#since i saw ppl (general fandom) complain about how the grey wardens. called them a noble order 'reduced to this'

[wrdncmmndr]

there is something just desperate about the grey wardens. desperation is inherent to the wardens. they are an order built on desperation. an order born in two centuries of blight. how desperate would they have been to consider drinking darkspawn blood? you know? the thing that taints you? drives you mad? gives you a slow horrible death?

how desperate would they be to sacrifice themselves to kill the archdemon? (a noble sacrifice for sure. brave. but still desperate.) this is an order who accepts EVERYONE no matter what. how many grey wardens only became grey wardens because they did not have another option? joining the wardens is a desperate act for desperate people (of course there are others who join the wardens bc they think it is noble, bc they want to fight darkspawn, bc it gives them a purpose. but i feel that they make up the minority)

the grey wardens are an order born out of desperation. filled with desperate people. who will do ANYTHING out of desperation to win their battle. in war; victory. (the costs don't matter. desperate times call for desperate measures.)

“You will guard them and they will hate you for it. Whenever there is not a Blight actively crawling over the surface, humanity will do its best to forget how much they need you. And that's good. We need to stand apart from them, even if they have to push us away to make us do it. That is the only way we can ever make the hard decisions.”