I'm still convinced Sandal is one of the Sha-brytol, who got lost as a child. That's why he can't speak much, and it's been implied on several occasions that he can actually do magic. "Not enchantment." It would also explain why he's such a savant when it comes to creating runes and enchantments- he's directly tied to the stone through the Titans. I wonder if that will come into play in DA4...
Introducing the first entry in my new lore/future plot threads series. These videos are going to be full of spoilers as I delve into particular honed-in lore that is rather telling for the future narrative of Dragon Age! Let me know what topics you'd like to see in the future!
I would love to see your take on the Astarium and their link to the Neromenians/Evanuris/Old Gods. Every single one mentions one of them in one form or another, they seem to tie together. 😃
I love this idea. The blight being Titan vengeance theory makes me wonder just how powerful they are...and in turn just how powerful the elves once were to fight them.
Ooohhhh.... what if the last Archdemons are actually inside of the Titans?! And the darkspawn tunneling for them is what's making them angry/ giving them the blight? Which in turn causes the explosions of red lyrium on the surface! Plus just the size of the Titans would be enough to spread the red lyrium far and wide through their network of lyrium veins.
Solas gave Corophus the orb, so the red idol is his back up plan? If it could do what it did to Merridith, an anti mage, imagine what it will do the Dredd wolf.
Solas, despite meaning well and aiming for redemption, is the most dangerous threat Thedas has faced. more so than Corypheus and his kind ever will be.
I think Solas wants it to find out what happened to the maker/Golden City. Because... I believe the maker is simply the last Titan, that got shunted into the fade along with the elven gods when Solas created the veil. And the tevinter mages entering the Golden City and finding the Maker (Titan) corrupted it. That’s why a weakened veil accompanies red lyrium, it’s the corrupted titan’s blood from the other side of the veil.
I'm not convinved that a Titan is the source of the Blight. I'd be far more willing to believe that a Titan was Blighted the same way an Old God is to create an Archdemon. Since Lyrium is the "Blood of Titans", a Blighted Titan would explain why the Lyrium they produce would be blighted as well.
On the subject of the Evanuris "creating bodies from the earth"... Couldn't this basically mean a practice that the paragon Caridin ultimately based his golem creating techniques on? 😮
In Awakening, Justice says that lyrium in the Fade doesn’t sing, but he can hear the lyrium in the waking world sing. He remarks on this several times, which makes the presence of lyrium in the Fade even stranger. I think that if it truly doesn’t sing in the Fade then that has implications for what it was like before the Veil existed - perhaps it wasn’t alive in the same way?
I think it's more that the lyrium there is what humans and elves dreamed up from their memories of the waking world, so the memory-lyrium in the fade wouldn't sing because they can't hear the singing like dwarves can or apparently spirits can. After all the fade doesn't show copies of reality but the subjective memories of the dreaming races.
Wow.... so a warrior that has to endure excruciating pain when a mage draw a lyrium tattoo on his skin. Its kinda cool and creepy at the same time. A warrior mage of some sort, like knight enchanter
Hey Jackdaw!!! I have a theory... I'm sure you have already thought of this. (But I'm telling you anyway.) I think I one of the reason why the Tevinter Chantry and Fereldan and Chantry are feuding cousins. LOL I believe it's because they know lyrium is a form of blood magic. Think about It,...lyrium, is the blood of the Titans and if you consider Titans to be a living organism or being. Then that means lyrium would be a form of blood magic. Since the Chantry frowns on blood magic and all it's uses! If the Chantry is aware of the Titans, this would completely disrupt the lyrium trade!
Yes! More 👏🏻dragon age 👏🏻 content👏🏻 😁 sidenote: It only occurs to me, seeing it in a cartoony art style, how the idol could be interpreted. That the middle person is mythal, with Solas on his knees embracing her. The circle behind her is the veil and the person behind the circle represents the other gods locked away, in mythals case, elgernan? 🤷🏼♀️ Just thinking out loud.
Agreed! It's so amazing having it drawn out, Saria actually created it like that for me! It makes the Idol so much more visible! We can notice all kinds of details now!
I feel like i keep saying this but i reaaaaalllly need to catch up on these books and comics, i play the games religiously, but i feel like there’s so much more lore i’m missing, even with watching channels like this that discus said lore. The other colours of Lyrium have my curiosity so piqued rn
Love this vid!!!! I have soooooooo many theories though that I probably shouldn't just write essays in the comments, lmao!!! My main note is that I think red lyrium and dragons have a surprising amount in common - and we don't actually know that it is blue lyrium that has been tainted - we only know it IS tainted. We have already seen green lyrium (in DAI) and the implication of more (in the Golems of Amgarrak). There is also the fact that the Qunari in Tresspasser are said by Cole to hate the blue lyrium, "it's the wrong song, the wrong blood." None is taken back to their base save that locked up. However a chunk of red lyrium sits open on a desk - and Cole says that it's song is different to that of other red lyrium - but 'the pieces still fit'. I personally find this aspect of red lyrium v interesting!!! However I shall end my ramble here xD
Great video! The part that stumps me is the Golden/Black City connection. I thought that used to be a pathway to wherever Solas had sealed the Evannuris, but since it was "empty"... But Blighted Titan makes a lot more sense as source of the Blight, but then WHY did going into the Black City turn Cory into the first darkspawn? ...or first known darkspawn post the fall of Arlathan...??
@@bugmancer Makes sense. But I feel like there has to be more to it... I can't wait to spend half or more of my DA4 playthrough obsessively reading codex entries xD
I think that there was a previous "outbreak" of the Blight shortly before Solas created the Veil that was directly caused by what the Evanuris did to the titans (hence Solas saying that if he hadn't created the Veil, they would have destroyed the entire world). When he sealed the Evanuris away--presumably in the Golden City--he probably also sealed away the parts of the elven empire that had become blighted, basically putting them under a "quarantine" that held until the magisters breached the Veil and unleashed the Blight a thousand years later.
