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[KBlakmane]

I have seen some discussion on the boards here about how the 5th Blight seems to be comparatively weak by comparison to the other blights.  Which made me wonder, what if the Architect's "joining" ritual that he performed on Urthemiel actually had some effect.  What if the ritual, which obviously works on run of the mill darkspawn, did manipulate the corruption just not in the manner in which the Architect anticipated.  What are people's thoughts on the matter?

[Lazarillo]

The main reason the Blight ended so quickly was that it wasn't allowed to build any sort of momentum.  Once things ramp up and you've got more territory overrun and toxic than not, and Brood Mothers pumping out new Darkspawn exponentially, there are pretty serious problems, but take the Archdemon down the moment it ventures onto the surface, and you've solved the problem.

[SmilesJA]

As soon as the Darkspawn were able to take over Ferelden, they'll establish it as a base.

[KBlakmane]

I certainly see where you both are coming from; however, it still looks strange that the time frames of the previous blights were so long and the 5th blight so short.  While the 1st is certainly an outlier (the peoples of Thedas didn't know how to fight an Archdemon), the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Blights all took over 10 years (the 2nd took 90).  It seems strange that where those previous blights required the combined might of multiple nations led by a strong group of Grey Wardens decades to push back and ultimately destroy the Archdemon this time it only took a rag tag band of Grey Warden initiates and the meager forces from a single clan of Dalish (or werewolves), a contingent from Orzammar, and the remains of an army made up of factions that had formerly been engaged in the beginnings of a civil war a year to beat back the hordes and destroy the Archdemon. 

[springacres]

It does seem strange.  In fact, one or two of the background convos in the Hanged Man during DA2 make that exact point.

 

It's an interesting theory, but one for which there will probably never be a definite answer.

[diaspora2k5]

The Architect blighted Urthemiel rather than have the Darkspawn swell in numbers and find him/her themselves. It's probably because his meddling made it almost an "artificially" induced blight.

[dgcatanisiri]

Origins itself said that the Blight was 'over almost before it began.' It mostly does seem to be a matter of the archdemon being slain before the darkspawn could overwhelm Ferelden, that the archdemon was slain at a point where the nation could still come together and fight back. Rather than throwing the whole world into chaos as every nation sealed its borders and tried to do what they could to protect themselves, Ferelden managed to push back against it and reach the darkspawn first.

 

While the Architect doing SOMETHING (it's still not fully clear what, exactly was done) to Urthemiel probably played a factor in the darkspawn's relatively swift defeat, that the archdemon would have smaller numbers on hand to start the march on the surface world, I think it may be simplier - Flemeth warned Maric that the Blight was coming in The Stolen Throne, during the war with Orlais near the end of the previous age, about thirty years before the Blight. With the idea of a Blight being forthcoming, with even a vague prophecy by a witch of questionable motives in his mind, Maric could prepare to face this threat ahead of time. So there were defenses, plans, and preparation in place ahead of time. Most of the world had been of the opinion that there would be no further Blights, given how long it had been since the last one, more than four hundred years. Maric was preparing for it. And then it starts in Ferelden, the nation most ready for it.