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

I love the Solas Honey Wine picture. It goes really well with my story about what the Lavellan clan is getting up to in Wycome. I decided that the Keeper has taken a particular interest in producing mead to help with the revelry, to an old Dalish recipe. Then she also sells hangover cures, also to an old Dalish recipe. It is going remarkably well. It is fortunate that they decided to place them in the revelry capital of Thedas.

Since it seems to be theory time, I thought I would throw one in. I mentioned this in the old thread and is one of many I have kicking around the ol' dome and I'm more inclined to lean towards as time goes on. Highly doubtful no one else has thought of or not tossed it out before me, but we've got forever until DA4 so why not?

Canon has been established Titan's appear to be the natural counterbalance of the Fade. Enforce reality in a sense. Lyrium is alive, is Titan's blood, and 'sings'. Now theory time: Blood magic interferes with a mage's ability to connect to the Fade (sounds like an enforcement of reality) and this would be a reasonable deduction considering what is more tangible and real then a part of your body? So, lets say there was indeed a partial truth in the myth of Andruil finding power within the Void and it was the Blight/would become the Blight (personally I'm inclined to believe the Evanuris did not create it but they did spread it and allowed it to get a foothold in the world. Way to go guys... ). If the power that was in the Void was for instance a form of blood magic and being exposed to it warped Andruil's (Fade magic), you would have something that was corrupt and utterly twisted against its nature. Or going to the Void may have twisted Andruil's blood magic (she is called the Goddess of Sacrifice so perhaps she might have double-dipped in a sense by using blood magic sometimes). Either way, the power known as the 'Blight' is now born. It would explain why Titans can both repel it for a time (Reality enforcers, blood magic) and absolutely hate it (the taint is a twisted form of blood magic).



'But wait' you may ask, 'how does killing Titans factor in?'. Well given that we know that playing with the Blight doesn't exactly leave you all there after a time and chasing rainbows, what kept Andruil and possibly anyone she came into contact with from becoming something like a Darkspawn? Here is where I think Titans come in. Not only for their blood to get a major power boost, but for lessening the effects of the Blight. There is a Codex entry, The keepers of Fear (Codex) that mentions 'feed the stone your screams'. Sound like anything? They would have to get the idea somewhere right?



So you have Titans being killed for not only their blood but the Evanuris need a way to maintain their sanity. Drastic shift in the natural balance of the world to one side with the death of Titans but also the introduction of blood magic (reality) into the Fade (imagination). The Golden City being Black and I believe there are Codex entries that say red lyrium/the taint has been spotted within the Fade -but I have trouble finding them at the moment-. Theoretically this would probably start a considerable unraveling of the world, causing the very foundations to begin to tear itself apart. World would literally be 'going tits up' as Sera would say. Explains why Solas would need to put people in time out and has such a fear of the Blight.



Or it could all make absolutely no sense but to me . This is why I lurk, I'm a lurker not a theorist!

Since it seems to be theory time, I thought I would throw one in. I mentioned this in the old thread and is one of many I have kicking around the ol' dome and I'm more inclined to lean towards as time goes on. Highly doubtful no one else has thought of or not tossed it out before me, but we've got forever until DA4 so why not?

Canon has been established Titan's appear to be the natural counterbalance of the Fade. Enforce reality in a sense. Lyrium is alive, is Titan's blood, and 'sings'. Now theory time: Blood magic interferes with a mage's ability to connect to the Fade (sounds like an enforcement of reality) and this would be a reasonable deduction considering what is more tangible and real then a part of your body? So, lets say there was indeed a partial truth in the myth of Andruil finding power within the Void and it was the Blight/would become the Blight (personally I'm inclined to believe the Evanuris did not create it but they did spread it and allowed it to get a foothold in the world. Way to go guys... ). If the power that was in the Void was for instance a form of blood magic and being exposed to it warped Andruil's (Fade magic), you would have something that was corrupt and utterly twisted against its nature. Or going to the Void may have twisted Andruil's blood magic (she is called the Goddess of Sacrifice so perhaps she might have double-dipped in a sense by using blood magic sometimes). Either way, the power known as the 'Blight' is now born. It would explain why Titans can both repel it for a time (Reality enforcers, blood magic) and absolutely hate it (the taint is a twisted form of blood magic).



'But wait' you may ask, 'how does killing Titans factor in?'. Well given that we know that playing with the Blight doesn't exactly leave you all there after a time and chasing rainbows, what kept Andruil and possibly anyone she came into contact with from becoming something like a Darkspawn? Here is where I think Titans come in. Not only for their blood to get a major power boost, but for lessening the effects of the Blight. There is a Codex entry, The keepers of Fear (Codex) that mentions 'feed the stone your screams'. Sound like anything? They would have to get the idea somewhere right?



So you have Titans being killed for not only their blood but the Evanuris need a way to maintain their sanity. Drastic shift in the natural balance of the world to one side with the death of Titans but also the introduction of blood magic (reality) into the Fade (imagination). The Golden City being Black and I believe there are Codex entries that say red lyrium/the taint has been spotted within the Fade -but I have trouble finding them at the moment-. Theoretically this would probably start a considerable unraveling of the world, causing the very foundations to begin to tear itself apart. World would literally be 'going tits up' as Sera would say. Explains why Solas would need to put people in time out and has such a fear of the Blight.



Or it could all make absolutely no sense but to me . This is why I lurk, I'm a lurker not a theorist!

It could be like the Sha-Brytol.

Here's my take on it:

From what I got based on the mural we find in Trespasser, Mythal killed a Titan and the elves discovered the blood could make them even more powerful so they kept digging for more. All of a sudden they found something that scared them so bad they started sealing up tunnels and Solas made them forget. At first I thought they unleashed the Blight but now I think they uncovered either the Darkspawn or an Old God sleeping. When Andruil found the Void and it drove her slowly mad, Mythal dealt with her and what is Mythal? A dragon it seems and High Dragons are known to be immune to the taint. I think she used her own blood to stop Andruil from becoming a full ghoul. My guess is Mythal was killed because of her blood so they could hunt for lyrium and use her blood to keep them from becoming ghouls. 

As an aside, high dragons aren't immune.  They are resistant.  They can slow the spread of the Blight within themselves but not stop it entirely.

If I remember correctly, it was due to the magic amulet that sped up the spread of the taint within her and when the amulet was removed the effects reversed which somehow caused her to lose the taint entirely?  But I'm not sure it's actually detailed in the book what happened.  Also don't know if dragons blood was involved.  And she was the only Grey Warden whose taint was artificially sped up that survived.  I think.

I'm sensing a theme here  =p   .... blood magic, lyrium (Titan's blood), dragon blood ...