What if “The Maker” is just the greatest (or the last) of the Titans who was engaged in an eternal war with the elves that didn’t end when Solas created the veil? The Elven “gods” and the Titan were both shunted into the fade, but the Titan wasn’t as disoriented as the gods. It secured a commanding position in the center of this new “fade” and began reordering things in that new little realm, creating a golden city and preparing to re-engage in the long war that was all too familiar to it. But the Tevinter makes knew nothing of this. In the corporeal world, all they knew is that magic came from the fade. And so in their hubris they decided to journey there themselves. But the mere presence of the corporeal Mages there in the very center of the Titan’s new realm corrupted it. It created the blight, darkened the fade, and any spots where the veil becomes weak the old blood of the gods gets corrupted by the darkened Titan on the other side (in the fade). This would tie together Solas’s actions, the titans, the tevinter and chantry versions of their story, and the elven gods.
can’t wait to watch this series!! i love thinking abt what will be most pertinent for the next dragon age, it’s honestly a little more fun to speculate when we’ve been given so little
I've always though that Solas wants the idol to keep it out of reckless hands (he did see how red lyrium turned Andruil mad after all) and maybe as an absolute last resort? And could it tie in to the Inquisitors relationship with Solas or their decision at the end of Trespasser? Like a befriended/romanced Solas can be convinced not to use it but an enemy Solas will?
about potential green lyrium- in Hissing Wastes there are green cristals next to each fade rift that inquisitor has to close. Mayby this is where this green titan is going to be. there are dwarven tombs, so if there were children of the stone, there could be the titan.
I'm not sure I'd like the titans creating the blight to be true, I like the original idea of magisters breaking into the golden city better. This undoes so much already established lore. What is corypheus then, and the old tevinter gods? What's the true history of the black city? Was there ever a golden city? If elven gods are real, but then aren't gods, does this mean the maker is just a story? Andraste was real, is this confirming tevinter was right, that she was just a mage? Giving logical explanations takes a lot of the fantasy elements out of the world. And once the Dredd Wolf's plan is implemented/thwarted, where does the series go from here?
You have no idea how your videos make my day. I miss Dragon Age so much and hearing you talk about it just make me so happy and excited! Thank you so much for the good content ❤❤
Great video as always Jack! I for one actually hopes the story of the maker is true, maybe because im religious myself and i study alot of theology! But i find its fascinating with the fact that the maker turned his back on us and left us. Its interesting that he isn't the almighty good god that everyone who belives in gets to dance in fields of flower and grass in heaven. The fact that he ( in the chant of light) turned his back and left us is so interesting to me. I will be happy with any origin of the blight, but i hope some things in the chant of light is true!
hmmm...just popped into my head: maybe during the Evanuris- Titan war Ghilan'nain somehow manipulated the body of a Titan and created red lyrium leading to the Blight which would then cause the Titans to fight two fronts. Another theory is I'm super excited for DA4.
I also believe that Red Lyrium comes from a blighted titan that perhaps sits below the Frostbacks, since that is the fault line where it appears to be the most abundant, and Kirkwall also sits on this fault line as did the Temple of Sacred Ashes.
I keep trying to stay interested in Dragon Age. It's getting hard with the game keep being pushed back. Last I saw it was pushed back to sometime in 2023 that's a long damn time
So, I've got a crackpot theory on Solas' plan in DA4. What if lyrium can be used as a medium for spirits and the veil to interact with the physical world. (Like Rock Wraiths inhabit lyrium bodies) In order for Solas to tear down the veil, he'd need to spread magic physically throughout Thedas. But since, blue lyrium needs to be mined from Titan, Solas pollutes the surface with red lyrium instead. And the idol is used to control the red lyrium (or maybe cleanse it), before he uses it in his ritual or whatever he plans to do to rip down the veil.
He most likely gets corrupted by the red lyrium and turns into a new kind of monster hellbent on destruction. Meredith herself couldn’t fight its influence off as one of the most powerful templars.
@@AxleTrade I think Solas knows the risks of meddling with red lyrium, so I don't think that would be the case. It could be, though, that his arrogance blinds him to the point of f@cking things up and contaminating the whole world with red lyrium (I feel that that would be kind of lame, as every mage villain we've seen in the series has this same downfall)
As Solas says the idol is his. I have to wonder if he left it in the primeval thaig to be found or did he misplace it? He seems to make a habit of leaving powerful artefacts that can be misused lying around. You could say it was highly unlikely someone would find it there but what if he left it on purpose? If he did, then what was his plan for it, or is what happened in Kirkwall his plan for it all along, thereabouts? I was also thinking about the spread of red lyrium and how futile it is to try to get rid of it, as you say, it's already infecting living things now and will just spread over time. Then you had a picture of the courtyard in future Redcliffe when you mentioned this in the video and I suddenly wondered if this future was always going to come to pass regardless of whether Corypheus was the one doing or not. Solas wants to tear down the veil causing what we saw in the future, and we already have red lyrium spreading. So the future Redcliffe world isn't out of the question regardless of what we did back in Inquisition. Terrifying and sad thought!
Good job! You hit very interesting points. You're not only giving us total of everything that was known for this topic, but also give a new point of view on everything. Thank you for that video. I cant wait for the next. Subscribing immediately!
The Titans created the world, it has been said. Andrastians believe The Maker created the world. The Titans blood (lyrium) can either give people bat-s%#@ levels of magical power or resistances to it. Red Lyrium sings, most people believe the world was made with words and song. I think (and I really about to go into tin-foil hat theory here), that The Maker could be a Titan, which may now be Blighted (which could explain the Black City)! Also, I think Tevinter maybe right that Andraste was a extremely powerful mage! How else could she have pulled off earthquakes and everything else that she did? Andraste could have been strengthened even further by the Titan, becoming a mage with unheard-of levels of power! I hope my theory on said Titan is now Blighted is wrong, if not, we could be in serious s%#@! If the Evanuris is now Blighted, it could cause never-before seen destruction! So much can happen in Dragon Age 4, and we will have plenty of fun speculating until it comes out!
