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[1483749283]

In the Calling novel, Maric, Duncan et al. venture into the deep roads. On their way to finding Bregan they meet and kill a high dragon.

Did anybody else think this was strange? The darkspawn are seeking, digging for an old god. They want to find an old god and corrupt it. The old gods look like high dragons.

Yet here is another high dragon... also living in the deep roads... but NOT the one the darkspawn are looking for?

Are we supposed to believe that this is a high dragon that is *not* an old god, but still happens to live in the deep roads for no apparent reason whatsoever? Don't high dragons want to live in high, free, mountainous places? 

Add to that the fact that the deep roads around this particular high dragon are corruption-free, but all the surrounding tunnels are filled with corruption, and the whole thing is very strange.

Am I missing something here?

Also, how the hell do certain wardens know the location of the old gods? I mean isn't this something that's supposed to be privy to the Maker only? Did it come down via Andraste or some such thing?

Help me out here.

Modifié par Pausanias, 11 août 2011 - 07:38 .

[thats1evildude]

According to the lore, high dragons spend most of their time simply laying around their lairs, birthing dragonlings and feeding off what their mates bring them. They only emerge from their lairs about once a century for a massive feeding frenzy.

So why would a dragon prefer a high, mountainous lair over an underground one? Dragons are perfectly comfortable underground, and there are isolated places in the Deep Roads where no one ventures for centuries. It could live fairly well down there, munching on the occasional underground beastie to wander into its lair.

The darkspawn corruption didn't spread into its lair because the darkspawn aren't dumb enough to wander in there — Maric's party acknowledges that the darkspawn will probably be on their asses pretty quick now that the dragon is dead — and because the emerald lake's proximity somehow prevents the corruption from simply spreading further. 

As to how the Wardens know about the locations of the Old Gods … well, remember, the Wardens are an ancient order that originated in the Tevinter Imperium itself. They would have a lot of lore built up over the centuries. Plus, y'know, Corypheus.

Modifié par thats1evildude, 11 août 2011 - 08:39 .

[1483749283]

OK, I'll buy your argument for a moment that a regular high dragon could want to live in the deep roads (although at that point it did seem like Maric et al were miles below the ground).

Otherwise, though, I'm not convinced.

Are you saying that you are perfectly comfortable with the idea that within the deep roads there are (A) old gods, who just happen to look like high dragons but with a special Calling song, and ( plain old regular high dragons---and that the two aren't connected in any way thematically? Just that they happen to look like each other and live in similar kinds of environments?

It would make more sense to me to introduce the idea that the old god soul somehow got "grafted" into one of the many plain high dragons that live down there.

I'm not convinced by your argument about the Warden's knowledge of the old gods, either... I mean the story is supposed to be that the Maker himself took them and hid them underground. That doesn't sound like information any mortal can just find out via "lore."

[thats1evildude]

I don't believe that Old Gods are high dragons. They might look sorta like dragons, but they're inherently magical beings. I don't know where they came from — a world beyond Thedas? That's what the Chant of Light hints at. Maybe they're spirits that took the form of dragons. And they don't so much live underground as they are imprisoned there.

Also, I'm sure not all high dragons live in the Deep Roads. I just pointed out that they could, and some do.

Modifié par thats1evildude, 11 août 2011 - 09:09 .