In Trespasser, a lot of information is revealed about the ancient elves, such as the [confirmation of the fact that the Elven gods were just powerful mages](http://dragonage.wik...of_the_Evanuris). We also learn that the veil did not exist, and elves and spirits inhabited the world together.
In Dragon Age 2, we learned that a half-elf mage named [Feynriel](http://dragonage.wik...m/wiki/Feynriel) is a dreamer. Dreamers are mages with an exceptional connection to fade who are able to enter and change it at will, with the ability to manipulate it to create or kill. However, they are also particularly sensitive to demons, and in danger of possession. [Solas](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Solas), later to be known as Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf, is a dreamer. We also know that the Evanuris, the ancient Elven Gods, and their followers, were rather [prone to excess in their disputes](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Vir_Dirthara:_Raising_the_Sonallium). In the [trespasser codices, we see two of the Evanuris disagree, but Mythal, the protector, prevents this by CONVINCING TO LET TWO CHAMPIONS FIGHT TO THE DEATH](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Vir_Dirthara:_Duel_of_a_Hundred_Years). We also see that the Elves and spirits interacted very closely, [particularly with regards to magic](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Vir_Dirthara:_Attentive_Listeners).
I propose that the Evanuris were originally powerful dreamers who had merged with powerful spirits, much in the way of Anders/Justice. This gave them tremendous power over the world, because it was unified with the Fade. I need to replay it, but I believe in Trespasser, we only see Solas really work incredible magic when in the crossroads, which is an artificial construct of the Fade. In earlier codex entries, we read about how the elves went hunt the "pillars of earth" whose workers scurry witless, and whose **deaths will be a blessings**. These refer to the Titans and the dwarves, and the elves didn't consider the dwarves being guided by the titans to be people due to their lack of a connection to the fade, when in reality the dwarves had the Stone. In Trespasser, we learn the [results of this](https://imgur.com/a/1AMYP). Mythal (abomination of compassion), who according to Solas (abomination of choice) deeply cares for her people, defeats/sunders a titan, giving the elves lordship over the dwarves (control of its demesne), severing their hivemind connection with the stone, the stone's equivalent to the fade through the titans, and using them to mine lyrium and "something else" that is dangerous in the Abyss. They then use this to have the dwarves mine lyrium for them, and [do other tasks](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Vir_Dirthara:_Signs_of_Victory). However, The unchanging world is delicate: spells of power invite disaster and annihilation. The unchanging world is stubborn: the pull of the earth fiercely resists making fire run like water or stone rise like mist. Look at that picture of the sundered titan. If that isn't a spell of power, I don't know what is. However, as Solas says of Mythal, the first of my kind are not so easily destroyed. I don't believe she entirely killed the titan, or perhaps there was another titan that was angry over the sundering. Eventually, the Evanuris uncover something terrible in the deep roads.
I believe this to have been the [Scaled Ones](http://dragonage.wik...iki/Scaled_Ones). The elves are terrified by what they have unleashed, and seal it away beneath the incredibly deep and rich lyrium mines in the deep roads called they named the Abyss, saying, "let this place be forgotten." I believe the Scaled Ones to be the wrath of the titans, because the stone seems to change to suit their purposes. Much later, the dwarves encounter them (this will be explained), the Scaled Ones raid Cad'Halash, the [stone seems to have betrayed the dwarves](http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Chronicles_of_a_Forgotten_War), with the lights in the deep roads spontaneously going out to facilitate the scaled ones' attacks.
Alternatively (and less likely in my opinion), the text from the spirits teaching about magic and the physical world may be, "there's a reason things are how they are, don't **** with it" and the titans had been actively shaping the earth to protect their Dwarves and Thedas from the Scaled Ones.
Regardless, I believe this conflict, between the Elves under the Evanuris, and the Scaled Ones, after the sundering of the Titan, to have been conflict that Solas says saw them initially rise to godhood. Mythal and the Evanuris were powerful dreamers merged with powerful spirits capable of doing amazing things, who had just come off of the success of Mythal defeating a Titan. They uncover the Scaled Ones, and naturally the powerful dreamers with the ability to alter reality become the leaders of the Elven (and possible dwarven slave) forces. The [Forbidden Ones are primarily spirits who didn't aid the Elven forces in this conflict, and thus were banished as punishment after its conclusion, and are actually relatively small fish, hence we're killing one per game](http://dragonage.wik..._Forbidden_Ones).
Eventually, Solas grows tired of them proclaiming their godhood, and begins to free elves. Eventually, an elf named Geldauran who was either freed by Solas or discovered the truth himself, sought ought the Abyss and the Scaled Ones and the corrupted/sundered titan for help seeking revenge against the Evanuris. [He sought others to help him, and they collectively became the Forgotten Ones, waiting until they could strike out in mastery against the Gods.](http://dragonage.wik...ldauran's_Claim) This is why Fen'Harel was able to walk amongst both groups as a friend. At some point around this time, the Evanuris became angry with Mythal, as they considered it her fault for having sundered the titan and starting this whole mess, and murdered her.
