Tevinter Nights - Spoiler Thread

Right, and the way they have been operating through the ages (interestingly waiting for current days to come), boasting about greater powers, somehow knowing that more trouble would come after Cory (did they know that the orb would inevitably be destroyed?) leads me to believe they're acting as chess pieces for said "greater powers" - and Thedas is their chessboard. Archdemons, Andraste, and Flemeth herself have also acted as chess pieces. Could it be the sentience behind the The Blight (using Archdemons, darkspawn, etc.) vs. Mythal (Andraste, Flemeth, The Executors) as the this game of chess? Perhaps the Executors are her servants as well, just like The Sentinels. In any case, I'm in tinfoil theory now, but my point is that they have a plan for Thedas, just like Mythal, and those plans could possibly be the same. 

Hey, there’s a discussion thread over at Reddit about “Murder by Death Mages,” and one theme that’s emerging is that nobody liked it and Sidony really sucks.

I can’t recall anyone commenting on Murder by Death Mages in this thread, so ... any thoughts?

Another thing I was wondering about was what order the stories should follow chronologically. It is clear they aren't in time order as set out in the book. For example, Murder by Death Mages was happening when the Inquisition was still in its original form, with Cassandra giving orders, Luck in the Gardens has the characters in Minrathous referring to the event in Vyrantium in the Wigmaker's Job, which comes after it in the book. In the comics Dorian was present at the fall of Ventus and somehow I don't see him back in Minrathous calming drinking and gambling whilst the eastern empire is in such turmoil. I very much doubt that Lucanis and his cousin would be able to take a ship back to Antiva once the Qunari assault had begun as the eastern seas would be swarming with Qunari dreadnoughts.

Of course the writers may not have given too much attention to chronological sense. They used Vaea in Herold Had the Plan even though she should already have been up in Tevinter by then because she was there when the assault began on Ventus, yet according to the story this was set sometime after the war had been underway.

As you have pointed out, the agent did have an Andrastrian locket. However, it could be more something to do with the an ancient human tradition perhaps. Instead of looking to blood relatives, you find like minded individuals to carry forward your purpose.

Andraste gave a sword to Shartan with a commission to continue her work but sadly he died trying to rescue her.

Andraste gave a sword to Trefir (an Alamaari slave in Tevinter) in a dream asking him to continue her work.
The Maker/Andraste gave a vision to Gelgennig of the Ash Warriors (Alamaari) to continue her work among the tribes.
Of course Drakon claimed to have had a vision too asking him to continue her work.

With the exception of Shartan, all the others received their commission as a vision, so it is harder to verify if it was genuinely the spirit of Andraste or possibly just a faith spirit acting as an executor of her will.

Interestingly, the great Alamaari warlord, Hafter, was said to have passed over the sea to the east at the end of his reign. Other ships that have sailed that way were said to have found an untouched land they named Amaranth, although more recent accounts have ships attempting the voyage never returning. As the account by Genetivi suggests, possibly the legend of an earthly paradise to the east is just wishful thinking but it could be the original home of the Qunari or, if not them, the home of the Executors, or even both.

When the Kossith first arrived in Thedas it was to the south of Ferelden. That hardly seems a likely landfall if they came from the northern islands, although I suppose they could have been trying to avoid the Tevinter Imperium which covered much of Thedas at that time. However, what if they came from Amaranth? What if the original Neromenians did?

One thing we have yet to discover is who or what Koslun was? Was he a kossith by race or something else entirely? He is said to have traveled the world searching for a society without hopelessness or despair and when he discovered no such place existed, he came up with his own philosophy. May be he was originally from the Executors and the Kossith just happened to be the first race he tried his philosophy on.

The Executor in Tevinter Nights was hidden from sight behind a Veil and even their voice was difficult to pinpoint as either male or female.    I don't think this was just done to conceal their identity but possibly because they don't look human.   What if the Executors are the undead manifestations of dead heroes?

I think he's interpreting the skeleton's body language as helpful in lieu of interpreting expressions since Manfred doesn't have those.


As for the great leveler... Might be talking about the maker. Might also just be talking about death, given he's a member of the mourn watch. I dunno.

That idea is so intriguing that I hope it’s true.

My opinion is it's done like the latter, like trying to give body language expressions to Legion when he has no face to do so, as you said.

Unless it is some sort of intended sound shift, I blame it on lackluster editing/proof-reading. I've seen Hormak and Hormok and even one version with a ck as far as I recall. I believe the horse inconsistency has been pointed out before, though I cannot remember by whom. I also recall that in "Three trees to midnight", Bas-taar(d)'s two-handed weapon changes from and axe into a sword several times.

It may not be worth mentioning considering this could be a no duh statement...but I did realize earlier that BioWare has actually introduced other companions and villains in other media I think before and around the release of the game. Most clearly to my mind Cole. (But with Loghain, Cassandra, technically Solas, also meaning there.)

I don’t know if she looks like a centaur, but I wouldn’t be shocked if Ghilan’nain doesn’t resemble an elf anymore.

I’m not sure that mural is of Ghilhan’nain. You can find it elsewhere in Ferelden and it’s generally not associated with elven structures. (Yes, Skyhold was Solas’ fortress, but it has been occupied by humans in the past.)

I actually think it’s associated with some Alamarri legend.