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In a nutshell the rules are:
1) No Teleportation
2) No Physical entry into the Fade
3) No Ressuruction. No Immortality.
It is my belief that all these rules have been broken. They may have been broken by different people at different times.. But I think there is a chance that a group of people acting together broke them all AT ONCE. I am sure you guess already that I am referencing the august assemblage of the Tevinter Magisters that broke into the "Golden city" and started the first blight.
Lets see how one can go about forwarding this theory:
I wil start with the "Entering the Fade in physical bodies" part. This requires little explanation. Two-thirds of the Imperium Lyrium and blood of hundreds was the power that somehow propelled the mortal vessels of Tevinter Magisters into the Fade. Blood magic is an ugly, but a powerful ally indeed.
Next we think about Teleportation.
I assume the players of DA are familiar with the term Hyperspace. It is a cliche Deux Ex Machina used to explain inter-stellar travel: It is a space above our plane of existance that connects any two points in our universe by a shorter distance than the straight line between them. This "short" cut can actually be zero in length, in which case one call call the mode of travel teleportation.
Here is where I think the true genius of the Magister's was revealed. I believe that they realized that the Fade was not unlike Hyperspace and could be used for teleportation. Their target? The sunken city of Arlathan. I would like you to read one of my previous posts to get a better understanding of my conjecturs...
The means to reach there were as follows:
1. Enter Fade Physically.
2. Go to Black/Golden city which I postulate is Arlthan's reflection in Fade
3. Go back to mortal world, arriving at the Sunken Arlathan.
Evidently they manged to do the first and second step successfully... Too successfully one might say.
The Tevinter Magisters had everything... they had power, they had slaves, they had all the wealth of the mortal world and command of Fade demons at their bidding.... What they craved for, to my best of knowledge (Codex Entry: Drake's Fall) was immortality. This, they saw with envy as a gift given to the Elves, but not to them. In their jealosy and their pride, they sought to take it for themselves....And thus they heeded the advice of the Old Gods (Again I would like to draw you attention to one of my previous posts) who, it can be assumed promised them what they sought. For were not the Old Gods immortals? High-dragons die.. as we know.. a natural death.. but Arch-demons don't, a testament of their being beyond the scope of mortal world... They also have the power to summon their soul from its path to the Fade to a mortal vessel (such as a Darkspawn)... And this power they promised to the Magisters...
And in one step that was taken on the fateful day the Magisters sent their living flesh into the fade, broke all the cardinal rules or found the means to do so, was the doom of the world sealed and the Blight arrived on Thedas....
Time for speculation:
This thing casts a new light on Flemeth. She seems to have broken at least one Cardinal rule of Magic. Of Immortality.
Modifié par SirShreK, 19 juillet 2010 - 10:48 .
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