Ok, i'm sure I can't be the only one who thinks this. As a villain, Corypheus was terrible for many reasons. First and foremost was that it's quite difficult to feel threaten by a villain you have already beat. When Hawke beat him in the DA2 dlc, I was certain he would be back to cause havoc, which I was excited for. But a main villain? No, he was a DLC villain and nothing more. Bioware tried to make him scary by going "But he's the first Darkspawn! Isn't that scary?" well yes Bioware, maybe that would be scary in a Blight. You said it yourself in Origins. Unless your a Dwarf or a warden, no one gives two shits about the darkspawn until they are clawing at your neck.
So it got me thinking. Who else could be The Elder One instead of Corypheus? Some one frightening with unlimited power that was new and yet easy to learn about.
And then it hit me.
What if the Elder One was none other then the Maker Himself?
And at the risk of bad fan fiction, here was my idea.
The Maker is not a nice man. Abandoning his first children, untold billions of spirits, to wander the Fade without purpose for all eternity shows that he would rather throw everything out and start again rather then help his creations. So what of the races for Thedas? Well he doesn't seem to bat and eye when an entire country is eaten by Darkspawn, or when elves are constantly attacked and treated like **** for the sole crime of existing. Perhaps the chantry was right in that the Maker, in one of his more childish moments, has completely turned away from humanity. Maybe he wants the Darkspawn to wipe everyone out as a punishment. Or maybe he is just another creature of the fade and thus, just doesn't understand mortals.
So what happened to suddenly make him decide "you know what, **** all mortals, I'm going to draw everything into the fade". Well maybe it was the main event in Thedas until the breach.
The Mage-Templar war.
Ok, maybe it turns out that the Maker isn't completely heartless. Maybe he has chosen some mortals to be more then their fellow man. What if the Mages are his chosen children? Think about it, Mages have the ability to manipulative both the real world and the Fade in equal measure. He gave them this power to lead mortals to a new age. But, forever paranoid, the mortals looked at their leader with fear and mistrust, and began trapping them in towers so they cannot interfere with mortal affairs. The Maker was angered by this, and thus chose to continue ignoring the plight of mortals. They were going to have to survive on their own.
But then it happened. The paranoia of the tempars overwhelmed sense, and they turned on the Mages, massacring them in the thousands, once again, for the crime of being alive.
This is what set the Maker off.
If humanity would really do this, really kill of their only hope of salvation, then they deserved to die, to be obliterated, to be punished.
But their was a problem. He couldn't just destroy the earth by flicking it unto a star because, even though he created it, because the earth is made of something he cannot interact with.
Reality
Pardon the cheesiness of that sentence, but here me out. The Maker, like the spirits, is a creature of the fade, which shifts and turns in response to the one living in it. This is all they know, all they have known.
But the earth is static. It does not change because the person living their is feeling down. And thus the maker cannot destroy it because he wishes to. If he wants to destroy the earth, he is going to have to go down their and do it himself.
That's where the breach comes in. The make wants to destroy the Veil, to mix both the Fade and Reality together into one place where he can pass judgement uninterrupted, or start again. So after killing off those who are most loyal to him in the conclave explosion and causing the first breach, he begins his plan to draw everything into one tidy package that he owns.
But what about you, the Protagonist? How do you get out of all this? How do you get the mark that will save everyone? Well maybe the Maker had someone conspiring against him, someone he trusted, but they would rather save the mortals then let the Maker destroy them.
Who else, then Andraste herself? (Fun fact, my auto correct changed Andraste to Cassandra. As awesome as that would be to watch Cassandra sucker punch the Maker, that really is fan fiction)
It was Andraste that reached out to you in the conclave, who saved your life to save others. She knew she would be punished but didn't care, how could she stay back while millions died? No good person can.
So she saves you, damns herself, and starts off all of Inquisition and you fight to stop a literal mad god.
Better then dumb old Corypheus, am I right?
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