My theory is, that lyrium first of all is some kind of arteries of the titans which sleep underground. In the Descent DLC we see lots and lots of the stuff in the unachrted abyss which is really close to the titan. Maybe it's some kind of tool for the titan to connect to the stone arround him. Lyrium also has to be somehow alive, which would be the case in this scenario. We also know that dwarfs are connected somehow to the fade, likely threw the stone, which again is connected to the titans. Lyrium itself seems to have the power to breach threw the veil and exist in both worlds. There is information that a titan ones got tainted
We are here We have waited We have slept We are sundered We are crippled We are polluted We endure We wait We have found the dreams again We will awaken! This seriously gives me Titan vibes! What if, to protect themselves from the Evanuris that were hunting them, they tainted their own blood? We know that the elves wanted lyrium and hunted them for it. A titan turning regular lyrium into red lyrium would make the elves mad and probably leave them alone. Seeing as the titans were possibly very deep into the earth perhaps it could be the Void? The same one where Andruil often spent time to hunt, where she contracted the Blight and perhaps infected (some of) the others and Arlathan?
Jirelle Possible! I'm not sure how Titans could have tainted themselves, but the rest of that, I like. I'll definitely try to investigate the connection between the Titans and the Void!
Or perhaps the Forgotten Ones had something to do with it? In particular Anaris, the "god" of disease and pestilence. Perhaps he/they were trying to create a weapon to use against the Evanuris?
Awesome!! I love that you included that whispers in the red lyrium note that can be found in the fade. For some reason I keep forgetting about it (maybe because it creeps me out so bad), but I definitely agree that it must be from the trapped elven gods... I mean, who else could it be??
If not the elven gods, perhaps it is like the Old Gods' Calling. But if I'm right and it IS the Forgotten Ones, there may not be a difference. I just started working on one for that :)
Your theory is an interesting one. I just hope they explain more about the mythology & how its connection to the chantry religion and the dark spawn & re lurium etc. The chantry religion seems to partly touch on these things but with metaphor
My theory is that the 2 guardians we’ve seen, Red lyrium guardian in da2 and the titan guardian in the da:I dlc, are both the titans themselves, connected to the earth or Stone, the lyrium that grows out of the ground is part of them, they’re connected to both dwarven lore and elven lore, as the elven gods and the titans.
I believe Yvana said that before the fade was created that Dragons ruled the world. I believe the source of their power was the void as Archdemons summon magic that is not of the fade. I believe the Elves created the fade (as it is said that Elves passed the knowledge of their magic to Tevinter humans allowing them access to the fade as well) and forgot the Dragons ruling the world in favor of their own Elven gods. Now if the Old Gods are the Forgotten Ones, it is possible that they tainted the fade for multiple reasons. The first is that it is pretty obvious how much Solas loves the fade, and tainting that is a pretty good start for your revenge. The second is that now they can create their own tainted lyrium and get it out into the real world. They want to be found. They want to be awakened. They lure human magisters into the freshly tainted fade in order to get living beings in the world that carried the taint, the darkspawn. Now they have mindless creatures who can only hear the singing of this tainted lyrium you have created. I think the red lyrium calls the darkspawn not the old god. The Red Lyrium is near the locations where an Old God can be found. You have red lyrium in Kirkwall, which isnt too far from Ameranthine where the Architect had moved to. The architect wants to rescue the darkspawn from the call. He released the fifth blight trying to cure the archdemon, and when it failed he moved on to his next task, not too far from Kirkwall. Grey Wardens also know the locations of the Old Gods prisons. Maybe there is an obvious landmark, like Red Lyrium. It also explains why the wardens are there IN KIRKWALL after the Architect disappears/is destroyed. Maybe they need to clean up any darkspawn before they can reach the Old God they are dangerously close to?
