Yes, Caridin's journal is why I'm so adamant that he couldn't have made the Anvil. He specifically had dreams and visions, which has to have some sort of bearing on the ancient days of the Dwarves.
It's interesting that Meredith was able to bypass the soul requirement with the red lyrium, which given that lyrium was alive in the first place just goes to show that maybe Caridin's method wasn't necessary at all. That is to say, maybe living souls aren't required to make a Golem, since we see them inside the PT -- which indicates they existed before the First Blight.
Perhaps the PT Dwarves, in their devotion to the Titans, crafted the Darkspawn in some form -- as Genlocks were the first Darkspawn to be seen -- as workers to help and serve the Titans. But when the Veil was created, something happened that broke the Darkspawn's allegiance to the PT Dwarves and knocked the Titans out of the world, and in essence trapped the PT Dwarves in their thaig? They couldn't escape, because the Darkspawn were on the other side? And perhaps the other Dwarves in the world had to make do and their culture eventually changed, until the Darkspawn eventually found them.
Perhaps the Titans are the figures mentioned by Shaper Czibor -- Bloadlikk and the like.
As for the Claws of Dumat being identical, I'd honestly just argue that's an art resource reuse rather then anything else, but if it is something more then perhaps the Claws of Dumat was used by the PT Dwarves and they are indeed responsible for the Black City's corruption as I've thought for years now.
House Valdasine... something must have happened. Perhaps they found an ancient relic, or heard the Titans, and ended up doing something that caused them to become lyrium.
We know Red Lyrium will perpetuate itself. Who's to say regular lyrium doesn't do the same thing? Why do we assume this is simply something unique to Red lyrium?
We also have to consider the Gangue Shade and Kal-Hirol's memories and how they might relate. There were other codexes I wanted to factor in but I forgot what they were.





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