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[Tevinter Rose]

Flemeth as Andraste just doesn't make sense to me. Andraste and the chantry preach that magic should serve man, that it needs to be controlled. Flemeth is a mage by trade and seems to flout the conventions of the Chantry. If she is Andraste, she is basically giving the middle finger salute to her own religion.

 

Also, the Dark Ritual was her idea to begin with. Why would Andraste want to preserve the untainted soul of an Old God?

 

There's also no evidence that Andraste wielded supernatural or magical powers during her lifetime, either. She led a slave revolt against the Tevinter Imperium, was betrayed, and promptly executed. The only magic associated with her is the healing power of the Sacred Ashes ... which Oghren claimed was derved from the high concentration of Lyrium in the ruined temple.

 

 

It could go either way but the possibility is still there. Even though the Chantry teaches that about her doesn't mean it actually happened, it's just their point of view. The Tevinter Imperium teaches that she was a powerful mage. It's possible that the truth is in the middle of what the Imperium & the Chantry teach or the Imperium is right and the Chantry is just covering up the truth for their own agenda. Also it would help to explain why the cultists in the Frostback Mountains in DA: O thought that Andraste had been reborn in a high dragon. I think it would be pretty cool story wise if Flemeth ended up being Andraste imho.

 

 

After her death, a group of people named as Disciples of Andraste was created for the purpose of protecting her remnants and continuing her legacy. They moved her remnants to the Frostback Mountains and atemple was built around it. Eventually however only the Guardian stood still in his post and protected the ashes as the rest of the disciples believed that Andraste has been reborn into the form of a High dragon. This temple commemorates her memory and prevents the unworthy from viewing her remains. The remains stayed in the mountain, undisturbed for many years and eventually rumours began to spread that her ashes held curative properties.

Furthermore, the official belief of the Imperial Chantry is that Andraste wasn't, in fact, the Maker's Chosen, but rather "just" an extraordinarily powerful mage. This view, which is considered heretical by the Andrastian Chantry, can also be found in a book called "The Search for the True Prophet". Even Empress Celene suspects that Andraste's views were more politically than idealistic.^[9]   http://dragonage.wik...m/wiki/Andraste

[Gervaise]

I tend to think that the story of Flemeth and what Flemeth told Morrigan are part of the truth but not the whole story.    There was a human woman called Flemeth, who did call upon spirits to avenge herself on her false husband, so clearly a mage, and then fled the scene.    It is quite probable should was also a dreamer.    Deep in the wilds she made contact, possibly through the Fade, with an ancient power of some form, what Morrigan initially described as "the demon".    She allowed this being to possess her and it is their combined consciousness that continues from that point.  

 

Whether this being was an ancient elven dreamer, an old god or some other ancient spirit of the Fade is what we have yet to find out.    Morrigan stated, I think it was in Witch Hunt, that Flemeth does not fit any of the conventional ideas of what she might be and is definitely more than a simple abomination and yet not entirely what people in Thedas would think of as a god.      The ability to soul jump is clearly not confined just to the old gods.    Corypheus could do so.    May be it is linked to the taint but Flemeth seemed to regard the darkspawn as a threat to herself, so it is doubtful that the taint was required for her original transfer, if that is what occurred.   However, I am not entirely convinced this is how she maintained her existence, since we only have Morrigan's word on the matter and she was pursuing her own agenda.     So I think it is far more likely along the lines of what we witnessed in DA2.    The woman, Flemeth, originally found some small remnant of the being that possessed her, which helped give her the link to it and then allowed it to jump to her.    Thereafter it is the nature of this being that gives her longevity and allows her to be resurrected if slain in her current form.

[Dracon525]

I too like to believe she is Andraste.

[XxSnowfire]

It's an interesting idea, but I cant picture Flemeth as Andraste. Not that she's evil or anything like that because we have yet to figure out her true intentions, but at times she does seem a little off or even sinister and why would the maker want her to preserve an old god's soul when the maker was against them? I can see Leliana as having some kind of connection to Andraste though, since they've both received dream(s) from the maker.