Am definitely in the "darkspawn find Old Gods due to red lyrium" theory-boat. I question whether the red lyrium singing comes from WHERE the Old Gods are imprisoned (and why they are imprisoned in THOSE places) or from WITHIN the Old Gods: We know LYRIUM "sings" & that this singing can be heard by dwarves (who cannot use magic nor dream but can CRAFT with lyrium), displaced spirits (who compare the singing to the atmosphere of The Fade), and there are implications that templars hear this singing too (lyrium addiction). Lyrium seems to have a pacifying, if hypnotic and mind-addling, effect. RED lyrium is lyrium that has The Taint. Blighted lyrium sings too but the song is no longer pacifies but incites paranoia & aggression (just as The Taint does). Blighted lyrium spreads The Taint just as darkspawn do: via ingestion of it. I would even suggest that The singing that darkspawn follow (and long-time Grey Wardens) is supposedly the singing of Archdemons. The Architect was able to disrupt a connection between The Calling and those with The Taint via Grey Warden blood. The ritual to become a Grey Warden involves magic, darkspawn blood... and ARCHDEMON blood. I would venture that it is the DRAGON part of archdemons that "immunizes" one from the "maddening/beautiful song": it is LYRIUM, and significantly massive deposits of it, that calls to darkspawn NOT the Old Gods. Archdemons are ancient dragons - "Old Gods" - unburied by darkspawn & Tainted who LEAD Blights. In Inquisition, it is noted that dragons seem to have a degree of resistance to The Blight. The Old Gods are ALWAYS depicted as dragons but the kind of irresistible "song" is much more in line with pure, unblighted, lyrium. There is a specific connection with The Taint that draws darkspawn to where Old Gods are - templars, grey wardens, displaced spirits... none hear that singing from so far away & to such intensity - so it is likely the PRISONS of the Old Gods that are singing. Lyrium is (somewhat) now established to be the blood of Titans: OLD Old Gods. It is possible that the Old Gods are dormant due to being deep within Titans. Is it the TITANS calling to darkspawn to free THEM of the dragons within them? If, like Mythal, the Old Gods are ancient mixtures of spirit & dragon rather, is it possible that, after Fen'harel set The Veil between The Fade and the Old Gods, the latter sought The Titans of their own volition, choosing to remain as close to The Fade as possible by sleeping at the largest sources of lyrium, a connection to The Fade, of all? Lyrium is living blood connected to The Fade. Did this render Titans immune from Fen'harel's Veil? Or did it affect them too? When the Old Gods became Archdemons & left to the surface to spread their Blights... did anyone check what had become of where they had once lain dormant? What does waking a dragon into an Archdemon entail? It does not SEEM to be the reason why darkspawn seek them out but it is What Happens when they get there. How does all this affect the lyrium surrounding the site of said corruption? Were the Old Gods lured to the Titans? Did the Titans choose this? Were they tricked? Is THAT why the end of The Last Blight (now but two archdemons away) is attached to even greater associations of dread than The Blights themselves? Because, without Old Gods sleeping within their brethren (and perhaps lulling Titans into dormancy with them), the Titans will rouse? ugh, everything is connected but THERE IS TOO MUCH EVERYTHING to take into account! blood (which lyrium is) & magic & the fade & Solas. i would express relief at how The Qun is not so entangled in this... but kossith are implied to be of draconic descent. and EVERYONE uses blood magic, even when the whole "lyrium is also blood" is discounted: dalish use "blood writing" as a coming-of-age ritual; qunari use that poison blood-warpaint; the chantry uses phylacteries to track mages... blood and magic are linked so blood is linked to The Fade through magic is connected to spirits and The Fade and lyrium is blood that sings to spirits to ancient creatures to dragons & blood makes magic to affect the fade...
girltriesgames directed me here. Veeeeery interesting stuff. I've also considered the Tevinter Old Gods are the Forgotten Ones, but I don't really have much of a reason for thinking that. It is also possible that it's something whispering from the Void. There's hints that the blight and even red lyrium may have come about after Andruil made armor from the Void and hunted the things that were there.
Given the red lyrium note in the fade, and cole's ominous quote about old whispers wanting doors open... Could the Evanuris be blighted? There's strong evidence that Andruil came in contact with it, perhaps even brought it back with her from the Void. Regardless, I'm really curious but also a bit.. hesitant for what awaits us behind that locked eluvian.
Gyps Well put :) I first thought it was the Evanuris, but I'm beginning to suspect the whispers are from Titans. Particularly the use of the words "Sundered" and "Polluted". That said, they may also be from the Forgotten Ones, as Red Lyrium has the Blight, and the Blight likely comes from the Void; Where the Forgotten Ones are said to have come from and are now trapped in. They may also be from Old Gods, though they may not be mutually exclusive from the others. In any event, whoever or whatever the whispers come from are probably not friendly. Not all doors are meant to be opened...
