For starters I would like to talk about dead people in Dragon age.
If someone dies in the Dragon age world what happens to there souls?
Do they go into the fade pass the fade and then go somewhere completely different?
You see what confuses me is Justice said that the dead don't enter the fade, and we get references from time to time that the dead go to the makers side...?
I have to ask this and correct me if I'm wrong the maker should be living it large in his golden kingdom right?
But we know it has been turned all dark and emosih because of those idiots that said hey lets enter the fade while we don't sleep because we really want to.
What I'm getting at is do the dead go to some kind of limbo, or are they held prisoner in the golden/dark kingdom until the maker or whome ever turns it back to normal?
There are several religions in Thedas and each has their own ideas and customs regarding death and funeral rites, etc. So the short answer is that every group has their own opinion and, as far as I know, no one has been proven correct or otherwise.
And because this got really long, I'll hide them in religious specific things.
The Chant of Light
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Devout Andrastians believe that, in death, the souls of the faithful ascend to the Maker's side (presumably to some realm past the Fade where the Maker has retreated to since the sullying of his Golden City and the birth of the Darkspawn). So there is a 'Good Place' past the Fade where the faithful believe the Maker resides with a holy host, and also a 'Bad Place' referred to as 'the Void' where the wicked go when they perish. Quite a lot of our known verses of the Chant talk about the Beyond, the Fade, the Veil, the Void, etc. The Canticle of Trials and the Canticle of Transfigurations both come to mind here. (Have a link, so I don't bog down this thread with quotes. ) But, as the Maker is 'officially' believed to be an 'absent father figure silently judging from afar' and humanity is effectively in a 'time-out' thanks to the ancient 'demon-worshipping' Tevinter magisters, well...many not-so-devout Andrastians are up front about the fact that they are aware the Chant of Light exists primarily to comfort because it is preferable to believe that someone is watching out for you but they are not exactly convinced it's anything other than a nice story or a pretty song. Just...better than the alternative.
The bit about the Golden City turning into the Black City is all the Canticle of Threnodies. Magisters worshiping the seven Old Gods of Tevinter (demons? dragons?) who lured them into entering the Fade physically and assaulting the Golden City at which point the Maker cursed them and well...bad things. Corypheus seems to contradict this narrative from time to time and I am not sure how the ancient Tevinter people viewed the Old Gods. Did they think they were really demons? Gods? What? Who knows!
The Dalish
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Elves who haven't accepted the Chant of Light, or the Qun for that matter, believe in the Creators, the Forgotten Ones, and Fen'Harel. They call themselves the Dalish and most try to live outside of human contact as they try to regain their lost culture which they believe the Tevinter Imperium stole from them centuries ago when they 'sunk Arlathan into the earth' and enslaved the People. It's not necessarily accurate--without going into any DAI spoilers, particularly. But they have stories about Uthenara in which the elves--who used to be immortal, but thanks to the Quickening (because humans ruin everything, obviously) they aren't anymore--would...'retire from the world' and enter 'peaceful slumber' to dream and learn and, perhaps, return to share their new knowledge with the People one day. I think the practice has been lost/retired among present-day Dalish, however.
And then, of course, there's Falon'Din, the Friend of the Dead, and his twin, Dirthamen. Initially, Falon'Din guided spirits across the Veil into the Beyond (can't recall right now if that's the Fade, or yet another 'Beyond') and acted as a guide/teacher to those engaging in Uthenara. Now, he's still a spirit guide, but because elves are mortal, they don't come back anymore. I'm pretty sure you can bother Merrill about that in DA2, though. And I'm not entirely sure if the Dalish think the two of them were sealed away along with the other Creators or not. Always thought that was a hole in the Great Betrayal story. (Great Betrayal = Fen'Harel tricking the Creators and the Forgotten Ones and sealing them away in their respective domains)
Not saying any of that is true or false, or whatever. But, there you go.
Dwarves believe in the Stone. She isn't a god, exactly. But they entomb their dead within the Stone and believe that they return to it/her when they die, provided the proper rituals have been followed.
And the Qunari...I can't say exactly except that they have some unique ideas about funerary rites and corpses. They claim they do not enter the Fade when they dream. Not sure if that means they don't think they dream, or why exactly that is, to be honest.
Hopefully that helps? Or at least doesn't make it worse.
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) But, as the Maker is 'officially' believed to be an 'absent father figure silently judging from afar' and humanity is effectively in a 'time-out' thanks to the ancient 'demon-worshipping' Tevinter magisters, well...many not-so-devout Andrastians are up front about the fact that they are aware the Chant of Light exists primarily to comfort because it is preferable to believe that someone is watching out for you but they are not exactly convinced it's anything other than a nice story or a pretty song. Just...better than the alternative.
