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[SomeoneStoleMyName]

I'm wondering if there is an inherent magical nature to reavers as a result from drinking dragon blood. As I remember from DAO, you had memory-like visions and the like. Is dragon blood magical in Thedas? Or did Kolgrim mix up some LSD cocktail for the warden?

 

I seem to recall someone saying (ingame or on the forums) that reaver abilities are a form of blood magic. However this must be wrong? Because dwarves can be reavers, and dwarves cant use spells or utilize magic in any form?

I'm kinda confused if reaver abilities are magical in nature or not, and if yes - to what degree? How exactly does it work? Another curiosity is that IF dragon blood is indeed tied to blood magic, or is a sort of blood magic, and drinking it eventually leads to madness - how would that tie in with dragons being the avatar of choice for being the vessels of the old gods/elven gods? (depending on those theories). Edit: As in; is there a correlation between madness caused by dragon blood and the corrupted nature of the archdemons? Does dragon blood amplify the effect of the blight?

 

Can some lore-guru share some insights?

[Paxwell]

Blood is full of the magic in Dragon Age.  Ever notice  how much focus on blood there is, especially in the first game?  Sure, dwarves can't use traditional magic, but they can still become templars, and lyrium is probably the blood of mountains or dead dwarf gods or something, so them becoming reavers isn't too surprising.

[Carmen_Willow]

Yes, it's magic. I would just consider it a specific school of magic though. One that thrives on pain (both mental and physical). So connected to blood magic (bloodletting/pain), but not exactly. I think the psychological angle makes it unique from that.

Pain produces adrenalin AND endorphins, a powerful hormonal cocktail!  Learning to channel the altered state that these produce is probably the secret to the Reaver's abilities. Only the blood magic of Mother Nature at work here.

[turuzzusapatuttu]

Am I the only one who read "Reapers" instead of "Reavers"? 

[Carmen_Willow]

It's very much like that, yeah...but amped up x10. That's the dragon blood at work, I guess.

 

 

But they also feed on other people's lifeforce too. Not just their own pain.

Must be that dragon blood!

[themageguy]

Well dwarves cant touch the fade, but the blood of the dragon changes you, so i can see that particular work around, especially as the magic is derived from blood, and not the fade.

The reaver trainer says that demons try to take hold, but they cannot. This would imply despite the form of blood magic reavers use, it doesn't expose them to the risk of possession.

Also, in the dracology notes, it makes mention that dragons blood is resistant to the taint.

Cassandra tells you of her descendants who drank the blood, and those who drank too much showed signs of aggression and physical manifestations of scales or horns.

[JadeDragon]

I wanna see a Great Dragon and a Reaver who has drank the blood of that. To see just how more powerful it would make a Reaver.

[Qun00]

I wonder if they need to drink dragon blood regularly.

That's hard to imagine since you can't get a long lasting supply of such thing.

I'm guessing they do it once and boom, dragon powers.

[Paxwell]

Maybe it works like the taint, and is kind of self-sustaining in the body?

[themageguy]

The one ritual and bit of blood is enough to change the Reaver. According to Cassandra, a reaver could drink more blood, but it was said that her family who did became monstrous.

Im interested in whether the type of dragon influences how a reavers power manifests. Look at rampage, how the fire comes off your body, dripping in a molten manner like the fire dragons.

What if a reaver drank from the stormrider? Would electricity manifest around the Reaver?

[themageguy]

A codex

Spoiler

From "A Path of Warning and Harsh Promises." Breaker Thram's words make one passage stand out:

The blood of the dragon is treated in a way that speaks of dark intent, though motive is left to the temperment of the individual reaver. All of us can be tempted to harsh conduct. It is simply the fate of the reaver that theirs is the power to be brutal above most others. Their destruction is first inward, a commitment and test that spares them the instant distrust of the blood mage - to whom temptation comes with ease and the will of a demon in constant threat.

An account:

I cut the beast. It had seared me, but now its blood was the balm that would sooth. Later, I took the smallest amount and, adding it to the rite and ritual I had learned, drank without hesitation. It did not taste like blood as the uninitiated understand it, for they only know the taste of the wound, a flavor of defeat. This was the taste of blood coursing within, of life, of the primal - a burning that is not swallowed so much as it inhabits. To infuse with the blood and life of such a beast is to be changed at the core. Some could see it and knew I was more than I had been. Some could not and had no warning. And some knew, but would not say, for the choice of how to wield it is truely mine. The act of becoming is a defiance of all expectation. I am above. I see where the blade must go. I see through you.

Several mixtures are detailed, each contributing to the final.

[Qun00]

According to lore, reavers literally harm their own body in order to wield that power.

But I like to think of it as just "this technique is so powerful and hardcore that merely using it rips your skin".

[Dragonzzilla]

It's always about blood. No one ever brings up the power of cerebrospinal fluid.

[themageguy]

I wanna see a Great Dragon and a Reaver who has drank the blood of that. To see just how more powerful it would make a Reaver.

Have you read the comics????