Math is Hard! (age question)

[darkrose]

How old is Loghain at the beginning of Origins? How old was Maric when he disappeared? (I know DG has confirmed that he's dead, but for fic-writing purposes, as far as I'm concerned he's only comic-book dead.)

The inconsistency of dating between novels and game makes my poor little non-mathematically-inclined brain hurt.

Comments

[niniane]

Oh, sorry. But still...it's possibly meant to be read as a sign (otherwise, why mention that it's crumbled!) that Cailan's not 100% happy with this plan of "get rid of Anora, marry Celene". Again, that would be my read on it. It's possible to interpret it differently.

[elysium_fic]

I figure the crumpled note can go one of two ways.

1) He's angry and frustrated that Celene isn't coming (likely this was how it was intended to be interpreted, given the axed Celene subplot, and the "crumpled" aspect is simple another one of those things that didn't get fixed in rewrites.

2) He's disgusted at Celene's hinting about a marriage alliance. Whether that's due to his devotion to Anora, or the fact that even Cailan isn't idiot enough to fail to see that attempting to marry the empress of Orlais would go over like a pregnant pole vaulter is completely open to interpretation.

[niniane]

Yeah, I'd totally agree that it's open to interpretation. (And kind of love the "OMG, no Celene! But I wanted hot Empress sex!" interpretation.) Then again, he's never met Celene, so I'm not sure why he'd be super disappointed at her loss...although maybe he's seen her picture. Or is really curious.

[elysium_fic]

It's weird. The first time I read through those codices, I totally had the impression that Cailan and Celene had met before. Can't for the life of me figure out why, now.

[niniane]

It's possible they did. It would seem kind of weird to be flirting via letter if they hadn't. Then again, Cailan strikes me as a bit of a flirt, so maybe he's just being friendly. (Or trying to be.)