Was speculating in the Solas thread, and I happened to come up with this idea:
Basically, the Golden City never was golden, or if it was... well, it was already on the verge of change when it appeared in the Fade. That's because it appeared at the same time as the Fade was separated from reality by the Veil.
Bear with me now...
Lore tells us that at some time, the Fade and reality were one and the same. There was no Veil separating the two. So, someone had to have a very good reason to separate them. Now that we know demons are made by warped intentions, in a time when people didn't expect those warped intentions, there would not have been so many demons. So it probably wasn't the demons.
I'm thinking that something--a weapon, a corrupt deity, SOMETHING--was so dangerous that the spirit world and the real world had to be separated to contain it. The entire Golden City may once have been a real place, not something only seen from the Fade. But something foul developed within it, and from that sprang the Blight, which even once the city was sealed away, slowly covered the gold and tarnished it with the black of the Blight.
Then one day, thinking that the Golden City must be the seat of the gods, to be located in such a prominent place in the Fade, the magisters are sent by Dumat to investigate. Did he know that the city was sealed away for safety? If he did, did he think the danger might be past? Whatever he thought, he sent the magisters. They sacrificed countless slaves to enter the Fade physically, bypassing whatever magic was used to create the Veil that was meant to keep everyone safely away from that death trap of a doomed city. And in that city, they contracted the Blight, which they brought back with them when they left it.
But whatever is in the Golden City is very very angry. The Blight embodies rage, hatred--negative emotions, in a disease form. Maybe it's somehow related to souls, or spirits, I don't know. I suspect that if my theory's right, everyone living in that city was also sealed away and left to their doom--no way to get food or water, no way to escape whatever threat was inside. And that threat must have been horrible, to need to change the entire nature of the world just to seal it away where no one could get into it.
It also means that taking the throne of the Golden City (or Black City) will not make you the god-king of all Thedas. And, given the timeline, it would mean that either the elves or the dwarves are responsible--if not for the danger within the city, then for sealing it away.
But the Blight seriously sounds like a weapon, or the product of a terrible spirit--or a terrible god (the Forbidden Ones?).
... Thoughts?
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