The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

Flemeth told Morrigan that a soul is not forced upon the unwilling but it's only half true, a spirit or a demon can meld/possess someone who is too weak to resist - either dying or mentally broken, or maybe just too young (i.e Cole [dying] Wynne [dying], and Evangeline [dead] all three possessed by benevolent spirits as well as pretty much every person who got possessed by a demon).
That made me think about the archdemons and why Gray Wardens are the only one capable of killing them, if an archdemon is killed it body-jumps to the closest tainted being around (which makes sense if you think about it since the taint connects minds), if it wasn't killed by a GW it jumps into a darkspawn and recreates itself with its' flesh, if it's killed by a GW it jumps into their body and they both die. I believe the reason for that is that two strong souls cannot co-exist in one body unless they have an agreement, so once the archdemons' soul jumps into the body of the killing GW their souls fight for domination over the body and end up eliminating each other.

That's why the Dark Ritual works, Kieran is conceived some time before the fight with the archdemon, I'm guessing that by that point his spirit was created/a spirit gets attached to him but it's too young, Kieran had no will, his spirit was as weak as a wisp. The Dark Ritual is obviously done with a GW because they carry the taint, that mark is passed to the child and (with the use of some magic to amplify the 'signal' (I'm guessing)) the soul of the archdemon jumps to the body of the child, since its' spirit is too weak to resist - they meld. Kieran doesn't mutate because he either isn't truly tainted or that his soul was cleansed by the blood magic, the blood magic in action was probably responsible for cleansing the Old God soul as well (which I must say, didn't seem like a bad guy, that's partially why I doubt the dragons are the Evanuris).

This raises a few questions/ideas:

1. Why would the OG soul come so willingly to Flemeth? If a soul can't be forced upon the unwilling/weak, I'm guessing it's the other way around too, you can't take a soul that isn't willing or is too strong to resist. I think that would suggest the OG knew Mythal, perhaps an ally?

2. Is part of the reason Solas is upset with the Gray Wardens is that they use the taint to kill off the archdemons instead of using blood magic? Everybody are scared of blood magic but we know Solas isn't and we also know Solas knows stuff he doesn't share, it's obvious he is familiar with the taint, but why? And why is everything about the taint related to blood? Dragon blood is resistant, Titan blood repels, blood magic can destroy taint, GW get the taint by drinking darkspawn blood and darkspawn get freed from the calling by drinking GW blood. Just like from blood, darkspawn can draw magic from taint, so perhaps while blood magic draws on life energy, taint draws on decay/death/illness... nothingness? My first association is the Void. It has been discussed a lot but one of the theories is that the taint spreading is Andruils' fault, she found the Void while hunting the Forgotten Ones in the 'abyss' (if you believe the codex), so where is said Void? 

This is kind of convoluted but hear me out. I think the Void is a literal abyss, I'm not sure what's there and why it contains the taint, maybe something powerful died down there and its' death created the taint (something primal, perhaps a strong spirit, the Maker, a Titan, whatever). I think the reason the dragons are down there is to keep said tainted entity in check and to repel the taint, after all dragon blood resists (and maybe even heals) the taint and it is KINDA weird there would be dragons underground, they are kings of the sky after all, having them underground is just plain illogical. Lots of pieces are missing (like, who put them there?) but if that's the truth wouldn't having all the archdemons dead release said entity from its' prison in the Void? Maybe that's what Solas is afraid of.

Let's say for a second the dragons are the Forgotten Ones, maybe after they clashed with the Evanuris they fled underground and found refuge among the dwarves, some time after the Evanuris decided to wage war on the titans and after killing a titan (or more) they began mining it, going down and down, further towards the Void. One day they happened upon the Forgotten Ones' hideout, Andruil decided to go for a hunt, venturing deeper down until finding the Void. Even though it was said Mythal made Andruil forget that doesn't mean the others didn't want to tap into the power that hid down below. They have awakened the tainted entity and with the titan above dead the taint could be let out. Solas became aware in some manner of the fact dragon blood has power over the blight and so he tricked his brethren, the Forgotten Ones, into massive underground prisons to serve as barriers to the taint in their dragons forms (there is an account from a Legionnaire of the Dead in WoT2 about an archdemon prison and it sounds like some powerful magic was at work, it must be deliberate, why else would they be in magical prison cells?), it does say after all that he sealed away both sides of the conflict, but we only know why he sealed off the Evanuris, not the Forgotten Ones.

I'd also say the Calling is not from the OGs/archdemons, something else calls the darkspawn to the dragons, the blighted entity in the Void might be manipulating darkspawn to target the dragons in effort to chip away at the lock on its' massive cell.

3. Side question: what does it all say about darkspawn? Do they have souls/spirits?

Well, If they are freed from the calling they become sentient which suggests they do, on the other hand dwarves are sentient but I'm not sure they have souls/spirits (in the DA sense). If they don't have, then it's obvious why it's so easy for an archdemon to take over a darksapwn and If they do have souls then as far as I can tell a tainted soul will accept a stronger tainted soul and will destroy itself in the process, giving the body to the stronger soul, but is that true for all tainted souls? A soul in a tainted body could be forced to accept another soul - like Corypheus did to that GW using mind control, but if the person has control he won't let that happen, and that begs the question - will an 'awakened' darkspawn resist an archdemons' body-jump?