saaaame. like, I liked her character development in terms of like…her truly loving and caring for her son, and stuff like that. but everything about the eluvians and the Temple of Mythal just had me gnashing my teeth.

[DA:I spoilers]

I mean…shit. I just can’t get over the fact that Morrigan—a human—is keeping an eluvian and all the lost knowledge it offers all to herself. And then—and then—she has the gall to act like an expert on elven religion and culture, and to claim that she deserves to drink from the Well of Sorrows even more than a Lavellan Inquisitor does. (I played a Lavellan my first playthrough, and i had them drink from the Well—not because they thought it was a good idea, but because they thought that if that knowledge was going to go to anyone, it should be someone with elven heritage.)

idk, the whole time Morrigan basically flaunts her knowledge, saying she knows more than Lavellan—meanwhile, whose fucking fault is it that modern elves are so thoroughly severed from their history and past civilization and culture, whose fault is it that they continue to be a brutally oppressed group? Humans. And here’s Morrigan, a human, just…bragging about how she knows things that Lavellan doesn’t know, and practically rubbing Lavellan’s nose in it. She tries to school Lavellan on Mythal as though Lavellan isn’t a fucking Dalish elf who grew up with those stories and actually worships Mythal (and in terms of gameplay mechanics, how fucked up is it that there was no option for Lavellan to basically be like, “Morrigan, I know who the fuck Mythal is”???). And then the whole time Morrigan is also basically berating Lavellan for daring to believe in the elven gods, acting like it’s superstitious nonsense—like, what the fuck. I mean, Morrigan even goes so far as to talk over Solas about elven stuff (and I’m glad I had him with me, bc his snarky comments here and there gave me life).

Ugh. I’m just. So frustrated. Especially when i start thinking back to Merrill. she just tried so hard to fix that eluvian, she risked everything and sacrificed so much, cared for her people so much it hurts,  truly believed it was all worth it even if it only restored a tiny fragment of the past. and when Merrill was doing everythnig she could to restore the eluvian, it was framed by the narrative and almost every character as something foolish, selfish, not worth it, irresponsible, dangerous—even the fandom calls her stupid for it, and it really felt like that’s how the narrative wanted the player to feel about her focus on the eluvian. but then it’s fine when Morrigan, a human, does it? Morrigan gets to play that hugely important role? ugh. it’s an elvhen artifact, it’s elvhen history and elvhen technology—it belongs to the elves.

and it’s not even just Morrigan I’m frustrated with, but also how the writers/devs chose to frame the elves (and especially the Dalish) in DA:I, and how they chose to give Morrigan that role rather than, say, Merrill, or like you suggested, an elven expert of some kind, or…really just anyone with some elven heritage. I mean—Feynriel! It could’ve been Feynriel, trying to reconnect with his Dalish heritage, trying to recover that lost knowledge. (I like Feynriel and I want him to cmoe back, lol. I mean, it’d be interseting if he could be a vessel for an elvhen god, since he is a somniari…but that’s another topic.) Or even a new character. Just…anyone except a human, especially a human who acts so pretentious about it. There are things I like about Morrigan, but I was so angry with her all throughout that quest and when it came to anything related to the eluvian.