Warning: This theory is inconsistent. There are big, giant gaping holes of missing information. There is a decided lack of evidence.
It's just a thought I had and thought I'd share with the class.
Here are the codex entries I'll refer to.
Let me quote the Primeval Thaig codex entry. I'll bold the parts important to this theory.
Your Majesty,
It's difficult getting a straight answer out of the scavenger. These sods get themselves so blighted they can't think straight, much less keep spit in their mouths. He says, however, that he's gone down into parts of the Deep Roads that are so old that our people forgot them long before the Blight even happened.
He spoke of great statues and temples--temples! He spoke of things that could have only been made of magic and of impossible ruins untouched by darkspawn. He described creatures the likes of which we've never seen.
None of it's possible, of course. I've conferred with the Shaper and he says the Memories date back to the founding of the first thaig--what could have come before that? Yes, we're unable to explore these depths the scavenger spoke of because of the darkspawn, but surely the Memories would speak of such places if they existed.
Yet in this scavenger's belongings, amidst all the filth, there was a single idol. It was clearly of dwarven make, but not resembling any Paragon on record. The idol was dressed in a manner I've never seen. The Shaper of Memories also could not identify it or the substance from which it was made.
The thought that the Memories might be wrong... unsettling.
— Excerpt from a report sealed in the Orzammar royal archives by order of King Annalar Geldinblade in 8:48 Blessed.
Alright, so. What I get from this is that obviously there was Dwarven history before Dwarven history started being recorded. I think that's a given. But here are the parts that I find interesting within this particular codex entry.
He spoke of great statues and temples--temples!
Temples in a Dwarven thaig before paragons means the Dwarves were worshiping...something.
He spoke of things that could have only been made of magic and of impossible ruins untouched by darkspawn.
Magic? In a Dwarven ruin? So...the Dwarves had something they worshiped, and something that had magic- be it who they were worshiping to begin with or the Dwarves themselves.
Yet in this scavenger's belongings, amidst all the filth, there was a single idol. It was clearly of dwarven make, but not resembling any Paragon on record.
Okay, so we have idols made out of who knows what (Which we think now is Red Lyrium, or Lyrium that's been blighted), temples dedicated to who even knows, and magic where magic shouldn't belong.
This all leads up to, for me, the ancient Dwarves not only having magic, but having deities and gods of their own. We also know there were Golems there, which wouldn't make sense unless Caridin lied about having created the technology or that the Primeval Thaig had been discovered before the Deep Roads Expedition.
But let's think for another second about the Golems, Caridin, the Anvil of the Void, etc.
We don't know a ton about the Anvil of the Void...or at least how it got its name. We know it created Golems, involved pouring molten lyrium into volunteer dwarves..pretty ick, if you ask me. But why was it called Anvil of the Void? Stories say Caridin created it, but I think it goes back before Caridin. I think Caridin stumbled upon it somehow, recreated it or stole the knowledge, and passed it off as his own. Is the Anvil made of the void? Or with materials from the void? What the hell is the void???
Something else was supposedly made of the void, too. Let's take a look at this codex.
One day Andruil grew tired of hunting mortal men and beasts. She began stalking The Forgotten Ones, wicked things that thrive in the abyss. Yet even a god should not linger there, and each time she entered the Void, Andruil suffered longer and longer periods of madness after returning.
Andruil put on armor made of the Void, and all forgot her true face. She made weapons of darkness, and plague ate her lands. She howled things meant to be forgotten, and the other gods became fearful Andruil would hunt them in turn. So Mythal spread rumors of a monstrous creature and took the form of a great serpent, waiting for Andruil at the base of a mountain.
When Andruil came, Mythal sprang on the hunter. They fought for three day and nights, Andruil slashing deep gouges in the serpent's hide. But Mythal's magic sapped Andruil's strength, and stole her knowledge of how to find the Void. After this, the great hunter could never make her way back to the abyss, and peace returned.
—Translated from ancient elven found in the Arbor Wilds, source unverified
So Andruil, an Elven God, knew about the void, how to get there, and made armor from the materials found there. Supposedly, anyway. And she hunted the Forgotten Ones.
Maybe let's look at those Forgotten Ones. We know less than nothing about them, really.
From Andruil's codex above we think that the Forgotten Ones resided in The Void. History, or rather legend, sees them as "dark" side of the Elven Pantheon, but what if they aren't elves at all? Maybe these "Forgotten" ones are really the "Forgotten" Dwarven deities nobody seems to know anything about.
Perhaps, once locked into the Void, these Dwarven deities are slowly corrupted by..something...the red lyrium, perhaps. Maybe the blight wasn't caused by the Magisters entering the Golden city. Maybe it's something much darker, much older. Maybe all the dwarves were stuck, corrupted by their own gods. This might explain the profane.
We who are forgotten, remember,
We clawed at rock until our fingers bled,
We cried out for justice, but were unheard.
Our children wept in hunger,
And so we feasted upon the gods.
Here we wait, in aeons of silence.
We few, we profane.
—Found scrawled on a wall in the lost Revann Thaig by explorer Faruma Helmi, 5:10 Exalted. Unknown author.
Anyway, in conclusion...I put forward that possibly the old Dwarven deities and the forgotten ones were one and the same.
Retour en haut
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