he last remembers Tamlen. And Iveta hasn’t had any kind of closure, so speaking with her father seems hollow in a different way. She isn’t very religious, and Avrian doesn’t believe in the Maker, so they’re also just going “whatever” at the actual Sacred Ash and the entire concept.
Avrian also did very poorly with the Fade, in my headcanon, because while Iveta has fury and a desire for vengeance to keep her going through the “wanna die”, Avrian doesn’t, and when Sloth is like “wouldn’t you just like to lay down and rest?” he’s like “FUCK yeah”.
And Jade, I think, would dislike the Deep Roads the most as well, because she’s disturbed staring down the prospect of her mortality. She wouldn’t have the complete break that Cata does, but she’s decidedly unhappy with that concept. I don’t think she’d like the Temple either, simply for the fact that here she is talking to a contented-seeming Jowan while she knows her real Jowan is locked up in Redcliffe because he was a dumbass. On the other hand, canonically (for her only-partially-done PS3 file) she singlehandedly slays a dragon, so that was pretty cool. (This girl is a damned beacon for pride demons isn’t she.)
