Gervaise wrote...
Just a small point. The Vatarell is normally meant to be okay with elves but Merrill admits something seems to have upset it. The elven spirits on the mountain are also upset, again she says something must be causing this. Now I'm not saying that Merrill is necessarily the cause but it might seem that way to the clan. So Pol goes into the caves with the hunters and they are killed, possibly by creatures that should normally be okay with them or by spirits of the dead. May be he knows from his Chantry teaching or from Marethari that blood magic can be used to raise spirits or its effects allow creatures to cross from the Fade and inhabit corpses. She may even have linked it to the demon that Merrill was using. Then as he tries to make his way out, he runs into Merrill and thinks she is the cause of the problems the hunters encountered and thus responsible for their death and he is next, so he runs.
Audacity may well have something to do with the unrest on the mountain - he is clearly a powerful demon since earlier elves/humans (we don't know which) preferred to bind him than simply kill him. May be they thought he could do less damage that way, his influence being confined to a particular area rather than having the run of the Fade. After all, who is responsible for the ghosts of the clan who appear during the fight with him?
There is one other Vatarell that we as players know of that attacked a dalish elf which is apparently 'out of character' for it.
This Vatarell and the one in DA2 have a common thread: An Eluvian in there area.
We don't know exactly how Eluvians work, Merrill doesn't know how they work, Merathari doesn't know how they work. We do know: They can absorb the darkspawn Taint, they can be used to communicate and they can be used to travel, possibly interdenominationally.
If this is why the Vatarell goes kill-happy it would make sense and it would give weight to Merathari's logical warnings that the mirror has too many unknown variables to it and is thus too dangerous.
And for all the people saying that Merathari would have had to lie, go play the Dalish origin again because I have recently, after Mahariel comes back from the cave a second time one of the hunters will comment that they should:
burn down the cave the Mirror was found in because it has bought them nothing but pain. The whole clan already had enough bad feelings about that mirror, I don't believe Merathari did anything but tell them the truth when they asked. And saying "Oh but Merrill cleansed it so it's all fine and peachy now. The clan would have no reason to be against it." doesn't cut it, Merrill may be trying to control the mirror and use it for good and all, but that thing tore two members of the clan,
the family, away. I wouldn't want anything to do with it and hearing that your sister wants to mess with it, against the express wishes of your elder, and would voluntarily leave the clan and her responsibilities* to do so? Yeah, I'd be feeling pretty angry and even a little betrayed too.
* and before anyone says she's doing her job as Keeper in leaving the clan to fix the mirror:
"-And Tamlen remains missing. He is more important then any lore in those ruins"
Quote from
Merathari during the Dalish origin, play through that and you'll see how important each member of the clan is and that keeping everyone alive is of upmost importance, from the way Mahariel can be yelled at for going off alone with Tamlen into the ruins, to how the clan members being relieved at your recovery and worried for Tamlen, to
Merrill telling you off for trying to bring Fenarel on a dangerous search for Tamlen without the Keeper's permission. Which is kind of priceless in hindsight:
Merrill: You want to risk Fenarel getting hurt? Or worse?
Fenarel: I should decide whether I’m willing to risk it or not.
Merrill: Go tell the Keeper that then.
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