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Feel free to add stuff that you think might be significant in some way. I'll try and add images to go with the post ASAP.

Also keep noting the stuff you see in the Eluvians before the scene cuts. It's pretty interesting.

(Edit : I realize upon completing that it's become a wall of text already, so I'll refrain from adding images as that would make the post even longer)

 

00:11, the female Qunari. She's holding a sword but has something that looks like a thick tome strapped to her left arm. Lead me to conclude that she might either be one of the Ariqun, or from some new Qunari faction all together. Note the red ropes/ threads in her ensemble.

The thing with her, which unless I am very very wrong has to be an Ogre. Which she seems to be controlling through some kind of magic. Note this because it can potentially tie in later with how Solas is involved.

00:29, dead (assassinated?) dude on floor. I don't know what the markings on the armor indicate. The armor design can either be Orlesian or Qunari, I can't really say. The brown bit of the armor almost looks like crocheted /sewn straw which is a little strange.

00:33. Weird looking level. At first galnce it looks underground, but notice the ceiling has stuff on it too, as though it not really a ceiling but an upside down floor. Note the statue in the center of the 'ceiling'. Looks like the winged Mythal statue we've seen elsewhere, so the ruins are Elven in nature at least. Also note the big red 'egg' thing in the center of the floor. Is that a dragon egg? Note the ruined 'towers' in the background. (reminded me a bit of Prince of Persia from 2008, loved that game)

00:36. New enemy types? Almost certainly Qunari. The one who comes out from the Eluvian lasts looks like a Sarebaas. Can't make out the place in the Eluvian, but there's a statue of what seems to be a woman standing on a pedestal above the arch. 

00:38, new level. Cassandra knocks down some enemy that looks pretty similar to the dead guy at 00:29. Maybe. Maybe the guy wasn't assassinated but an assassin himself and was killed by the Inquisitor / companions in a cutscene.

00:39. After what are clearly Qunari enemies, notice the statue/ tree far in the distance in the background, above the Eluvian. It has horns / branches and looks distinctly Elven. However it also seems to bear a resemblance to the statue in this piece of old concept art, though I'm betting that's a coincidence. And of course you'd be blind to miss that dragon flying in the air.

00:41, in the Eluvian, looks a bit like Kirkwall. Is it Kirkwall?

00:42. New place, this one's clearly underground. Can't make out whatever was shown in the Eluvian at all.

00:42 to 1:00. Quizzie having a breakdown. And the voice actress doing a bang up job of it I must say.

1:10, seems to be an ancient Elven ruin by the look of the tiles on the floor and the mural on the wall. Can't make out much else.

1:11, at first I didn't know what to make of the bright (electricity textured?) guys, but then I looked closer at the dude at 1:12, and that has to be an Elven bow and the character might be the spirit of an ancient Elven God/ Goddess. Has to be.

1:14. Quizzie being badass and sticking it to the Man.

1:19, forget the trapdoor and look at the mural in the background. Looks a lot like a Lizard doesn't it? On the other hand it also looks a bit 'darkspawnish'. And the wavy lines. Are those waves?

1:20, statues of big Qunari fighting statues of someone else.

1:22, dude in center, same as the dead assassin at 0:29, so we know for sure now they're Qunari agents /assassins.

1:28. Notice the dragon. Notice that he has red ropes draped across its face and neck. Mind blown. It's the Qunari chick from earlier in the trailer. So we have a Qunari chick, who wields a sword, controls ogres and can also shape shift into a dragon. I miss my Arcane Warrior spec.

1:41 Solas in badass robes. In front of an Eluvian. Deja vu anyone? Why do I have the feeling that we'll get a bunch of enigmatic non-answers from him ala Morrigan at the ending of Witch Hunt? Right after which he'll probably take the Inquisitors who romanced him with him and leave the others behind after which the DLC will end. And this is only reinforced by ML interview.

