Loghain Mac Tir/Dialogue

The Secret Companion's dialogue contains a list of the dialogue that the Secret Companion shares with other companions.

Secret Companion and Dog
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 * Loghain: Here, some smoked boar saved from supper.  Huh, it'll do you good.
 * Dog: (Excited huffing)
 * Loghain: I had a mabari once.  Adalla--that was her name.  We found her in the wood shed one night.  She was still a pup then.
 * Loghain: We never figured out where she came from.  My mother called her a gift from the Maker.  And she was... she really was.
 * Loghain: She was beautiful; she had a lovely chestnut brown coat, and the most intelligent, understanding eyes.  You would have liked her.
 * Dog: (He wags his tail.)
 * Loghain: We grew up together.  She never left my side, not once.  Ten years we had her, before she was taken away...
 * Dog: (He cocks his head and looks curiously at Loghain.)
 * Loghain: Another time perhaps.  Finish your snack.
 * Dog: (Dog sniffs the air curiously.)
 * Loghain: Oh, don't give me that face.  I'm betting you want the cheese in my pocket.
 * Dog: (He sits and waits patiently.)
 * Loghain: Very well, here you go.  Don't eat it all at once.  Or... do, whichever you prefer.
 * Loghain: I used to keep cheese in my pocket for Adalla too.  I think the rinds were her favorite.part.
 * Loghain: I mentioned she was taken from us, did I not?  This was when Orlais still ruled, and it was an Orlesian lordling who took her.
 * Loghain: He wanted to mix the blood of our noble mabari with their frail, wasp-wasted game hounds, which were bred for looks, not intelligence.
 * Loghain: I tried to keep her, but there was little I could do to stop the Orlesian... I wasn't even a man then.
 * Loghain: You can imagine what it was like for her, being torn away from the boy--the family she was bonded to.
 * Dog: (Long, low whine)
 * Loghain: It was six months before we saw her again.  The Orlesian returned her--and when I say "returned," I mean "pushed her out of his wagon."
 * Loghain: She was skin and bone, and still carried the scars from where their pronged collars bit into her neck.  She never quite recovered.
 * Loghain: She passed away after a week.  It was as though she held on long enough to come home to us.  I held her head in my lap, and I believe she died happy.
 * Dog: (Sad whine)

Secret Companion and Leliana

 * Loghain:  So you are a Fereldan girl, who decided to live in Orlais.
 * Leliana: I did not decide to live in Orlais.  My mother took me there with her.
 * Leliana: I know how you feel about the Orlesians, but I am not one of them.
 * Loghain: You may as well be.  You grew up there.  Your views and values are theirs.
 * Loghain: I have heard you speaking with the others.  You find Ferelden unsophisticated, barely civilized.
 * Leliana: No, this is not true.
 * Loghain: You're painted to look like you're a Fereldan, but scratch the surface and find nothing but Orlais underneath.

Secret Companion and Wynne

 * Loghain: You look as though you want to say something, Wynne.  What's stopping you?  You've never held your tongue for politeness's sake before.
 * Wynne: No, it's nothing.
 * Loghain: Why should that matter?  There have been plenty of occasions in the past when you've had nothing to say and said it anyway.  Loudly, in fact.
 * Wynne: Loghain, you're not making this any easier.
 * Loghain: My apologies.  I should certainly be complaining that you've no vitriol for me.
 * Wynne: I...would rather have something scathing to say to you.  But I do not.  I...I feel I should admit that I have been mistaken about you.
 * Loghain: As it is a rather brave thing to admit a mistake, I will only say: Thank you.
 * Wynne: Yes.  Well, it won't happen again.

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 * Wynne: What are you playing at?
 * Loghain: I beg your pardon?
 * Wynne: She's young, but she's no fool.  She hasn't forgotten what you've done.
 * Loghain: Madam, I have no idea what you're trying to suggest.  Speak plainly.  If you wish to accuse me of something, do it.
 * Wynne: Oh, I have so many things to accuse you of, Loghain Mac Tir, that I hardly know where to begin.
 * Wynne: But I'll save them for another time, For the moment, know that I am watching you.  Don't think a few friendly words for the Warden will put everyone off their guard.
 * Loghain: If watching me amuses you, madam, feel free.  Now, if you don't mind, I have things to attend to.

