Of course she tries to hide it under acid jokes, pride and bravado, but Morrigan is actually the most awkward and socially-confused member of DA:O party. When to look into another’s eyes, how to eat at a table, how to bargain without offending… none of these things I knew.” “There were many nuances that Flemeth could never tell me of. And while Flemeth taught her how to manipulate people and get from them what she wants, she never taught her how to actually communicate with people, so she won’t form attachments to them.
She was taught that she can’t be herself, that her real self is too weak and pathetic, so she has to change, to let Flemeth shape her into the form she wants. “I find myself at times wondering what might have become of the girl with the beautiful, golden mirror… but such fantasies have no place amidst reality.” But if Morrigan kept the mirror, it would mean that she deserves to have emotions, attachments, that when she looks into this mirror, she’ll feel good about herself and love herself, and we can’t have that, can we? Morrigan rationalizes it as a sign of caring, that Flemeth was concerned about her safety, but she used Morrigan when she was a little helpless kid as a bait to lure the Templars into traps, so I’m not buying the protective parent story. Flemeth smashed it, leaving Morrigan heartbroken. When Morrigan was a little girl and left the wilds for the first time to look at the village, she stole a noblewoman’s golden mirror, because it was the most beautiful thing she’d ever saw. “Beauty and love are fleeting and have no meaning.
So the core principal of her parenting method is: Obviously, to understand a character, you need to understand how they become who they are now, so let’s begin from here.įirst of all, Morrigan was raised by Flemeth with a very specific purpose – to be powerful and resourceful enough to succeed in her quest and, at the same time, to be disconnected from the world and from herself so she would ignore her own needs and feelings, and it’ll be easier to eventually possess her, acquiring not just the new young body, but also control over incarnation of the old god to raise him as her tool. So I was asked why I like Morrigan so much, and I wanted to write about her properly for ages anyway, so here we go.
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