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Assuming this is the case, I put forth that Korth, either a titan or the guardian of one, removed 'his heart' - a titan's heart - and moved mountains, a thing we know titans can do, to cover it, because of the elves' hunt for the hearts of titans, which may also explain why the Lady of the Skies does not get directly involved. (As Cole says in Trespasser: "Their ancient shapers were mountains drawn of all their wills, walking their memories into valleys of the world." And I'm pretty sure Valta says something about it in Descent, but I can't find the quote.) Okay, so, having established Belenas/Korth is a titan - possibly a titan and its guardian - it's time to talk about what the fuck happened to that mountain. And for this, I'm going to call upon the legend of Andruil.

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…

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.

Q: Ah, I was wondering why the dwarves not being able to dream is mythals fault? Also learning abt the Titans thru ur posts is very interesting even if I do get a bit lost Now, we know dwarves don't dream, because they lack a connection to the Fade. BUT, we have two dwarves who have visions. Caridin's visions are attributed to the Ancestors. Dagna's are from faceplanting in lyrium. Both of them are really likely to have originated with a titan - Dagna's actually having visions of a titan and Caridin comes to understand the Sha-Brytol, in some primitive fashion.

Hi guys, HigheverRains here. This month I've got the first of a series discussing the links between the Avvar, the Titans, and the elves of Elvhenan. We're going to be covering a lot of ground here, so we'll have a couple different parts before we link everything together. Today we're going to start by laying the groundwork for this theory with an analysis on Avvar myths and how they link to both Mythal and the Titans.

So, Titans. A life form, of some kind, made of earth and stone. Their blood is lyrium which behaves like a mineral, if not a metal outright, in the form it is mined. Of course its mined form very well might be altered from its normal state for life-function. But at any rate, the thought [personal profile] sarahq and I landed at at one point, whilst musing on various lore, was: blood serves to deliver oxygen. What is oxygen doing? It's delivering electrons to the ATP cycle. Titan blood may not need oxygen or to be liquid, as long as whatever it is can transmit electron flow. You know what fucking transmits electrons really well? Metals. And semi-conductors at the right temperatures.

so, like... dwarves. they were originally some Titan hivemind-y minion-y shit. Mythal separated them from the Stone--how benevolent those reasons were or weren't, welp, debatable. but yeah she basically un-hiveminded them. (almost certainly why certain ancient-ass dwarves revered her!) meanwhile... red lyrium is very probably the original source of the taint, pre-dating the Magisters Sidereal and their dumbfuckery. this is even less explicit than Mythal and the dwarves, but it's pretty supportable from the codices and quests. like, the dwarves believe 'the Stone bears a corruption as old as balance' and the Dalish legends get at this too--and we know that lyrium is Titan's blood, and the difference between a Titan and the earth itself is not... particularly easily discerned. so, yeah, red lyrium. probably the original source of the taint. the Magisters sidereal pulled some really stupid fucking shit and clearly made things *worse* but did not originate that shit, despite what the southern Chantry would have you believe. so here's me connecting those facts with the Architect 'awakening' darkspawn from mindless hivemind drones to thinking individuals... who no longer hear the 'song' of the Calling

In our last video we covered the basics of the theory that the Avvar goddess the Lady of the Skies is synonymous with the elven goddess Mythal. We also looked into ways that Korth the Mountain Father might have been a Titan, and established the groundwork for a complex look into early mythology, legend, and oral history for Thedas. In this video, we'll take that a step further, breaking down some of those early myths, and what historical record we do have, to analyse some of the earliest events in our timeline fundamental to the shaping of the world. If you have not watched Part One, you should do that first.

So, what do we know, then? Dwarves have been using lyrium to store 'Memories' since long before the First Blight - since before the founding of the 'first thaig', since that's how long Orzammar's go back, and they have no mention of the titans, though there are ancient Memories inside the titan under Heidrun Thaig. The Shapers are able to record 'living memory' - the actual thoughts of the Shaper - into special runes. Although Arberg describes the Memories as symbols that 'glow as if alive and capable of speech', we see the Tevinter use of red lyrium capable of reproducing both speech and images - and this doesn't surprise Dagna. Indeed, when you find the first piece of the crystal on Vicinius's corpse, it speaks, so it's not just Dagna's doing that makes the lyrium actually reproduce sound.

Inquisition, especially Descent, but also slipped in in various other places, gave us a bunch of hints and a few big revelations about the Titans, but I'll be honest, I've been dying to know more about the Pillars of the Earth since the first tiny hints. I think it's about time I put my thoughts down coherently. Well, about time I try, anyway.

random thought on Templars, lyrium and reavers and i cant be the first to think this either but... The Descent revealed that lyrium is the blood of dead titans right? Wouldn't that in a way make Templars titan-blood Reavers? And following that line of logic, doesn't that mean that Templars are technically using blood magic? I mean this is not the first instance of the Chantry condoning the use of blood magic, no matter how unwitting the use of lyrium is but still...

And with that said, I'm really curious about the relationship between surface dwarves and the strength of the titans and the frequency of rock wraiths.

So, you know how I was talking about titans and vines and flowers and glowing spheres, the other day? Yeah, about that. I give you a dwarven chair back. Zoom in on that. (Also some relevant codices, a mural, and an elven tombstone.)

There is a song that the Maker thinks everyone should be singing. - Titans have a song that's different from lyrium song or blight-song. - Cole says something about 'when everything sang the same' in reference to the time before the veil.

Q: Hi! :) I'm playing through The Descent again, and I got to the part where Valta tells Inqy that the mention of Titans was taken out of the Shaperate records. Nobody knows who wanted it removed but I'm guessing either a) Solas did it around the time he put up the Veil to get rid of incriminating evidence? -OR- b) FleMythal did it because Dead Pillars of the Earth by Elgar'nan™ and "they made bodies from the earth/they made It forget" (Cole dialogue TP-DLC) Your thoughts? Thanks! - A-1Lavellan

Most of the time, "the sun" seems to be a metaphor for spirit or the Fade. They're pretty much the same elvish word - "elgar" is used for spirit, "elgara" for sun. And the Dalish story of Elgar'nan's creation sounds like the Fade meeting the physical world.

So, there's sun imagery in both elven and dwarven art, and in specific, there's a mural in Trespasser with a glowing orb at the centre of a titan. Which is, obviously, the heart depicted above. And that is what reminded me that I hadn't actually written a post about the dwarven - or at least Orzammarran fear of falling into the sky. Notably, they're all looking up. They fear falling into the sky on the surface. But, I offer you the codex from the Wellspring, of which that is a screenshot.

So, what this establishes for us is that there was, at one time, an Elvhen city on Sundermount, and that a war was fought, there, with Tevinter. That's not really disputable, I'd think, in light of the ruins, the demon, and the fucking varterral. What this suggests, is that there's a titan here, and that it's been corrupt for a very long time.

So anyone else think that there are more "Well of Sorrows" in the series than just Mythal's? It's clear that groundwork was laid for shit to go down with the elven gods, their eluvians, the titans, and much more since the beginning of the series. It stands to reason that there may well have been other Wells shown earlier in the series…so let the speculations commence!

As we noted in yesterday's post, Mythal's temple existed for ages before the creation of the Veil and the loss of elvhen immortality. We have every reason to believe that the Well of Sorrows existed in those ages when the Evanuris waged war against the Titans, 'tamed' the land, exiled the Forbidden Ones, and reached the pinnacle of their powers. What would the Well have been used for during the glory days of Arlathan?