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Post by gervaise21 on May 19, 2017 19:59:49 GMT
Wasn't there a theory that the Qunari were fleeing from a continent where blight (or possibly red lyrium) infested Kossith had become rampant? Ogres are the result of kossith broodmothers, so as with other females, there is a specific ritual to altering them (as we discover in DAO). However, if you look at what Templars become when fed red lyrium, imagine what a kossith behemoth would look like. It was bad enough when the Viddasala fed ordinary lyrium to the saarebas. What would they become with red lyrium? Assuming of course it didn't just kill them.
Could it be that imbibing red lyrium is what made Corypheus into a sentient darkspawn? Something had to be different to what made ordinary darkspawn and it couldn't have been the Architect's ritual because Grey Wardens didn't even exist back when the Magisters invaded the Golden/Black City.
Seeing that dragons are resistant to the Blight, what do you suppose is going on with archdemons to make them as corrupt as they are in both mind and body?
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Post by arvaarad on May 19, 2017 21:53:39 GMT
Wasn't there a theory that the Qunari were fleeing from a continent where blight (or possibly red lyrium) infested Kossith had become rampant? Ogres are the result of kossith broodmothers, so as with other females, there is a specific ritual to altering them (as we discover in DAO). However, if you look at what Templars become when fed red lyrium, imagine what a kossith behemoth would look like. It was bad enough when the Viddasala fed ordinary lyrium to the saarebas. What would they become with red lyrium? Assuming of course it didn't just kill them. Could it be that imbibing red lyrium is what made Corypheus into a sentient darkspawn? Something had to be different to what made ordinary darkspawn and it couldn't have been the Architect's ritual because Grey Wardens didn't even exist back when the Magisters invaded the Golden/Black City. Seeing that dragons are resistant to the Blight, what do you suppose is going on with archdemons to make them as corrupt as they are in both mind and body? At first guess, I would say "a whooooooole lot of Blight". The Blight is supposed to be, at least partially, a power source, right? I wouldn't be surprised if the archdemons want to be blighted due to some ancient blight magic secrets we don't know about. I find it unlikely that they'd keep singing to the darkspawn, otherwise. So perhaps they help the process along, or are already pre-blighted before the darkspawn even arrive. It could even be possible that "using blight magic" is the only way to break out of their prisons. I'm trying to think back to The Calling for stuff that could have contradicted this... I remember they talked about archdemons but I don't remember the details.
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Post by gervaise21 on May 20, 2017 11:14:05 GMT
I tend to think that they are already blighted before the darkspawn get to them. This is why their song attracts the darkspawn, because it is a blighted song. Whether it calls to them deliberately in order for them to break it free from its prison or that is just a side effect is less clear. I know people say that the Architect makes it sound like his attempt to use his ritual on Urthemiel was what corrupted it but I rather think that he simply woke it up, it was already corrupted and his ritual didn't work because it was the source of the song he was trying to prevent other darkspawn from hearing. After all, if when he found Urthemiel it wasn't corrupted, why bother with the ritual at all? And since we know dragons have a natural resistance to the Blight, why would darkspawn simply coming into contact with an old god instantly corrupt it? More likely it was the breaking into the Black City that caused their corruption, through breaking some sort of seal that had shut away the Blight, or alternatively they were originally imprisoned because they already had the Blight. The codex about the old lair of the archdemon that the dwarf finds in the Deep Roads suggests that the darkspawn were worshipping it when they found it. Essentially the archdemon is the god of the darkspawn.
Blight magic is different from ordinary magic. The Last Flight makes that perfectly clear. I'm pretty sure it is Void magic and draws its power from there, which is why it is a life negating form of magic.