Go a step further: the Black City is Arlathan. Surely the largest and most magnificent city would have some ruins somewhere in Thedas? Only Solas banished the Evanuris in Arlathan in the Fade when he created the Veil. Also, Red Lyrium was definitely used by the Evanuris to further control their slaves/people
Ok, this is really interesting. The elven gods in the Black City, especially. What I'm wondering is why Corypheus and the other magisters visiting didn't release them. Or did it? And they have something to do with archdemons and Blights? Also, totally digging Jirelle's theory. And wow, where is that red lyrium vein in the fade with the verse? I've never seen it.
I'd just like to take a moment and point out how stupid it was of Meredith to have an entire sword made of red lyrium. Not even because it's red lyrium(no one knew much about it then), but because it's a whole sword made of lyrium as opposed to a normal sword with lyrium runes. "Hey, you know that material that causes normal people to get sick, lose memory, go deaf and go crazy, that also happens to affect mages even more strongly? Why don't I cary a huge chunk of it on my back at my job where I'm around mages every day?"
the whole Justice thing reminded me of Cole in Asunder when he was around all the darkspawn -Chapter 9 was he being pulled back into the fade (he does feel himself being pulled somwhere which is why he kills the mages) or maybe he was feeling the darkspawns "feelings"? Could the voices in the red lyrium be the Titans just there corrupted?
Should have started with the game that didn’t suck 😂 I can’t imagine trying to start with inquisition. Woulda dropped that hot mess of a game in the first hour if I didn’t have a history with the series Fr Fr
yknow. i just thought of something,, what if the red lyrium is the source of the blight? supposedly the blight comes from the fade right? i dunno im hungover and sleepy lol
Ferinya I made this video way back before Trespasser came out. Now that it has, I believe they could be. I'll definitely try to mention that in a future video :)
I just wondered if I missed something, while playing half asleep. I think almost everything would be possible since we don't know that much yet. Everything is speculation, only thing set is that the number seven might be important. And the blight actually seems older than the magisters entering the fade. But we will see.
Tin foil hat on; my thoughts and opinions on magic/Fade/lyrium. I could be wrong, I could be right. We won't know until we get more snippets of information in the next game. :) I think your notion that lyrium came from the Fade is not correct. Titans, and thus their lyrium/blood, existed along with the ancient Elves ling before the Veil was created and the Fade came to be seperate from this world. The lyrium and the spiritual energy existed alongside eachother, but seperate. The lyrium was only found underground, and the other only above ground. What if the creation stories that speak of the creation of 'the earth' and 'the sky' refer to those two different but connected forms of energy? Like the Dwarves were born from the Stone, the Elves were born under the Sky. The earth is solid, the sky is not. So the energy in the earth would be solid too. Lyrium and the 'spiritual' energy (what is now called the magic from the Fade) could be the same, but different states (like ice and fog, with the lyrium being more dense and thus having stronger effects on it's surroundings). This would explain why they sometimes react similar and at other times they don't. Example: Templars use lyrium to enforce reality, like their bodies reject the magical energy and thus diffuse any around them. While when mages ingest lyrium, it attracts the energy and makes them more powerful. This would have to mean both forms of energy (solid and non-solid, so to speak) are in essence the same. If lyrium were the opposite, or unrelated at all, then either the templars or the mages, or neither, would have benefits from it. Thus I think lyrium is the solid, very dense form of the magical energy that was once all around in Thedas above the surface. Also, lyrium is alive via the hive minded Titans. What if Titans are like spirit-infused Stone, with many spirits forming the hive mind. If red lyrium means a titan got blighted, and thus the spirits forming the hive mind are too, can then the spirits in the Fade also become blighted? Is this maybe why Solas went as far as to create the Veil, to protect the spirits from the blight? And to cover all the magic-basics; Blood magic is related to lyrium/Fade magic because the people of Thedas are infused with magic. They eat things that come out of the energized ground and they breathe the energized air. Darkspawn/blight magic is tainted blood magic, just like red lyrium is tainted. There is then only one source of magic, with several forms that we encounter. Let me know what you think, if you like! ^^
There's so much to absorb there! I really like your analytical mind! I have so many videos on these topics I can't even keep my own thoughts straight XD And this one is obviously really old. Pre-Trespasser. Thanks for watching! I recently started a Diiscord server to talk about Dragon Age lore if you want to join in :)
@@TheKingdomEntertainment I'll think about that, but thank you for the invitation! I've always been a huge fan of the series, mostly the games, but since the BTS video of a few days ago my enthousiasm got jump started again. Your theories, even pre-Trespasser are very interesting and touch on some things others sometimes overlook, so that triggered my own reactions. Keep up the good work!