My theory is that the best of titans were living in golden city , after seeing they are not able to defeat the elves , they tried to create something that can control them on massive scale , ( since we know that they can talk to dwarves now the question is why couldn't they do this with the elves ? Perhaps it was not the case for the elves for some reason ) and they were succesful but not without concequences ( that is becoming darkspawn ) and thats how they made the idol with the taint inside it ( i think the idol is the main source of the taint and whoever knows how to control it can control the taint ; in this way they could have spread that and like old gods controling darkspawn they could have controled them , but before they could use it the city was destroyed by the elves ; at this point solas found the idol but didn't destroy it and thought that it could be of use one day By that time the golden city was effected by the taint of the idol and seven spirits knew about its power and with titans being either dead or in slumber they tempted to use its power themselves but since they couldn't enter our world they used the magisters as vessels to deliver the taint to our world so i think the blight really started with them entering the golden city and not before As for the solas plan , well since he could easily search for the idol before the events of inquisition yet he chose to work on the orb , it seems that the idol is the harder way for him to destroy the veil Perhaps he wants to use it to make the titans destroy the veil themselves ( maybe if he could crupt the ones that are in our world and so force other titans in the fade fade to destroy the veil and come to help their brothers and sisters and once all this was done he could use the idol to reverse all the red lyrium development in the world and cleanse it in a way and make it ready for the elves to rebuild everything..... It is interesting to see more of hawke again cause he was the reason that red lyrium is spreading now with him finding the idol at the first place and i wonder if he'll be blamed for all of this I'm also curious about morrigan son and why did flemeth as mythal wanted to trap an old god's soul so badly ? I hope he has an important role in this one cause i've been waiting since origins to see my product put to good use 😂😏
My idea for the idol is that the "woman" in the middle of the idol embracing the other two figures is actually solas maybe wearing a hood or something not sure and the other two figures represent how he could walk among both sides the elevn gods and the forgotten ones clinging to him because he betrayed them as they considered him a Ally. The circle is the veil and the figure behind the circle is the eleven gods trapped in the fade and the other figure is the forgotten ones that are trapped underground thats why they are nearest the the lyrium veins at the bottom on the idol call me crazy but thats what I think! :)
Hi jackdaw I'm a little confused, I thought the darkspawn began when the magisters tried to enter the golden city. They were struck dawn by the maker and being the darkspawn. Is this correct? I just assumed the blight unfolded after the darkspawn fight to dwell over the surface using the archdragon.
I think that an additional thing we may take into account are the Forgotten Ones. Through implications we can assume that they were the next big enemy for the Evanuris, after their Titan war, probably a group of equally powerful elven mages that didn’t agree with their „gods“. It was said that while the Creators (the Evanuris) resided in the Heavens, the Forgotten Ones resided in the Void deep below. What if the Forgotten Ones found the Titans (or the one struck down by Mythal) and noticed the corruption, or maybe they somehow created that corruption themselves, we don’t know what was possible back then when all magic was around. Perhaps the Forgotten Ones weaponised the Titan‘s corruption and began to strike against the Evanuris from the Void? There is another thing that leads me to believe this tinfoil theory: Solas. It is said he walked between the two pantheons in a very Loki-like manner. And then we find out that the Red Lyrium Idol actually belongs to him. What if his put-on allegiance with the Forgotten Ones was how he managed to acquire it? They trusted him, so they told him how to use it without getting blighted. Well, I have much more to say on that but I‘ll take a breather. Tinfoil hat down (for now) XD
Jackdaw PS5 just announced backwards compatibility with PS3 games and hopefully Dragon Age saga is included. If that all proves to be true, then when I get my PS5, I’ll immediately pop in my Origins disc. And when I replay my journeys in Thedas, I’ll be thinking of you when collecting codexes and lore. Thanks for uploading so much love for Dragon Age. It’s been good watching!!
That is a bit disappointing. They were not going to do backwards compatibility because it would lower the quality of the machines. Hopefully they didn't lower the specs on the new consoles to play the old games. I think a remake of Dragon Age would of been a good thing and do what Bethesda did with SSE, if you owned the original and all dlcs, you were given Skyrim Special Edition for free.
just a thought here, but when you look at the idol (8:22) like this it looks like it has been a piece of something else. maybe it's a piece of Solas old staff or something?
When it comes to the mages it seems they follow most marvel comic storylines and characters. Anders for example pulled a magneto in da2 due to his rage against the chantry. Corypheus was Apokalypse for the mages so the Templars might have their Stryker unless Meredith took that role. We however paint Solas to be the Thanos of DA and the mages might come up with their own avengers.
It would be awesome if your a slave, prisoner, or just a willing subject and was put in the lyrim sarcophagus. Then with your awesome power up you take on solas. Also it might be cool if you only could be an elf. Your one of the few elves that fight against solas. 🤩🤩🤩
In Epilouge in DAI Trespasser HOF returns if you romance leliana !! What it means did he find the cure for the calling or did cured himself from the blight?? @Jackdaw
Hi Jack, I'm sorry if I seem a bit dumb at the moment but I'm a digital artist and I noticed you mention this fanforge site. I can't find the link you are talking about... could you please help me out 😁
Is lyrium alive though? Is that mentioned anywhere except from Bianca? Because her only stated rationale was that red lyrium carries the taint, and that always seemed weak as far as explanations go. The taint can infect non-living things too, like soil, or eluvian shards. But I understand BioWare is probably trying to tell us that lyrium is alive. I just wondered if there was any other source of info for that. That aside I do think lyrium is comprised of people's souls, as well as magic from the Fade. The titans existed before the Veil... IF Solas actually created the Veil. It's possible he's mistaken about that. I'm not trying to argue or be a denier or anything, it's just that we only have Solas' word to go on regarding the idea that he created the Veil. It's possible he merely discovered its existence and replicated that magic to close gaps that connected the Fade and the Real. I just find it implausible that he cast a planet-wide spell that split two realities apart. Supposedly, even regular lyrium can affect people who go near it. Though this isn't observed through gameplay. Red lyrium can spread throughout the land, but I wonder if that has slowed since Corypheus was destroyed. He may have been augmenting it. Also, I wonder of purifying red lyrium danger zones will be the Hero of Ferelden's next quest BioWare uses to keep said Hero out of the story of DA4. Like I've written before, if we don't get at least a cameo appearance from the Hero, I won't buy DA4. Solas claims it's his idol, but that might just be him trying to dissuade others from keeping it. Maybe it's not his, but he just wants to make it his. Again, not trying to argue, but BioWare sometimes presents a plot only to change it in the next game and alter its meaning. BioWare has always presented certain parts of the lore as just legends understood by historians in Thedas as best as they could understand them. So most of this isn't certain. The only theory I have, aside from the Hero possibly purifying all the red lyrium with the cure, I think Solas might be trying to grow a red lyrium titan at that location, which he will then use to tear down the Veil. But like I wrote, I don't think Solas created the Veil, just closed certain sections of it. So when he does try to tear it down, it will only reopen the sections he closed. That way, most of Thedas will be spared, thus preserving the locations and history of previous games, but also creating new areas to explore where there used to be mostly empty wastelands.
