#and (b) even WITH the blight there’s reason to be skeptical that having orlesian forces there would’ve worked out in the long run….

[vigilskept]

You know, as much as I'm willing to denounce Loghain for not trusting the Orlesian Wardens to do their job and fight the Blight, I am also aware that Celene had sent a bunch of chevaliers to accompany the Wardens across the border, and there is no proof they were going to leave once they had entered Ferelden. Like sure, let's blame Loghain for making the Wardens's job harder than necessary, but I do think Fereldans kind of dodged being conquered all over again, never mind Cailan's secret dealings with Celene. 😥

exactly………………. 10 YEARS down the line after the blight we know the orlesian nobility were still itching to take ferelden back!!! that’s not paranoia!!!

sure, the wardens weren’t necessarily on board with that agenda the way loghain thought they were. but that’s really only down to chance? another warden in duncan’s place might not have been so opposed to seeing orlais move back in! caron/andras/kader is framed as a favourite of empress celene… could they have been trusted not to scheme if they were in charge? if they were given great authority at a time of crisis?

keeping orlais out and checking the warden’s power makes the blight a lot harder to cope with… but doing otherwise risks losing ferelden’s independence again. and given how no one but the wardens knows for sure that it is truly a blight (no archdemon sightings…) he does have every reason to be skeptical of anyone arguing otherwise!