History of the Blights {Lore. - No Spoilers}
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2017
- Welcome, welcome! Have you played Dragon Age: Inquisition, then wondered why everyone was so afraid of the blight? Have you not bothered reading the four part codex on the history of the first blight, but still want to know the history? Then come and listen to what is known~
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First Blight lasted 200 years, fifth Blight lasted 1. The sixth one will last a week, and the seventh will end as soon as the Archdemon pops it's head out of the ground to find the Wardens already surrounding it. It will be the first recorded instance of an Archdemon verbally speaking, and it's only words will be "Ah, fuck."
That should be dragon age 4
more like :"Ah shit, here we go again"
This was my SPOILERS DRAGON AGE AWAKENING:
Reasoning for not siding with the architect. Side with this potentially super dangerous unknown, or... look at the trend of the blights getting easier and easier to fight off. You better believe I gutted that fella on my first playthrough
not knowing anything about dragon age 4 or their future. I one of the games is gonna have both of the last 2 old gods revived at the same time.
@@BaeBunni or one revived and hunting down the last in its resting place as apparently the wardens know where they all are
If HBO made a tv show about the first blight i swear it would be a masterpiece.
That would be awesome!
Considering how they ended game of thrones, No Thanks.
@@leone41ll chernobyl, silicon valley, westworld, boardwalk empire, Barry, the wire & the sopranos beg to differ.
@@andreizambelli9911 chernobyl and westworld 😍
@@andreizambelli9911 I heard Westworld lost the plot after season one.
I have to wonder how, from a characters in the world perspective, one identifies which old god is leading the darkspawn....
True! That's kinda creepy and Mysterious as fuk :/!! I don't think anyone has an answer to that question :0.... unless the Grey Wardens (having telepathy with the ArchDemon) can sense it and Identify it in that way or something similar :/!? Who knows .... that's my best guess...
Well, 2 things. 1, If I remember the wardens had maps of where the prisons were stored in Weishaupt, (I believe from a codex entry in DA:O, could be wrong.) 2, seasoned grey wardens say they can understand the Archdemon, so the name could be found from its commands I.E. "I Urthemiel hear by decree the surfaces shall fall to our grand might!" "My silence is broken, Hail the return of Dumat!" I like to imagine the dragon being very egotistical.
Well, Im no expert here, but since the Tevinter use to worship the Old Gods, wouldnt old documents have account of what they looked like?
@@marionfrix3508 i think you are correct
@@marionfrix3508 assuming their corruption doesnt disfigure them too heavily
Blights bad The Grey Wardens good
What if the golden city in the fade is actually a blighted titan. This would explain how the magisters brought the blight to the world by breaching the fade.
The first game is the best it gets me deep everytime
I hope we see a blight again in a future game. If we do though, there has to be something different about it. Maybe the darkspawn manage to reach BOTH of the last old gods. A final massive blight with twin Archdemons leading the horde. Maybe even set the blight up in one game, then the next game is several years later. Multiple countries have fallen, hordes of refugees, maybe even some previous characters die in the fighting. It'd be like that alternate future in DAI, but that's the actual game.
It looks pretty promising so far 😌🔥
I hope we do get a massive Blight and hopefully depending on world the Hero of Ferelden returns and that you the player is a Warden since only Wardens can slay Archdemons
My guess is that the Sixth Blight will begin when either Solas or one of the Evanuris awakens the Sixth Arch Demon. As for the 7th Blight, take could take place 400 years in a new age, an era where theFereldan has become a steampunk empire, the Elves have a kingdom of their own in the remains of the Tevinter Imperium and began worshiping just Solas, the Orlesian Empire has been reduced to a 4 principalities, the Qunari still has holdings on Seheron, the Dwarves are forced out of their homes and wander like the Dalish once had and new races have occupied the Free Marches, Andersfel and Neverra such as the Kitsune (A race of humanoids with Fox Ears and Fox tail), the Gnomes (Who have pointy ears and purple skin), the Scalians (a race of blue skinned fish people that are just as beautiful, wise and might as the elves once were during the reign of the Elevhen Empire) and the Faunis (a race of wolf like humanoids with goat horns).
Hmm 7 Elven gods other than Mythal and The Dread Wolf, and 7 Tevinter Old Gods coincidence? DA4 could explain so much!