My first thought was we are going to have to sacrifice the next protagonist to calm down the red lyrim titan. Just like Valda did to stop the earthquakes; that would be a disappointing end to the next game. I am still hoping for the veil to come down. We need some epic enemies.
Is it just me or isn't that a gaunt female figure with her arms around two male figures? Her right arm is around one, his face against her stomach, and her left is around the other on the other side of the ring?
@@JackdawYT Hehe, totally. Personally, I think he might kill a Titan, or use it with Dumat's Folly. Although, his ritual is already underway, so if it's not to tear down the Veil or part of that ritual, then what?
Jackdaw, I love your tinfoily vids so much that I feel compelled to point out something very... tinfoily. Alix Wilton Regan, over on Twitter, posted a short video of a voice recording session! A warriors scream by the sounds of it! To add tinfoil to tinfoil, Sumalee Montano tweeted a reference to "recording a video game". Tinfoil off, I leave the floor to you!
This will likely prove to be an unpopular opinion, but my enthusiasm for DA:4 has waned so much, I don't really care whether it comes out or not. It's will be a decade since DA:I. I am also not anticipating TES:6 either or the next novel in the Game of Thrones series as much as I once did. Somehow, a decade or more of waiting simply wears on a person.
I thought we play as inquisitor again. New protagonist is bad for a role player because why tf would a new character give a care about Solas? he would seem no different than Corypheus to them. Only logical choice is to kill him. Unless inquisitor plays an important role in new protagonists rise and tells them everything good about Solas
I absolutely love your videos, but can you please learn how to pronounce 'runes' correctly? Please? They aren't ruins (as in a collection of fallen apart old buildings or temples). Runes are pronounced 'roons' (long oo sound, like in the word too). Not roo-ins (which is how 'ruins' is pronounced). Thank you. Sorry! I really had to get that off my chest!
Yeah, they're not from the North-East of England lol, we do have more than one accent you know? Trying googling "Rune" with a Geordie/Yorkshire accent, they'll say it like me.
@@JackdawYT Despite that, we still all know what you mean. Honestly, that's probably the only thing that matters. Please continue making amazing videos. I deeply appreciate your efforts. (I sure as hell don't have the patience to connect the dots alone)
You can catch up on all the previous episodes of The Road To Dragon Age 4 here: ruclips.net/p/PLXNz-vptG-rsbw6ZIGp17HE7mDof_jshF
I'm still convinced Sandal is one of the Sha-brytol, who got lost as a child. That's why he can't speak much, and it's been implied on several occasions that he can actually do magic. "Not enchantment." It would also explain why he's such a savant when it comes to creating runes and enchantments- he's directly tied to the stone through the Titans. I wonder if that will come into play in DA4...
Sandal is the last boss of DA4, he has to be
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Lol makes me want to Replay the old games
Didn’t Bodahn say he did find him in the deep roads lost and alone?
@@JB-xl2jc yes, he did. Which is yet another reason I think Sandal is a Sha-brytol
Introducing the first entry in my new lore/future plot threads series. These videos are going to be full of spoilers as I delve into particular honed-in lore that is rather telling for the future narrative of Dragon Age! Let me know what topics you'd like to see in the future!
I would love to see your take on the Astarium and their link to the Neromenians/Evanuris/Old Gods. Every single one mentions one of them in one form or another, they seem to tie together. 😃
Great video chum, looking forward to more in the series.
I’m gonna watch every single one my brother
Haha thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
I always believed red lyrium came from a pissed off blight Titan, but hearing someone else say it makes it seem even crazier and more so believable.
For real! It must come from one right?
I love this idea. The blight being Titan vengeance theory makes me wonder just how powerful they are...and in turn just how powerful the elves once were to fight them.
Perhaps a dark dwarven ritual similar to blood magic?
Ooohhhh.... what if the last Archdemons are actually inside of the Titans?! And the darkspawn tunneling for them is what's making them angry/ giving them the blight? Which in turn causes the explosions of red lyrium on the surface! Plus just the size of the Titans would be enough to spread the red lyrium far and wide through their network of lyrium veins.
Solas gave Corophus the orb, so the red idol is his back up plan? If it could do what it did to Merridith, an anti mage, imagine what it will do the Dredd wolf.
Exactly! Imagine a Red Lyrium-Dread Wolf. That's a scary thought.....
@@JackdawYT Red Lyrium Dread Wolf Dragon.
Solas, despite meaning well and aiming for redemption, is the most dangerous threat Thedas has faced. more so than Corypheus and his kind ever will be.
@@AxleTrade Your comment is short-sighted and lacks perspective but do carry on
I think Solas wants it to find out what happened to the maker/Golden City. Because... I believe the maker is simply the last Titan, that got shunted into the fade along with the elven gods when Solas created the veil. And the tevinter mages entering the Golden City and finding the Maker (Titan) corrupted it. That’s why a weakened veil accompanies red lyrium, it’s the corrupted titan’s blood from the other side of the veil.
