Lore Video #9: Andraste & Maferath, Part 1

Excellent as always Heimdall.

I like your voice Heimdall so it was fine by me. I really got the sense of an old saga being recited round an Alamarri campfire. That part of the Chant of Light is definitely meant to be sung or recited rather than read. After all it was part of local oral tradition for around 150 years until the first Divine collected them together and had them written down and in fact according to the preface to the Canticle in WoT2 it says that the definitive version wasn't actually decided upon until much later.

It is also interesting that it says its style is similar to Dane and the Werewolf and other Alamarri sagas but this version is traced to an Andrastrian cult in northern Orlais, which seems strange considering it would surely be sung in Cirianne tradition rather than that of the Alamarri. I suppose that is what points to it being authentic from the time of Andraste.

Thanks for the video - it was very interesting. I wonder what the other 'non-canon' versions of the text you read contain, that are so challenging to the Chantry? I certainly thought it was fine just reading them out - I wonder if any Chanters at the Chantry boards ever make reference to those passages?

I'd forgotten what a huge business the mystery around Haliserre's death plays - the options are almost endless.

Keep up the good work!