Lyrium is the blood of the Titans. It's a mineral used in magic rituals such as the Joining to enable a magical act. Mages use lyrium to enhance their powers. Templars drink lyrium to become able to manipulate magic.
The more you stay in contact with lyrium, the more you lose your mind. You begin hearing voices, then start having memory blanks until you eventually forget who you are (Confessions of a Lyrium Addict).
After Shaper Valta is mentally connected to a Titan, she states she can hear his thoughts, which leads us to the safe conclusion that lyrium does put you in contact with a Titan's mind. Therefore, the voices you hear may make no sense to a human, but they make perfect sense to a dwarf.
We also know the act of performing magic, like casting a spell, is described by Cole as "pulling bits of the Fade across to this world". Therefore, there's an intrinsic connection between the Fade and the Titans, creatures whose very blood can pull energy from the Fade and convert it into a magic source that can be tapped even by someone who's not born with the gift of magic.
What's interesting to notice is that even after Solas lifted the Veil, magic didn't disappear from the land. Lyrium still remained a powerful magical source. The Fade was then left a broken realm, made of whispers and shadows, a mere echo of the physical world. Therefore, could Titans be the very source of magic itself? The bones of the earth, the root of everything? And by lifting the Veil, could Solas have crippled them somehow, leading to the parts of the Fade that were sustained by them to crumble and fall into nothingness?
The very description of a mage shows they share some traits with the Titans, since their special physiology enables them to enter the Fade, hear spirits and cast magic even without lyrium, all properties the Titans possess.
(Could it be due to their blood as well, that is somehow different from normal people? Consider the fact that blood magic enables them to control the mind of someone, just like a Titan does via lyrium.)
Now consider the creation of the Black City and the existence of red lyrium -tainted lyrium - underground. There are also tainted eluvians and the mysterious connection between the taint, passages underground and the Black City. Eluvians allow people to travel to distant spots instantly. Some of them also ignore the Veil and lead you to the Crossroads. Others lead straight inside the Fade.
Trespasser reveals that the Titans are huge creatures known to exist underground. And before the Veil, they might've existed both in the pre-Fade and the physical world. We also know the Inquisitor entered a Titan in Trespasser without knowing it.
If those creatures indeed were present in both realms and still possess a powerful connection to the Fade, could the eluvians actually be a means to travel inside the body of Titans? A means that can lead people straight from the physical realm to the Fade?
So all those who travel through a tainted Titan by entering a tainted eluvian - if not turned into a ghoul or darkspawn - would eventually reach the Black City?
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