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Post by arvaarad on May 20, 2017 14:46:51 GMT
I tend to think that they are already blighted before the darkspawn get to them. This is why their song attracts the darkspawn, because it is a blighted song. Whether it calls to them deliberately in order for them to break it free from its prison or that is just a side effect is less clear. I know people say that the Architect makes it sound like his attempt to use his ritual on Urthemiel was what corrupted it but I rather think that he simply woke it up, it was already corrupted and his ritual didn't work because it was the source of the song he was trying to prevent other darkspawn from hearing. After all, if when he found Urthemiel it wasn't corrupted, why bother with the ritual at all? And since we know dragons have a natural resistance to the Blight, why would darkspawn simply coming into contact with an old god instantly corrupt it? More likely it was the breaking into the Black City that caused their corruption, through breaking some sort of seal that had shut away the Blight, or alternatively they were originally imprisoned because they already had the Blight. The codex about the old lair of the archdemon that the dwarf finds in the Deep Roads suggests that the darkspawn were worshipping it when they found it. Essentially the archdemon is the god of the darkspawn. Blight magic is different from ordinary magic. The Last Flight makes that perfectly clear. I'm pretty sure it is Void magic and draws its power from there, which is why it is a life negating form of magic. Ah yeah, Last Flight is the one novel I haven't read. I need to get around to that. But yes, I've gotten the impression that blight magic is sort of its own sphere, distinct from Fade magic or blood magic. Maybe with some areas of overlap, but mostly its own thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the archdemons are pre-blighted, if, like Andruil, they've made armor of the Void and all forgot their true face. I do think there's a good chance the Blight comes from the Void. But I'm still trying to piece how the Anvil of the Void and the Uncharted Abyss fit into that. Both the Anvil and the Uncharted Abyss feature extremely pure blue lyrium. In fact the lyrium gets purer and the darkspawn vanish the further down we go. To me, that seems at odds with the usual association of the Void with the Blight. Plus, and it's easy for me to forget this, blue lyrium also does scary stuff, without any blighting necessary. It has its own song and its own agenda. It's what binds the spirits of golems and Sha-Brytol. Right now we consider red lyrium to be the greater threat, but perhaps the situation is reversed when the Veil is down? "He cut off the dreams to keep the old dreams from waking." The first thing wakened by the Veil tears is a pure blue titan. Titans can't be the thing that frightened the elves though, because they fought them eons before they sealed the Deep Roads. Which brings us back to the Blight, and Andruil's weapons, and her armor of the Void. But was her armor red (and plague ate her lands) or blue (like the armor crafted on the Anvil of the Void, or the Sha-Brytol in the Uncharted Abyss)? There are some pieces missing here, for sure. The Blight definitely seems like the more likely explanation for "what was the scary thing that came from the Void?" but there seems to be something more to the Void.
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Post by gervaise21 on May 20, 2017 15:41:46 GMT
I have this sense that the Fade and the Void are two sides to the same thing, just as we have blue lyrium and red lyrium. The elves are meant to have a word which means both the Blight and the place where it originated: Banalhan, which literally means "place of nothing" or the Void. What immediately strikes me about that is that according to human folklore the Blight has its origins in the actions of the Magisters entering the Golden City, which now seems unlikely (they simply released something that was already there) but if the elves have a word for it then it is clear it must have been around much earlier, particularly considering they point a clear sign towards the Void, the place where Andruil was said to have gone, been driven to madness and then returned to infect her lands with the plague.
Another theory of mine is that when Mythal "sapped her strength" and "stole her knowledge" of the path to the Void, may be she also absorbed something tangible of the corruption that she then contained within herself, like the dragons do with the cysts that grow around the taint. When she was killed, this was then released to corrupt everything around it. It was when Fen'Harel and his followers discovered this that they sealed off the entire area.
I'm also fairly convinced that Dirthamen and Falon'Din between them were behind the whole thing, even as far back as Andruil being encouraged to enter the Void by them. Think about the Dalish stories about Ghilan'nain. How she was said to be the beloved of Andruil and could take the form of a white deer. Then we have the story about Falon'Din carrying a deer into the Fade and that mural with a strange looking bear apparently clasping a fair woman with antlers. The bear is associated with Dirthamen, the Keeper of Knowledge and Secrets and Ghilan'nain was meant to have encouraged one of his followers to rebel/aspire to godhood like herself. Then in the Dalish story, in searching for Falon'Din, Dirthamen becomes the master of fear and deceit, which I think is another way of saying that the Keeper of Secrets became corrupt and was covering for his alter ego in the Fade, Falon'Din. So the story that other people believed was that Andruil went into the Void looking for kicks but in reality she was enticed there through believing that was where Falon'Din had taken Ghilan'nain. Then she forgot her original purpose and even her own identity, so no one ever found out the truth.
An alternative explanation for the mural is that Ghilan'nain was in cahoots with Dirthamen and that is why Solas painted them that way. I also find it interesting that in the story about Ghilan'nain's elevation to godhood, it was Pride (with a capital letter and thus possibly indicating a name rather than just a character trait) that caused her to spare the monsters of the sea. If you substitute Solas for Pride, then it would seem he persuaded her not to kill them. Mythal of course was originally born of the sea (according to Dalish legend), so could he have been acting as a go between in order to conceal Mythal's interest in the matter?