Eventually, they came to mastery through magic they learned in the Abyss, and created the Blight and came to assault the Elven gods and their followers and slaves they despised. This internal conflict threatened to destroy the elves, so Solas brought them together for peace talks, possible in Arlathan or the current location of Skyhold, whose original name in Elven translates to, "the place where the sky was held back" i.e. where the veil was created. He created the veil, separating them from their spirits, and sealing the spirits into dragons, much in the way Hakkon was sealed into a high dragon. This also sealed the dreamers in the fade. However, the Forgotten Ones still seek vengeance on the spirits they viewed as the source of the excesses of the Evanuris, and thus the Blight seeks them out to corrupt them and force them to the surface with the intent of their destruction. This is why Solas is horrified by the Grey Wardens purpose of killing the Archdemons and destroying the Old God soul. Morrigan's ritual is designed to capture the spirit at the archdemon's death, and move it into a new vessel (Kieran), purifying it of the Blight. However, a soul or spirit cannot forcibly take another, as evidenced by the Avvar augur ritual and what Flemeth says regarding Kieran in the crossroads.
I believe the Old Gods are the rebellious forgotten ones who were sealed in the Abyss by Solas's spell, and that the meeting was taking place in the fade, and the Forgotten Ones were rebellious dreamers in particular. The same spell that created the veil sealed them both away. Thus, when he destroys the veil, the Forgotten Ones will be released with the Evanuris.
**What does this mean for the future?"
At the end of Trespasser, the Inquisitor and company state they must find new people that Solas doesn't know to stop him, and stab a knife into Tevinter. We know from Dorian that magic runs in bloodlines, and that the Magisters essentially play Crusader Kings when setting up marriages to produce powerful mages. Further, Dreaming is still an existing talent in the Imperium. I believe the next player character is going to be a Tevinter who gets recruited by the Inquisitor, and is discovered to be a dreamer. The Inquisition is either disbanded or under the control of Vivienne, Cassandra, or Leliana, but its full might will not be available regardless due to the risk of spies. Solas's plot will gradually unfold, likely after something involving a war between Tevinter and the Qunari. I believe Solas will succeed, or partially succeed, but will really cause major earthquakes unleashing the darkspawn on Thedas. The Forgotten Ones and sundered Titan will ultimately be behind all of it. Mythal, however, still exists, and despite her flaws, doesn't want the world to fail. She makes a number of what I considering to be important predictions. In Dragon Age 2, she tells Hawke, "We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment... and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly." The quest to Adamant in Inquisition is called "Into the Abyss." I believe this is foreshadowing that Hawke will be able to survive being left in the Fade. Further, she tells Loghain in "The Stolen Throne," "You've rage enough inside you, tempered into a blade of fine steel. Into whose heart will you plunge that one day, I wonder?" which may further foreshadow his ability to survive the same or a different incident. I could see it unfolding that only Hawke can survive the Fade, only Loghain, the leader of men, can survive Weisshaupt and rally the wardens in the event of Solas's veil-sundering causing the darkspawn to find the remaining two archdemons, and Alistair is needed to lead Ferelden.
Thus, as Dreamers are the top-tier power level in the Dragon Age Universe, I believe this character will ultimately be the "big deal character" for Dragon Age. I think it would be very interesting if, as conflicts expanded and unfolded, a character like Hawke may return as a companion, due to his status as an individual badass but not a major leader.
This character is going to be part of the fight against Solas under the leadership of the Inquisitor, who may not survive things. Solas constantly trying to right the world and always making it worse, and causing the death of his Lavellan would be tragic for him. Then, the Blight and Forgotten Ones will become a threat, with this Dreamer character forced to rally Thedas and the Qunari against it.
I believe the Qunari to be the result of experiments after the Magisters breached the Golden City. They sought to use the power of the Blight to become gods after theirs had fallen silent. After the earthquakes after the breaching released the Scaled Ones, Tevinter experimented on the Scaled Ones, who were either called Kossith, or the Kossith were the intermediate evolutionary stage between the Scaled One-Elf mix using blood magic. The Qun is an attempt by the Qunari to get to the roles that they had as Scaled Ones in a hive mind with the Stone.
TL;DR
Evanuris were abominations, Solas is going to sunder the veil and release the Forgotten Ones with the Evanuris, also causing a double blight. Hawke and possibly Loghain survive the Fade. The next main character will be a Tevinter dreamer who has story potential for multiple games and will be badass.
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