#i have a lot of thoughtsss on davrins quests but i need to replay to express them

[vigilskeep]

tbh davrin’s elven identity should have played a more crucial role in his quest with the griffons. idk how many of you have read the last flight, the novel where isseya’s history and the blighting of the griffons is covered, but isseya’s journals and thus the griffons were only found when an elven warden spotted the right things, and that was isseya’s intention. she had hidden them behind a clue that referenced “one of the few great poems to be remembered through the oral traditions of the dalish and the alienages”

isseya, in the last of her right mind—her good, brilliant mind—didn’t trust the first warden of her time or the first warden of future times to make the right call about the griffons’ fate. she did want it to be a warden, but an ordinary one with an eye for details, and i can’t remember if she ever said why, but she wanted it to be one of her own people. (possibly she wanted it to be an elf who learned that garahel, the elf grey warden who ended the fourth blight, had a blood mage sister fighting alongside him? valya, who finds the journals, does grapple with whether that information should be shared or if it’s not worth tainting an elven hero’s legacy.)

my point is that it’s not only being a warden that legitimises davrin’s right to decide what becomes of the griffons, but also being an elf. this question and legacy were left, very specifically, to someone who is both of those things. that would have been a really interesting narrative thread to pick up on a little more, especially when one of the routes for the griffons’ future is reliant on davrin’s dalishness and connection to arlathan