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Post by arvaarad on May 20, 2017 16:18:04 GMT
I have this sense that the Fade and the Void are two sides to the same thing, just as we have blue lyrium and red lyrium. The elves are meant to have a word which means both the Blight and the place where it originated: Banalhan, which literally means "place of nothing" or the Void. What immediately strikes me about that is that according to human folklore the Blight has its origins in the actions of the Magisters entering the Golden City, which now seems unlikely (they simply released something that was already there) but if the elves have a word for it then it is clear it must have been around much earlier, particularly considering they point a clear sign towards the Void, the place where Andruil was said to have gone, been driven to madness and then returned to infect her lands with the plague. Another theory of mine is that when Mythal "sapped her strength" and "stole her knowledge" of the path to the Void, may be she also absorbed something tangible of the corruption that she then contained within herself, like the dragons do with the cysts that grow around the taint. When she was killed, this was then released to corrupt everything around it. It was when Fen'Harel and his followers discovered this that they sealed off the entire area. I'm also fairly convinced that Dirthamen and Falon'Din between them were behind the whole thing, even as far back as Andruil being encouraged to enter the Void by them. Think about the Dalish stories about Ghilan'nain. How she was said to be the beloved of Andruil and could take the form of a white deer. Then we have the story about Falon'Din carrying a deer into the Fade and that mural with a strange looking bear apparently clasping a fair woman with antlers. The bear is associated with Dirthamen, the Keeper of Knowledge and Secrets and Ghilan'nain was meant to have encouraged one of his followers to rebel/aspire to godhood like herself. Then in the Dalish story, in searching for Falon'Din, Dirthamen becomes the master of fear and deceit, which I think is another way of saying that the Keeper of Secrets became corrupt and was covering for his alter ego in the Fade, Falon'Din. So the story that other people believed was that Andruil went into the Void looking for kicks but in reality she was enticed there through believing that was where Falon'Din had taken Ghilan'nain. Then she forgot her original purpose and even her own identity, so no one ever found out the truth. An alternative explanation for the mural is that Ghilan'nain was in cahoots with Dirthamen and that is why Solas painted them that way. I also find it interesting that in the story about Ghilan'nain's elevation to godhood, it was Pride (with a capital letter and thus possibly indicating a name rather than just a character trait) that caused her to spare the monsters of the sea. If you substitute Solas for Pride, then it would seem he persuaded her not to kill them. Mythal of course was originally born of the sea (according to Dalish legend), so could he have been acting as a go between in order to conceal Mythal's interest in the matter? Heh, I always assumed Solas just really liked cetuses. I mean, look at them, they're cool as fuck In my head I pictured young Solas riding around on them waving a cowboy hat yelling "staaaaaayyyyy youuuuur hannnnnnd!" back to Ghilan'nain on the shore. And I agree that it's plausible that Ghilan'nain could have been in cahoots with Dirthamen. We know there has to be someone who fits the "angles of her face" description. If we assume the "angles of her face" person was an evanuris, that means either Mythal, Sylaise, Andruil, or Ghilan'nain. He seems to have always hated Andruil, so it's probably not her. He seems to still be on good terms with Mythal, so it's probably not her either... though that would be more likely than Andruil. That leaves the Halla or the Hearthkeeper. Personally I'm secretly hoping it's Sylaise, just because she's been sewing quietly this whole time and actually sounds like an extreme badass (whose "breath rivals Andruil's spear"). But Ghilan'nain would make sense too. Of course, "angles of her face" could also be a Forgotten One, or some other person Solas knew from the time.
