The Old Gods are most likely dragons, as they have been explained as dragons both in the chant, in tevinter history, and in blight history as such.
The Old God whispered to the minds of the Tevinter Archons.
The Old God whispers to darkspawn, who hear it as a song.
Lyrium is said to sing.
Bartrand claimed he heard "voices" and that the red lyrium sang to him and it needed to be worshipped
The red lyrium idol was found on an altar in a thaig with no statues of paragons, suggesting this thaig prayed to the idol.
Those exposed to lyrium (the normal kind) lose their grasp on reality, as if they were mentally drifting into the fade. They lose the ability to differentiate between gaps of time, dream and reality, and memories. Supposedly, it kills mages outright.
Mages use lyrium to access the fade.
Lyrium can be found both in our world and in the fade.
Lyrium exists most commonly in places where the veil is thin.
Lyrium wells can control passage through the fade.
Lyrium is found near the anvil of the void, and only the dwarven culture has both a resistance to it, and a history of mining it.
Dwarves lost the ability to make golems.
A dwarven thaig, with red lyrium, was found in DA:2, and that lyrium could be used to animate a statue.
Nexus Golem Quotes:
- "Amgarrak tapped the blood, spilled within the Stone."
- "The Stone lives beneath Orlais. Mathas gar na fornen pa salroka atrast."
- "We were once more than we are."
My current running theory about this is that the lyrium is a kind of structural support for the veil. It is a conduit between the fade and Thedas that defines the two as distinct places. Raw lyrium supposedly kills mages at exposure. If lyrium is a conduit to the fade, perhaps the mage's mind passes through the fade when the mage is exposed to lyrium, losing themselves in it. This is more or less brain-death in the real world.
Now lets look at the dwarves, a culture that has mined the mineral for ages. They sell to the chantry and the tevinter before them, and once knew how to make golems. In Origins, we discover the anvil of the void makes golems using the soul of formerly living individuals through use of lyrium. Amgarrak attempted to create a flesh golem. They collected the bodies of the dead, and opened the way to the fade using the lyrium wells, in an attempt to ensoul their flesh golem with a spirit of the fade instead of an actual person. They accidentally gave birth to a Harvester, which is a powerful type of abomination. It is clear that lyrium can be used to entrap the soul, or link one to the fade.
Let us guess, then, that the once powerful Old Gods were trapped by "the Maker" below the ground. Lyrium is plentiful below the ground, so it would not be too far out of possibility that the Old God was trapped in lyrium; afterall, Bartrand's reaction to the lyrium idol supports this idea. I believe red lyrium is the lyrium that has imprisoned the soul of an old god. When the red lyrium is exposed to the taint, the old god is free, and awakens. Afterall, when Hawke enters the deep roads, there are a fair number of darkspawn in the area, and the Wardens happen to be there patrolling as well... eerie coincidence given that the deeproad is so vast, they (darkspawn) would be there of all places... we can assume the Wardens were tracking them there.
The revisit to the deep roads in DA:2 has overwhelming amounts of darkspawn, probably because that was the last place the red lyrium idol was heard whispering to them.
If Hawke didn't show up with Bartrand's party when he did, Kirkwall may have been the next blight! ... if finding an Old God truly starts a blight... What if that too, was just a misunderstanding?
Well, I found some people saying that they believe that the archdemon was not really the Old God, and I am now inclined to believe that. We fight blight dragons in awakening, and I think the archdemon was just a blight infected high dragon. Maybe the old god soul was in it, maybe it WAS the old god, or maybe it was just a high dragon with a badass body jumping talent and a level of intellect that darkspawn do not usually retain. If this is true of all previous blights, it just has to do with the rare occasion of a darkspawn infecting a high dragon. This would mean all the Old Gods are still trapped down there!
And now...
"One day the magic will come back - all of it. Everyone will be
just like they were. The shadows will part and the skies will open wide.
When he rises, everyone will see."
Interpretations of this have been everywhere, but a popular one is that it represents the fall of the veil. This is interesting, because the way people express this is that, if the veil falls (the shadows parting), then all the "magic will come back". As for "the skies will open wide" is an interesting part. Perhaps it is just figurative, or perhaps it reffers to the fade and Thedas becoming one and the same... or maybe, it reffers to that ever-looming object that codexes state can be found in the sky above the fade... the black city.
Now look at the quotes of the Nexus Golem. It proposes "the stone" lies deep below Orlais and the dwarven race was "more than it was". We know that the red lyrium sword of Meredith was capable of brining a statue to life. We also know dwarves have a history of making golems... what if the Hamer of the Void was based on an even older form of magical animation... after all, the primeval thaig was full of living inanimate objects... Also, dwarven history believes that they were MADE FROM STONE and RETURN TO STONE when they die. That sounds like inanimate objects, magically animated, yet again! I believe the stone under Orlais is a massive deposit of Lyrium, serving as a keystone to all the other bits of lyrium... and if this Lyrium stone is damaged...
The pieces that hold the veil in place break, and the veil falls. With the fall of the veil, the seal on the Old Gods will be lifted, and they will wake up ( either the last two or all the seven, which I am more inclined to believe given the religious importance of the number seven). The fade and Thedas will come together, and the black city shall reign over the sky above. Revelations baby, demons run rampant, and the 7 HEADED DRAGON WILL RISE!! Yes, I read the bible. I was bored, okay?!
There. This story also allows the OGB to take a backseat, as just a child with a dragon soul. That still has importance, as I do feel dragons still represent an importance to the series, but it is a bit more downplayed than a child with a god soul.
I DO believe the Old Gods and the Forgotten Ones are the same, and I DO believe the Golden City was the home of the elven gods.
I also believe that the Maker is the title adopted by Fen Harel, the trickster god of the elven pantheon. Folklore in our world commonly features a trickster god as a creator being. My guess is, Fen Harel had something to do with erecting the veil, which subsequently sealed the Old Gods away, and trapped the elven gods too. I think this is what is misunderstood as "creation" and that the creation of the veil made the world take shape in the way it is now, with the fade and Thedas separated. What happened to Fen Harel after, I do not know. One theory is that Flemeth is Fen Harel, but I am unsure, as I believe the "he" in Sandal's prophesy is about Fen Harel, and the elven pantheon already states Fen Harel is male. My beliefs regarding Flemeth lean toward a smart-ass dragon-mage (dragon with magic abilities, kinda like how only some people have magic, only some dragons might have magic).
Who knows? This is all just speculation... but I hope you enjoyed the read! This is a counter-argument to my previous dragon theories, and I support neither above the other. I have no idea what is right, but this theory is far more speculative than my last. Tell me what you all think, and if you have pieced any of this strange mystery together!
(PS: grammar and punctuation errors may exist, as it is currently 2am, and I am incredibly tired)
Modifié par lorvincent, 05 avril 2011 - 05:45 .
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