
The Blood Mage Leader in "The Last Request." The quest itself is one of the hardest in the game, with room after room full of nothing but multiple mages partnered with multiple archers (the two toughest varieties of enemy in the game).Another explanation is that the ease of the fight is also a sign of how far the great hero has fallen in his intentions.Notably, if a fight breaks out in the throne room prior to the duel note Which happens if the player loses the Landsmeet or just decides to challenge him anyway - meaning the player has access to the entire party and Loghain has all his soldiers - Loghain is Boss-ranked, indicating it's a mechanical decision. The Doylist explanation for this is that a Boss-ranked Loghain would be way overpowered to fight in a one-on-one duel, but it's still kind of jarring to discover that the most feared general in Ferelden is actually less powerful than Howe, a Rogue. When you finally face him, he's actually not even a Boss, just an Elite. Then DAO came out and sold like hot pancakes, starting BioWare second Flagship Franchise (after Mass Effect) and forcing EA to eat crow and to demand that BioWare makes a sequel immediately, which. All they wanted was for DAO to break even, so they could shelve the series for good (which is why its Modular Epilogue cast so far into the future, it later had to be officially declared rumors and hearsay, so it wouldn't conflict with the later continuity). And You Thought It Would Fail: According to its lead writer David Gaider, Origins was written off by Electronic Arts even before it was released, who saw it as too old-fashioned and not "sleek and sexy" enough to succeed, especially compared to the concurrent Mass Effect releases.but a soldier on the line turning tail compromises the entire army running off while still in the relative safety of the camp is little different. So Duncan wasn't killing Jory to keep the Warden's secrets, he was executing a man who'd proven he didn't have the courage to fight the fight he'd signed on for.

Desertion is a pretty stiff crime, especially in medieval times (in fact, in Ostagar, you meet an accused deserter, and it's treated as a Foregone Conclusion he'll be hanged for it as soon as someone gets around to sentencing him).


In that moment, he became a deserter, refusing to stay at or report to his assigned post (being a Grey Warden), and showed by drawing his sword that he was prepared to fight, and thus kill, to affect his desertion. Jory refused, and drew his sword on Duncan.

The Warden recruits had all been warned they'd reached the point of no return, they had to go through the Joining. SF Debris makes a fair compelling case that Duncan killing Jory was a lot more justified than it appears to some.He believes in tradition and inheritance, and would never see the daughter of a freeholder, however gifted, in power. Loghain: Because Eamon, for all his merits, is a conservative man.