I'm not convinved that a Titan is the source of the Blight. I'd be far more willing to believe that a Titan was Blighted the same way an Old God is to create an Archdemon. Since Lyrium is the "Blood of Titans", a Blighted Titan would explain why the Lyrium they produce would be blighted as well.
On the subject of the Evanuris "creating bodies from the earth"...
Couldn't this basically mean a practice that the paragon Caridin ultimately based his golem creating techniques on? 😮
In Awakening, Justice says that lyrium in the Fade doesn’t sing, but he can hear the lyrium in the waking world sing. He remarks on this several times, which makes the presence of lyrium in the Fade even stranger. I think that if it truly doesn’t sing in the Fade then that has implications for what it was like before the Veil existed - perhaps it wasn’t alive in the same way?
I think it's more that the lyrium there is what humans and elves dreamed up from their memories of the waking world, so the memory-lyrium in the fade wouldn't sing because they can't hear the singing like dwarves can or apparently spirits can. After all the fade doesn't show copies of reality but the subjective memories of the dreaming races.
A fenris specialization would be cool
It would but probably won't happen, hopefully he could return and the game would revamp his powers.
Wow.... so a warrior that has to endure excruciating pain when a mage draw a lyrium tattoo on his skin. Its kinda cool and creepy at the same time. A warrior mage of some sort, like knight enchanter
The specialization I want most is *Saarebas*. Hissera is too much fun in multiplayer
Hey Jackdaw!!! I have a theory... I'm sure you have already thought of this. (But I'm telling you anyway.) I think I one of the reason why the Tevinter Chantry and Fereldan and Chantry are feuding cousins. LOL I believe it's because they know lyrium is a form of blood magic. Think about It,...lyrium, is the blood of the Titans and if you consider Titans to be a living organism or being. Then that means lyrium would be a form of blood magic. Since the Chantry frowns on blood magic and all it's uses! If the Chantry is aware of the Titans, this would completely disrupt the lyrium trade!
Yes! More 👏🏻dragon age 👏🏻 content👏🏻 😁 sidenote: It only occurs to me, seeing it in a cartoony art style, how the idol could be interpreted. That the middle person is mythal, with Solas on his knees embracing her. The circle behind her is the veil and the person behind the circle represents the other gods locked away, in mythals case, elgernan? 🤷🏼♀️ Just thinking out loud.
Agreed! It's so amazing having it drawn out, Saria actually created it like that for me! It makes the Idol so much more visible! We can notice all kinds of details now!
I feel like i keep saying this but i reaaaaalllly need to catch up on these books and comics, i play the games religiously, but i feel like there’s so much more lore i’m missing, even with watching channels like this that discus said lore.
The other colours of Lyrium have my curiosity so piqued rn
Love this vid!!!! I have soooooooo many theories though that I probably shouldn't just write essays in the comments, lmao!!! My main note is that I think red lyrium and dragons have a surprising amount in common - and we don't actually know that it is blue lyrium that has been tainted - we only know it IS tainted. We have already seen green lyrium (in DAI) and the implication of more (in the Golems of Amgarrak). There is also the fact that the Qunari in Tresspasser are said by Cole to hate the blue lyrium, "it's the wrong song, the wrong blood." None is taken back to their base save that locked up. However a chunk of red lyrium sits open on a desk - and Cole says that it's song is different to that of other red lyrium - but 'the pieces still fit'. I personally find this aspect of red lyrium v interesting!!! However I shall end my ramble here xD
Great video!
The part that stumps me is the Golden/Black City connection. I thought that used to be a pathway to wherever Solas had sealed the Evannuris, but since it was "empty"... But Blighted Titan makes a lot more sense as source of the Blight, but then WHY did going into the Black City turn Cory into the first darkspawn? ...or first known darkspawn post the fall of Arlathan...??
Because Cory found and used blight magic maybe?
@@bugmancer Makes sense. But I feel like there has to be more to it... I can't wait to spend half or more of my DA4 playthrough obsessively reading codex entries xD
I think that there was a previous "outbreak" of the Blight shortly before Solas created the Veil that was directly caused by what the Evanuris did to the titans (hence Solas saying that if he hadn't created the Veil, they would have destroyed the entire world). When he sealed the Evanuris away--presumably in the Golden City--he probably also sealed away the parts of the elven empire that had become blighted, basically putting them under a "quarantine" that held until the magisters breached the Veil and unleashed the Blight a thousand years later.
I’d like to have a big recap on all the different prophecies we had in the Dragon Age serie :)
Thank’s a lot for this video, it was very clear ! :)
Aw thank you so much! That's all I wanted, so I really appreciate you saying that! For sure will cover future prophecies, thank you for watching!
Excited to see more of this series!
What if “The Maker” is just the greatest (or the last) of the Titans who was engaged in an eternal war with the elves that didn’t end when Solas created the veil? The Elven “gods” and the Titan were both shunted into the fade, but the Titan wasn’t as disoriented as the gods. It secured a commanding position in the center of this new “fade” and began reordering things in that new little realm, creating a golden city and preparing to re-engage in the long war that was all too familiar to it.
But the Tevinter makes knew nothing of this. In the corporeal world, all they knew is that magic came from the fade. And so in their hubris they decided to journey there themselves.
But the mere presence of the corporeal Mages there in the very center of the Titan’s new realm corrupted it. It created the blight, darkened the fade, and any spots where the veil becomes weak the old blood of the gods gets corrupted by the darkened Titan on the other side (in the fade).
This would tie together Solas’s actions, the titans, the tevinter and chantry versions of their story, and the elven gods.
can’t wait to watch this series!! i love thinking abt what will be most pertinent for the next dragon age, it’s honestly a little more fun to speculate when we’ve been given so little
I also would love if you did a video on the elven gods since I believe it will be a big part of the more in the next game 😜
I've always though that Solas wants the idol to keep it out of reckless hands (he did see how red lyrium turned Andruil mad after all) and maybe as an absolute last resort? And could it tie in to the Inquisitors relationship with Solas or their decision at the end of Trespasser? Like a befriended/romanced Solas can be convinced not to use it but an enemy Solas will?
about potential green lyrium- in Hissing Wastes there are green cristals next to each fade rift that inquisitor has to close. Mayby this is where this green titan is going to be. there are dwarven tombs, so if there were children of the stone, there could be the titan.