Can you make a video, where you share your thoughts about the Forbbiden Ones being the Old Gods? I'd love to hear it! I always thought that Evanuris were the Old Gods - well the number is right and the titles of each of the Old Gods corresponds well to the spheres of each elvpen "god". I also thought, that Evanuris/Old Gods spoke to humans (as in the Chant), taught them blood magic and in the end use them to take vengance against their elven kind (and in the process Solas and his supporters). Besides, the idea of storming the Golden City came from Dumat, and then from the rest of the Old Gods. My guess is that they lured Magisters with the dreams of godhood, secretly forcing humans to open the gates to the Fade, that in the end would allow them to return to Thedas. If they succeeded they would once again become "gods" and rule humans and elves. And there is also this issue of dragons leading and army during the Blight. As we could see in DAI the Evanuris used dragons as their protectors and signs of power. I guess those dragons had some essense of Evanuris' spirits. So the dragons, that were slayed during Blights were not Old Gods themselves, they had only fragments of their souls, and only those fragments were destroyed by the Grey Wardens. Oh... it turned out to be such a long comment! :D
My theory is, that lyrium first of all is some kind of arteries of the titans which sleep underground. In the Descent DLC we see lots and lots of the stuff in the unachrted abyss which is really close to the titan. Maybe it's some kind of tool for the titan to connect to the stone arround him. Lyrium also has to be somehow alive, which would be the case in this scenario.
We also know that dwarfs are connected somehow to the fade, likely threw the stone, which again is connected to the titans.
Lyrium itself seems to have the power to breach threw the veil and exist in both worlds.
There is information that a titan ones got tainted
The uncharted abyss IS the titan.
We are here
We have waited
We have slept
We are sundered
We are crippled
We are polluted
We endure
We wait
We have found the dreams again
We will awaken!
This seriously gives me Titan vibes! What if, to protect themselves from the Evanuris that were hunting them, they tainted their own blood? We know that the elves wanted lyrium and hunted them for it. A titan turning regular lyrium into red lyrium would make the elves mad and probably leave them alone. Seeing as the titans were possibly very deep into the earth perhaps it could be the Void? The same one where Andruil often spent time to hunt, where she contracted the Blight and perhaps infected (some of) the others and Arlathan?
Jirelle Possible! I'm not sure how Titans could have tainted themselves, but the rest of that, I like. I'll definitely try to investigate the connection between the Titans and the Void!
Or perhaps the Forgotten Ones had something to do with it? In particular Anaris, the "god" of disease and pestilence. Perhaps he/they were trying to create a weapon to use against the Evanuris?
5:08 I guess that's the fall of the titans.
It's a bit late, but your vids are really good! You should have far more subscribers and views!
If you are late, what does that make me?
@@elegathor4251 extremely late ;)
Awesome!! I love that you included that whispers in the red lyrium note that can be found in the fade. For some reason I keep forgetting about it (maybe because it creeps me out so bad), but I definitely agree that it must be from the trapped elven gods... I mean, who else could it be??
If not the elven gods, perhaps it is like the Old Gods' Calling. But if I'm right and it IS the Forgotten Ones, there may not be a difference. I just started working on one for that :)
I've actually been working on one that the Old Gods = the Elven Pantheon!! >:) GAME ON, KINGDOM! lol
That face the inquisitor makes at 7:16 always gets me. 😆😆😆
I wonder if Wardens would be immune to the affects of red lyrium
Your theory is an interesting one. I just hope they explain more about the mythology & how its connection to the chantry religion and the dark spawn & re lurium etc. The chantry religion seems to partly touch on these things but with metaphor
My theory is that the 2 guardians we’ve seen, Red lyrium guardian in da2 and the titan guardian in the da:I dlc, are both the titans themselves, connected to the earth or Stone, the lyrium that grows out of the ground is part of them, they’re connected to both dwarven lore and elven lore, as the elven gods and the titans.
Pretty sure that spirit got passed some crack and told it was lyrium. That "ache he didn't know he had" is called withdrawal.
