#if i had to rank them he'd be ahead of the first warden

[sunsetzer]

I was thinking that the feeling of sheer visceral fury the first warden instills within me the second he appears on screen during my veilguard playthrough was kinda familiar and it just hit me. It was TFA Sentinel Prime. I watched TFA as a kid as it aired and while I think I remember him getting more bearable later on, s1 Sentinel was awful lmao. It's the "I'm more important than you and therefore I'm more correct and you have to do what I say" thing they are tHE SAM E

[thornfield13713]

Okay, I do appreciate that the Calling comes up here.

And- interesting that it is now an 'if'. One more Archdemon left, and nobody knows what'll happen to the Blight after that. Before this, the only way Mairead could avoid the Calling was by dying in battle ahead of time. Now...she might live to see old age, and that's-

The thing is, Emmrich isn't actually wrong that she's avoiding the subject. All Mairead's previous lovers - at least since joining the Wardens, she had a few casual relationships before that, but not many and none of them deep - have been fellow Wardens, and at least one has died before her. One even died at Adamant, when he was supposed to survive, as one of the mages involved in conducting the demon summonings that Mairead was supposed to die to power. There was an odd sort of reassurance in the knowledge it would be him who killed her, and that he wouldn't let her suffer long. She's outlived a lot of people. It was almost reassuring, this time, to fall in love with an outsider to the Order in the comfortable knowledge that he'd probably still be alive when her calling Came - Emmrich is only fifty-something, healthy and with easy access to healers, and Mairead has, at most, fifteen years left to her before the Calling claims her, even if Emmrich has no reason to know the exact number and might well be assuming she's a lot more junior in the Wardens than she is, due to her low rank and not talking much about how she joined up. Selfishly, she rather hoped that she would go first this time. Not that she ever brought it up, but-

They are going to need to talk about this, once the fighting is over. About their expectations both in terms of their respective lifespans and what any life they share might look like. But the night before fighting a god maybe isn't it.

But also- I do know that some shit is going to go down in this confrontation. And even if I didn't, this whole argument seems perfectly set-up to engender a bad case of parting words regret. Which is why you save rows for after you've fought a god.