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[Wolfen09]

theres also the chant of silence which talks of the old gods and their song from their prisons....  as far as i know, shartan and silence are the only two dissonant versus we know of right now.... wouldnt mind a side quest to collect a bunch though

[dragonflight288]

theres also the chant of silence which talks of the old gods and their song from their prisons....  as far as i know, shartan and silence are the only two dissonant versus we know of right now.... wouldnt mind a side quest to collect a bunch though

 

There's the Canticle of Maferath.

[Wolfen09]

we do not know its specific contents though, and if i can remember correctly, it was not dissonant, but lost... because it was in a library in the middle of f****** nowhere

[dragonflight288]

we do not know its specific contents though, and if i can remember correctly, it was not dissonant, but lost... because it was in a library in the middle of f****** nowhere

 

I think the description for the quest when you pick it up at the merchant's board says it was deliberately not added to the Chant when the chantry was declared. 

[Gervaise]

The Canticle of Maferath was carved onto statues adjacent to the Pilgrim Trail from Denerim to Amaranthine, whether around the time he existed or much later is anyone's guess.  Clearly nobody ever bothered to read them until the Warden turned up or you'd think the Chantry would have sent someone out to deface them.  The Library in the middle of nowhere contained writings that we have yet to be informed the contents of.   It could have just been a written copy of the Canticle of Maferath but may be there was a lot more.   We had another hint of the amount of history that has been conveniently forgotten/covered up by the Chantry in the codex that went with the sword that belonged to Shartan that we find in DA2.    The writer, a Chantry scholar, as good as admits that without Shartan and his soldiers throwing in their lot with the barbarians, the Battle of Valarian Fields might have ended differently.   It is also interesting that the sword has the property of being able to dominate the mind of the opponent, much as blood mages do and was gifted to Shartan by Andraste.   So where did she get it from?

 

I can also appreciate why they might have supressed the Canticle of Shartan at the time of the Exalted March against the dales but not the continued mistreatment of the city elves, apparently with the Chantry's blessing, or the very least no apparent objection to the prejudice against them.     At the Landsmeet, if you bring up Loghain selling elves into slavery there is not a peep from the Grand Cleric about it but stopping one Templar from doing his duty earns her outraged condemnation.    When Vaughan busts into the wedding and carries off the bride, after throwing insults at the Reverend Mother, you'd think she'd have called upon Templars and City Guards to take him to task, but apparently no one lifts a finger until the pro-Warden does what they should have done.   We also see an elf in the alienage whose legs were damaged in an accident at the docks.   When asked if it couldn't have been healed by magic, the response is pretty much to the effect that no one would do that for an elf.   Since the Chantry control the mages, that effectively means the Chantry would never do that for an elf.   

 

Still, given some of DAI definitely takes place in the Dales, it would appear that some of that ancient history is going to be addressed.   I am still awaiting my copy of Masked Empire so I'm hoping that it doesn't dash my hopes of what I will see in DAI.