I'm not sure I'd like the titans creating the blight to be true, I like the original idea of magisters breaking into the golden city better. This undoes so much already established lore. What is corypheus then, and the old tevinter gods? What's the true history of the black city? Was there ever a golden city? If elven gods are real, but then aren't gods, does this mean the maker is just a story? Andraste was real, is this confirming tevinter was right, that she was just a mage? Giving logical explanations takes a lot of the fantasy elements out of the world. And once the Dredd Wolf's plan is implemented/thwarted, where does the series go from here?
You have no idea how your videos make my day. I miss Dragon Age so much and hearing you talk about it just make me so happy and excited! Thank you so much for the good content ❤❤
I'm so glad! Aw thank for you saying that! Way more vids to come!
Simply a perfect start for the series,can't wait for more.
Thank you so much!
Great video as always Jack!
I for one actually hopes the story of the maker is true, maybe because im religious myself and i study alot of theology! But i find its fascinating with the fact that the maker turned his back on us and left us. Its interesting that he isn't the almighty good god that everyone who belives in gets to dance in fields of flower and grass in heaven. The fact that he ( in the chant of light) turned his back and left us is so interesting to me.
I will be happy with any origin of the blight, but i hope some things in the chant of light is true!
😩 got my bf waiting so i could watch this before we leave for a drive lol
I just finished Inquisition and I'm hungry for more dragon age so i started following your channel.
Welcome! You're in the right place!
Soooooo happy! This makes my day so much better!!!!!😍👌❤️
hmmm...just popped into my head: maybe during the Evanuris- Titan war Ghilan'nain somehow manipulated the body of a Titan and created red lyrium leading to the Blight which would then cause the Titans to fight two fronts.
Another theory is I'm super excited for DA4.
all i know is there’s gonna be red lyrium everywhere in da4 and i’m ready for it
I also believe that Red Lyrium comes from a blighted titan that perhaps sits below the Frostbacks, since that is the fault line where it appears to be the most abundant, and Kirkwall also sits on this fault line as did the Temple of Sacred Ashes.
yay more dragon age content! I'd like to see a recap of all evanuris!
I keep trying to stay interested in Dragon Age. It's getting hard with the game keep being pushed back. Last I saw it was pushed back to sometime in 2023 that's a long damn time
So, I've got a crackpot theory on Solas' plan in DA4. What if lyrium can be used as a medium for spirits and the veil to interact with the physical world. (Like Rock Wraiths inhabit lyrium bodies) In order for Solas to tear down the veil, he'd need to spread magic physically throughout Thedas. But since, blue lyrium needs to be mined from Titan, Solas pollutes the surface with red lyrium instead. And the idol is used to control the red lyrium (or maybe cleanse it), before he uses it in his ritual or whatever he plans to do to rip down the veil.
He most likely gets corrupted by the red lyrium and turns into a new kind of monster hellbent on destruction. Meredith herself couldn’t fight its influence off as one of the most powerful templars.
@@AxleTrade I think Solas knows the risks of meddling with red lyrium, so I don't think that would be the case. It could be, though, that his arrogance blinds him to the point of f@cking things up and contaminating the whole world with red lyrium (I feel that that would be kind of lame, as every mage villain we've seen in the series has this same downfall)
As Solas says the idol is his. I have to wonder if he left it in the primeval thaig to be found or did he misplace it? He seems to make a habit of leaving powerful artefacts that can be misused lying around. You could say it was highly unlikely someone would find it there but what if he left it on purpose? If he did, then what was his plan for it, or is what happened in Kirkwall his plan for it all along, thereabouts?
I was also thinking about the spread of red lyrium and how futile it is to try to get rid of it, as you say, it's already infecting living things now and will just spread over time. Then you had a picture of the courtyard in future Redcliffe when you mentioned this in the video and I suddenly wondered if this future was always going to come to pass regardless of whether Corypheus was the one doing or not. Solas wants to tear down the veil causing what we saw in the future, and we already have red lyrium spreading. So the future Redcliffe world isn't out of the question regardless of what we did back in Inquisition. Terrifying and sad thought!
hi jack! :^ ) hope ur having a good day, can't wait to watch.
You too! I'm doing swell! I hope you enjoy the video! :D
Good job! You hit very interesting points. You're not only giving us total of everything that was known for this topic, but also give a new point of view on everything. Thank you for that video. I cant wait for the next. Subscribing immediately!
I appreciate that! Thank you so much!!
Just need a pink, yellow, and black, lyrium and you will have a lyrium power ranger team
The Titans created the world, it has been said. Andrastians believe The Maker created the world. The Titans blood (lyrium) can either give people bat-s%#@ levels of magical power or resistances to it. Red Lyrium sings, most people believe the world was made with words and song. I think (and I really about to go into tin-foil hat theory here), that The Maker could be a Titan, which may now be Blighted (which could explain the Black City)! Also, I think Tevinter maybe right that Andraste was a extremely powerful mage! How else could she have pulled off earthquakes and everything else that she did? Andraste could have been strengthened even further by the Titan, becoming a mage with unheard-of levels of power! I hope my theory on said Titan is now Blighted is wrong, if not, we could be in serious s%#@! If the Evanuris is now Blighted, it could cause never-before seen destruction! So much can happen in Dragon Age 4, and we will have plenty of fun speculating until it comes out!
