N-no... you ask too much! There is no glory in this!

because of the BLIGHT, user

Why didn't they just make everyone drink at the same time and not tell them it might kill them, also pissed me off that you make like 7 people drink it in Awakening and only one of them dies, I thought it was meant to be dangerous

>Why didn't they just make everyone drink at the same time and not tell them it might kill them
this, just don't tell them whats in it

Rip jory and daveth and that other bitch

>There is no way out. You must imagine the smell, or face the consequences.

Witcher didn't invent this trope.
I'm surprised DA:O never got more popular since it's just ASOIAF before the show got popular.

kek

He who fights monsters should see that he does not become one himself

I'm just going to ask you fellows to take off all your armor and hand over those swords for me real quick

The entire concept of the grey wardens is so fucking stupid
>every grey warden MUST drink demon blood
>ok why
>uhh because you can sense when they are nearby
Or my favorite
>because some bullshit about how only a grey warden can kill an archdemon

So you are killing a gigantic proportion of potential recruits outright and condemning the ones that do make it to an early death, so they can sense nearby orcs and on the extremely small chance that they will need to kill an archdemon.

who writes this shit

The other important thing is that they can't get transformed into ghouls or get corrupted by darkspawn taint. Well, usually.

anyone else liked to imagine how their warden got ravaged and molested when they surrendered to Ser Cautherin?

Sounds like pretty good reasons to me, I assume when there's no evidence of a blight they don't make them drink it although I don't think the games suggest so, I just can't see how they'd keep their order going if everyone dies at 50

The point of Grey Wardens drinking darkspawn blood is that they become immune to being poisoned by the darkspawn infection, so it's like an immunization.
You forgot they can also hear the commands of the archdemon, so the implication is that the archdemon is communicating to them through their tainted blood, and the grey wardens hacked into the communication.
This is also a reasonable enough justification for grey wardens needing to slay an archdemon for me to suspend my disbelief.
I think you just don't want it to be cool user.

>uhh because you can sense when they are nearby

It also makes them immune to the darkspawn taint

Wouldn't they be immune anyways if they survived drinking it or is having some blood splatter you more dangerous than directing ingesting it

It's to make sure those they recruit have a resistance to the body corrupting blight since they're going to be exposed to it on a constant basis.

>well he pulled out his weapon bro, can't ignore that bro

Being splattered with it would just hurt you and make you sick, and the immunity/tolerance developed wouldn't be that strong, after drinking it the wardens could probably bathe in the stuff and nothing would happen to them, which makes them uniquely suited to destroying the darkspawn army.

The potion used for the Joining is more than just Darkspawn blood, it’s made with a bunch of other ingredients to make it possible to survive. Just drinking straight Darkspawn blood is guaranteed to kill you.

that really doesn't make much sense, if you gain immunity from exposure why not just have them fight darkspawn like a regular army does and just select the ones who endure the exposure.

fucking lorelet

Nah that's some manedla effect stuff, in Origins it was made clear that it's literally just darkspawn blood

It's made with both magic and Archdemon blood, possibly Dumat's stored at Weisshaupt.

>You forgot they can also hear the commands of the archdemon, so the implication is that the archdemon is communicating to them through their tainted blood, and the grey wardens hacked into the communication.
You would only need a handful of guys to fulfill this role, not your entire organization.

Again they are just killing their potential fighters for no real good reason.

Because getting the immunity in advance means a more reliable army that won't cripple in the thick of combat from a slow dose of poison. Getting it out of the way all at once is more tactically sound, plus it gives them the power to tap into the archdemon's ham radio station.

Nah. It's in the Codex, can't recall the specific entry.

The Joining isn't discussed or fleshed out in other entries.

>Because getting the immunity in advance means a more reliable army
more reliable aside from the fact that you self inflict >50% casualties before you even start fighting.