I wish I'd posted this immediately after the boss battle.
Has anyone noticed the Guardian's uncanny resemblance to certain other boss battles?
The Guardian is an entity with a roughly humanoid torso protruding from a much larger and seemingly immobile base with tentacles.
That could also describe a broodmother.
The difference is that the Guardian doesn't appear to be corrupted, and though it's arguably alive (until you kill it, you monster!), it's clearly not made of mortal flesh.
Maybe it's nothing but I'm thinking that somehow, the Titans are connected to the Blight. Maybe the Blight comes from a decaying Titan? It's just that it's almost like the broodmothers are a horrific facsimile of the Guardians, combined with the ability of the Stone/a Titan to create new creatures (she spawns darkspawn). If the Blight stems from a Titan, or some creature(s) of the Stone that have been severed from their Titan, then it makes sense that they'd direct their minions (the darkspawn, and the Archdemons) to try to recreate themselves and their surroundings in a way that is beneficial or preferable to them.
We know that the Titan shaped the Guardian. Titans probably created the dwarves (somehow?) and might actually BE the "Stone" dwarves talk about all the time (despite Volta's initial denial of that possibility; later she feels the Titan is motherly toward her, like the Stone). Lyrium would appear to be their blood, but it's also possibly their nervous system, since they "sing" through the lyrium to the dwarves. If a Titan had fallen ill somehow, or something else managed to infect one, it could easily be the source of red lyrium. If the Titan is the source, then red lyrium is the original source of the Blight, (as opposed to the Blight causing red lyrium).
Of course... this also raises the extremely creepy idea that there's a blighted Titan. Titans are so massive you can't even easily perceive them as living things, plus they can "shape the Stone." Put those together and that one blighted Titan can cause all kinds of trouble. Not to mention that the dwarves insist that darkspawn came from underground.
Lore-wise, it's all connected and we're just now starting to see the pieces come together. I remember a line about "when everything sang the same." Could the Titans have created everything? If so, where do the humans, elves and precursors of qunari (assuming they are not altered elves) fit into this, exactly? What about the Fade and its spirits? Do the Titans' dreams create the Fade? Or is the Fade something different, and does the connection the elves have to the Fade mean that their origin is within the Fade, just as the dwarves' origin appears to be within the Titans? Is it possible the Fade itself is another kind of Titan?
I also wonder how this all might tie in with the Great Dragons, since we also have canon information suggesting that their survival (and possibly the survival of dragons in general) is highly important to Thedas.
It used to seem to me that Kieran was talking about possibly Great Dragon blood when he commented about the Inquisitor's blood. Maybe he means lyrium. If so, then the Titan whose lyrium is connected to the qunari is dead (hence the decay).
So many questions...
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