you've mentioned a couple times that arl eamon is terrible, and if you're ever feeling up to it, I was wondering if you could explain? I got pretty annoyed with him about the anora vs alistair thing but if there's anything else it completely flew past me
It’s kind of hard to pick up on - at least, it was for me - unless you’ve played through Origins more than once, and I still think I missed some things, aaaaand some of it is admittedly meta that’s up to interpretation.
Alistair mentions that he had to sleep in the barn, growing up, and there’s a bit of banter when you go into Eamon’s estate in Denerim where he mentions that, when he’d visit the estate with Eamon, he had to sleep with the dogs. Alistair was, in ways like that, treated as something less than a servant.
And yet, when the throne is up for contesting, he’s all for shoving Alistair onto it. Alistair doesn’t want to - but he acts like he doesn’t really have any choice, either. Eamon steamrolls him pretty thoroughly about everything in a way that suggests he’d been planning this.
Which, if you have Return to Ostegar and have found all the letters, he may well have been. He was putting a lot of pressure on Cailan to drop Anora and marry Celene.
And… that is all I can remember with any accuracy right now, I’m afraid. I know there’s other people who could fill in more… @mazarinedrake? @thingsareswinging?
[edit] just found a post on the bioware forums which has a pretty good outline!