User blog comment:Diyartifact/Shepard's adversaries/@comment-4986377-20120404052031/@comment-1388547-20120404151251

Loghain is mostly only relevant to the Fereldan politics plot thread. That's about 1/3 to 1/2 the game -- a substantial part, and I certainly wanted to bring him to justice, but he's not really relevant to the dwarves, elves, or mages. He's unwittingly making the darkspawn's job easier, but he's not even being manipulated by them like Saren was by the Reapers, let alone acting as their leader, and his plot gets resolved before the climax of the story. He's just a subplot villain -- an effective and well-written one, but mainly important because he's *in the way* of the Warden accomplishing his/her task.