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Q: I don't know enough about Grey Warden or Blight lore to have much of an opinion on that post, but aren't both Leliana and Wynne referred to as Heroes of the Fifth Blight (Leliana when introduced at the Winter Palace, and Wynne when she's introduced at the White Spire in Asunder)? And that would mean seeing someone referred to as the Hero of the Third Blight wouldn't necessarily mean they were even at the Archdemon fight. How common it is to use the term "hero" for someone who fought the Blight? I searched all the print text available, including the codices of all three games, the books, and comics. I found some interesting results. Calling someone a "Hero of the Blight" is actually quite rare.

Some deaths may have been covered up, as one warden always dying to the Archdemon seems to be a grey warden "open" secret. But what if what we have been told isn't the whole story? Isn't is suspicious that we know 3 of the lovers of the last 4 blights, and have a convenient birth for the first? Something about the process of becoming an OGB seems to "purify" the Old God Soul. Remember: The HERO OF any particular blight is the person who is credited with stopping the blight.

Timeline for the "shortest Blight" calculations with dates instead of relative time. Again, click the image for a full-size version. World of Thedas says that the Blight started in 9:30 and ended in 9:31, so this is a calculation of the date you need to start the origin to have the Blight end on Firstday 9:31 if you finish it as quickly as possible.

They say the darkspawn came in a crawl, whispers in the dark, people vanishing along the Deep Roads. When Dumat rose in the First Blight, the dwarves already knew there was something different about these creatures that had harried them in the darkness (Codex: The Blights). They were bolder, organized, and when they at last had their general, their decimation was fast.

When @the-queen-of-thedas sent us this thought, I believed it would be relatively easy to write up our thoughts on the Blight and its possible connections to the Titans. We'd done some minor work on that topic before, and we've been collecting evidence for a more detailed post ever since. Two weeks later and I feel like I have just scratched the surface of whether or not the Titans created the taint. I have 20 pages of notes, three false starts, and found myself questioning the whole premise. Is there a connection between the Titans and the blight? Absolutely! But there are so many layers to dwarven lore that I've ended up going down one rabbit hole after another. So I've decided to chunk this bronto into more manageable, and readable, pieces. Thesis: The taint manipulates the ability of those it infects to access the Fade, whether they be ghoul or warden, human or dwarf.

hello - what do you think came first: red lyrium or the blight? and why? Red lyrium predates the Blights - as in things that involve an archdemon terrorising the land and fucking shit up. Why? Because there's a decent chance that red lyrium is one of the original sources of the taint. So, here's how the theory works, and let's see if I can remember all the parts of it, because HR's not around to correct my ass any more.

A fun fact from Codex: Darkspawn: Sister Petrine appears not to be a contemporary scholar. The last Blight was in the Age of Towers, striking once again at the heart of Tevinter, spreading south into Orlais and east into the Free Marches. She's apparently writing this piece of Ferelden: Folklore and History between the Third and Fourth Blights, so somewhere between 3:25 and 5:12, and probably closer to the Exalted age end of that, given that she seems not to be in the Towers Age. Because that is a perfect description of the Third Blight, so it's not just a matter of writing the wrong age.

Q: I was reading one of the links in the link thingy and it was talking abt the blight and how solas is grumbling abt the grey wardens (the their defence they found something that seemed to work after a few centuries of dying, who can blame them for sticking to that method) but how do u think the old tevinter gods tie into the blight and controlling the horde?

So. Blood magic can create communicable diseases. Ancient elves did blood magic. The Blight is a communicable disease. Red lyrium (which is Blighted) grows in people, probably specifically their blood, since that seems to be the usual magical element. Technically, lyrium is 'blood' too-Titan blood-but I'm really not sure how to factor that here, since it's clearly not at all the same as regular blood (incidentally if lyrium is supposed to be liquid, which is possible, then Thedas as a continent has the most amazing case of gout).

I just wrote this up for someone in my inbox: it's the most thorough description of What We Know About The Blight that I've done in a while, so here are the important bits without any of the personal, private-reply stuff: 1. The Blight acts exactly like magic.

about Titans and the Blight and the Evanuris, etc. (answer to a question I got before) from what I've discovered, my best guess is that the Titans (more specifically, the Blight unleashed by killing the Titans) were the last straw for Solas, in addition to Mythal's murder. It was a war against the dwarves/Titans that caused the Evanuris to be worshiped as gods, then "an aeon seems to pass" and, apparently, about the same time when Fen'Harel was rebelling against the gods about the slaves, something ominous starts to emerge from deep within the earth, where the Titans were killed…

I just had to look up the ingredients of magebane for a conversation in another tab. The canonical ingredients are lyrium dust, 'concentrator agent', and 'corrupter agent'. Concentrator agent is made of heatherum and foxite (which are not mentioned outside the context of this ingredient) and corrupter agent is made of blighted lifestones. … which incidentally may mean that magebane exists because of the Blight.

