That doesn't interest me. What really piqued my interest and trust me I need my interest piqued was this bit from the second link:
The world of Dragon Age is one on the brink of collapse, and when a
desperate gathering in the name of peace becomes the epicentre of a
magical blast that decimates the Chantry's leadership, it becomes clear
that someone or something is manipulating events to drive the world into
chaos.
So let us, the story board people brain storm this. I have my suspect.
Let me start off by saying that while there is somewhat a bit of proof that Flemeth is Fen'Harrel I've never believed that theory. Simply put Flemeth in both games but especially in Origins seems to be a character not too different from Doctor Manhattan from the comic book Watchmen.
She seems to know Jory will die and that he's irrevelent to the story, she knows she'll be in a fight with the Warden in DA2, she knows Hawke's future and gives her sympathy, and in general she seems aloof but a puppet to some greater scheme. She seems, at least to me, to be an important part of the world but not some deity that colors out of the lines. I'll finish this line of thought by saying while I disbelieve she's the Dread Wolf I won't really campagin that fact or call foul if she is revealed to be the Dread Wolf.
Second off, she's too obviously the big bad. So I'm ruling her out as the big bad manipulating things because there's no mystery there.
SO who or what is?
The moment you start Origins you hear the story of the ancient Tevinters blackening the Golden City. That single event, while originally dubious, sent the entire plot of the first game forward. More importantly the Architect is revealed in Awakening to have been responsible for the most recent Blight.
When this information comes out (the Mother forces it) the Architect says it was to find a way to end the Blights. Because of my own personal bias against that character I don't believe a word of it. Just like his never meaning to war with the Wardens while the talking darkspawn at Vigil's Keep says the slaughter went exactly as the Architect foretold. The character is just too untrustworthy for me to believe him especially since he wasn't going to tell us this fact had the Mother not brought it up.
In Dragon Age 2 the entire meltdown of the Chantry/Templar/Mages thing could (with the exception of Anders' durp moment) be laid at the pure lyrium idol found in the Primeval Thaig. Meredith wasn't the most lenient person in the world before coming in contact with the idol but her madness spiraled out of control after aquiring it. If there is a dark force manipulating the world into collapse then it acted through that idol. (Fun note: the idol appears to be elven in design. I looked for the thread that talked about that but there you go.)
Who could have had access to that idol? In a forgotten thaig lost to the darkspawn ages ago? Darkspawn.
Then there's the mission with Nathaniel Howe who talks ominously about the Wardens new allies and the need to secretly go back to the Primeval Thaig for some unknown reason. These allies are clearly the Architect if you import an Awakening where the Architect survived but the allies are less obvious if you killed that particular ancient darkspawn mutant.
But then there's Legacy. Which has a great name for what it is because it deals with what kicked off the series... the tainting of the Golden City. We meet one of the Tevinter Magisters that went into the Fade and kicked off (inadvertently) the Blights. This is the most solid proof there is yet that the Chantry's recounting of the origin of the darkspawn isn't all made up.
Interestingly enough Cory (the magister who looks an awful lot like the Architect and I do not believe that to be a coincidence) seems to no longer here the old god Dumat (the first archdemon). This suggests that magisters used to be in constant contact with the old gods. And that it appears the old gods may have suggested that the magisters go to the Fade. This is all conjecture but Cory does show how he speaks through the taint to control darkspawn, ghouls, and to a lesser extint Grey Wardens even while asleep. This ability has only been seen in archdemons who we believe are corrupted old gods.
All this points to me at least to a villain we haven't seen. Either an old god or an ancient Tevinter Magister. Either way whatever force is behind the darkspawn is manipulating this chaos.
The darkspawn cannot co-exist with other species or life in general. Their mere presence taints the land and twists living beings into ghouls. Their blood is the source of their corruption and also all darkspawn magic. I've long thought they were engineered by something as a living bio-weapon. This is speculation, of course, but I still believe it.
And finally I feel it needs to be said... Flemeth while powerful still saw the Blight as the real threat in Dragon Age: Origins. And it's entirely possible that all Flemeth's actions have been towards ending the Blights and whatever is controlling them.
Thoughts?
Modifié par Foolsfolly, 21 août 2012 - 10:02 .
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