1 réponse à ce sujet

[Kuravid]

So, playing through the game, I get the impression that the dragons were the Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium, until Andraste's Chantry came along and declared them false gods and The Maker put them in some sort of semi-Lovecraftian imprisonment. After that, the Darkspawn infiltrated the prison of one of them and corrupted it and it became the Archdemon. This understanding of things was why I chose the option to have the baby with Morrigan at the end to transfer the cleansed spirit of the Old God into. I was sympathetic to the pagan view of things, seeing the god as something that was only branded "evil" because of the Demiurgic kind of monotheism of the Chantry's philosophy.
However, we don't really see any signs that dragons are anything but mindless beasts. Based on The High Dragon and the Archdemon (not counting Flemeth's dragon-form here) one could argue that they were somewhat god-like, but they don't seem to have any overt magical abilities or intelligence above an animal level.
I'm pretty sure the game is trying to keep things ambiguous as to the nature of things that are claimed to be divine in this game, but what's your take on the dragons and why? It seems like they're going to be coming back in greater numbers to play a role in future games as representatives of the paganism that Morrigan and Flemeth seem to follow and opponents of the monotheistic Chantry (probably led by Morrigan's Old God baby) but are they going to be some sort of spiritual masterminds like we traditionally think of gods, or are they going to be more like powerful mascots (anyone read Richard Adams' Shardik?)
Because if the Archdemon was just a corrupted animal, then what would the point of having to have a Gray Warden die to quelch its spirit or having Morrigan channel it into a baby be?
I guess it just seems strange to me to have a world in which there is undoubtedly magical powers and undoubtedly demons and undoubtedly a spirit world full of crazy stuff and The Black City (I mean, I'm guessing that floating thing you see in The Fade is The Black CIty) etc. but to make actual divinity ambivalent. I mean would a god be that much of a stretch from some sort of immortal really powerful wizard or really powerful spirit in The Fade? I admit it adds a layer of mystery to the game, but I still don't quite get why dragons are such pivotal creatures beyond just being big dangerous animals.

-David

Modifié par Kuravid, 04 décembre 2009 - 08:10 .

[DaLabbes]

I thought the dragons of DA:O were/are just very rare, very powerful beasts that were worshipped from afar by the Tevinter Imperium. (After all, we see in the game how easy it is for people to believe in dragons as higher beings. The High Dragon is certainly no god.) Until Riordan told me of the sacrifice...thing.

Maybe the "soulwandering" of the spirit of the Old God is more like a spell that comes with the taint on this possibly even magic beast. After all, the Darkspawn do need some kind of assurance that their "leader" will not get killed easily.

I don't want to think of the Old Gods as intelligent because that would have to come from somewhere. We learn where the Darkspawn come from, we learn about the demons...everything has some kind of explanation.



Speculation is so much fun.