Ortan Thaig potentially numbers among the oldest and most vibrant of the dwarven thaigs, falling long after most of the other thaigs, lasting until as late as the Fourth Blight in the Exalted Age sometime between 5:12 and 5:24 Exalted (DAO Orta Dialogue; WOT 1, pg 98). We are not sure precisely when it was founded, but this was definitely earlier than the First Blight, because Paragon Caridin was born in this thaig (WOT2. pg 24).

Q: if the Old Gods are really the Evanuris, are the Blights and getting the Magisters to breach the Fade actually elaborate revenge on humans (+ also the dwarves or they just didn't care about them)? A:The Evanuris have absolutely no reason to give the faintest fuck about humans, except as a means to get out of the Fade. (Assuming they are, in fact, the Old Gods.) Humans have done … nothing to them. [...]

So alistar's mum was a grey warden but was cured by his dads dick essentially ? Is it known if she was cured as soon as she fell pregnant or if it was after the birth? And it's hard for gre Wardens to fall pregnant but has there been others who have and their child have been born a ghoul or grey warden or something or were they cured as well but the grey Wardens didn't want to keep a record bc ppl aren't meant to kno abt the taint part to begging with Things I'm pretty sure of: It may be possible to affect a Warden's fertility with magic. I'm pointing to Morrigan, here. Re: Fiona, her recovery has everything to do with dragons, and their resistance to the Blight. And here's the Theirin Dragonboner meta. [part 2] Which is to say, that's not a normal part of Warden pregnancy, as far as anyone's aware.

(For reference, here is what Solas has to say about the Blight, darkspawn and the Grey Wardens, all together.) --ed. With audio.

This was requested at @dawriting. File has transcriptions for all judgment scenes: Chief Movran, Denam, Alexius, Mayor Gregory, Erimond, Ser Ruth, Servis, Florianne, Mistress Poulin, Samson and Blackwall, plus Ser Barris' promotion scene on the throne and Storvacker's judgment in Jaws of Hakkon. # I've transcribed exactly as the subtitles showed, so the inconsistent capitalization of certain words (Templar/templar, Blight/blight) is intentional to reflect the spelling found in-game, as-is. # Denam's, Samson's and Blackwall's judgments have circular conditional dialogue, it is a bit hard to follow on a linear format. These will be made into flowcharts to read more clearly, I just wanted to write it all down first. # If the colors/bolding/italics make the text harder to read rather than helping with the flow, please do let me know.

ok everybody has probably already caught this by now, but I wanted to write it down - You have to judge the mayor of Crestwood for pretty much the same thing that Solas is responsible for (albeit on a much smaller scale). I couldn't have written a closer parallel if I tried - the mayor, in a position of authority, made the decision to unilaterally kill many innocent people in order to stop something he believed to be more terrible from happening (eta: and both were, perhaps, attempts to specifically stem the spread of the Blight - thank you for catching that, @rederiswrites!). Then living with guilt for years, all those deaths on his hands, wondering if he made the right call, until finally the truth was revealed. Where it gets interesting is when Solas reacts to the Mayor's punishment. And his reactions are almost the complete opposite of all the other companions.

So, re-reading WoTv2 this evening, I think this passage from Brother Genitivi (my man) gets a lot more interesting post-Trespasser. The Mysterious West (World of Thedas, Vol. 2) If one journeys west across the Anderfels, one will reach the settlement of Laysh. Once a sprawling port town, Laysh largely fell to ruin after the Third Blight…but not, as one might suppose, due to darkspawn attacks. The entire purpose of Laysh was to receive ships from across the Volca Sea, odd-looking cargo vessels that would arrive with wares and spices of a like never before seen in Thedas. The trade was lucrative enough to justify Laysh's existence even in such harsh territory, at least until the traders stopped coming early in the Black Age.

A Masterpost all content is from World of Thedas volume 2, and is owned by BioWare. Cover Art and Foreword Cosmogenesis & First Sin: Story of creation and the fall of man. One of the four original Chants said to be sung by Andraste, "the Portents". Threnodies 5 Threnodies 6 Creation of the Blight: The Blight's creation from Archon Hessarian's perspective. One of the Dissonant Verses. Silence 1 Silence 2 Silence 3 Epiphany of Our Lady: Andraste's quest for salvation. One of the four original Portents. Andraste 1 Andraste's Teachings: The sermons of Andraste as told by her people. One of the four original Portents. Transfigurations 1, 10, 12 Hymns: Prayers to the Maker. One of the four original Portents. Trials 1 Rallying the Armies: Shartan and the elven rebellion. One of the Dissonant Verses. Shartan 9, 10 Betrayal & Death: Andraste's capture and execution. Apotheosis 1 Apotheosis 2 Prophecy: Andraste's appearance to Drakon and promise of the Maker's return. Exaltations 1