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[Killdren88]

I just assume that The Architect was never imprisoned like Cory and spent the past thousand years among the other Dark spawn after Dumat's defeat. He simply forgot and forged a new identity for himself. Either that or he is the only Magister to feel guilty for invading the Black city and has spent his time trying to make it right.... in his own twisted way.

[Chronoreaper]

Insanity has been known to cause memory loss so the Architect was likely the most affected and with the first blight appearing he couldn't recope due to Dumats presence being there now thus he now feels he was born, and he was never locked up due to this or maybe due to that memory loss he was never part of the blights themselves(apart from the accident with the fifth blight) he may be seen as a dark and dangerous being to the wardens especially after that novel hes in but hes detached as people have seen and are doing good despite the losses the gray wardens do that look at avernus.

[dsl08002]

The thing is i dont know how the choice regarding spare the architect or not will affect the story. If he is a magistrate he will survive either way.

Unless the warden is meeting the architect i really cant say otherwise how it will affect.

[Archie591]

I think it's very plausible for the Architect to be a Magister. What else would he be? A completely random Darkspawn mutation that results in immunity to the song, an increased intelligence and creative control over the taint? It seems far more likely that whatever transformation and corruption that the Magisters went through, it affected them all differently, based on their individual powers and whatnot.

 

If he is a Magister he might survive no matter the Wardens decision - it would be an easy way for Bioware to stabilize that portion of the choices, though at the same time there is no guarantee that he has the same power of resurrection that Corypheus did. 

 

In any case, It will be interesting to see how the storylines pan out.

[Willowhugger]

And then they can explain why Corypheus didn't find the Architect after a decade. Or, they could just not make him a magister . That works too. 

 

That would assume he wants to find him or the Architect wants to be found.

[sandalisthemaker]

Ever since the Legacy DLC, I figured that the Architect was an acient magister just like Corypheus. I mean just look at the two of them.

[TBastian]

I think part of this goes back to what the Fade is and how spirits work, and how they can be corrupted to become demons. The corruption/blight has now progressed enough that Red Lyrium has entered the picture. At some point, I believe the game (or likely the next ones) is going to result with us storming the Black City (with the Inquisitor playing a key role as... well.. the key) and trying to fix whatever it was the ancient magisters did, with the old elven gods at our heels trying their damndest to do whatever (if the Solas theory from the other thread is right, the ancient elven "gods" probably came to be as a result of "careful" interaction between a few very skilled elven mages and the Black City).

I'm beginning to think the Black City is actually this world's primordial soup, the source of all this world's creative forces.

 

Anyway I believe this is relevant because assuming it were true, then the Architect could very easily be one of the ancient magisters. They would indeed have different powers - the Black City's effect on them would be "customized", like how the elven gods each had a different sphere of influence - and it would make sense that the Architect's power over the Blight would allow him to shape or even cut off other darkspawn's connection to the Fade (I believe the Blight and the Fade are closely connected, maybe the Blight is just another name for the corruption of the Fade?). Essentially, to "awaken" them he makes them... tranquil? Or some variation of that, and as a result of that most of them go insane due to not being able to hear the "beautiful music". Know who else talks about the Fade like that? Cole.

[ThatCityElf]

the architect is an ancient magister. like i'm 95% sure for all the reasons stated already

 

the story would be more cohesive and would add up if he was one, anyways, rather than just some "accidental intellectual darkspawn anomaly." just because he says he's just a darkspawn doesn't mean its completely true

 

also remember how lots of people argued about how corypheus was still dead? i got in arguments with my friends over that. the fact of the matter is that when bioware arranges evidence and a string of clues like this (janeka/larius acting strange showing that cory lived, corypheus and the architect looking the same, the codex entry posted above) you can usually bet on it all adding up to something in the end. maybe not exactly what we expect, but something close to that at least.