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[Antergaton]

I'm just spitballing here, but I think the Blight will probably be traced back to the Old Gods and not the Maker.  According to legend, it was the Old God Dumat that told the Magisters to enter the golden city.  He promised the power of the Gods, but they found the city already corrupted and contracted the blight, which directly led to the release of Dumat in the form of the first Archdemon.

 

Perhaps the Golden City was once the seat of a Divinity or Divinities, but at some point it was corrupted during the reign of the Old Gods (perhaps during the same event that led to their imprisonment).  Some say the golden city was Arlathan, and perhaps it was sealed in the Fade to mitigate the spread of the Blight, and the reason Solas sealed away the Elven Gods, to save the Elves from the madness of their "gods" (theorized to be the remaining Old Gods).  What we do know is that Dumat sent the Magisters to the Golden city with promises of godhood.  It seems more likely to me that instead of generously trying to give godhood to mere mortals, Dumat was plotting his escape.  The Old God almost certainly knew that there was no Maker to be found in the Golden City, but the blight of old, that would draw the newly minted darkspawn to his song and eventual release.

 

Now this comes with the obvious drawback of becoming an archdemon, but I don't think we know enough about how the blight affects a being as powerful as a "god" to know if this would be considered a drawback to the Old Gods or a benefit.

 

The first part is the bit that always confuses me. If now whenever a mage (dream) enters the fade they can see the Black City, doesn't that mean yay back when, the Magisters when they dreamt in the fade they could see the City too? They'd see it Golden not Black. If it was Black, they surely the Magisters would think 'But it's not Golden?'.

 

Dumat was corrupted by the Blight as well to be an ArchDaemon, if Dumat wanted out from his prison, that would be a reason for the Magisters to go to the Golden City, achieve more power but he certainly didn't want to be turned in a monster and then slain by mortals.

[ZawiszaTheBlack]

The whole Darkspawn is controled by Archdemons only, not by Magisters. Hurlocs and others listen to the melody and do everything to find it's source. I think it was a tool used by Dumat against humanity. Don't forget that no one expected that someone will drink a Darkspawn's blood and find the way to slain Archdemons ultimately. Before that they were immortal, because their souls were traveling to the next Darkspawn.

[Clockwork_Wings]

His hat is fused to his head, unless it's symmetrical gold designs are somehow natural for him. You can even see where his flesh meets the fabric. I'm not sure what you're going on about with the mask, it's just mask. Beneath it, half his face looks melted off, much like Corypheus.

I don't think his appearance is the book is at all relevant. It could have been retconned. It might simply be that they hadn't decided what the magisters would look like yet. They could have designed him as a normal emissary in Awakening, but they didn't.

It doesn't look fused to me, it looks more organic.  But that's my opinion.  What I see is clothing or decorative armor and deformities, not fused clothing.  The gold on the "hat" could be decoration, but I don't think it's a hat, fused or otherwise.  See how his skin pulls toward the "hat" like it's being stretched?  It doesn't seem to be doing that at the robes or jewelry, just on his head and face.

 

I'm thinking he's dressed in the manner of the magisters, for whatever reason.  Perhaps he read about them, or he's seen my hypothetical magister-broodmother in her corrupted regalia.

 

The mask, I think, is to put Seranni more at ease by making him look more human.

 

Given the number of times DAI did something entirely unexpected, I find it most likely that what the Architect is hasn't been discussed on this message board yet.

[molech322]

I don't think the Old Gods have nothing to do with the blight, I think the Old Gods are aspects of the Elven Pantheon. The Old Gods were linked to the Elven Gods, or as some suggest they held the keys to unopened Eluvians. I don't see the Elven Gods as divine, rather they were "high elves" with a command of Magic that made them gods in the eyes of their people. I equate them to LOTR elves like Galadriel, Lord Celeborn. Cory tried to replicate this with his Red Lyrium Dragon, but it turned out to be his Achilles heel and led to his ultimate demise. The anger that Solas/Fen Harel has towards the Grey Wardens suggest he knows what the so called old gods really are, as for the origin of the blight I can only guess.