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Post by arvaarad on Jun 10, 2017 6:08:49 GMT
I have always liked the idea that Solas was married to Sylaise (likely arranged) and she was the one who he refers to in the "angles of her face comment" because she was the power hungry person that betrayed him and Mythal. The archetype Sylaise represents bears a striking resemblance to Vivienne (Josephine as well, but she is the sweet version) and we know what she becomes when given access to too much power. Plus, almost nothing is mentioned about Sylaise which makes me very suspicious. I think she might be connected to the fire goddess the lizard men were worshipping in the description of the 100 year war in Descent. I've got loads of tin foil hat theories. I assume a lot of people go with Ghilan'nain because of the "Pride stayed her hand" codex. Presumably whoever this angles-of-her-face person is, Solas at one point considered her a close friend. But I totally agree, would love more Sylaise screen time. There's still a pretty wide spectrum of possibilities at this point. I mean, he knows a lot of non-evanuris too. One kind of left field option is Xebenkeck. They're both huge nerds - Xebenkeck sits out of a war, teaches ancient secrets to mortals, and only tries to murder Hawke if they destroy her book collection. On top of that, both Solas and Xebenkeck were blacklisted by the evanuris. There are hints that Kirkwall is tied to his rebellion, and Kirkwall appears to be her base of operations too. Besides, and this is the most important factor: if Xebenkeck and Solas ever... explored the deepest Fade ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), it would make Blackwall's banter infinitely funnier.
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Post by arvaarad on Jun 10, 2017 13:07:56 GMT
Sorry I interrupted your circle jerk, it won't happen again. Heh sorry, my brain tends to jump from theory to theory, sometimes I forget to acknowledge the theory I'm jumping off from. I'm totally on board with more Sylaise! I guess what I was trying to convey is that people usually beeline to angles=Ghilan'nain, but there are lots of other options, including Sylaise. And there's absolutely something suspicious about Ms. Breath-Rivals-Andruil's-Spear. Maybe Sylaise was the first evanuris to learn the dragon trick? She is said to be the inventor of fire. Is she involved with the creation of Qunari somehow?
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 10, 2017 21:12:22 GMT
Another little conspiracy theory I introduced over in the Arlathven thread is about Arianne from Witch Hunt. Her story on first meeting the Warden seems very fishy to me.
She claims that her clan have preserved the book Morrigan stole "since the time of Ancient Arlathan." Now even if she is only referring to the city in Arlathan Forest this seems unlikely since all the survivors from there, apart from the ones who sought refuge with the dwarves of Cad'Halash, were rounded up and enslaved. In any case, if any of them did manage to escape then they would not be Dalish, since the Dalish have only been called that since the fall of the Dales and it refers to the elves who escaped the Chantry's clutches at that time. Then later she contradicts this story by saying that her clan obtained the tome when it was "reclaimed" for them from the Circle of Magi by an elven mage. Morrigan then stole it from them. Whilst the book is meant to have been returned at the end of Witch Hunt, if there is no OGB in DAI then after drinking from the Well of Sorrows Morrigan can be found reading from an ancient book about eluvians. So is this the same one Arianne was looking for? If so, then it would appear to be true that it was a genuinely ancient tome.
She says that the Dalish have been wanderers for 2,000 years. Again this is totally untrue. The Dalish have been wanderers since the fall of the Dales, some 700 years before her meeting with the Warden. Two thousand years would put her "clan" closer in time to the fall of the city in Arlathan Forest but would mean they started their wanderings before it fell as that was only around 1850 years earlier. If we allow for the fact that she is rounding up her figures, then her clan must be survivors of Arlathan but definitely not Dalish.
She also describes the Dalish wanderers as "shadows of what we once were". Does this not sound familiar? Abelas describes the Dalish as "shadows wearing vallaslin". She then goes on to says the book is a treatise on eluvians and may have clues in how to reclaim the past. Who gave her this information? Her Keeper, Solan. Is that not rather co-incidentally too close to Solas? Particularly considering the fact that Solas is also interested in the eluvians and wanting to gain control of them once more.
Subsequent to the events of Witch Hunt it would seem Arianne was in no hurry to return to her "Dalish" clan since she continues to wander Thedas in the company of Finn.
So whilst I generally dislike the notion of linking every elf we have encountered with Solas, this is one case where I would make an exception. I do not believe Arianne was a genuine Dalish elf. Either she was an ancient elf, like Felassan, revived by Solas to prepared the way for his return or somewhere there is an enclave of elves, possibly the descendants of Solas' followers but at the very lease survivors from Arlathan, who have survived down to the present day and do not truly consider themselves to have any kinship with the Dalish but may pass themselves off as such to outsiders.
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Post by arvaarad on Jun 11, 2017 15:03:38 GMT
Her Keeper, Solan. Is that not rather co-incidentally too close to Solas? Particularly considering the fact that Solas is also interested in the eluvians and wanting to gain control of them once more. Subsequent to the events of Witch Hunt it would seem Arianne was in no hurry to return to her "Dalish" clan since she continues to wander Thedas in the company of Finn. "Why aren't you with your clan?" "Our keeper thought I should see the world a little."
