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Post by thats1evildude on Feb 18, 2018 16:52:52 GMT
A thought just occurred to me. So dwarves have an innate resistance to magical energy, right? And they also don’t normally dream, possessing no connection to the Fade.
It’s been theorized that both qualities are the result of their environment (ie. living underground surrounded by lyrium). But what if both traits were deliberately introduced by the Titans to cope with the abilities of their enemy?
Think about it: the Titans were at war with the magic-reliant elves, who reportedly possessed the ability to kill others through their dreams. What if, in order to make their “children” more effective fighters against the elves, introduced the magic resistance inherent with dwarves, or even prevented them from dreaming to keep them from being attacked while sleeping?
Thoughts? Plausible? Unlikely?
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Feb 18, 2018 17:13:57 GMT
Yes, I believe that is the prevailing theory. That the natural connection that dwarves had to Titans, which gave them access to non-Fade magic, was severed at some point in ancient history, and everything since has been decline for the dwarves.
There's a bit of Chekov's Gun going on -- Descent drops hints and foreshadows some big reveal that what we thought was true for the history of dwarves is, at best, incomplete. Just like for the history of the Inquisition, or the elves. In fact, one could argue that all three DLC have the same theme: history isn't what you thought it was.
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Post by vertigomez on Feb 18, 2018 17:16:43 GMT
I think it's a neat idea, but then there's this: "In this place we prepare to hunt the pillars of the earth. Their workers scurry, witless, soulless. This death will be a mercy. We will make the earth blossom with their passing."I think it's more likely that the Blight is the self-defense mechanism here. Like, "oh, you want to mine our blood? Have some red lyrium, besh.  " Though the way it's phrased - the workers are CURRENTLY witless, when they're under Titan control - makes it seem as if the elvhen thought they were doing the dwarva a favor, giving them independent thought. That makes Solas's nostalgia for a time when the dwarves were "part of a whole" very interesting. |
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Feb 18, 2018 17:21:51 GMT
There are some very good lore theories in a series of posts in /r/dragonage that touches on the connection of Titans to dwarves and lyrium. Here's some of them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/57omp1/spoilers_all_lyrium_the_bridge_between_this_world/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/57gt45/spoilers_all_he_broke_through_to_the_other_side/
This is the portal to all of eravas's lore posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/57v3as/spoilers_all_wrapping_it_all_up_and_a_thank_you/
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Post by thats1evildude on Feb 18, 2018 17:47:28 GMT
I think it's a neat idea, but then there's this: "In this place we prepare to hunt the pillars of the earth. Their workers scurry, witless, soulless. This death will be a mercy. We will make the earth blossom with their passing.". This makes me wonder if all the dwarves were once like the Sha-Brytol, but the death of the Titans gave them a measure of sentience. Ah, there’s so much we don’t know about the history of Thedas. |
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Post by ellehaym on Feb 18, 2018 22:27:31 GMT
I don't think that ancient dwarves were "mindless" as what the ancient elves thought. Take a look at Valta once she re-connected with a Titan. I do think that there's a bit of a hive-mind going on, but I think it's more complex than that. Perhaps it's closer to the Avatar's Na'vi, where they're still individuals, but can connected to a greater whole.
Solas and other ancient elves don't consider the people of modern Thedas as "real people" at least initially due to being cut off from the Fade. I am sure the Elves thought even less of Dwarves back then due to not being connected to the Fade, but also connected to a relatively unknown beings in the Titans.
In their good intention (or maybe they just wanted new slaves to mine lyrium), I can see the Elves thinking that cutting them off from Titans can atleast give them some sort of "real-ness"
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