My theory is that the best of titans were living in golden city , after seeing they are not able to defeat the elves , they tried to create something that can control them on massive scale , ( since we know that they can talk to dwarves now the question is why couldn't they do this with the elves ? Perhaps it was not the case for the elves for some reason ) and they were succesful but not without concequences ( that is becoming darkspawn ) and thats how they made the idol with the taint inside it ( i think the idol is the main source of the taint and whoever knows how to control it can control the taint ; in this way they could have spread that and like old gods controling darkspawn they could have controled them , but before they could use it the city was destroyed by the elves ; at this point solas found the idol but didn't destroy it and thought that it could be of use one day
By that time the golden city was effected by the taint of the idol and seven spirits knew about its power and with titans being either dead or in slumber they tempted to use its power themselves but since they couldn't enter our world they used the magisters as vessels to deliver the taint to our world so i think the blight really started with them entering the golden city and not before
As for the solas plan , well since he could easily search for the idol before the events of inquisition yet he chose to work on the orb , it seems that the idol is the harder way for him to destroy the veil
Perhaps he wants to use it to make the titans destroy the veil themselves ( maybe if he could crupt the ones that are in our world and so force other titans in the fade fade to destroy the veil and come to help their brothers and sisters and once all this was done he could use the idol to reverse all the red lyrium development in the world and cleanse it in a way and make it ready for the elves to rebuild everything.....
It is interesting to see more of hawke again cause he was the reason that red lyrium is spreading now with him finding the idol at the first place and i wonder if he'll be blamed for all of this
I'm also curious about morrigan son and why did flemeth as mythal wanted to trap an old god's soul so badly ? I hope he has an important role in this one cause i've been waiting since origins to see my product put to good use 😂😏
Sondal can make rune with red lyrium
Enchantment!
My idea for the idol is that the "woman" in the middle of the idol embracing the other two figures is actually solas maybe wearing a hood or something not sure and the other two figures represent how he could walk among both sides the elevn gods and the forgotten ones clinging to him because he betrayed them as they considered him a Ally. The circle is the veil and the figure behind the circle is the eleven gods trapped in the fade and the other figure is the forgotten ones that are trapped underground thats why they are nearest the the lyrium veins at the bottom on the idol call me crazy but thats what I think! :)
Hi jackdaw I'm a little confused, I thought the darkspawn began when the magisters tried to enter the golden city. They were struck dawn by the maker and being the darkspawn. Is this correct? I just assumed the blight unfolded after the darkspawn fight to dwell over the surface using the archdragon.
Great video as aways! Can't wait for the rest of the series!
I think that an additional thing we may take into account are the Forgotten Ones. Through implications we can assume that they were the next big enemy for the Evanuris, after their Titan war, probably a group of equally powerful elven mages that didn’t agree with their „gods“. It was said that while the Creators (the Evanuris) resided in the Heavens, the Forgotten Ones resided in the Void deep below. What if the Forgotten Ones found the Titans (or the one struck down by Mythal) and noticed the corruption, or maybe they somehow created that corruption themselves, we don’t know what was possible back then when all magic was around. Perhaps the Forgotten Ones weaponised the Titan‘s corruption and began to strike against the Evanuris from the Void? There is another thing that leads me to believe this tinfoil theory: Solas. It is said he walked between the two pantheons in a very Loki-like manner. And then we find out that the Red Lyrium Idol actually belongs to him. What if his put-on allegiance with the Forgotten Ones was how he managed to acquire it? They trusted him, so they told him how to use it without getting blighted. Well, I have much more to say on that but I‘ll take a breather. Tinfoil hat down (for now) XD
I am right now playing dragon age inquisition my first time. Like the video. Thanks
Have fun! Thanks for watching!
Jackdaw PS5 just announced backwards compatibility with PS3 games and hopefully Dragon Age saga is included. If that all proves to be true, then when I get my PS5, I’ll immediately pop in my Origins disc. And when I replay my journeys in Thedas, I’ll be thinking of you when collecting codexes and lore. Thanks for uploading so much love for Dragon Age. It’s been good watching!!
Aw thank you so much for the support! I hope you have some amazing journeys in Thedas!
That is a bit disappointing. They were not going to do backwards compatibility because it would lower the quality of the machines. Hopefully they didn't lower the specs on the new consoles to play the old games. I think a remake of Dragon Age would of been a good thing and do what Bethesda did with SSE, if you owned the original and all dlcs, you were given Skyrim Special Edition for free.
Chrissyce watch MBG’s latest video on the topic from only hours ago. You’ll understand then.
This sounds awesome, can't wait for the rest!
just a thought here, but when you look at the idol (8:22) like this it looks like it has been a piece of something else. maybe it's a piece of Solas old staff or something?
Excellent video my dude ill keep watching these and theorise on DA4
Thank the Maker
The Lyrium Idol is Mythal, Solas and Inquisitor. Well, I'm just attached on the other person there with missing "left arm", like our Inky.
Very very good and plausible idea, but what does that mean for our Inquisitor? :O
Videos on Tevinter and Qunari maybe.
For sure! They're coming up very soon! Next week I'm doing Solas, then Qunari! Tevinter will defos be covered soon!
I saw you play a clip with Solas in clown make-up and I'm now picturing Solas going full-on Joker.
When it comes to the mages it seems they follow most marvel comic storylines and characters. Anders for example pulled a magneto in da2 due to his rage against the chantry. Corypheus was Apokalypse for the mages so the Templars might have their Stryker unless Meredith took that role. We however paint Solas to be the Thanos of DA and the mages might come up with their own avengers.
It would be awesome if your a slave, prisoner, or just a willing subject and was put in the lyrim sarcophagus. Then with your awesome power up you take on solas. Also it might be cool if you only could be an elf. Your one of the few elves that fight against solas. 🤩🤩🤩
Watching every one ☝🏻 I’m glad I found a content creator with a real passion for the game like me 🤩
Glad you enjoy it! Aw thank you so much!! :D
blue lyrium - weed
red lyrium - flakka
Great video! I'm excited to see the rest of the series 😄
Yay, thank you!
Who'd thought Sebastian would have gone on to become a red lyrium scholar?
When do you think we will see a story trailer?
Any day with a new Jackdaw video is a good day!
welcome back !