I believe Yvana said that before the fade was created that Dragons ruled the world. I believe the source of their power was the void as Archdemons summon magic that is not of the fade. I believe the Elves created the fade (as it is said that Elves passed the knowledge of their magic to Tevinter humans allowing them access to the fade as well) and forgot the Dragons ruling the world in favor of their own Elven gods. Now if the Old Gods are the Forgotten Ones, it is possible that they tainted the fade for multiple reasons. The first is that it is pretty obvious how much Solas loves the fade, and tainting that is a pretty good start for your revenge. The second is that now they can create their own tainted lyrium and get it out into the real world. They want to be found. They want to be awakened. They lure human magisters into the freshly tainted fade in order to get living beings in the world that carried the taint, the darkspawn. Now they have mindless creatures who can only hear the singing of this tainted lyrium you have created. I think the red lyrium calls the darkspawn not the old god. The Red Lyrium is near the locations where an Old God can be found. You have red lyrium in Kirkwall, which isnt too far from Ameranthine where the Architect had moved to. The architect wants to rescue the darkspawn from the call. He released the fifth blight trying to cure the archdemon, and when it failed he moved on to his next task, not too far from Kirkwall. Grey Wardens also know the locations of the Old Gods prisons. Maybe there is an obvious landmark, like Red Lyrium. It also explains why the wardens are there IN KIRKWALL after the Architect disappears/is destroyed. Maybe they need to clean up any darkspawn before they can reach the Old God they are dangerously close to?
Am definitely in the "darkspawn find Old Gods due to red lyrium" theory-boat. I question whether the red lyrium singing comes from WHERE the Old Gods are imprisoned (and why they are imprisoned in THOSE places) or from WITHIN the Old Gods:
We know LYRIUM "sings" & that this singing can be heard by dwarves (who cannot use magic nor dream but can CRAFT with lyrium), displaced spirits (who compare the singing to the atmosphere of The Fade), and there are implications that templars hear this singing too (lyrium addiction). Lyrium seems to have a pacifying, if hypnotic and mind-addling, effect.
RED lyrium is lyrium that has The Taint. Blighted lyrium sings too but the song is no longer pacifies but incites paranoia & aggression (just as The Taint does). Blighted lyrium spreads The Taint just as darkspawn do: via ingestion of it. I would even suggest that
The singing that darkspawn follow (and long-time Grey Wardens) is supposedly the singing of Archdemons. The Architect was able to disrupt a connection between The Calling and those with The Taint via Grey Warden blood. The ritual to become a Grey Warden involves magic, darkspawn blood... and ARCHDEMON blood. I would venture that it is the DRAGON part of archdemons that "immunizes" one from the "maddening/beautiful song": it is LYRIUM, and significantly massive deposits of it, that calls to darkspawn NOT the Old Gods.
Archdemons are ancient dragons - "Old Gods" - unburied by darkspawn & Tainted who LEAD Blights. In Inquisition, it is noted that dragons seem to have a degree of resistance to The Blight. The Old Gods are ALWAYS depicted as dragons but the kind of irresistible "song" is much more in line with pure, unblighted, lyrium.
There is a specific connection with The Taint that draws darkspawn to where Old Gods are - templars, grey wardens, displaced spirits... none hear that singing from so far away & to such intensity - so it is likely the PRISONS of the Old Gods that are singing.
Lyrium is (somewhat) now established to be the blood of Titans: OLD Old Gods. It is possible that the Old Gods are dormant due to being deep within Titans. Is it the TITANS calling to darkspawn to free THEM of the dragons within them? If, like Mythal, the Old Gods are ancient mixtures of spirit & dragon rather, is it possible that, after Fen'harel set The Veil between The Fade and the Old Gods, the latter sought The Titans of their own volition, choosing to remain as close to The Fade as possible by sleeping at the largest sources of lyrium, a connection to The Fade, of all?
Lyrium is living blood connected to The Fade. Did this render Titans immune from Fen'harel's Veil? Or did it affect them too?
When the Old Gods became Archdemons & left to the surface to spread their Blights... did anyone check what had become of where they had once lain dormant? What does waking a dragon into an Archdemon entail? It does not SEEM to be the reason why darkspawn seek them out but it is What Happens when they get there. How does all this affect the lyrium surrounding the site of said corruption?