Eric Parker sadly I think DA4 is awhile off. I love ME and anthem looks super interesting. Like destiny with an actual story. but DA is bae such bae many wow. Like really. I mean the lore has so much speculation, it makes dark souls look like a comic book.
Well given the news of what da4 will be its gonna be a shitshow
@@AulisVaara Mythal takes the soul of Urthemiel which feels like it implies that the Elven gods and Old Gods are the same. Plus, Elven gods can turn into dragons. They were just very powerful people so how they acted and what they stood for could have changed with time.
I hope we get a prequel situated just after the first blight which was the most deadly so far. It would be fun if we can become new kings/queens or setting up an elf clan. There isn't super much lore so we could fill it with whatever we want. Even create the Grey Warden order? - that would be great fun.
Pavel Hristov only problem is lore is so established, we'd be very limited in our choices
naterod1719 Still, killing a shit ton of darkspawn sounds good to me.
I just launched a D&D Capaign with some friends that surrounds the events of the first blight. It's been fun because the lore is so incomplete, that I have a lot of creative license to do what I want. My players just encountered Darkspawn for the first time, and have communed with a strange fade entity to learn the secret of the blood taint.
A game like that would have to take place right before the ending of the first blight. The first blight lasted two hundred years. The lifetime of our character wouldn't be long enough if the game started at the beginning of the blight.
the main problem with the blight is the lack of constant war against the dark spawn because they just allow them to compound each blight making each time worse
Well the fifth blight was the shortest.
@@deathsdoor07 Yes it lasted only one year ... Ferelden is small kingdom , we dont know how Archdemoms are as capable commanders and generals from military perspective .. If you would have very talented commander likes of Alexander or Ceaser , Napoleon , horde would destroy Ferelden easily ... It was stated in final battle that Ferelden doom is near and you must slay Urthemiel ... If not , Kingdom will die , they even outnumbered them 3:1 ... Same can be said about War of the Ring .. Sauron was militarily so strong , that it was impossible to beat him on military scale ... Only reason he lost was that they destroyed the Ring and he never suspected it ... That is why he didnt bother much to guard his borders to Mordor ...
There IS a constant war against them. It's happening in the deep roads all the time just to hold them off from overrunning orzammar
What happens after all of the old gods die? What of the darkspawn? Do they all stop hearing the song and go insane? Do they all just die out, having no more true meaning to their lives? Or do they look else where for gods to blight? Which god would be next? The maker? *A N D R A S T E* herself? This is a question i think is pretty important because what happens to the wardens as an order slay? no more old gods to slay
I think the darkspawn would still exist because the broodmothers would still exist and they're the ones birthing darkspawn. I also think the actual source of the taint would need to be found to completely eradicate it.
That being said, I do wonder what the Darkspawn would do, given they're a hivemind and then technically do not listen to anyone anymore?? :'Ic
Hey I discovered your channel through the dragonage subreddit! I love your videos!
Last Flight was heart breaking. Isseya gave everything to end the Blight and save the griffins. She deserves to be remembered.
Glad I just discovered your channel. Lots of lore and reference in a relatively short video - with excellent pacing. Love your respect towards spoilers too ^_^
omg! I love that your a great source of knowledge for dragon age anything! thank you so much for taking time to make these and explaining things too! I actually just ordered all the dragon age books! Keep making videos please and thank you! :D
Maybe you can do a lore video on how Bioware changed the Darkspawn just ten years after the 5th blight
They were a lot scarier in Origins. From 2 onwards they became a joke. (We can thank that fool Matt Goldman for changing their look) Hurlocks look stupid and the Genlocks make no sense since they get huge while the Hurlocks don't.
Darkspawn evolution?
@@williamballard767 That is one hell of an evolution in 10 years. Considering they didn't change at all for 1000 years.
Remember in Origins when characters could wear whatever clothes/armor they wanted because they were, you know, just clothes/armor? Now you have to be a certain "class" to wear a particular fabric or metal.
Doesn't the chant of light mention the Archon at the time showing up in Kirkwall when the Magisters Sidereal turned up and demanding to know what the hell they had just done, then realizing something bad was about to happen and doing what he could to prepare for the 1st Blight?
I really hope we can get a Blight origin/Void theory video. I'm excited to learn more! Thank you so much for these great videos!
