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[LOLandStuff]

The orb had enough of being manhandled and cracked under pressure.

[xBloodWardenx]

It wanted see Solas cry... at least... I did. 
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[Emilie217]

 

 

OMG I LOVE YOU.  I'm stealing this.

 

But seriously though, I think the orb broke because the Temple of Sacred Ashes was floating in the sky and then fell back to the ground when Cory died with multiple debris flying around.  A big chunk of wall probably fell on it.  So mass + gravity.

[Fireheart]

Maybe it was all used up so it simply broke. It probably cracked from closing the breach, or, when it was dropped, it cracked when it hit the floor, then off screen, the crack made it break into pieces. Yeah I was confused on this too, Solas is sobbing over it, I'm like... But who broke it? o.o

[Gervaise]

The strain of yanking away from Corypheus probably weakened it, then much of its energy was used in repairing the sky, the rest probably absorbed by the anchor.    If you look at it carefully after it drops to the ground you can already seen hair line cracks in it.   Also the Inquisitor still has the power of their hand, it is still glowing green after the sky closes and of course if you haven't closed all the rifts, you can do so afterwards.   Whether this will be altered in future instalments and they will say that the green hand after closing the breach was a mistake, just as they say the Inquisitor glowing in the Temple of Mythal is a mistake, will shall have to wait and see.    I'm hoping that any future plot involving Solas is an extension to DAI, so we can use the Inquisitor and the hand is still relevant but, again, who knows.

[Pukey Paul]

It was probably the same space magic that the Star Child was using in ME3 that broke the orb

[Elfyoth]

OMG I LOVE YOU.  I'm stealing this.

 

But seriously though, I think the orb broke because the Temple of Sacred Ashes was floating in the sky and then fell back to the ground when Cory died with multiple debris flying around.  A big chunk of wall probably fell on it.  So mass + gravity.

He/She stole it from someone else already  I think lol 

[Cadeym]

Now that we are talking about things falling.. exactly how did the inquisitor manage to survive the fall? We were high in the air, the breach closed.. stuff started falling.. and then we emerged from behind a rock.

 

Did the giant rocks steadily float back down? rather than imitate all the fast falling rocks that fell right after the breach was closed?

 

 

Anyway, the orb had become self aware, and then proceeded to commit suicide due to the idiocy that it experienced upon gaining awareness.

 

"I am the most powerfull entity in all of existance... and you drop me as if I was an empty potion bottle!?"

[TheBlackSwordsman]

I was asking the same question to myself
and i'm not really sure if "Coryphifish"  is really dead,maybe the inquisitor only gave him what he wanted... (Sent him to the fade)

[Shahadem]

We see in the fight with Corypheus that the inquisitor ripped the orb from Cory's grasp with the mark and the orb was charged with energy, then he/she used the orb to close the breach, after that the orb was no longer charged, and the inquisitor dropped the orb on the ground and killed Cory, however the orb was still intact after it was on the ground. After that stones started to falling from the sky. So are we to presume that the ancient elven orb of destruction was broke by something as mundane as stones? Or am I missing something?

 

It's still just a metallic orb. The fact that it can be charged with magical energy, whatever the hel that even means, is completely irrelevant to determining its physiological makeup.

[Captmorgan72]

The orb fractured from overuse. The only person who knew how to use it properly was Solas. Corypheus was abusing the crap out of it and the Inquisitor weakened the structural integrity of it when closing the breach at the end. The orb was never given the chance to "cool down" after channeling so much raw power.  

[NamelessDude]

Stop breaking his balls.

[Antergaton]

Lack of power, so it broke. Bit lackluster really, whole last fight was.

 

We just went through this massive temple, let a witch gain weird powers, met an elven god and the last fight is just Coryface. Beat him, game ends. It would have been great if you had to fight the last of his army to get to him or something more but alas, no, it's like they wanted to end it quickly and get to their little reveal.

 

Thinking, it would have been an epic end to the game if once you defeated Coryface, Solas pick up the still powered orb and starts using it to do something. You talk to him, wondering what he is doing as throughout the game he showed a lot of interest in the Orb but not Coryface. Depending on your friendship you can talk him out of whatever he is doing (which appears by now to be something related to the breech) or fight him and the final battle is you against Solas. If you convince him, he just leaves, orb drops and breaks through lack of power left. If you have to fight him, he can still run to do his special ending scene. ... 

[Korva]

IMO the whole final fight was pretty laughable and WTF-inducing, not only the orb breaking just-so. It felt like a cobbled-together bandaid when the time and/or money ran out ... previously, various signs seemed to point at a siege of Skyhold being the intended endgame, and/or a one-on-one confrontation.

 

What I wonder is how Corypheus got the damn thing back in the first place, after our interference with his little blood ritual made a mountaintop explode (and him with it). We were holding the orb when it went critical, so it's a little curious it didn't end up in the Fade with us -- or broke from being so rudely mishandled. People suspect overuse broke it in the final fight, but I'd expect the Conclave explosion released even more of its power. At any rate, how did Corypheus body-hop and run back to grab the orb before the forces from Haven arrived on the scene?

