Aging the Wardens.
I do not think Wardens age faster than normal after the joining. I say this because after ten years Alistair should have been a stone cold silver fox and Stroud should have literally been on his last leg.
I do believe that a Warden’s organs do begin to age and decay just a bit quicker than most. With this idea, it brings reasoning of why they should die– sorta. On the outside, those who are not treated, dying to the taint kinda hints at all of your organs failing. Veins are exposed on the skin in black, viscus lines of sickness and the skin becomes pallid, cold, and clammy.
Example: The death of recruits at the beginning of Origins. Aveline’s husband at the beginning of DA2 or how drained and sickly Felix looked in Inquisition.
Take note of how quickly it kills without aging them physically.From a guess, the taint is destroying everything internally without actually harming the outside features too much. Yet, as a warden, it may slow your aging by a couple years or more. Keeping one looking youthfulish– this keeping in mind of how young Alistair still looks ( even if he’s only 30+ in Inquisition ) and how young Stroud looks ( with the idea that he maybe in his mid to late 50′s ).
However, once the Calling calls ( no pun intended ), one can physically see how sickly Wardens begin to look– pallid skin, exhausted features, sagging skin ( probably ). But towards the end, they are aging at an aggressive speed that in the end would kill them over the Darkspawn. Darkspawn are created from infected humans, dwarves, elves, and qunari, but has one really thought about the wardens that don’t have the chance to die? They are still alive in there, somewhere, decrepit and decaying through the tunnels of the deep roads because one side killed the rest of them.
This also brings the point that I also believe that if ( and that’s a mighty strong if ) the Hero and Pavus end up working together– especially with Alexius, if still alive– a cure is made at the end of Inquisition as a whole. With the pseudo cure given to Felix to keep him alive well past his due date with death, and what the Hero has acquired, being a warden at that point is not a death sentence– it’s a celebration on the life they thought they lost.
And talking about a cure is an entirely different beast when adding Pavus, Alexius, and the Warden into the same jumble...
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