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]

I think that there was all kinds of crazy stuff going on. ;) To me, early 30s would sort of make sense for Alistair.

I'm still, though, going for game > books > writer comments/confirms. (Which is all debatable. All, possibly, are equally canon.) As elf-baby isn't even *confirmed* as Alistair in the book (it's just speculation), and 4 characters make references to Alistair being the son of a servant in game, I'm still leaning towards that explanation.

That said, I think that they're both valid. *shrugs* I just prefer to not make up grand conspiracies OR ret con the game over rumors that a novel kind of sort of implies. (Esp. as I hated the novel.)