[J.R. Ewing]

Considering that Solas actually is the Dread Wolf, A.K.A. "The Trickster", couldn't he have broken the orb himself, or better yet, quickly replaced the real unbroken orb with some pieces he prepared beforehand? If my nickname would be "The Trickster", that is something I woudl seriously consider doing. 

[Poledo]

It was an artifcat of great power but not neverending power. The final closing of the breach and subsequent uncaring way the inky just tosses it to the ground probably caused a hairline fracture that eventually caused it crack and split since there were no magic holding it together.

 

It's one of those things that really shouldn't be read too much into IMO. Not everything needs to be analyzed.

[catabuca]

Since we're talking about the inky still having her anchor -- do we think this will feature in some way in dlc? Once all the rifts are closed, can she still use it for anything? Does she still have some sort of access to a kind of magic, even if she's not a mage?

 

Maybe this needs its own thread?

[Nefla]

I just assumed Lavellan stomped on it and broke it on purpose. He broke her heart, she breaks his toy. That's how it goes!

[Forsythia77]

I had a Purdue pint glass I got while I was in college.  I dropped it on the ground a couple years back and it still magically was in one piece.  A short time later I just tapped that thing on the side of the sink while doing dishes and it broke.  Clearly the orb channeled my pint glass.  It hit the ground and was fine.  One tap and it cumbled...

[Heidirs]

So, I watched the ending again. After the Inquisitor defeats Corypheus, rubble starts falling everywhere. I think that's how the orb broke. The Inquisitor drops it and then leaves it behind as the rubble falls. I think a section of the ruin fell on it and broke it.

[Lebanese Dude]

Er.. lol...goes to show that people don't pay attention.

In arguably one of the most epic scenes of DAI, the Inquisitor takes the orb, lifts their arm, and the power contained in the orb is massively unleashed unto the breach to close it once and for all.

So it's very logical to assume that the power of the orb was expended or overloaded, especially after everything that had just occured. The power within it is not infinite.

You could see it smoking and somewhat cracked at the end after the Inquisitor drops it, so it's very likely that the spherical shell itself was still somewhat intact while the inside was "burning out", eventually depleting and breaking apart before Solas picks it up.

But sure...gravity..

 

[Silcron]

I think lebanese has the right answer but this was a fun read. But since we're talking about wtf moments in those minutes and gravity. If Cory is such a powerful force mage that he can lift all of that...well, did the taint come with a stupid stick he was hit with? If he wanted to do a show of power and crush this "Inquisition thingy" in Haven why didn't he just, I don't know, lift Haven, turn it upside down and let if fall? And speaking of telekinesis and being powerful, Cory, have you ever heard the name Vader? Lasers are coll and all but I'm pretty sure you could have instakilled your enemies by crushing them with your awesome telekinesis powers like the bugs they are in your mind.

[fhs33721]

I think lebanese has the right answer but this was a fun read. But since we're talking about wtf moments in those minutes and gravity. If Cory is such a powerful force mage that he can lift all of that...well, did the taint come with a stupid stick he was hit with? If he wanted to do a show of power and crush this "Inquisition thingy" in Haven why didn't he just, I don't know, lift Haven, turn it upside down and let if fall? And speaking of telekinesis and being powerful, Cory, have you ever heard the name Vader? Lasers are coll and all but I'm pretty sure you could have instakilled your enemies by crushing them with your awesome telekinesis powers like the bugs they are in your mind.

That's probably the most ridicioulous thing in the entire game.

Lift a huge-a*s temple into the sky? No problem I can do that without breking a sweat.

But kill four random people that attack me swords and a bow? Whoa that sh*t is absolutely impossible. How am I supposed to do this.

But it's also a common problem in fantasy-stories in general and games especially that extremely powerful god-like beings are inexplicably unable to kill much weaker heros even though it straight up defies logic and common sense. So I'll actually cut Bioware some slack on it.

[Poledo]

Er.. lol...goes to show that people don't pay attention.

In arguably one of the most epic scenes of DAI, the Inquisitor takes the orb, lifts their arm, and the power contained in the orb is massively unleashed unto the breach to close it once and for all.

So it's very logical to assume that the power of the orb was expended or overloaded, especially after everything that had just occured. The power within it is not infinite.

You could see it smoking and somewhat cracked at the end after the Inquisitor drops it, so it's very likely that the spherical shell itself was still somewhat intact while the inside was "burning out", eventually depleting and breaking apart before Solas picks it up.

But sure...gravity..

 

 

 

Pretty much what I was saying. People just want to read to much into it. This is one of those just go with it things.

[In Exile]

Pretty much what I was saying. People just want to read to much into it. This is one of those just go with it things.

Its like people arguing that Corypheus died at the end of legacy.