Jack! Do you think Fenris will appear in DA4 at all? I’m hoping he’ll be a companion again🥰
In Epilouge in DAI Trespasser HOF returns if you romance leliana !! What it means did he find the cure for the calling or did cured himself from the blight?? @Jackdaw
Hi Jack,
I'm sorry if I seem a bit dumb at the moment but I'm a digital artist and I noticed you mention this fanforge site. I can't find the link you are talking about... could you please help me out 😁
Ahhh I forgot to link it!! Sorry, here's the link: bit.ly/Jack_Daw_Dragon_Age
Thank you for telling me this!
Is lyrium alive though? Is that mentioned anywhere except from Bianca? Because her only stated rationale was that red lyrium carries the taint, and that always seemed weak as far as explanations go. The taint can infect non-living things too, like soil, or eluvian shards. But I understand BioWare is probably trying to tell us that lyrium is alive. I just wondered if there was any other source of info for that. That aside I do think lyrium is comprised of people's souls, as well as magic from the Fade.
The titans existed before the Veil... IF Solas actually created the Veil. It's possible he's mistaken about that. I'm not trying to argue or be a denier or anything, it's just that we only have Solas' word to go on regarding the idea that he created the Veil. It's possible he merely discovered its existence and replicated that magic to close gaps that connected the Fade and the Real. I just find it implausible that he cast a planet-wide spell that split two realities apart.
Supposedly, even regular lyrium can affect people who go near it. Though this isn't observed through gameplay.
Red lyrium can spread throughout the land, but I wonder if that has slowed since Corypheus was destroyed. He may have been augmenting it. Also, I wonder of purifying red lyrium danger zones will be the Hero of Ferelden's next quest BioWare uses to keep said Hero out of the story of DA4. Like I've written before, if we don't get at least a cameo appearance from the Hero, I won't buy DA4.
Solas claims it's his idol, but that might just be him trying to dissuade others from keeping it. Maybe it's not his, but he just wants to make it his.
Again, not trying to argue, but BioWare sometimes presents a plot only to change it in the next game and alter its meaning. BioWare has always presented certain parts of the lore as just legends understood by historians in Thedas as best as they could understand them. So most of this isn't certain.
The only theory I have, aside from the Hero possibly purifying all the red lyrium with the cure, I think Solas might be trying to grow a red lyrium titan at that location, which he will then use to tear down the Veil. But like I wrote, I don't think Solas created the Veil, just closed certain sections of it. So when he does try to tear it down, it will only reopen the sections he closed. That way, most of Thedas will be spared, thus preserving the locations and history of previous games, but also creating new areas to explore where there used to be mostly empty wastelands.
If the Templar’s in Tevinter don’t use lyrium, does that write them off as a specialisation in DA4?
What? Tevinter has been known to be the only one who the dwarves trade with. Tevinter then exports it for profit.
i cant wait !
My first thought was we are going to have to sacrifice the next protagonist to calm down the red lyrim titan. Just like Valda did to stop the earthquakes; that would be a disappointing end to the next game. I am still hoping for the veil to come down. We need some epic enemies.
Is it just me or isn't that a gaunt female figure with her arms around two male figures? Her right arm is around one, his face against her stomach, and her left is around the other on the other side of the ring?
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Tevinter Nights left it up in the air. I'd like to think that Solas does NOT have it, but it's 50/50.
For my own sanity, I like to think Solas doesn't have it as well, lol! Who knows what he'll do with it though, if/when he does get it.
@@JackdawYT Hehe, totally. Personally, I think he might kill a Titan, or use it with Dumat's Folly. Although, his ritual is already underway, so if it's not to tear down the Veil or part of that ritual, then what?
Jackdaw, I love your tinfoily vids so much that I feel compelled to point out something very... tinfoily. Alix Wilton Regan, over on Twitter, posted a short video of a voice recording session! A warriors scream by the sounds of it! To add tinfoil to tinfoil, Sumalee Montano tweeted a reference to "recording a video game". Tinfoil off, I leave the floor to you!
Wow, thank you so much for telling me this!!! I'll look into it!! :D
Also... Kermit the frog 🐸
I get the feeling that t Solas wants to unleash AN evaneurus
honestly red lyrium is just a spicy popsicle gimme sumn 🥰💅
I think your videos are good but could please add a German subtitle that would be nice. 😉👍
New blight by the red lyrium?
This will likely prove to be an unpopular opinion, but my enthusiasm for DA:4 has waned so much, I don't really care whether it comes out or not. It's will be a decade since DA:I. I am also not anticipating TES:6 either or the next novel in the Game of Thrones series as much as I once did. Somehow, a decade or more of waiting simply wears on a person.
Does red lyrium have to be grown from scratch, or can normal lyrium be corrupted into red lyrium?
I thought we play as inquisitor again. New protagonist is bad for a role player because why tf would a new character give a care about Solas? he would seem no different than Corypheus to them. Only logical choice is to kill him. Unless inquisitor plays an important role in new protagonists rise and tells them everything good about Solas
Let's make red lyrium a playable race! Who's with me?!?!
HERE EARLY!!!!!
The Deeproads
Can we please just get all the spells from dragon age origins and bring back blood magic goddammint
I hope that in the new da they wont put that annoying RIFTS.
first
Red lyrium is meth.
I absolutely love your videos, but can you please learn how to pronounce 'runes' correctly? Please?
They aren't ruins (as in a collection of fallen apart old buildings or temples). Runes are pronounced 'roons' (long oo sound, like in the word too). Not roo-ins (which is how 'ruins' is pronounced).
Thank you. Sorry! I really had to get that off my chest!
It's the British pronunciation, can't help that lol
@@JackdawYT I've watched a lot of BBC and I've yet to hear someone pronounce 'runes' as 'ruins.'
ruclips.net/video/tMbVuIoJOLk/видео.html
Yeah, they're not from the North-East of England lol, we do have more than one accent you know? Trying googling "Rune" with a Geordie/Yorkshire accent, they'll say it like me.
@@JackdawYT Despite that, we still all know what you mean. Honestly, that's probably the only thing that matters. Please continue making amazing videos. I deeply appreciate your efforts. (I sure as hell don't have the patience to connect the dots alone)
@Josh Friesen Thank you for saying this! Too often people poke holes in my video's or voice, I appreciate your support!