captain.subtle wrote...
I think he is not a spirit neither the effect of Lyrium. He is a human being made ageless somehow. I would argue it this way:
He has to be something more than human. For one, he seems to be not entirely physical. He doesn't just walk around the temple, he up and teleports himself around it. There are no known spells that can do this.
The rest of the "spirits" in the Temple are Ash wraiths disguised as Characters. They are essentially analogous to interactive holograms with restricted responses. Their function is double edged: Attack those who give the wrong resposne or open the door.
They transform into ash wraiths, but that doesn't really explain how they became ash wraits in the first place, or what an ash wraith is. Is it like other wraiths, spirits of the Fade that do not have a human host? Is it something else?
There are too many questions and too few answers.
The guardian on the other hand is perfectly real in the sense, that he fights like a Human and dies to leave a body behind.
He also pops in and out of existence in the temple, which makes me think he is not so real as we are. He is either human and breaking a so-called cardinal rule of magic, or not human, but rather something that can be corporeal and incorporeal at the same time.
More questions, stlll no answers.
I have NO means to explaining his telepathy. Sloth demons can do that, yes, so he may have been infused with a spirit like Wynne (making him Functionally ageless). But we have no evidence of spirits being telepatic (Justice). Just sloth demons. And they too are telepathic only when they have put you to sleep, not when you are conscious as far as we know.
Wynne is not ageless, though, and Wynne is certainly not capable of teleporting. We saw that through the Fade, the sloth demon can read your desires, and we know that a desire demon can hear them (or at the very least, somehow pass to contact you via what we saw with Connor) so the answer to precisely what demons can and cannot do is still too up in the air.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, which is particularly fitting for this situation.
So the Guardian is a special thing. He claims that he just swore an oath and became what he was. IFF he is telling the truth, I would suspect some kind of divine intervention. He does not seem like the lying sort though.
He might not be lying, but swearing his oath is not enough evidence for us to conclude a diety was involved. The problem with explanation in the absence of differentiating evidence is that we can come up with a near infinite number of them, each equally good at explaining everything we currently know.
It's a legitimate philsophical problem: you can look it up under the "underdetermination of theory by data".
I do not know how the Story writers view magic but to me it is not a law of nature. Magic is something that is supernatural by itself. It is a means to break laws..... I would rather suspect that Magic is treated as such by authors a well. But i grant you I am not sure. It can be another meta-physical effect besides Souls.
I'm a scientist, so it is very hard for me to look at a feature of the physical world that is empirically self-evident and degree it as somehow supernatural. For us, magic is most certainly supernatural - it could quite possibly run contrary to physical laws we already have good reasons to believe are true, and we have no evidence for it.
At the same time, if someone is conjuring up fire from their palm, freezing people they dislike and literally sucking the life out of others to heal themselves (or reviving corpses or meding wounds for that matter) this is something that we absolutely have to take as real.
I say souls are metaphysical because we see no phyical evidence for them, never have an experience with them, but have good reasons to believe they are real based on the death of the archdemon (particularly throug the US).
Magic is something more - magic is real.
There is a possibility though ASSUMING the Maker hypothesis is indeed correct. magic was created by the Maker for the spirits to alter the world as they see fit without actually having to make efforts. That MAY explain why only a few of the Living have it. They have some or other connection to the spirits through their bloodline.
Or it could be simply that the Maker created a world that we can shape according to our will. The Fade was entirely shaped by will, so it was too unstable; the next world might be more stable, but not quite as stable as ours. As plausible an explanation as any we can come up with, hence the problem.
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Yeah, ungrateful "Bastards". 
