Statulos wrote...
If the Darkspawn were so well packed and led, they´d show some examples of tactics and global strategy on their Blights and seems like they basicly assault massively and that´s it.
To me they´re an infection and infections serve no further purpose than eventually killing the host.
Infections don't want to kill the host, infections live only to reproduce and spread to new hosts. Bacteria do this by subverting the resources of the host for themselves and secreting endotoxins to kill the host cells that were using those resources. Viruses subvert the cells themselves, using their reproductive machinery to reproduce themselves (leading to the question of whether viruses are alive, since one of our definitions of life is the ability to reproduce). The infections that actually kill the host animal quickly are not very successful infections, since they don't get to spread to other hosts and without the host animal supplying nutrients they can't survive. E.g. Ebola is terrifying disease, but it kills its hosts so quickly that most oubreaks don't last long or kill more than a hundred people (not bothered to get the actual stats, but IIRC except for Ebola Zaire, your typical hemorrhagic fever oubreak kills about 30 people). The strain itself makes itself exctinct very rapidly. HIV doesn't kill the host, it destroys the immune system and another opportunistic infection will kill the host. Because it doesn't kill, it's become a global pandemic. The more successful infections are the ones with long incubation periods that aren't very lethal.
Of course neither bacteria or viruses have intelligence and without intelligence they can't have a will. Since the Emissaries can cast spells, the Darkspawn (at least some of them) are intelligent. Branka even managed to make a deal with them, so they can be reasoned with. That's not to say that they do not want the total annihilation of all life in Thedas (It could be their divine purpose). I suspect only Bioware can tell use what their purpose is. Gaider has said that the Codex entries are from the character's perpective of what's going on and some of them are wrong, so any conjecture at this point is meaningless. The game doesn't give us a chance to sit down and have a chat with them, or even observe their behavior, so we don't really know anything about them other than they seek conquest for some reason or another.
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