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 * Loghain: You can stop scowling at me, madam.
 * Wynne: Did I need your permission?  I see.
 * Loghain: Fine.  I confess: It was entirely my idea that Uldred consort with demons.  I had a dastardly scheme in which the utter destruction of Ferelden's best weapon would benefit me, personally.
 * Loghain: Are you satisfied now?
 * Wynne: Do you think your deal with Uldred was where you earned my contempt?  I was at Ostagar.  I witnessed Cailan's murder.
 * Loghain: Such loyalty.
 * Wynne: What is that supposed to mean?
 * Loghain: Did you try to save him, then?  My apologies.
 * Wynne: I was fortunate to escape with my life!
 * Loghain: So you didn't rush to your king's rescue?  I see.  Then both of us left the boy to die.
 * Wynne: I was no general at the head of an army!  I could never have reached him!
 * Loghain: And I had no magic that could break those darkspawn ranks.  But perhaps you think I ought to have tried, regardless.  No doubt, the lives of mere soldiers are cheap in the eyes of the Circle.
 * Wynne: And what of all the soldiers who died with their king?  Their lives were worth nothing to you.
 * Loghain: You think so, do you?  I knew their names, mage, and where they came from.  I knew their families.
 * Loghain: I do not know how you mages determine the value of things, but they were my men.  I know exactly how much I lost that day.

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 * Loghain: I've seen you eyeing me, Wynne.  Trying to watch for the moment when I turn on you?
 * Wynne: I thought you'd be more likely to attack me in my sleep actually.  Isn't that what you do?  Strike when your quarry cannot defend themselves?
 * Loghain: You've made your point.
 * Wynne: I do not trust you, Loghain.
 * Loghain: I have become a Grey Warden.  I have made promises.  If I break them, my life is forfeit.
 * Wynne: That does not give me much reassurance.
 * Loghain: That's not something I can change.
 * Wynne: I will remain wary of you, Loghain, for a very very long time to come.

Secret Companion and Morrigan
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 * Morrigan: You are much taller than I expected.
 * Loghain: Am I?  You expected me to be short?
 * Morrigan: Well, you are also younger than I imagined.  Great generals are supposed to be old men who sit far from the battlefield.
 * Loghain: I have never been, nor hope to be, a great general, then.
 * Morrigan: No?  I suppose that explains your loss at Ostagar, then.
 * Loghain: I see you staring owlishly at me, young lady.  I suppose you disapprove of my being here as well.
 * Morrigan: No, indeed.  You are a vast improvement over Alistair.
 * Morrigan: That, however, is not saying a great deal.

Secret Companion and Oghren

 * Oghren: So what, now we're supposed to be best friends?  Bosom buddies?  Sit around the campfire and sing together?
 * Loghain: Somehow, I have no desire ever to hear you sing, Dwarf.
 * Oghren: Just don't start thinking that you belong here.
 * Loghain: Oh, I'm in no danger of that, I promise you.

Secret Companion and Shale
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 * Loghain: I saw a golem like you once.  Back when I was fighting in the army with Maric, many years ago.
 * Shale: Good for it.
 * Loghain: Could you be the same creature?  You were more servile, then.  The pet of a mage in Arl Rendorn's employ.
 * Shale: Do I strike it as servile?
 * Loghain: Not at all.  Perhaps I am mistaken.  I would no doubt remember such sarcasm.
 * Shale:  Then we're in agreement.
 * Shale: It could have won its battle.  It knows this, surely?
 * Loghain: I am to be subjected to the golem's ruminations, now?  Charming.
 * Shale: It said that it did what it had to do in order to protect its nation, but that is not true, is it?
 * Loghain: I have no idea what you're talking about, golem.
 * Shale: It could have slain the woman, Anora.  Then it would have been made king long before any challenge could have been made.
 * Loghain: You are speaking of my daughter, if you are not aware.
 * Shale: I am aware.  It said, however, that it would do anything that it had to.  But this was not true.
 * Loghain: I was unwilling to kill my own daughter.  Yes, that is true.  You think me weak for it?
 * Shale: I am uncertain.  Had it known then what it knows now, would its decision have been different?
 * Loghain: (Sigh) No. No, I would not have killed her.  Even had I known.
 * Shale: Then... I am content.

Secret Companion and Sten
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 * Loghain: Tell me, what did the qunari come to Thedas for?
 * Sten: You know the answer.
 * Loghain:  Do I?
 * Sten: Yes.  Why did humans come here?
 * Loghain: Humans have always been here.
 * Sten: Have they?  The elves tell another story.
 * Loghain: That happened so long ago, it can reasonably be said that humanity has been in Thedas forever.
 * Sten: You have a strangely short view of eternity, then.
 * Sten: I didn't think it was a human practice, making a comrade of a defeated foe.
 * Loghain: It isn't.  These are... unusual circumstances.
 * Sten: It is... encouraging to see.
 * Loghain: Encouraging?  How so?
 * Sten: Perhaps your people are becoming more like qunari.  You could do worse.
 * Loghain: Do you mean to say that qunari do make comrades of their beaten opponent?
 * Sten: Qunari do not waste resources.  And few are more valuable than lives.
 * Loghain: How exactly do you go about making your enemies work for you?
 * Sten: We're a persuasive people, if you couldn't tell.