Edit2: Forgot to add why I thought the Ogre thing might tie in with Solas and other ancient Elves. As some of you might have read in my other posts, I subscribe to the theory that the taint is something that the ancient elves created on purpose, most likely to make themselves more powerful, and then lost control of it, in the process tainting Arlathan which became the Black City. The Veil might've been created to separate it from the rest of the world. Any how back to the point, the Qunari controlling the Ogre leads me to the think that they are in some manner messing with the taint, trying to control it and use the Darkspawn. Which will obviously bring Solas scurrying to stop them before they do something stupid like the ancient elves did.

So tell me what you guys think.


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The Eluvians are totally stolen from the Witcher 3,

Spoiler
  :P

 

Just joking.  :lol: But, besides that, I've got nothing to add. I'll have to go back and analyse it... but that will probably not happen. To lazy!  :lol:


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What I'm thinking:

 

 

 

 00:11The female Qunari could be part of the Ben Hassrath (?) (Qunari names grr...I'm never sure how to spell them ) I imagine she had a copy of the tome of Kosslun and the big guy is a Saarebas and not an ogre.

 

00:29Dead qunari at the Winter Palace , they probably attack during the trial , and escape through an eluvian.That's how you probably discover the whole Qunari using those.

 

00:33Qunari and your group in the Crossroad , elven temple ruins.The Crossroad is colourful so somebody did something.. elves sort of reanimate the place.

The "Dragon egg" the red thing reminds me of the magrallen in the Until we sleep comics http://dragonage.wik.../wiki/Magrallen

It's possible if Qunari have dragon blood , somebody *cough*planned  this massacre to power up something , maybe save the Crossroads.

 

00.36We may get out of the Crossroad , there's a dragon flying , and it's probably a place nobody has been able to access for thousand of years.

 

00:41 A temple of Mythal , you can see her statues in front and elven architecture.

 

00:42 You're in the Deeproads /underground, why is there an Eluvian in the Deep Roads.????...You can see lyrium veins in a cave.

 

1:10 Another elven temple maybe to another god , new artwork.Probably ghost of elven sentinels protecting whatever sacred ground.

 

1:19 in high quality , it just look like elves with valasslin on their faces and hoods.When I saw in low quality I thought "nnooooot the Lizard Man!!Nooooo!"

 

1:20 i imagine Solas turned all the Qunari to stones , you can see an eluvian uphill , you probably go and talk to him.

 

1:28 yeah the Qunari dragon I'm thinking it may be a Saarebas gone wild , but if the Saarebas can turn into dragon.../headache.

 

After trailer analysis , my wild tinfoil hat theory :

Solas opens up the Eluvian to the Qunari  , well they don't meet and drink tea , he trick them...

Because he's trying to rebuild part of the Crossroad and keeping it from disagrating , he uses a magrallen , magrallen needs dragon blood...qunari have dragon blood....So you start killing Qunari for his plan.

He takes the unstable mark away from you , explain something about the origin of Qunari , tells you I'm the Big bad Wolf blablabla ...vaguely hints at future plan.

You scream at him blabla , he saves your life one last time , say "no hard feelings " (goes fade tongue if you're in a romance ) and then he goes on his way...

The END!


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 00:11The female Qunari could be part of the Ben Hassrath (?) (Qunari names grr...I'm never sure how to spell them )

 

Yeah, that's what I said. The Ben Hassrath (atleast according to the wiki) are the male members of the Ariqun, who are basically the religious leaders of the Qunari. The female members are Tamassarans (spl?).

The Ogre thing might be a Sarebaas. I don't know, looked a little too big and those huge horns...

You might be right about the mural at 1:19. On re-watching it, yeah, what I thought was the mouth might be a tattoo below the eye.


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Come on guys, no one else thinks that the fact we have a shape shifting Qunari mage chick who can turn into a dragon and who's NOT a Saarebaas worth speculating about?



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00:39 - that tree statue can be seen in a couple ancient elven places in-game, at least in the Crossroads and as part of the puzzle in the Dead Hand.

 

1:11 - the models look very much like Abelas and the archer sentinels you run into in Mythal's temple--the hooded one even has Abelas' weapon. They're probably just guardians, be they ghosts or spirits or otherwise (possibly even Abelas and the sentinels, themselves).

