Based on my observations of the DA Universe we know that lyrium has certain characteristics.
1) It is alive (or akin to life) and it grows.
2) Lyrium sings, and Red Lyrium sings with The Calling*
3) Lyrium can be blighted
4) Lyrium can grow directly from organic sources like people...or sprout from inorganics like a box of wood or stone or whatever it doesn't matter.
5) Dwarves claim to return to the 'Stone' when they die.
6) The Stone is always capitalized indicating that it isn't just any stone.
7) The Stone isn't a metaphor rather it is an allegory.
8) Dwarves have a natural resistance...or perhaps affinity to lyrium and can avoid at least for some time its worst side effects.
9) Much likw dwaves tranquils don't dream
10) Cole in dialogue with a dwarven Inquisitor states that the dwarves 'cut the cord'. That is to say that dwarves deliberately as a race removed their collective ability to dream. Why? We don't know really but we do know that the Dwaven Empire ran across the entire under-world of Thedas. Thousands of miles of Thaigs and great pillared tunnels.
11) Primeval Dwarven Thaigs indicated magic use and perhaps even some control over the Blight itself since Red Lyrium appears to have come from dwarven prehistory. How this is connected to the Old Gods we don't know yet.
12) The Calling is part of what keeps the Old Gods and Elven Gods from coming back.
Dwarves Die and their spirits at least form lyrium and its dual nature comes from that. In a processed form for Templars it gives them the ability to deny magic just as dwarves are naturally resistant but perhaps more potent. It also eventually ruins the Templar and can cause madness. The addictive properties probably come from how it is processed for the Templars as mages do not seem to suffer from addiction.
Lyrium potions for mages use elfroot as an additive and actually enhance magical ability rather than allow the mage to deny magic. Enough lyrium can allow even non-mages to travel into the Fade. Again this material seems to enhance the spirit of the user in whatever manner is desired.
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It strikes me that the spirits of all, humans, qunari, elves and dwarves may indeed make up lyrium and its song.
The Blight is referred to as a separate source of power from the Fade and its exact nature remains unknown though I personally believe it to be of some dwarven origin or related more to the dwarves than to any other race.
Why red lyrium is 'supercharged' is that it has the power of the taint in addition to the spirits and possibly its use to breach the Fade is what resulted in what we know today as the Blights even though the taint itself seems to have predated any modern recollection of a Blight.
Well that's all I've got.
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