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For a very long time I have supported the notion that [[Archdemon]]s are in fact arch, meaning powerful, [[demon]]s, who corrupted humans into worshiping them. [[Chant of Light verses#Threnodies 1|Threnodies 1:8]] says: "We dreamed up false gods, great demons who could cross the Veil into the waking world, turned our devotion upon them"; Threnodies 5:9-5:10 says "The demons appeared to the children of earth in dreams and named themselves gods, demanding fealty."; Threnodies 5:11 says "Those who had been cast down, the demons who would be gods, began to whisper to men from their tombs within the earth. And the men of Tevinter heard and raised altars to the pretender-gods once more."
For a very long time I have supported the notion that [[Archdemon]]s are in fact arch, meaning powerful, [[demon]]s, who corrupted humans into worshiping them. [[Chant of Light verses#Threnodies 1|Threnodies 1:8]] says: "We dreamed up false gods, great demons who could cross the Veil into the waking world, turned our devotion upon them"; Threnodies 5:9-5:10 says "The demons appeared to the children of earth in dreams and named themselves gods, demanding fealty."; Threnodies 5:11 says "Those who had been cast down, the demons who would be gods, began to whisper to men from their tombs within the earth. And the men of Tevinter heard and raised altars to the pretender-gods once more."
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So the core of the argument is that the Old Gods were in fact powerful spirits who were bound to high dragons. But due to the taint, the binding got screwed up, and they turned into the archdemons we know. When a non-Warden creature kills the archdemon, the spirit attempts to leave the body and return to the Fade, but it is tainted, and instead of returning to the Fade, it returns to the nearest tainted creature
. It just sounds good to me
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So the core of the argument is that the Old Gods were in fact powerful spirits who were bound to high dragons. But due to the taint, the binding got screwed up, and they turned into the archdemons we know. When a non-Warden creature kills the archdemon, the spirit attempts to leave the body and return to the Fade, but it is tainted, and instead of returning to the Fade, it returns to the nearest tainted creature.
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It just sounds good to me.
==Revenant==
==Revenant==
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In Origins we can fight the [[Gangue shade]], [[Indignant spirit]]s and [[Forgotten spirit]]s; in Inquisition in the [[Hissing Wastes]] there are tombs scattered across the long-forgotten thaig and in them there are shades and rage demons - Ancient Tomb Guardians, and Tomb Guardians - when you mess up the puzzle.
In Origins we can fight the [[Gangue shade]], [[Indignant spirit]]s and [[Forgotten spirit]]s; in Inquisition in the [[Hissing Wastes]] there are tombs scattered across the long-forgotten thaig and in them there are shades and rage demons - Ancient Tomb Guardians, and Tomb Guardians - when you mess up the puzzle.
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Magister Gallus ponders this issue in [[Codex entry: Demons of the Stone|his codex entry]]. His calls gangue a dwarven supersition, but maybe it isn't and gangue is really created by the Stone?
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Magister Gallus ponders this issue in [[Codex entry: Demons of the Stone|his codex entry]]. His calls gangue a dwarven supersition, but maybe it isn't and gangue is really created by the Stone?
He also suspects that the dwarves were able to bind demons through runes. Seeing as [[Fairel]] was a runemaker, it might be a possibility.
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Fairel was a Paragon who is cited with creating a powerful weapon. When he learnt dwarves use it against other dwarves, he left for the surface, and he was stricken from the Memories. I think the weapon he created has something to do with the Stone, or at least with demon-binding. I think Fairel will be mentioned again.
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===Titans===
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In Descent we've learnt that deep below the earth there are being called titans, and that they shape the Stone and lyrium is their blood. There are so many implications surrounding the titans. I'd like to discuss some.
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{{Dialogue box|"The Stone lives beneath Orlais"}}
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I love how the titans were foreshadowed through the series. In the [[Leliana's Song]|Leliana DLC]] the axe belonging to the dwarf [[Tug]] says "The Stone lives beneath Orlais". [[Nexus Golem]] says the same thing. Speaking of which, I think the golem exists only for foreshadowing.
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"We were once more than what we are"
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[[Valta]] [[Codex entry: Titans|says]]: "I close my eyes and see glimpses of the world that was, before everything changed and the dwarven race broke in two. "
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"Amgarrak tapped the blood, spilled within the Stone."
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Descent puts this line in a totally different light. Lyrium is the blood of the titans. The experiments with lyrium at Amgarrak affected the Stone.
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"The Gauntlet is passed. Only a Shaperate can bring the light. Conversion begins..."
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Fighting [[The Guardian (Inquisition)|the guardian]] would be the Gauntlet, and Valta works at the Shaperate. When the guardian affected her, she began to convert into something else.
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But maybe I'm just grasping at straws.
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It also says that: "Mathas gar na fornen pa salroka atrast". It gets interesting with [[Dragon Age: The World of Thedas|World of Thedas 2]]. According to Leliana, it literally means "At my side find your way in the dark", and less literally something like "I regret the sacrifice of my kin, but we will find our way home". There is a letter she's sent to a friend, where she says that she found some belongings of Tug. She mentions the axe, and another thing with an inscription: "Mathas gar na fornen pa tot isatunoll." She says that nobody knows what "isatunoll" means. The "isatuoll" is written in one of the Sha-Brytol signs.
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I am looking forward to finding out the meaning of isatunoll.
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But going back to lyrium as blood. One thing bothers me. In Origins, in the Fade mission thera are lyrium veins inside the Fade. I don't know if it was a simple gameplay feature (which allowed us to replenish mana) like the supply caches, or there is actually lyrium in the Fade. Or maybe it wasn't really lyrium, only the demons made it seem like something relatable, and chose lyrium. If there is indeed lyrium in the Fade it makes the titans exist both here and across the Veil. Very interesting.
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Another thing is Kal-Sharok. When Orzammar closed off the Deep Roads and left Kal-Sharok hangin', it is said that the Kal-Sharokians had to resort to some horrible things in oder to survive. I always assumed it had something to do with darkspawn, like they all ate the darkspawn flesh and became ghouls. But now I think they ate lyrium like the Sha-Brytol. Perhaps they found another titan underneath Kal-Sharok.
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Last thing I want to mention is the underground city within the titan. I was seriously amazed by it, as I'm sure was everyone else. The bottom actually looked like the sky. But what I want to mention is now how it looked, but how it sounded. There were bird noises. I don't know if it's just me, but it fascinated me. I had so many questions. Where do these birds live, what do they eat (and is it lyrium?), do they migrate for winter, is there such a thing as winter inside the titan?
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Anyway, speaking of foreshadowing,
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