I remember ten years ago with DAI I struggled a little bit with the direction of Morrigan and Kieran. I had in my head, as Morrigan had in HER head no doubt, what would happen with that storyline.
But with time man. I think it’s probably my favourite depiction of motherhood in gaming. It’s one of my favourites at all. Motherhood changes her profoundly and doesn’t all at once. It makes her see her own childhood in a new light, it makes her see how similar she is to her own mother and how her impulse to escape her almost made her repeat the same mistakes. She’s still prickly and independent and funny and hard to get to know, but it opens up a well of emotion in her that I don’t think even loving the warden does. But she’s not suddenly softer for it. If anything she’s more determined, more adaptable, fiercer than ever because she has a strange little son that she willed into the world for power and ended up loving so fiercely that she will fight the gods to keep him.
So often we are only given one version of motherhood and that is the ONLY acceptable version (I could list a fucking few) and it was. Refreshing to me.
