I'm convinced that the Maker, the elven gods, the tevinter gods and the Blight are all tied together and we just don't have every single piece just yet. However, Inquisition's given us more facts and clues that could help us figure out the whole picture.
Let's start with what we do know.
Apparently under the direction of the tevinter dragon gods, Corypheus and 6 other magisters break the veil and enter the Golden City. Only when they get there, the City is already blackened and the throne within is empty. The magisters are then corrupted and cast back into the world as the first darkspawn.
They then create the first darkspawn horde from captured and corrupted elf, human, dwarf and qunari (south korcari kossith colony) women and start invading the dwarven thaigs. The dwarves are beaten at nearly every turn, the darkspawn find one of the tevinter gods (supposedly Dumat) and use the Deep Roads to quickly spread throughout Thedas and then launch to the surface for the First Blight.
Now we know the rest of the story concerning the Blights and the Grey Wardens from there. But was being corrupted by the taint planned by the tevinter gods? Or did their plan to gain whatever was within the Black City backfire on them?
What exactly is in the Black City? We know that it's the source of the Taint. But where does the Taint come from? How did it get into the Black City? Why was it put into the Black City?
Supposedly, Fen'Herel betrayed the elven gods and sealed them away into the Fade into a place called "The Eternal City."
Inquisition reveals that the situation was not as clear-cut and that Fen'Herel may have sealed away his fellow gods (who may have actually been powerful spirits or indwelt mages) to protect them or to save the world from an even worst fate. But this does at least confirm that most of the elven gods were sealed into the Ancient City with Mythal being the only confirmed exception as she had been "killed" beforehand.
Conjectures start here:
As for the "so-called" forgotten ones that Fen'Herel trapped into the abyss? These supposed enemies of the world were more likely trapped deep underground where no elf, mage, spirit or dwarf would ever find them.
After Arlathan fell and Tevinter took over, the truth about the Eternal City was lost and it was referred to as the Golden City instead.
The Gold was an illusion.
It's likely that the elven gods trapped in the Eternal City saw that they would never escape separately. So they sacrificed their forms and merged into a single being as to gain greater power. But that which was the reason for their imprisonment, overwhelmed what remained of their good intent and twisted it further. Perhaps one of the gods within the Eternal City was actually a Forgotten One that "embodied the worst aspects of existence: disease, terror, spite and malevolence."
The taint embodies all four of these qualities.
The imprisoned gods still had some connection to the Fade and saw the fate of their brethren and felt the power that lied within the Golden City. Desiring it and vengeance against the world, they whispered to the magisters of Tevinter and persuaded them with promises of power and glory to enter the City and take what was within for themselves.
When the magisters entered the "Golden City" they found it Blackened and it's throne emptied. It was empty because that which now dwelt in the City had no desire to reveal itself to the slavers and murderers. Perhaps acting on a warped sense of vengeance leftover from the gods that slew themselves to create it, the Dweller of the Black City infected the magisters from unseen shadows with the same affliction which corrupted the gods and then cast them into the depths of the earth.
The magisters were thrown into the underground purposefully so that the imprisoned gods could get exactly what they wanted. Only now, they would be pawns of that which dwelt within the Black City. Whatever is within the Black City, it is the source of the Calling and it is the true force which drives and guides the darkspawn through five blights.
But who is this being?
The Maker himself.
The Entity wasn't just content to torment the world with the Blight in it's vengeance, it also desired to inflict the same great humiliation and deprivation of culture and faith upon the humans of Tevinter that the elves had suffered.
So it chose a mouthpiece.
Enter Andraste.
Maybe Andraste was a mage, maybe she wasn't. But the "King of the Black City" appeared to Andraste in dreams early in her life and later as a vision to compel her to spread the truth of his "Chant" to all of the world. Whether Andraste died or not didn't matter, what mattered was that Tevinter was even more greatly devastated and weakened from Andraste's movement and the later actions of her followers and years later, nearly all of Thedas now worships the Maker and revere Andraste as his bride.
While the King of the Black City just laughs at all of it.
He laughs while using the darkspawn to corrupt imprisoned god after imprisoned god to start Blight after Blight to ravage the world.
He laughs even as the taint of his vengeance corrupts all that it touches and not even lyrium or the raw essence of magic is immune.
He laughs when one of the Magisters that he directly corrupted spreads his taint and uses Fen'Herel's very power to open a rift into the Fade to try and sit on a throne that's very much occupied.
It's even possible that there is more than one King and Queen within the Black City. Elven gods corrupted by their very hatred and vengeance into the monsters that Fen'Herel feared would destroy the world.
Conjectures End
So that's what I think may be the direction that the next games/dlc will be pointing us regarding the Maker, the fate of the elven gods, the dragon gods of Tevinter and the true source of the Blight.
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