Hero in the end... That's cute. It doesn't matter much the subjectivity of what Rowan could gain in allies while in mean time he's losing something no matter hard he's trying to do his best, this subjectivity allows the character to forge his path, whatever it is if goes into dominant or submitted to the Twins Corruption Rule, Rowan will always lose something, that's the overall outcome, there are several results in Rastedel, for example, with Jackes the loses of people are minimum, with Patricia is balanced the people lose and with Werden... well... it is said that most of the people was evacuated, but what was this "most of the people" considering how class that asshole is, and afterwards, you still lose half of the city, moreover, what's left intact of the half of the city was looted, but it doesn't matter how for the good Rowan can try, he still will always lose half of the city, this is an Overall Lose that can't be avoided, what's more Rowan will lose because he don't have any control of the situation (like it was used magic on him to get submitted enough time for his wife get kidnapped) or take a bad decision (like deciding to search over his wife and by sightseeing Jezera being alone by just pure scripted event Rowan just goes after her neck) by the necessity of the script will make you suffer.
Much less expect to get a "Hero in the end" because after choosing work for The Twins, you contribute consciously in the suffering of many people in Rosaria, it doesn't matter how "righteous" you think you had choose for Rowan, if he wanted to be an adviser for the The Twins to make them Rule for the "good" of Rosaria he was too naive and by if you played as much "righteous" as possible, in a place like Bloodmeen that wouldn't make exactly popular to had enough people to called them "allies". So, if you Rowan needed help from the "good team", he need to choose Werden's Route (iirc the Arbiter could escape) to take the chance they reorganize by the Act II & III "to do something"... And that's much to say considering that we still don't know how capable the other heroes companions of Rowan are... But knowing how lack of true Divine Grace can be Marianne that couldn't do anything for Rowan to diminish the power of the pendant... Besides, more importantly, if Rowan "the righteous" successfully get external help, what will be the price he's gonna pay or worst what is the true intentions of this help? There are many shit that can be out of any control of the situation, by believing your making right and being just, you could make everyone have a bad time depending on how superior this help is (consider this help near or being from Divine Level) that would just shit on everything and everyone because it can consider the world too much corrupted by the Dark God all the creatures, and need to be cleansed... That's something to considerate into Rowan's "good" path...