Were the Old Gods lured to the Titans? Did the Titans choose this? Were they tricked? Is THAT why the end of The Last Blight (now but two archdemons away) is attached to even greater associations of dread than The Blights themselves? Because, without Old Gods sleeping within their brethren (and perhaps lulling Titans into dormancy with them), the Titans will rouse?
ugh, everything is connected but THERE IS TOO MUCH EVERYTHING to take into account! blood (which lyrium is) & magic & the fade & Solas. i would express relief at how The Qun is not so entangled in this... but kossith are implied to be of draconic descent. and EVERYONE uses blood magic, even when the whole "lyrium is also blood" is discounted: dalish use "blood writing" as a coming-of-age ritual; qunari use that poison blood-warpaint; the chantry uses phylacteries to track mages... blood and magic are linked so blood is linked to The Fade through magic is connected to spirits and The Fade and lyrium is blood that sings to spirits to ancient creatures to dragons & blood makes magic to affect the fade...
girltriesgames directed me here. Veeeeery interesting stuff. I've also considered the Tevinter Old Gods are the Forgotten Ones, but I don't really have much of a reason for thinking that.
It is also possible that it's something whispering from the Void. There's hints that the blight and even red lyrium may have come about after Andruil made armor from the Void and hunted the things that were there.
Dwarves can hear red lyrium because they are connected to the titans
Given the red lyrium note in the fade, and cole's ominous quote about old whispers wanting doors open... Could the Evanuris be blighted? There's strong evidence that Andruil came in contact with it, perhaps even brought it back with her from the Void. Regardless, I'm really curious but also a bit.. hesitant for what awaits us behind that locked eluvian.
Gyps Well put :) I first thought it was the Evanuris, but I'm beginning to suspect the whispers are from Titans. Particularly the use of the words "Sundered" and "Polluted". That said, they may also be from the Forgotten Ones, as Red Lyrium has the Blight, and the Blight likely comes from the Void; Where the Forgotten Ones are said to have come from and are now trapped in.
They may also be from Old Gods, though they may not be mutually exclusive from the others. In any event, whoever or whatever the whispers come from are probably not friendly. Not all doors are meant to be opened...
I love your videos on dragon age man!
Go a step further: the Black City is Arlathan. Surely the largest and most magnificent city would have some ruins somewhere in Thedas? Only Solas banished the Evanuris in Arlathan in the Fade when he created the Veil. Also, Red Lyrium was definitely used by the Evanuris to further control their slaves/people
i wonder what would happen if darkspawn got ahold of red lyrium? would it behave like normal lyrium for them? could it increase an emissaries mana?
I believe the old gods might have been the separate pieces of mythal
Ok, this is really interesting. The elven gods in the Black City, especially. What I'm wondering is why Corypheus and the other magisters visiting didn't release them. Or did it? And they have something to do with archdemons and Blights?
Also, totally digging Jirelle's theory. And wow, where is that red lyrium vein in the fade with the verse? I've never seen it.
TourAbsurd It's right along the path in Here Lies the Abyss. On the left hand side.
Great video!!!
I'd just like to take a moment and point out how stupid it was of Meredith to have an entire sword made of red lyrium. Not even because it's red lyrium(no one knew much about it then), but because it's a whole sword made of lyrium as opposed to a normal sword with lyrium runes. "Hey, you know that material that causes normal people to get sick, lose memory, go deaf and go crazy, that also happens to affect mages even more strongly? Why don't I cary a huge chunk of it on my back at my job where I'm around mages every day?"
the whole Justice thing reminded me of Cole in Asunder when he was around all the darkspawn -Chapter 9 was he being pulled back into the fade (he does feel himself being pulled somwhere which is why he kills the mages) or maybe he was feeling the darkspawns "feelings"? Could the voices in the red lyrium be the Titans just there corrupted?
Possible. It's something I'll talk about more in an upcoming video. Some things about that idea make sense, but others do not.
i though lyrium was the blood of the titans?
+bobby jager yea thats right
well Inquisition is the first Dragon Age game Im playing for real, oh boy do I have a lot to dig to get on par
Should have started with the game that didn’t suck 😂 I can’t imagine trying to start with inquisition. Woulda dropped that hot mess of a game in the first hour if I didn’t have a history with the series Fr Fr
yknow. i just thought of something,, what if the red lyrium is the source of the blight? supposedly the blight comes from the fade right? i dunno im hungover and sleepy lol
You said it's unlikely for the old gods to be the elven gods. Why so sure? Until now I couldn't find an argument against it.
