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[Raymond of Toulouse]

Hey, who at Bioware wrote the "Legend of Luthias the Dwarfson" in the Codex (under Books and Songs, I forget the number)?   You can obtain the legend from the Ash Warrior Leader before the battle at Ostagar if you choose to speak with him at length. 

In it, a warrior woman named Morrighan'nan seduced a hero named Luthias and had his baby?  She disappears from the picture, only to have her son by Luthias reappear later as a young man to fight his father and die by his hand?  Morrighan'nan and the hero end up slaying each other?  So, Luthias's fateful tryst with Morrighan'nan seals his eventual death? 

Morrighan'nan? C'mon...no other characters have any similarly named, plausible antecedents mentioned in the game (e.g., no Alistair'nans).  I hold the Bioware writers in great esteem, and thus find it hard to believe that the name is basically repeated here out of capriciousness.  Some of the events of the legend are strangely similar to the romance plotlines with Morrigan.  Yet the legend goes on and terminates in some very interesting ways, and these endings are all tied basically to Luthias and Morrighan'nan's own "night of passion," so-to-speak.   

The fact that Luthias's wife Scaea offers him protection the night before the battle in exchange for a night of passion is also eerily similar to Morrigan's quid pro quo arrangement on the eve of the battle against the archdemon - the "dark promise."  Although in the legend, the night of passion leads to the hero's death instead of his salvation.  And there is a third party in Scaea, the wife, which complicates matters.  But still, there is enough there to at least beg the question... 

Should I be looking between the lines in this particular story, Bioware, for future content possibilities?  The general framework of the story could easily be applied to our Grey Warden's situation.  The idea of an old-god and conflict between the PC and Morrigan and her son would still work, although the events are less...supernatural...in the legend.  I only mention this because I found this codex entry to support some of the rather interesting sequel/DLC speculation. 

[David Gaider]

No foreshadowing. That particular legend was written well before the game, by James Ohlen. Any similarities are coincidental, unless you really prefer to think otherwise.

[David Gaider]

Wintermist wrote...
And it would be a strange world indeed if no two people should be named the very same thing.

Hey now, that's crazy talk. The fact that we have a character named Loghain *clearly* means he must have been inspired by an eponymous character in the Wheel of Time series. It's the only explanation.

[Mary Kirby]

I am waiting for the speculation on the sequel that stems from the fluffy mackerel pudding recipe in the codex. There's no way that was put in there on a whim: It must hint at a plot about horrible fish dishes.

[David Gaider]

I await the first person who actually *makes* that fluffy mackerel pudding, considering it comes from a real recipe. I'm eager to finally know what constitutes a "fluffy" pudding. Or, for that matter, a fluffy mackerel.

[David Gaider]

Kyrellic wrote...
I can see it now, the anti-gaming crowd will now be calling Dragon Age a how-to guide to murder by violence and poison...

Or, if where the recipe comes from is any indication, a guide to weight loss.