brushyourteeth wrote...
How so, out of curiosity? I mean, I'm completely of the opinion that if Morrigan wants something she'll find a way to get it.
Bear in mind it's simply my own fanfic-like musings on the matter with little DA lore/evidence to back it up. Still, I'd like to think it's both plausible and wouldn't cause too much controversy if it was done.
As you said, Morrigan is the type of person to really go after something she wants. I can't see her or Flemeth for that matter not having some sort of contingency plan to ensure they got an OGB, considering Flemeth's whole MO we've seen so far -- one of them anyway -- centers on preserving Dragons. For Flemeth to have only told Morrigan of
one method of gaining an Old God's soul seems.... unbelievable, given what happens in Silent Grove --
unless she did so on purpose, as I talk about at the bottom of this snippet.
I'm also hesitant to believe that the Old God's soul is destroyed simply because Riordan says so. Matters of the soul are not within the purview of humanity. And besides, the Old Gods are significantly more powerful then Thedosians are, as well as being really ****ing old. We can debate the topic endlessly, but we will
never have the answers on the soul. If we do get the answers, it's probably upon our death. At which point, it's hard to really enlighten anyone about it -- as I'm of the mind that ghosts not only exist, but can interact with society, though it's extremely difficult for them.
Anyway, tangent aside I'd like to think that the Old God's soul was simply banished to the Fade. As we can see, the Archdemon has a presence in the Fade through the Warden's dreams -- the landscape is the same as the Fade's. Similarly, the Old Gods were reputed to have conversed to the Magisters of Old in their dreams from the Fade. Finally, the Antivan Witch of the Wilds was able to summon Claudio's soul from the Fade.
So I'd like to think that Morrigan would go through the effort to try and get the Old God's soul and bind it to her unborn child -- or her born child, though that might come with its own share of problems. I highly doubt she could do so alone -- maybe relying on a group of Old God cultist mages? -- but still. So she'd go down a route that's longer, harder, and possibly more dangerous.
The Taint wasn't really necessary for her to have an OGB. She needed a tainted child so the tainted Old God would be drawn to it. But if one were to assume that the Old God's soul was purified of the Taint upon the Warden's death, then would it be necessary? And one could believe that the Urthemiel that appears in Asunder is
the Urthemiel, unless Asunder says otherwise.
As a result, the Warden remains dead and she gets her OGB through different means.
Hell, let's ignore Morrigan being the one to do so. Maybe
Flemeth does it.
That would be pretty good, to see the US lead to Flemeth gaining the Old God's soul through the way I described because maybe Flemeth thought Morrigan wouldn't be able to convince the Warden to go through with it. She did seem to know that Morrigan was going to not only attack her, but do other things.
But what peole are saying is that if your Warden died, the only logical reason is that he/she was joined to the Archdemon in its death. So effectively, if the Old God's soul was set free, the Warden would have to be alive.
I have to admit, they have a point. Unless the Wardens have been wrong all along in thinking that the Archdemon's essence is destroyed upon its death (which could explain other possible OG's out there), I don't see how that could work.
I wouldn't say the two souls were joined together
per se. I would say that they were vying for control over the Warden's body and that the two souls clashed and, for lack of a better phrase, **** happened.
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Like, there's the whole Flemeth daughter thing to frame her relationship with a wee lass.
