yeah thats what was referencing.
But isnt Rl anti-magic, and dont demons use magic as well? Wouldnt it adversely affect demons and magi
Well we don't really know what Red Lyrium is. and thats how one of the dev's (i cant remember if it was David or Mike.) remember our talk that the Behemoth seems like an abomination. and since red lyrium doesn't seem to appear any times of thin veil or veil tears in DA:O or DA:2 but it obviously did appear in an ancient time in the Primeval Thaig which is deeper and older than the Deep roads so might be as older than tevinter. so during some point Dwarves before Tevinter showed up were able to craft lyrium into a idol which in turn made the Veil thin in that Thaig.
So maybe something is causing it.
Maybe red lyrium is only able to appear every (how ever long) and thats why the Elder One chose now to appear and open the breach because he is able to draw enough power from it to have the Breach swallow the world. and the red templars using it and planting it(or what ever they are doing to get more of it) are just giving more raw Red Lyrium for him to use to his advantage.
I'm kinda thinking the Red Templars are like Cerberus in ME3 where they were just trying to get stronger so they upgraded Themself with Reaper tech and unwittingly made it so the Reapers could control or suggest things to them. maybe the Elder One is doing the same to the Red Templars.
HOLD ON. What if the Elder One is just the one making the song that everyone hears in Red Lyrium. like he isn't the dragon, or the Elf, or the Doppelganger. he is this massive monstrosity locked away who ONLY can manipulate and NEEDS others to do his work, I.E the Venatori, the Demons and so forth.
Like maybe you aren't so much Fighting the Elder One as stopping him. Maybe that's what the spider is. Just an idea i'm throwing around in my head.