robertthebard wrote...
Doesn't using the Eluvian render it powerless in Witch Hunt?
More or less. For that specific Eluvian, it does. It only had enough power left in it to be used one time. That however doesn't negate the possibility that Morrigan could find another one in Eluvian Land.
Assuming of course they're easier to find in Eluvian Land. All we know about it is that it's:
1) Safe enough for Morrigan to feel confident in going there and more importantly leaving an untrained and unwatched child on the other side.
2) That it lies "beyond Thedas and beyond the Fade"
3) It's got something to do with Elves, more then likely.
robertthebard wrote...
Assuming it doesn't, Merrill's Eluvian is after the demon that was "helping" her gets destroyed. It was, after all, shattered in Origins, and she's been trying to remake it so it would work. Of course, from the plot line, it seems that "purifying" it actually set it up as a conduit between where the demon was imprisoned,
Incorrect. It's very clearly established that Merrill's purification of the tainted shard was nothing more then using the powers inherent in blood to amplify her magic. There wasn't any "ritual" involved. She learned blood magic and she used it to amplify her powers.
That's all there is to it.
If it was a specific blood magic ritual, then she wouldn't have said she could've used lyrium as a subsitute, had she had enough of it. Lyrium acts as an amplifier as well. Blood magic would've been the
only way, plain and simple. Instead, it was the easiest, quickest, and most readily available method she had considering she lacked the lyrium option.
1) Merrill was taught Marethari's healing magic -- per DAO's DE Origin -- that was proven to be able to combat the taint in its unamplified form. When Marethari used it anyway, but Marethari said in DAO that Merrill knew the same magic.
2) The Demon taught Merrill blood magic. She says that she went to learn blood magic. Not that she learned any particular ritual needed in the cleansing.
3) Blood magic amplifies the power of magic, per the lore.
4) Anders never states that the shard is tainted, when he is so against the Eluvian. If it was tainted still, he would've told Hawke that it was so Hawke wouldn't help Merrill. Since he didn't, we know that it was in fact cleansed -- along with the fact that Merrill goes 7 years without being tainted.
5) It's very clearly stated in-game and out that the Demon was trapped in that demonic Buddha statue,
sundered from the Fade, and could
ONLY be freed by a powerful spell -- of which we have no idea if Merrill knew the particular spell, but we know Marethari does. He is basically Justice without the ability to move around the mortal world when he wants. He's stuck in the mortal world forever, unless someone frees him by the only method possible -- Marethari's method.
6) Marethari has said in both games that she wants nothing to do with the Eluvians. That includes researching them. So anything she says on the matter shouldn't be believed at all. And considering she was on the mountain for years on end, listening to the infernal whisperings of the Demon, I'm inclined to believe it manipulated her into freeing it. More then likely by feeding it lies based on what she wanted to hear -- "You were right, she was wrong. Free me and she'll be safe!"
7) As I stated above, Morrigan told us the Eluvians go beyond Thedas and beyond the Fade.
where-ever that may have been, and the mortal plane. So no, whatever it's initial properties may have been, they don't exist any more.
They do. They're just dormant. Merrill states in-game that she can actually feel the power inside of the Eluvian, but can't get it to awaken.
thats1evildude wrote...
Maaaaaaybe. The fact that she's being resurrected in an elven burial site may be the reason Merrill recites In Uthenara; it might have had something to do with harnessing the energy of that place.
Is that even possible? As far as I know, it's just a song meant to be sung for the dead.
I'm not convinced that Flemeth is an elven god or anything else connected to the elves. I know that the Dalish fear her and afford her a measure of respect, but that could simply be because she's immensely powerful and as old as sin.
Well, she is the only known person to refer to the Dalish by the name they adhere to -- The People. That alone says that she at least is connected to the Elves.
Perhaps not in a "They're linked together through mutual history" type of connection, but at the very least in a "She does afford them some respect as well and knows about their history" sort of connection, y'know?
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