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[septembervirgin]

Is anyone else brooding on the Stone underneath Orlais?  This mystery vies with the mystery broached by Sandal.  I'm curious about the Stone and its presence -- maybe it protects the Maker's child, maybe it's a deity older than the Maker by far.

I keep thinking about the Stone as something like a strange proto-Lyrium that sings to the dwarves in ways they use as "Stone Sense".  But also I think of an egg, always an egg, maybe a brain of a deity inside an egg with Lyrium petrifying it all while it still lives.

Where are the gods of the dwarves, for perhaps they once worshipped gods?

Also, what sleeps above Orlais, if anything?  We are accustomed to seeking mysteries downward in fantasy games, not upward.  Yet to me, I feel the mystery of mysteries is above Thedas.  The rest is just a distraction meant to draw our thoughts to chthonic things, subterranean contemplations.  Where does the air come from?  And what of the constellations?

Is the Stone the start of the Fade or is it an anchor?  Did it arrive from the stars?

Modifié par septembervirgin, 01 octobre 2012 - 05:48 .

[whykikyouwhy]

There are mysteries above, or at least their echo is imprinted in some semblance of above (specifically in the shadow that is supposedly the Black City in the Fade, and in the Veil which seems to shimmer on the surface).

Perhaps the Stone beneath Orlais is another thaig, but the first thaig - the earliest, and the heart of the lyrium from which all the veins beneath Thedas run. It is quite possible that something fell from the sky and was buried deep within the earth - the concept that the Stone may be an anchor of some sort is quite intriguing. Or maybe the Stone is a plug of sorts, a barrier and cork, bottling up all the magicks (the Fade, the City, the prison of the gods, the pandora's box, etc). And where magic exists, where it is most powerful across the lands, is where small fissures and cracks have appeared.

With any luck, we'll get to explore the underbelly of Orlais and uncover some more of this mystery.

[septembervirgin]

whykikyouwhy wrote...

There are mysteries above, or at least their echo is imprinted in some semblance of above (specifically in the shadow that is supposedly the Black City in the Fade, and in the Veil which seems to shimmer on the surface).

Perhaps the Stone beneath Orlais is another thaig, but the first thaig - the earliest, and the heart of the lyrium from which all the veins beneath Thedas run. It is quite possible that something fell from the sky and was buried deep within the earth - the concept that the Stone may be an anchor of some sort is quite intriguing. Or maybe the Stone is a plug of sorts, a barrier and cork, bottling up all the magicks (the Fade, the City, the prison of the gods, the pandora's box, etc). And where magic exists, where it is most powerful across the lands, is where small fissures and cracks have appeared.

With any luck, we'll get to explore the underbelly of Orlais and uncover some more of this mystery.

We have Alindra and her soldier, a painted skyball, and mention of "the evening star" in a description of twin rings.  There is a meteor fallen from the sky which causes Starfang to be.  I suspect constellation texts were removed for some reason or simply not added due to lack of time, but... maybe Ferelden and Kirkwall are overclouded, perhaps they are superstitious about the night sky.

It might be many things are true about the Stone.  I feel awkward now writing about it.  It's not my making, of course, and I almost feel it's a private issue between JES and the game, as if I'm not really supposed to be playing the game I bought, nor even thinking about it.  Yet the Stone is an interesting concept.  Barrier and lodestone, it weighs and stoppers, fractures the world and steadies it, for without its further presence all might fall into the sea of the Fade.  Without the Stone the Fade itself might lose cohesion.  This is probably falsehood and silliness on my part.

Still, what lays beneath Orlais may be available in a DLC for DA3?