Ferinya I made this video way back before Trespasser came out. Now that it has, I believe they could be. I'll definitely try to mention that in a future video :)
I just wondered if I missed something, while playing half asleep. I think almost everything would be possible since we don't know that much yet. Everything is speculation, only thing set is that the number seven might be important. And the blight actually seems older than the magisters entering the fade. But we will see.
Tin foil hat on; my thoughts and opinions on magic/Fade/lyrium. I could be wrong, I could be right. We won't know until we get more snippets of information in the next game. :)
I think your notion that lyrium came from the Fade is not correct. Titans, and thus their lyrium/blood, existed along with the ancient Elves ling before the Veil was created and the Fade came to be seperate from this world. The lyrium and the spiritual energy existed alongside eachother, but seperate. The lyrium was only found underground, and the other only above ground.
What if the creation stories that speak of the creation of 'the earth' and 'the sky' refer to those two different but connected forms of energy? Like the Dwarves were born from the Stone, the Elves were born under the Sky.
The earth is solid, the sky is not. So the energy in the earth would be solid too. Lyrium and the 'spiritual' energy (what is now called the magic from the Fade) could be the same, but different states (like ice and fog, with the lyrium being more dense and thus having stronger effects on it's surroundings). This would explain why they sometimes react similar and at other times they don't.
Example: Templars use lyrium to enforce reality, like their bodies reject the magical energy and thus diffuse any around them. While when mages ingest lyrium, it attracts the energy and makes them more powerful. This would have to mean both forms of energy (solid and non-solid, so to speak) are in essence the same.
If lyrium were the opposite, or unrelated at all, then either the templars or the mages, or neither, would have benefits from it. Thus I think lyrium is the solid, very dense form of the magical energy that was once all around in Thedas above the surface.
Also, lyrium is alive via the hive minded Titans. What if Titans are like spirit-infused Stone, with many spirits forming the hive mind. If red lyrium means a titan got blighted, and thus the spirits forming the hive mind are too, can then the spirits in the Fade also become blighted? Is this maybe why Solas went as far as to create the Veil, to protect the spirits from the blight?
And to cover all the magic-basics; Blood magic is related to lyrium/Fade magic because the people of Thedas are infused with magic. They eat things that come out of the energized ground and they breathe the energized air. Darkspawn/blight magic is tainted blood magic, just like red lyrium is tainted. There is then only one source of magic, with several forms that we encounter.
Let me know what you think, if you like! ^^
There's so much to absorb there! I really like your analytical mind! I have so many videos on these topics I can't even keep my own thoughts straight XD And this one is obviously really old. Pre-Trespasser.
Thanks for watching!
I recently started a Diiscord server to talk about Dragon Age lore if you want to join in :)
@@TheKingdomEntertainment I'll think about that, but thank you for the invitation! I've always been a huge fan of the series, mostly the games, but since the BTS video of a few days ago my enthousiasm got jump started again. Your theories, even pre-Trespasser are very interesting and touch on some things others sometimes overlook, so that triggered my own reactions. Keep up the good work!
Loghain in Inquisition kind of looks like Eskel from the Witcher with all the scars
I agree. An older version of him too.
Did you delete theory a comment I made? Or did I post that on a different video about red lyrium?
I don't remember. I don't delete many comments though. It was probably on a different video
Reaper material :)
Can you make a video, where you share your thoughts about the Forbbiden Ones being the Old Gods? I'd love to hear it!
I always thought that Evanuris were the Old Gods - well the number is right and the titles of each of the Old Gods corresponds well to the spheres of each elvpen "god". I also thought, that Evanuris/Old Gods spoke to humans (as in the Chant), taught them blood magic and in the end use them to take vengance against their elven kind (and in the process Solas and his supporters). Besides, the idea of storming the Golden City came from Dumat, and then from the rest of the Old Gods. My guess is that they lured Magisters with the dreams of godhood, secretly forcing humans to open the gates to the Fade, that in the end would allow them to return to Thedas. If they succeeded they would once again become "gods" and rule humans and elves. And there is also this issue of dragons leading and army during the Blight. As we could see in DAI the Evanuris used dragons as their protectors and signs of power. I guess those dragons had some essense of Evanuris' spirits. So the dragons, that were slayed during Blights were not Old Gods themselves, they had only fragments of their souls, and only those fragments were destroyed by the Grey Wardens.
Oh... it turned out to be such a long comment! :D