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Post by tacsear on Jun 26, 2017 7:27:30 GMT
Here's some interesting stuff about Qunari;
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 27, 2017 14:11:41 GMT
I really like those Talking Dragon Age videos. I was not aware before that the writers had categorically denied that Kossith referred to the pre-qunari race but was more about the particular culture they came from. The bit said by Corypheus would seem to suggest that he knows directly about how the qunari were created because he was involved with it BUT he also knows things from Solas' orb. He tells his "vessel" that the knowledge about the Well of Sorrows came from the orb and he also knows that vallaslin were the markings of slaves, which is more than any modern elf knows even though they descend directly from the ancient elven culture and he does not, so his knowledge about the qunari could equally have come from the orb.
I agree that it seems there are too many hints being dropped across the games and books that the qunari are a dragon-hybrid for it not to be the case. I'm still not convinced when they became that hybrid. Still the idea that may be the Magisters led by Corypheus created them in order to assault the Golden City is an intriguing idea. If there were more great dragons around at that time, it would account for how they might have thought of creating a sort of super-Reaver to assist them but only if the intention had been conquest, whereas I got the impression from Corypheus' memories both in DAI and in Legacy that it was more of an investigative mission in order to find out why the gods had fallen silent or alternatively because they were invited there by Dumat. "It was meant to be Golden" seems much more of an accusation by someone who was expecting to find something beautiful rather than going to war against the inhabitants of the place. After all, I thought the ancient Tevinter believed the Golden City was the home of their gods, so why would they go to war against them? In fact Hessarian seems to confirm this by saying in the Canticle of Silence that Dumat invited his high priest to travel to the Golden City where he would be raised to godhood, which seems to confirm the account given by Corypheus and his reaction when he found the throne empty and the city already black.
So I think the jury is still out on whether the ancient Tevene were responsible for the creation of the qunari or they came from an earlier era. The kossith that travelled into southern Ferelden could still have been horned giants, may be banished by their own Kossith civilisation and finding refuge over the sea only to fall foul of the First Blight. Their arrival was only 15 years before the Magisters sojourn to the Golden City, so hardly enough time to breed them up into a sizeable population if they were not already different and for that matter why would the Magisters have used them rather than those races closer to home unless there was something special about them already? If the kossith were known to have landed in the Korcari Wilds then that suggests that some record of them had to have been left that indicated they were a horned race, which is why people assumed that the female members of their colony must have been the reason for the appearance of ogres and that the rest of them were destroyed in the Blight.
I'm also mindful of the scaled ones that worshipped fire we are told about in a series of codices in the Descent. May be the original kossith were more dragon-like and it was actually them interbreeding with humans that resulted in the qunari we know today and not a direct infusion of dragon blood. The Qun or more specifically the leadership of the Qun clearly know more than was revealed in the comic series. Since we are going north, I hope more will be revealed next game.
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Post by Sunegami on Jun 29, 2017 14:45:16 GMT
I agree that it seems there are too many hints being dropped across the games and books that the qunari are a dragon-hybrid for it not to be the case. I'm still not convinced when they became that hybrid. Still the idea that maybe the Magisters led by Corypheus created them in order to assault the Golden City is an intriguing idea. If there were more great dragons around at that time, it would account for how they might have thought of creating a sort of super-Reaver to assist them but only if the intention had been conquest, whereas I got the impression from Corypheus' memories both in DAI and in Legacy that it was more of an investigative mission in order to find out why the gods had fallen silent or alternatively because they were invited there by Dumat. I am big on the theory that ancient Tevinter accidentally created the qunari (I say "accidentally" because I doubt creating a new race was their specific goal). True, Corypheus' knowledge about qunari could be solely from the Orb, but the fact that he specifically says " Your blood is engorged with decay!! Your race is not a race-- it is a mistake!!"? That raises some interesting flags for me. I'm not sure if I believe they were created specifically to assault the City or just For Science (because Tevinter is big on that shit).
