Adding this to the fact that Bhelen doesn't need golems to prosecute the war against the darkspawn more effectively than had been done before, I think that the better choice under Bhelen is not to keep the Anvil. Attempted to draw Paragon Caridin from Dragon Age Origins, creator of the Anvil of. This leads to a short civil war, which Bhelen calls off when he realizes that Branka is too powerful to neutralize. Anvil of the Void (quest), the questline of the events. If Bhelen and Branka work together, Bhelen works with Branka, providing her everything she needs, and eventually alienates her by insisting that he be allowed to control all the golems they make.

Still, I think the bad outweighs the good even more than in Harrowmont's Caridin-Ending. On the other hand, Harrowmont doesn't die shortly into his reign in this ending. If Branka works with Harrowmont, he allows her to raid the surface for fuel for it, and that leads to a short war with the surface presumably this means Ferelden. That means that so far, all we have to go on are the epilogues of DA:O, and the epilogues where the Anvil is preserved are pretty gloomy. To the best of my knowledge, there is no effect on Awakenings or DA2.

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