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[Aren]

Well, I believe that taint is a long drawn out way that the old gods are using to free themselves from their imprisonment.    It was the old gods that first whispered to men about blood magic.   It was the old gods who tasked the Tevinter priests to seek out the Black City.   Why?   To free themselves from where they are imprisoned below ground.   The blight spreads and they seek out the imprisoned gods.   Sure they become tainted.   They don't care.   The body is only a vessel.   When that body dies they are freed to go back to the fade or whatever realm they may inhabit.   In time they probably can reform or be reborn.    Time is inconsequential to them.   Who cares if the blight takes 10,000 years to work.    Clearly Fen'harel seems concerned about the deaths of the Old Gods releasing an even greater peril upon the world.   Death is not the end of the immortal. 

 

That's my guess anyway.  

The old gods will rather prefer to sleep than to be tainted, Like Corypheus they are incapable to control their calling when they sleep, it's speculated that the taint is not the only source that can be used to awaken one of them, dragon blood can do the same without transform the ancient dragons into archdemons.

The whole story of the blight is more like a tragedy, a sort of trap created for some reason, because  blights are clearly an artificial situation created at some point in Thedas History.

[Killdren88]

Considering that the Black City was black when the Magisters found it and became infected with the taint upon entering the Black City. Two ideas pop to mind.

The Black City was a prison that contained some horrific monstrosity which posed as Dumat to get the Magisters to unleash it. And the Blight was a security measure for the prison which contained this creature and when the magisters became infected with the Blight, this entity was then able to escape.

Or The Black City is actually Arlathan and the Taint is either a creation of the Elven gods or Forgotten Ones or the taint might have been a biological weapon that the elves left in Arlathan as a final act of revenge on the humans when they eventually entered Arlathan.

[Reznore57]

Considering that the Black City was black when the Magisters found it and became infected with the taint upon entering the Black City. Two ideas pop to mind.

The Black City was a prison that contained some horrific monstrosity which posed as Dumat to get the Magisters to unleash it. And the Blight was a security measure for the prison which contained this creature and when the magisters became infected with the Blight, this entity was then able to escape.

Or The Black City is actually Arlathan and the Taint is either a creation of the Elven gods or Forgotten Ones or the taint might have been a biological weapon that the elves left in Arlathan as a final act of revenge on the humans when they eventually entered Arlathan.

 

Well Eleni Zinovia , the Tevinter statue who used to be a woman who could see "things" , says :

"The Prison is breached .I see the encroaching darkness .The shadow will consume all.."

 

There's the whole theme of light and darkness going on , except well if the Blight is the Darkness ...what is the Light , exactly?

The Chant of Light is all well and good, but I'm not sure bringing a choir to fight darkspawn would do much.

Corypheus in DA2 said he "seeks the Light" , but in DAI he forgot about it somehow.

[Killdren88]

Well Eleni Zinovia , the Tevinter statue who used to be a woman who could see "things" , says :
"The Prison is breached .I see the encroaching darkness .The shadow will consume all.."

There's the whole theme of light and darkness going on , except well if the Blight is the Darkness ...what is the Light , exactly?
The Chant of Light is all well and good, but I'm not sure bringing a choir to fight darkspawn would do much.
Corypheus in DA2 said he "seeks the Light" , but in DAI he forgot about it somehow.

I don't think the Blight is the Darkness which is mentioned. I think that is something else entirely. The blight was like a security measure in the Black City which kept whatever the entity within the Black City. That is why I think this entity posed as Dumat to get the Magisters to open the Black City taking the Blight into themselves allowing it to escape and remains out in the Fade somewhere.

[X Equestris]

Well Eleni Zinovia , the Tevinter statue who used to be a woman who could see "things" , says :
"The Prison is breached .I see the encroaching darkness .The shadow will consume all.."
 
There's the whole theme of light and darkness going on , except well if the Blight is the Darkness ...what is the Light , exactly?
The Chant of Light is all well and good, but I'm not sure bringing a choir to fight darkspawn would do much.
Corypheus in DA2 said he "seeks the Light" , but in DAI he forgot about it somehow.

I would have put that down as a prophecy about Corypheus' prison, but who knows.

I don't think the Blight is the Darkness which is mentioned. I think that is something else entirely. The blight was like a security measure in the Black City which kept whatever the entity within the Black City. That is why I think this entity posed as Dumat to get the Magisters to open the Black City taking the Blight into themselves allowing it to escape and remains out in the Fade somewhere.

As I said earlier in the thread, there are myths that the Elven gods are imprisoned in the "Eternal City" in the Beyond. So if we follow this line of thought, maybe it's Elgar'nan doing the posing?

[Lethaya]

Maybe Elgar'nan and Dumat are one in the same, if you follow the theory that the members of the Elvhen Pantheon each have their own Old God representation (besides Fen'Harel)? Or connected somehow, at least. That way, no real need for posing.

[X Equestris]

Maybe Elgar'nan and Dumat are one in the same, if you follow the theory that the members of the Elvhen Pantheon each have their own Old God representation (besides Fen'Harel)? Or connected somehow, at least. That way, no real need for posing.

I would think that, except for some comments by Solas about there being no known connection between the Old Gods and the Elven ones. I guess he could be lying, but usually he tells half truths instead of out and out lies,

[Lethaya]

A very good point. It's seems pretty well mirrored across the spectrum, though... hmm.

 

Bah, too many questions! Oh, Bioware. XD