 

1:19 - it's a mural of three hooded elves (the other two are in deep shadow--one below the lit one facing the same direction, and another behind them both facing the camera).

 

1:28 - I'd say the ropes on the dragon only imply that it's (generally) with the Qunari--I figured they just trained one (more likely raised than captured). What gets me about it is that, very briefly, you can see its nostrils start to light up green. I haven't seen any dragons using green energy, and I am very keen on there not being a dragon that can use fade magic. Unless it's me. Morrigan come back and teach me shapeshifting!



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1:28 - I'd say the ropes on the dragon only imply that it's (generally) with the Qunari--I figured they just trained one (more likely raised than captured). What gets me about it is that, very briefly, you can see its nostrils start to light up green. I haven't seen any dragons using green energy, and I am very keen on there not being a dragon that can use fade magic. Unless it's me. Morrigan come back and teach me shapeshifting!


There is only ONE qunari character with those ropes and we see her companion use Rift magic. Qunari also have dragon blood. If you think that is all just a coincidence, you are a very silly person.

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That white-cloudy place that Ladyinsanity speculated might be the cross roads looks alot like The Wellspring from the descent, but with elven architecture instead.



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More likely, the dragon was being subdued by the Qunari with ropes.

 

All I care about is 1:14 where it says "Define your legacy".



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If they need dragon blood, they will get it from dragons, not Qunari.



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Did you recognize the book? It's probably why this mess is happening.



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There is only ONE qunari character with those ropes and we see her companion use Rift magic. Qunari also have dragon blood. If you think that is all just a coincidence, you are a very silly person.

I haven't done much studying of qunari armor, but I've seen some that involve ropes. I was under the impression it was just one of their common design elements, along with bare skin and vitaar. I'd note that her companion, the archers, and the warriors also have the ropes on their armor--why wouldn't her pet dragon, as well, if red ropes are a common element for her group in particular?

 

That said, I am ALL FOR conspiracy theories (my primary game pretty much revolves around them). The strongest evidence I can personally see to support that the dragon is her (or one of her companions) is the fact that it looks like the only dragon that uses fade magic. Although, even though the Saarebas in the trailer also use it, theirs is more teal than we've seen previously--and the dragon's nostril's look to be the more yellow-green of the rest of the game.* Still, I concede that it's within the realm of possiblity that dragon shapeshifting (which, so far, I believe only elven gods and Morrigan--under particular elven-god-related circumstances--have been able to do) is something the qunari figured out. If so, I think they'd be the first we've seen to shapeshift and retain any form of "clothing" (which you could explain away as artistic license, or starting off with a closer base form and not having to shift as far, thus being able to retain some decoration/use some of the required energy to shift clothing along with self).

 

The thing that's bugging me is why it turns on the archers at 1:36. I'm having trouble thinking of theories as to why, if the dragon belongs to or is one of the qunari (lost control? to do blood magic? gotta get to higher ground and the archers don't want to?). It makes more sense to me if Solas is the dragon and was manipulating them.

 

 

*I went looking through the video a bit and the Saarebas breaking his chains (1:29) does emit a slightly more yellow-green cloud of energy for a split second. Multiple potential reasons for that. On the other hand, when the inquisitor's hand is trying to kill her (00:55), the energy that's lifting her is teal (while her mark remains yellow-green). However the qunari are accessing fade magic seems to be what's making the mark act up.



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Where's the proof that the dragon is a shapeshifting Qunari? They could have just tamed one.



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You know what's interesting? The mural of those hooded figure in the elvhen ruins look like how the 7 magisters are depicted in DAO and abit in DAI. Of course, we know that elvhen art was a great influence over Tevinter art.

 

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Hmm, that orb ... or sun is very suspicious now


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New theory: the dragon is not the lady, but her saarebas, and she brought the rope to leash it. It is out of control later because either she's dead or left the dragon behind for havoc when she went through the latest eluvian.

 

Where's the proof that the dragon is a shapeshifting Qunari? They could have just tamed one.

We know of no natural dragons that breathe fade magic. We do know that people can transform into dragons, and that there are now qunari with fade magic. Do the math.



