I have been thinking about a few things in Dragon Are lore in general. Wall of long spoilery text incoming.
Firstly, I am of the opinion that The Blight is a biochemical superweapon. I mean it is very effective in turning a region into a wasteland and its populace into a mindless horde of zombie like creatures.
Perhaps the Blight was the biochemical superweapon but every weapon needs something to deliver it effectively. Nuclear weapons are delivered by missiles or by planes. Biochemical weapons are delivered or spread using the water supply or food supply. So I think the Blight was delivered by Red Lyrium.
So in my opinion the Red Lyrium and the Blight were created side by side. Red Lyrium is the delivery method and Blight the weapon itself.
This makes for an extremely potent weapon. Lyrium is the source of all magic including enchantments. All the races, including Dwarves use it though I am not sure of the Qunari. Infusing it with the Blight means you have the perfect world annihilation capability.
Additionally, normal Lyrium, as we now know is a living creature, a living mineral. It actually reminds me a lot of Tiberium from Command & Conquer. I posit the theory that Lyrium is a personification of the Stone or perhaps it is the Stone itself.
Remember what the Golem in Dragon Age 2 said ? That the heart of the Stone lies in Orlais ? I wager that this will be the main Lyrium vein from which all the Lyrium in the continent of Thedas comes from.
As for who created the Blight and by extension the Red Lyrium ? Ancient Elves.
We know the Ancient Elves created their own worlds, they were responsible for the creation of places like Skyhold and Arbor Wilds. They created the Eluvians and the worlds within the Eluvians. The idea of them creating the Blight and infusing it with Lyrium as an effective biochemical weapon is not that difficult to imagine.
Why do I say this ? Well, if you remember Tamlen from Dragon Age Origins who was part of the Dalish Elf Origin story and what he did was peer into the Eluvian in the ruins and what he saw was a city that was covered in black darkness. Corypheus states the same thing when he mentions that the Black City was always black and dark.
How did it get black and dark in the first place though ? The answer to that lies with the Ancient Elves.
Going back to Dragon Age Origins again, what we saw in the very first moments of the game introductory slide show was a tree with leaves that rotted and died away. That tree is the symbol of Mythal. The tree is on the cover of Flemeth's Grimoire in DAO and Abelas has a Vallaslin that looks exactly like that tree. We also know in this game that Flemeth is Mythal or that she is bonded with the a wisp of Mythal.
My theory is that after Mythal was betrayed and murdered, this sparked the Elven civil war. During that civil war, the Elven gods (I think the Elven gods are gods in the same way Asgardians are gods, meaning they are just powerful beings) used Red Lyrium and this resulted in a total devastation of the Elvhenan.
More specifically, I think that Blight and the Red Lyrium is a weapon created by the very head, the leader, of the ancient Elven pantheon, Elgar'nan. It was his wife that was murdered after all and Fen' Harel says in a dialogue in game that the true heart of darkness is vengeance. Elgar'nan is the personification of vengeance.
Hence why we see the Red Lyrium in the Primeval Thaig. If its creation predates the Blight and the Ancient Tevinter themselves, well then what else predates those two things ? Ancient Elves, of course.
Now onto Old Gods and Archdemons. I am of the opinion that the Old Gods are the Forgotten Ones from the Elven lore. Fen'Harel says in game that the Old Gods are dead, what remains are just their souls.
Yet the Darkspawn seek the Old Gods relentlessly. Why ? I believe that the Old Gods are killed by the ancient Elven gods with the Blight and Red Lyrium. They are dead but the Red Lyrium in them or the vestiges of the Red Lyrium are not. Hence why they appear to sing and call. The Archdemons that we see are nothing but reanimated Forgotten Ones like the animated statues Meredith managed to do in DA2.
In fact in this game, Corypheus' dragon was thought to be an Archdemon but then we found out that it was just a Red Lyrium Dragon. How is it that an Archdemon can resemble a Red Lyrium Dragon so closely ? Could it be because the Old Gods are killed by the Blight and the Red Lyrium in the first place and then reanimated by the same thing again ?
As for the relation between ancient Tevinter magisters and Red Lyrium and Ancient Elves, I think that the Ancient Tevinter magisters used Red Lyrium to breach the Fade but something went terribly wrong. How did they learn of the Red Lyrium in the first place ? I believe they learned about it from the ancient Elves.
Ancient Tevinter magisters could not have just used normal lyrium and blood magic and that's it. When we talk to Bianca, we see that Larius, who became a mage (I do not know what happens to Janeka) knew and was interested in Red Lyrium. It shows that Larius / Corypheus, knew of the existence of Red Lyrium. He knows what it can do, he did not just stumble onto Bianca and then decided "I am going to use this Lyrium as part of my plan to become a living god"
Sure, the Codex says two-thirds of the Imperium's Lyrium supply was required on top of blood magic but if not, how else is no one else been able to replicate the Tevinter experiment to breach the Fade until Corypheus himself tried it in Haven ? The site which then become populated with Red Lyrium. My theory is that this would not have been possible with just normal Lyrium, Red Lyrium was needed for doing this.
Corypheus knew of the Orb, knew about Eluvians and knew about the Arbor Wilds. He seems extremely well versed in ancient Elven lore and even knew to not drink from the Well of Sorrows, instead relying on someone else to do it for him.
As for Ancient Tevinter Imperium and their relationship with the Old Gods, I think they were not hearing the Old Gods. They were either hearing the Red Lyrium singing or they were being approached by the Ancient Elven gods who are trapped by Fen'Harel.
Note how the Blight looks very much like a biochemical weapon, albeit a very potent one. Also note how the Old Gods, who have long been "talking" and "communicating" with the ancient Tevinter, suddenly stopped.
Even Coryheus did not believe Dumat existed when you first saw him in Haven. One of his last lines were along the lines of "Dumat if you are real, please save me !"
So I am inclined to go with the idea that the Old Gods are dead, killed by the Ancient Elven Gods using the Blight and Red Lyrium. What remains is their souls and remnants of the Blight and Red Lyrium in them which calls to the Darkspawn.
What the Tevinter magisters heard are the voices of ancient Elven gods who were trapped and sealed by Fen'Harel, who now want to be freed or want the world destroyed out of vengeance. Hence why they went silent when the First Blight started.
Would like your thoughts and comments on these theories...
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