so i've been thinking about the wardens getting a cure for the blight and i don't??? know if that's a Good Thing. like, for the general population, a cure for the blight would be a mixed bag. on the one hand, the possibility of less people dying in blights and from random darkspawn encounters would certainly be worth it. but on the other hand, what is the likelihood of the people who need the cure getting the cure? it can't be something easy or something common or else someone would've discovered what the cure was by now. wardens have been looking for a cure for ages, and even alexius only managed to prolong the effects of the blight, not cure it. the only person ever to be cured from the blight is fiona, and the wardens gave up trying to study what happened to her because it was a mystery (tho i think it had something to do with the dagger duncan pilfered in "The Calling" but that's another post). so whatever the cure is, it's rare and very hard to come by. which means the common folk who need it most, probably won't get the cure at all. it'll only be for royalty/nobility/the rich (to no one's surprise, probably). and then the wardens. i think there would be a good chance that if they found a cure, it would divide them into several factions. some would want to use it on themselves, damn the consequences. some wouldn't want to use it at all because they signed up for this, and some of them would want to stay wardens because otherwise, who are they? and where do they go--back to their shit lives that they escaped? and still others who would want to share the cure with the world at large. there would be so much infighting that the order would all but collapse on top of itself. which would prove disastrous come the next blight, since the wardens would either be gone or disbanded. either way, a cure to the blight would only cause more chaos and would weaken thedas as a whole because of power struggles and infighting in the wardens, and probably pissed off lower- and middle-class families who have been effected by the blight but can't afford the cure like the upper-class can.
