Alistair Never Loved You

dgaider:

dgaider-deactivated20150130:

I’ve heard the “Alistair never loved you” thing before. Where does it come from? Is that some kind of inside joke? Because it seems mean. — Anonymous fan question

Oh. Yes, I suppose it is an inside joke.

In DAO Awakening, there was an item you could find—an old snow globe which commemorated the wedding of Cailan and Anora (as it said on a little plaque, according to the description). I think it was a gift item.

Anyhow, this fan came to the BSN and raged about how this snow globe of Alistair and Anora’s wedding had clearly voided her DAO ending choice of marrying Alistair. How dare the game do that, Alistair was her one and true love, etc. etc. There were lots of ALL CAPS and exclamation points and angry words.

My response was to suggest that, if she’d read the snow globe’s description very carefully, she would see that what the plaque actually said was “Alistair Never Loved You.”

I now have a snow globe on my desk now which says exactly that, given to me by a fan at a con. It makes me smile.