I doubt this will ever happen, but if two archdemons woke up in the sixth blight at roughly the same time, would they work together to try and kill everything in Thedas or will they just duke it out and leave everyone else in the crossfire? what if an archdemon kills another archdemon? Would they destroy each other like when a warden kills one?
Seems like a cool idea. I dig it. But it’s also a good question. Because don’t the arch demons control the dark spawn when they’re awakened? Who is gonna control em when there’s 2? I would like to ask: are they trying to literally destroy the world, or are they trying to weaken the veil?
Amazingly done! Thanks for putting all this together, I'm subbed for life :D
Just filled out my Dragon Age Keep again and will be starting my 1st play thru as a dual mage(did mage and two hander in my other) and your videos are preparing me for Dreadwolf. The amount of info and the skill used to put this all together is staggering, thank you.
What of the Blight was a magical disease made by the Enuvaris that were locked away in the Fade by Solas and they were the 7 old gods and they gave the Magisters the blight and sent them back to destroy the world like they were trying to do before Solas locked them in the fade?
I love watching these they get me caught up on Dragon Age history
Playing through Origins right now for the first time. What an amazing game so far. Thanks for this info, as I go through the game and I get more and more intrigued by the lore.
Seeing your thumbnail of the Darkspawn from Origins made me nostalgic D: I hate what BioWare have done to the Darkspawn now
NO_FUN_ALLOWED yeah look like reptiles from mortal kombat and emissary looks like arcane horror
the darkspawn looked derpy as hell in DA2...and why do they still have bright white teeth? I'm pretty sure the Archdemon doesn't have a dental plan. They just looked like a bunch of Thedas natives cosplaying as darkspawn.
Take a look at a picture of a DA2 ogre then look at a DA:O ogre, the DA2 version looks like DA:O's retarded cousin.
Matt Allen ..I completely agree... The Number ONE Reason why I EASILY grew to LOVE FIGHTING Darkspawn is the fact that they remind me SO MUCH OF ORCS (I grew up on Lord of The Rings)! (That and their GRIM Origins to say the least lol)
But yeah I HATE the OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT (and NOT QUALITY) art styles of the Darkspawn in DA:2 AND Inquisition!!
But then again you gotta remember LOREWISE that Darkspawn Are Slightly Decayed flesh and "Appearances Vary" lol so BELIEVE ME ... this simply means that DARKSPAWN come from a WIDE VARIETY OF UGLY ... LMFAOO!!!
XD
In ALL SERIOUSNESS THOUGH it's been 2 Games since a SODDING BLIGHT has Occurred and by the stone I DEMAND TO BE A GREY WARDEN in the next Dragon Age! Seriously though i feel like NOT being able to make that choice in Inquisition was MASSIVELY DISAPPOINTING :'(!
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Still the Darkspawn need to go back to looking less Pale and BLAND :/ (LOREWISE Darkspawn don't Shower lol.....EXCEPT SHOWER IN BLOOD so they shouldn't be pale and spottless to say the least LOL ! They NEED to have a COMPLETE OPEN WORLD and CHANGE THE GAMEPLAY To something similar to Elder Scrolls but KEEP the tactical controls to make BOSSFIGHTS Tactical!
For sure though I feel like cooldown based abilities are Kinda shit (I've only ever played Dragon Age for it's amazing lore and have been PATIENTLY WAITING these past couple DA games for Realistic Combat Mechanics (as they're more immersive rather than Clunky Cooldown Bullshit :)
Alex Lester Just don't have the magic combat of Skyrim.
I love your content, so.... I subscribed. According to Solas, killing the last of the Old Gods could cause something worse. But, that would be entirely up to Bioware.
.... this channel is dedicate to Dragon Age..?
Marry me.
Great video just saw your lore series love it! But on hearing some of those names I thought I was a Legacy of Kain video lol. Some of the names are awfully similar I.E. Razikale sounds similar to Raziel
The Grey Wardens "Man fuck those Darkspawn"
Are you planning to do a future video of the Blights with spoilerinos on?
Sort of? Of what we know of the blights history right now- there aren't a lot of spoilers, so most information was added to the video. The only big spoiler of the bight revolves around the Magisters Sidereal- so I was just going to combine the small blight piece with the Magister video :D
Speaking of Grey Wardens, why does Solas dislike them? He has banter with Varric about it.
frazzemrat1 He hates them because their method of killing archdemons is so against how he believes it should be done.
