I think the thaig was an experimental engineering facility where golems were originally made. Further, I think the rock wraiths are prototype golems. It makes sense. Lyrium absorbs people and memories, and it's how dwarven ancestors live on in the stone via becoming part of the collective memories and minds of all the dwarves absorbed by lyrium. But what if you were to let lyrium absorb someone and keep them cut off from the rest of the lyrium in the world? When molten lyrium is poured into a dwarf in the armor of a golem, the lyrium quite literally eats the dwarf alive inside the armor. From there, their memories and personality are assimilated into the lyrium. Shale for example isn't truly Shayle Cadash, she's a woman who died a very long time ago. Shale even says as much in a conversation to Leliana I got last playthrough. What happened was Shayle was absorbed by lyrium and her body and mind became one with it, her mind and consciousness became the lyrium's consciousness inside the golem. So Shale is still who she used to be, I'm not saying the lyrium became a replica of her who merely acts like her.
With that in mind, what do you suppose a dwarf, or Shale, actually looks like under all that armor? Well, it would probably be some weird skeletal lyrium in the vague shape of a person... Oh yeah, like this-
Don't focus on the rocks, look at the core of it. That is what is inside golems, and that is what a golem like Shale has deep inside their armored exterior. The rocks are the early form of golem armor, what they were using in their golem prototypes. They hadn't yet started using real armor yet, since it was still in the early stages and was still quite crude. Over time they must have added more and more armor, first full coverage rocks and finally full coverage metal. But I think something went wrong. They were aggressive and attacked everything and anything that moved. What's more, the damnable things would absorb other lyrium instead of other organic matter.
Or maybe they were stable for a while, but somehow red lyrium happened. Or maybe the idiots actually used red lyrium in place of blue lyrium, which is the reason they were insane. They probably thought that it being more potent would make a stronger creature, so they used the red stuff instead. After they all went nuts, I suspect the researchers ran, completely abandoning it to the golem prototypes. And I suspect the reason that the dwarves forgot about it was that it was a very well kept secret known only to the highest ranked people in the dwarven empire's government. Such things exist even in the real world, highly secret facilities that are known to only a few. When they fled, they probably erased all records of it to be sure no one stumbled on it easily. The golem process was refined somewhere else and they stationed one of the earliest true golems just outside of the entrance to where the prototypes were, as a guard. But I think that once they (the top government officials who oversaw the project) realized how easy it would be to abuse, they had the foresight to realize it was a bad idea and erased all knowledge of golems. They made sure no mention of them made it into history, none at all. Knowledge of golems only existed in the minds of the people who made them, after that.
So how did Caridin figure it out? His journal said he had dreams of it... DREAMS?! Dwarves don't dream unless they're wardens dreaming of the darkspawn, so the dreams must have been the ancestors in the lyrium showing him how to make them. Why would they? Darkspawn. The lyrium collective of ancestors saw how the darkspawn and the blight were tearing their kingdom to pieces, and knew that there was only one hope for the dwarven people at that point: Golems. So they went to the most brilliant inventor that generation had and gave him the knowledge of how precisely to create golems, despite all the risks of it being easily abused. And it was worth it, it's only thanks to golems that underground dwarven culture lives on at all. But of course, we know how it went from there... It got abused, just as predicted.
Still, there are some gaps in this idea. Like why there was a freaky idol made of red lyrium, why were Claws of Dumat sprinkled everywhere, what in the ancestors name was up with the uber rock wraith that was the boss of that place. Although, on that last one... Look at its coloring.
Why, it's red lyrium. Guess I was right about them using it in place of the regular lyrium for at least one of their prototypes. I think something about the weaker ones somehow recolored the lyrium. Or maybe they had blue lyrium and the red lyrium one somehow took control of the other ones like a massive insane control rod and it's the reason they all went crazy.
Anyway, I don't know how much I believe all of this. But it was a fun brain storm, and I think I hit a bullseye on at least some of this. I absolutely thing they were a precursor to the golems and that they same process used to make rock wraiths is the same one used for golems with the only difference being that golems get a lot more armor (enough to fully cover their lyrium skeleton).
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