Closure on the Architect

Actually there is a codex entry from DAO which talks about the other surviving Magisters. Well, at least 3 of them.

Corypheus, dispite being a darkspawn, didn't seem to have any control over them and didn't use them at all. Perhaps he couldn't. Perhaps they are firmly under the Architect's control.

Control meaning command... not domination. They are definitely under his control as he is their leader.

Gaider said a while back in an interview that the Architect was originally planned to show up in the Adamant/Wardens Here Lies the Abyss quest but was removed in one of the quests many iterations because the quest worked better without him. Doesn't mean he will never show up again. I never liked the character, so I don't care if he's gone for good.

Meh, pretty obvious they invented them for exp, kind of looked like M.Manson, tbh. Whole thing didn't make any sense, bring L'etoile back and let him whip writers in shape.

Fair point. But it is still odd that the Darkspawn were largely absent from DAI, when Corypheus could have had a ready-made army from them. I wish it had been explained... but perhaps like I said before the 6th Blight plot line may be coming down the pipeline.

In all honestly, BW left so many plotines open (Warden civil war, 6th Blight rumors, Qunari/Tevinter renewed conflict, Solas' elf rebellion, Titans), it's almost seems like they're setting up an MMO instead of the next game.

The whole business of Corypheus and darkspawn was ignored. In Legacy it specifically says that his presence was attracting the darkspawn to his prison, which is why we encountered them there, and yet somehow he stopped this from occurring in DAI, so it would seem it was an unconscious attraction in Legacy and once he got his full faculties back he decided it didn't fit his agenda. I would have thought a darkspawn army would have been easier to control than a demon one but of course that would have brought the full attention of the Grey Wardens onto him, so presumably that is why he went with corrupting their order instead. Although, according to Legacy and WoT2, the Grey Wardens were never a problem for him because he could control them.

There were a number of things that were never explained about Corypheus. In the timeline he and other intelligent darkspawn were only discovered by the Grey Wardens 12 years after the death of Dumat. The timeline definitely says there was more than one but he seemed the "greatest" of them, in other words their leader. So what were they doing during the 200 years of the 1st Blight? Was it only Dumat's death that allowed them to function normally? Corypheus seemed to have lost his memory when we meet him in Legacy, still thinking he was back at the time he invaded the Golden/Black City, so the fact he was unaware of the others could just be because of his fragmented recollection. If he was able to control the Wardens through the taint, it is possible that the individual Magisters could cut off themselves from other intelligent darkspawn so they weren't aware of them.

The Architect also seems to have suffered memory loss so it may be it was the contact with the Grey Wardens and the lore of the Chantry that enabled Corypheus to recover his. May be each time he body jumped a Warden he got back a bit more, in contrast to the Architect who may only ever have jumped from one darkspawn to another. Why didn't he jump to one of our fellow wardens or the Hero, who knows? They never explained why jumping to a Grey Warden didn't destroy Corypheus like it does an arch-demon. The split soul with the dragon didn't explain it at all. Surely he should have jumped to his dragon?

Until they definitely show us to the contrary, I'm assuming that even if the Architect is permanently dead and another Magister eaten by one of his fellows, that still leaves 4 to be accounted for, 2 of which may well be linked to a sleeping dragon god that has not yet arisen as an arch-demon.

The impression I got from the cutscenes with Erimond was that each individual demon they summoned required the sacrifice of a warden warrior; a one to one ratio. Issue there being that there are only a few hundred wardens in Orlais - okay, the wiki says "several hundred" but the point being it's less than a thousand, and then fewer than that because you're only sacrificing the non-mages.

Granted I'm sure a few hundred demons and a few dozen to a couple hundred mages controlling them could do a hell of a lot of damage, but that's not exactly a worldshattering force. Was the implication that the true bulk of the army would only come through with the Nightmare? Or was this less "use these few hundred demons to conquer Orlais" than "Use the kaiju spider demon to conquer Orlais"?

He's alive in my Canon world state. But yes, he needs to be re-addressed in future.