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[Donquijote and 59 others]

To answer those questions, you'd first need to define what exactly a "soul" is.

In Dragon age a soul is the inner core of a being that can exist without any form of biological support and as such is non material.

 

Kieran was said to carry an old god's soul, yet he appears to be clearly his own person. 

 

Kieran OGB form is not his own person but is altered to some extent by his imaginary friend  in fact in a world state where the old god was eliminated he is another person with another behaviour.When the soul is removed his behaviour change once again.

If you're generous and say that a soul is any non-material aspect (note: I did not say "non-physical") a living entity might have, then I'll concede the point. 

A soul is non material and non magical since it does not reside on the fade as the ultimate place destination and also they appear to be created at conception out of the blue.

[Secret Rare]

It can be inferred from Felassan dialogues that souls are the evolution of spirits who grew in community and became more sophisticated in their own emotions.. The most powerful souls (the so called godhood) are nothing more but spirits that evolved into souls without losing their features as spirits, they are literally an in-between category.

[Jedi Master of Orion]

So you are implicitly defining a soul as a discorporate entity that once was an aspect of a living being, carrying all the personal traits of its being of origin except for (obviously) the physical, but not retaining a capacity to intentionally act or influence its environment unless re-anchored to a living being, which does not have to be the one it originated from.

 

One should note that since the different layers of Thedas' reality are observable and open to inquiry, here, a soul isn't a metaphysical entity, which makes using the term a little odd in my view, since IRL, it's usually used in a metaphysical context.  

 

Whatever metaphysical perspectives we have about souls in real life doesn't necessarily always need to be transplanted exactly or directly applied in their entirety to any given fantasy setting. Many different fictional universes have their own takes on souls being a tangible part of the setting. 

 

Forgotten Realms, Warhammer 40K, Mortal Kombat, etc are all examples of that, so I figure we'd might as well take the characters' who talk about souls word for it when it comes to Dragon Age.

[VivainaDX]

Ok...If I may present an entirely off the wall concept of the Maker AND the Creators... 

    I`m going to go on the assumption that the Golden City is NOT the Black Palace in the fade, the Golden City is in fact in an area or realm that is the source where all life and magic originates from and it is the only area that maintains it`s pre-veil structure. (ie: floating castles, stone spires, river of spirits etc) 

 

    On the outside,the area looks like a swirling white house sized orb, with two stone pathways on opposite sides leading to it and is sealed in a timeless black void. Inside the orb time flows as fast or as slow as it`s needed to and nothing ages after maturity, one path on the outside leads into the orb the other leads out of it and to enter or exit the time stasis void you need a specific transport stone. Outside the void is Thedas, where time flows normally. The void was created or the Golden City was pulled into the void, just before the veil was formed.

 

The conversation with Solas at the end of Trespasser left me with the impression that someone or someones of great importance was left behind or lost to him when the veil went up and I want to say that he had been waiting for a person or people who didn`t appear at a rendezvous point and these people were a couple of very talented, powerful and young elves that the Evanuris were exploiting for their magical skills.

 

The young elves are brother and sister -The Brother has a brilliant mind for making magical items, coming up with powerful spells and rituals and is basically a master of non-living matter, where as the sister is brilliant at healing, creating new creatures, interacting with spirits and ghosts and extracting white lyrium. They where helping Solas by setting wards, placing runes and creating barriers to prepare for the 'raising' of the veil but got caught and were chased until they took refuge in the Golden City and sent it into the void to cut off access to it, moments before Solas manipulated the veil. Because he doesn't know what happened to them and the Golden City, Solas assumes they died along with many others and since it was them that had the only transport stone into the Golden City, Solas, nor anyone else can enter the city.

 

Because of their close contact with the Golden City, the brother and sister have not aged and over the millenia they have been slowly trying to create transport points so they can travel to and from areas in Thedas, hoping to find Solas and manipulating events by helping certain people and creating new artifacts, spells and rituals that include the use of white lyrium. 

 

I believe there should be a third type of lyrium, it would be clear with a frosty core and as a liquid it would have the consistency of corn syrup and could be consumed for rituals and medicines, used for things like quenching blades and armor as a solid it could be formed into gems that when set in silverite or stormheart  would become extremely powerful amulets, runes, rings, weaponry and armor. 

 

White lyrium would be the purest form of lyrium and would basically be liquid or solid life, magic, ethereal plasma. 

 

Blue lyrium gets it`s color from mortal worldly particles that contaminated white lyrium during the forming of the veil, the particles are pretty well harmless if taken in small doses, but they also work to neutralize  the effectiveness of the lyrium. A templar would have to consume a daily dose of blue lyrium because impurities dilute the effectiveness of the lyrium, where as one dose of white lyrium, (which is the source of pure magic/life) is all a templar would ever need.It would be what the first Templars used but they ran out of it and switched to the blue. It's the impurities in the blue lyrium that effect the brains of the causing addiction and memory loss Templars and not the lyrium itself. White lyrium added to the darkspawn/archdemon blood concoction drunk by Grey Wardens would protect the wardens from the taint and still allow them to detect darkspawn.    

[Blueblood]

If the Maker does exist, he's a sulky bugger.