kedcoleman wrote...
My 2 cents: The Dread Wolf, and by extension the Elven pantheon, is based loosely off of Norse mythos, specifically Loki. The similarities are not insignificant: both are Trickster figures, both connected to the two opposing factions (the Wolf a friend to the elven Gods and the Forgotten alike, Loki the progeny of Aesir and Jotunn), both connected to wolf imagery (Loki being he father of Fenrir, the Wolf being, well, the Dread Wolf).
What greater trick could the Dread Wolf pull off than to convince the world that he was the all-powerful Maker, the sole Divine being of the world after he'd tricked all the other powers into locking themselves away. So he finds a slave, taken from an oppressed barbarian people and convinces her she is a prophet, a messiah - if she only spreads the word of his greatness.
The Chantry, founded in the footsteps of Andraste, teaches magic is sinful, blood magic especially so. Why is this? Throughout the past, for centuries - millenia - magic was used by all the peoples of Thedas. Some less altruistically than others. The elves had always been magical. I believe the dwarves were, too. Humans always had magic users. Magic, in itself, is not evil, clearly. This designation of magic as a sin is a means of control. The Chantry, unknowingly influenced by the Dread Wolf's desire for power and control, oppresses whatever mortals can challenge his power.
Blood magic is especially dangerous to the Wolf. Several times it's been expressed how much more powerful blood magic is than vanilla magic. That it would take many mages, or a mountain of lyrium to complete rituals that a single blood mage could accomplish. Not to mention the implied abilities of blood mages to dominate minds. For a lone god trying to dominate the wills of an entire world, well, that could be a problem.
So he tricks the humans into thinking he's the only god, "the Maker", and that everyone that could challenge him is an evil sinner by birth, always on the verge of Abomination. Even the mages themselves believe these tricks.
And what of the Fade? Did the Wolf himself sunder the Fade and the physical world? It seems to be implied that at some point in the distant past the two coexisted more deeply and were sundered with the Veil at some point. This is the implication, too, of Sandal's quote, that the magic will return, that the skies will part. I don't think the gods or the Forgotten will return, necessarily. They were trapped somewhere outside the world and the Fade. I wonder, though...everything int he Fade is a reflection of something in the world. The thoughts and dreams of people become places and things there. Emotions and desires become spirits, whether benevolent or malicious. I wonder what the Black City reflects.
With the Norse parallels of mythology, to go back to my original tangent, comes the promise of Ragnarok. This concept seems to be brought out, again, in Sandal's speech. It's very ominous, foretelling of something cataclysmic to come.
I like this because I posted pretty much the same theory earlier in the post, didn't make the connection to norse mythology, though so +1 for that.
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Who knows. And they realized what they did, and needed to cut themselves off to ensure that the corruption doesn't spread to them.