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Where's the proof that the dragon is a shapeshifting Qunari? They could have just tamed one.

 

Or a NOT so tamed one considering what it did to one of them. Didn't LOOK very tame when it crushed that soldier underfoot.



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You know what's interesting? The mural of those hooded figure in the elvhen ruins look like how the 7 magisters are depicted in DAO and abit in DAI. Of course, we know that elvhen art was a great influence over Tevinter art.

 

QGFPJog.png

 

NhYRf6M.jpg?1

 

361823570.jpg

 

Hmm, that orb ... or sun is very suspicious now

Yeah, I thought the mural looked familiar (to the point that I could've sworn I'd seen it before), but the closest I found was the first image you linked, which made me kind of dismiss the familiarity. I had forgotten about the last image, though, so thank you for posting that, as I suspect that's what I was thinking of. As for the shapes around them--the one on the right strikes me as a paw, which is perfectly natural to have in that location, but I initially thought the other was a sun. That it would actually be an orb seems obvious, now that you've said it.

 

I'm still on the fence about the dragon. There are about four ideas floating in my head, and depending on the way the wind's blowing, each one takes turns seeming the most likely.



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htkgBQt.jpgHere we have an eluvian on a section of the level far below the Inquisitor.  It might just be for decoration, but we could be looking at some huge, multi-level areas.

At the top, in the upside-down area, there is a doorway, which may also indicate that the areas can be explored on different levels and even upside-down.

On the right, there are strange lightning 'wards' in some of the 'windows' of a building.  Maybe there's an Elvhen god trapped inside?

26Cscii.jpgThere are three dragons flying around.  Maybe there are going to be multiple dragons added in Trespasser.

On the left is a large building.  It kind of looks like a castle.  

On the right is a LOD tree.  I'm thinking that this area is either not actually in the game or hasn't been finalized yet.

jE62S7E.jpgThis book appears to have a sunburst on it, and is very similar to the one seen in the intro:

dW5eVNH.jpgobX3sVk.jpgHere we can see the female qunari and her gigantic friend from before.  He has his horns, but he also has chains on the armor on his torso.  It might just be an aesthetic choice for his armor, but he might be a huge saarebas.

QaWOWZO.jpgOf course, I can't forget to mention the dragon.  It appears to me that the guy I circled was holding the ropes on the dragon and walking with it, as though it was trained and loyal to the qunari.  The existence of the ropes supports this theory as well, though I don't really know why it turned against its masters.  Maybe the green spots on its head are an indication that it is connected to the Fade, and the inquisitor somehow used the mark to make the dragon attack the qunari.



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I still think, that the Qunari Female is Ariqun. I mean she is important enough to have Tome of Koslun on her armor. And who would be better suited to wear that, then Ariqun who leads Ben-Hassrath and Tamassrans right. Also notice her armor it somewhat looks like a bit different Shokra-taar, perhaps Ariqun modification? And I imagine that Ariqun would be mad about Inquisitor having such a power, I mean she would want it fer her people too, hence Sarebaases being green and that Qunari Dragon being a bit green too. Also It might be Rasaan from comic book, since She is the next in line for Ariqun position.



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Isn't the mere existence of a female Qunari Ben-Hassrith or whatever a complete contradiction to what Sten said back in DA:O (that there are no female warriors)?



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Isn't the mere existence of a female Qunari Ben-Hassrith or whatever a complete contradiction to what Sten said back in DA:O (that there are no female warriors)?


Ben-Hassrath are spies, not warriors. Not everyone who fights is a warrior.

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Isn't the mere existence of a female Qunari Ben-Hassrith or whatever a complete contradiction to what Sten said back in DA:O (that there are no female warriors)?

 

She is not necessarily a warrior.

 

Ben-Hassrath are spies, not warriors. Not everyone who fights is a warrior.

 

This.

 

Tallis was Ben-Hassrath even if vidathari (sp?) instead of Kossith.

 

And I expect that a female who is deemed 'good enough' to be a warrior by the Tamassrans and sent to fight would not be CONSIDERED female by the other warriors. That is basically what Bull says when asked about Krem. 'HE is a man.'