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 29, 2017 21:40:25 GMT
I have to admit the quote: "Your blood is engorged with decay" is very intriguing and peculiar. It almost sounds like he is suggesting the Qunari are inflicted with the Blight in some way. Or alternatively they are regressed dragons. Yavanna said that the Great Dragons were put into hibernation to protect them. Were they already suffering from some sort of malady? Were the Qunari created through people trying to find a cure for what ailed the dragons? Something a bit like what the Architect does with Grey Wardens. Grey Wardens are created through a magic ritual using darkspawn blood. Then in order to break the hold of the archdemon over ordinary darkspawn the Architect uses a ritual whereby he gives them Grey Warden blood. So with the qunari, the idea was to give the base race dragon blood in order to develop an antidote for the dragons but instead it just created the qunari instead.
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Post by arvaarad on Jun 30, 2017 18:35:09 GMT
I have to admit the quote: "Your blood is engorged with decay" is very intriguing and peculiar. It almost sounds like he is suggesting the Qunari are inflicted with the Blight in some way. Or alternatively they are regressed dragons. Yavanna said that the Great Dragons were put into hibernation to protect them. Were they already suffering from some sort of malady? Were the Qunari created through people trying to find a cure for what ailed the dragons? Something a bit like what the Architect does with Grey Wardens. Grey Wardens are created through a magic ritual using darkspawn blood. Then in order to break the hold of the archdemon over ordinary darkspawn the Architect uses a ritual whereby he gives them Grey Warden blood. So with the qunari, the idea was to give the base race dragon blood in order to develop an antidote for the dragons but instead it just created the qunari instead. That's an interesting thought. Dragon blood does have mood effects on people who consume it, similar to how the blight and lyrium affect mood. Both reavers and qunari supposedly have problems reining in their tempers. Maybe they were fed a combination of dragon blood and the blight, a bit like Alexius' experiments. With the failed experiments (not enough dragon blood to counteract the blight?) becoming the first ogres. I can imagine someone looking to harness blight magic, saying to themselves "well, if I stuff someone full of blight, they just turn into a ghoul. But if I give them blight and dragon blood, the dragon blood will protect their body from the ravages of the blight, and maybe they'll still be able to tap blight magic? FOR SCIENCE!"
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Post by Sifr on Jul 14, 2017 6:49:29 GMT
Huh, thought I was the only person who thought there was something slightly off about Elan Ve'mal. Given how well-connected she is to the other courts of Thedas, how her job allows her to remain beneath suspicion and the very noticeable pause she had when the Inquisitor asks whether she's a City Elf or Dalish ("it's not a useful identifier"), it definitely raised red flags and the possibility of her being a spy. Especially following the confirmation in Trespasser there are Agents of Fen'Harel in our ranks. (Although I always feel guilty when thinking this, because it feels a tad like profiling)
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Post by arvaarad on Jul 14, 2017 11:54:36 GMT
Huh, thought I was the only person who thought there was something slightly off about Elan Ve'mal. Given how well-connected she is to the other courts of Thedas, how her job allows her to remain beneath suspicion and the very noticeable pause she had when the Inquisitor asks whether she's a City Elf or Dalish ("it's not a useful identifier"), it definitely raised red flags and the possibility of her being a spy. Especially following the confirmation in Trespasser there are Agents of Fen'Harel in our ranks. (Although I always feel guilty when thinking this, because it feels a tad like profiling) Yeah, I feel exactly the same. I waffle back and forth between "oh, she's definitely suspicious" and "but... Briala would have probably had similar answers, and she's definitely not an AoF". All that said, I'm 100% suspicious of Dalish. Ah yes, an elf who's conveniently buddy-buddy with a Ben-Hassrath, who jokingly-maybe-not-entirely-jokingly calls her staff a bow (like Tyrdda's "axe"?), and who says "my keeper thought I should see the world a little". Also her nickname is Dalish. Which is exactly the kind of nickname you'd get if someone asked "hey who are you?" and you panicked and thought oh no what do elves go by these days... oh that's right: "Dalish! I'm Dalish!" Iron Bull has a narrative he's guessed for her, but if she's an ancient elf I imagine she'd be protected by the absurdity. Even a spy is not going to think, oh, this person is acting shifty because they're actually a several-thousand-year-old plant for an elven god. It's easy enough to pass off her slip-ups as jokes about being an apostate or embarrassment about getting kicked out of a clan due to being a mage (something which the Qunari, like the humans, would like to assume is true of every clan). So she can let him think literally whatever he wants about her background, and in the meantime she has extremely close access to someone in the Viddasala's orbit.
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