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[DanteCousland]

• we know they eat the elves, dwarfes, humans, qunari males and some females they capture as seen in the Broodmother chant but surely that can't be enough for the entire underground darkspawn horde to survive. Its always puzzled me and now with the horde scattered and many small bands roaming the surface how will there diet differ from the deeprodss, surely with a bigger amount of "Meat" and plants nearby they can grow stronger rather than living on deep mushrooms and spiders haha. Just wondering is all. Thankyou.

[David Gaider]

DanteCousland wrote...
we know they eat the elves, dwarfes, humans, qunari males and some females they capture as seen in the Broodmother chant but surely that can't be enough for the entire underground darkspawn horde to survive. Its always puzzled me and now with the horde scattered and many small bands roaming the surface how will there diet differ from the deeprodss, surely with a bigger amount of "Meat" and plants nearby they can grow stronger rather than living on deep mushrooms and spiders haha. Just wondering is all. Thankyou.

Darkspawn don't require food for sustenance. The corruption within them keeps them alive. They can eat... but if they do so they do it for reasons other than dietary.

[David Gaider]

tmelange wrote...
This. Are they, then, not living? How exactly does a blood "corruption" serve as nourishment, or are they just animated dead?

That's an excellent question, if perhaps an academic one. Darkspawn don't breed, either... unless you want to call the process by which darkspawn are created by broodmothers breeding. Broodmothers technically aren't darkspawn themelves-- they're ghouls. So do the darkspawn qualify as living creatures in their own right?

Tirigon wrote...
It is argued that the Darkspawn make DAO a
game that is not morally ambiguous because the Darkspawn are pure evil,
and I defended them on the grounds of having to eat somehow so they just
eat humans like we eat animals, and now.. and now...[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/crying.png[/smilie][smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/crying.png[/smilie][smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/crying.png[/smilie]

They´re
pure evil!!! Boring!!!!!!!

They're compelled to be what they are by a force that is not well-understood. If that makes them "pure evil" to you, then so be it-- not everything in Dragon Age is morally abiguous; just that there are no easy answer. Beyond that you might want to be careful using imaginary logic to defend fantastical creatures.

Modifié par David Gaider, 18 juillet 2010 - 10:04 .

[David Gaider]

DanteCousland wrote...
If I may ask david, How do Broodmothers give birth.

There are no eggs, no-- or you would probably have seen evidence of that. I'm not sure I want to go into detail regarding what an immature darkspawn looks like, but if you used the Children of Awakening as a guide you wouldn't be far off.

[David Gaider]

2papercuts wrote...
so if "corruption" serves as nourishment, then why do wardens eat more? wouldn't they eat less? i think there a conversation about that in DAO

The corruption serves as nourishment to darkspawn... and Wardens are not darkspawn? Perhaps a Warden's body needs nourishment in order to combat the spread of what is effectively a disease they've taken into their own system. Perhaps their body just doesn't like the "nourishment" it's being provided, or prevents the Warden from properly taking nourishment from food so they have to eat more. Perhaps it speeds up their metabolism (something darkspawn perhaps don't possess). Take your pick.

Modifié par David Gaider, 18 juillet 2010 - 10:09 .

[David Gaider]

Tirigon wrote...
Don´t they turn into Darkspawn if they refuse the Calling?

I don´t want to spoiler your books too much to those who haven´t read them yet but there are events who made me think they do.....

No, they don't turn into darkspawn. A ghoul is any living creature that has been afflicted with the darkspawn corruption and survived the process-- and there are different stages from your typical (the standard "ghoul" you encounter, or creatures such as the blight wolf or the bereskarn) to the very advanced (the broodmother, a being who has had their corruption artificially accelerated). A darkspawn is a creature that is born from a ghoul, but that's the only way they're created.

[David Gaider]

joriandrake wrote...
SO, one can assume the first "ghouls" from where darkspawn come were not natural and someone made them, this makes it also likely that there are ghouls making darkspawn not just based on human/elf/dwarf/quanari but also possibly on dragons/animals/...griffons?

Now I'm trying to picture what a High Dragon broodmother would look like.

Hmm.

[David Gaider]

DanteCousland wrote...
Wait. The Broodmothers have breasts, Breasts are used to nourish a baby with milk when its growing. whats the point of it having breasts then if the darkspawn don't feed on them, especially having so many :/.

Artists find them endlessly fascinating.

[David Gaider]

fchopin wrote...
what do female wardens become if they are ghouls?

Let's just say the lack of female Warden fertility is probably a good thing in this particular case.

[David Gaider]

Tirigon wrote...
Good question. Maybe it´s a production error? I mean, they are based on human, elf, dwarfen or qunari women, all of which have breasts. Maybe the creation just increases the number of breasts together with the size, though it´s not needed?

Yes, my serious answer to the question is that broodmothers are based off a creature that does have breasts-- so they're going to have vestigial remnants of the creature they once were, now twisted and corrupted, even if they don't need them for their current purpose.

[David Gaider]

Lord Gremlin wrote...
As far as I understood until now actually only broodmother needs to eat as she forms the new darkspawn. It's like... A machine turning swollen mort flesh into fully functional organic bodies...

Yes, broodmothers do need to eat. If you want the simplest description, a broodmother is essentially a darkspawn factory (and a lovely analogy that is, too).