We aren't sure what his solution is yet.
@@Nickz666 his solution could probably be the same solution morrigan had?
@@ashton7845 to transfer the essence of the archdemon to an empty vessel?
All that does is give him enough power to sunder the veil. I don't believe that's the best way to deal with them. It's just the method that best suits him.
@@Nickz666 I agree it's not the best solution, I'm just saying that based off of what we saw from Solas in game he didn't like it when even the spirits were killed. I was merely pointing out that his method to dealing with the arch demons would align with what morrigan had done.
His anger towards the Wardens annoyed me. He obviously knows more than he is letting on and yet criticizes the Wardens methods when he doesn't even offer any solutions on what really should be done for a world ending problem. Are they supposed to just sit around and let the darkspawn kill them? I always felt like saying "Then what solution do you have baldie?"
So what happens after the Wardens kill all seven old gods? Is that the final, true victory against the Darkspawn? Or do they find a new way to rally and attack Thedas?
I think that darkspawn remain just no more blights
If the breach of the Golden City by the Magisters was the second sin, what was the first?
Great question! Long story short, the first sin, at least taught by the chantry, is when the humans turned away from the maker and began to worship the old gods. The maker then punished the old gods by imprisoning them underground, and turning his back on Thedas.
Ghil Dirthalen That's kind of petty but then again our Christian god is no different.
Missrena1000 I mean I’d be pretty pissed if I’d worked my ass off to make these intelligent beings and a whole World for them to live in only for them to start praising someone else for it,like “Hello? Yeah,see this? Yeah,everything including the ground you’re standing on? That’s mine,give me some credit ya ungrateful bastards”
@@Missrena1000 he is different he killed almost every living being on the earth for that and will again :v
I think you said something about direct transfer of blood based products to spread the Blight. Then discussed it as a dry film even powder which exists in heavily contaminated area. It sounds very much like a spore forming infection like a fungus or anthrax. In its active state it infects through direct contact with similar tissue like blood or saliva but if no food source exists or it exhausts its host it creates a fruiting body an inside it are spores which wait sometimes years for new hosts.
I thought we did know the one who ended the Third Blight, or is there a difference between the Hero of a Blight and the person who actually killed the Archdemon? Is “The Hero” just a title given to a Warden who performed some great feat? The unique axe “Cleave” in DAI mentions that it was wielded by the Hero of the Third Blight, a dwarf warrior named Loris.
It affects lyrium and turns it into red lyrium
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A blighted titan is...terrifying to imagine
Its possible the blight was a weapon created by one of the Evanuris the female one who goes into the void.
But its unclear why or what purpose it was going to be used for
Thanks for ruining the word "taint" for me : (
We need a video over the Elven Gray Warden
I remember Hawke's mother that it was their ancestor that killed the Toth. It was the main reason why it was so important for Hawke to gather money to be able to buy back the estate after Gamlen Amell lost it by gambling during the first chapter of Dragon Age 2
I've completed about 10 playthroughs of DA2 and never heard that :O where does she say it?
(late reply, spoiler space for DA:O and DA2)
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It wasn't Toth, it was Urthemiel
If you play a human Circle mage in Origins, your characters last name in the game is Amell, which is Hawke's family name.
If you import that origin info into DA2, Leandra explains at one point that the Hero of Ferelden was actually one of the children of her cousin.
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I think Dumat was the greatest threat to world in dragon age
Lol yeah after 100s of years
I wonder if there is anything important about where each archdemon rose up, might be able to figure out where the last two are hidden.
They could make another dragon age where another blight happens and you have the option of being a regular schmuck or joining the wardens.
Whats the background ambient? It sounds like something from Diablo...
Since there's always reactive effects of actually drinking the blood what would happen if someone like Solas, or Corypheus drank some? Better yet, what is Corypheus ingested some arch demon blood? Would he gain untold powers? Become some arch demon demi God hybrid?
So here are my two theories on what would happen to the darkspawn if the archdemons were all killed one they would enter a coma like state having lost their reason to actually exist as their only real goal seems to be find a old god. The second would be a rage state attacking everything that isn’t a darkspawn while doing a death march against the world.
I’m curious what would happen if the last archdeamon is killed would the darkspawn just stop not moving having no Purpose/ nothing controlling them or would they go on a death walk attacking until they die from Exhaustion?
What if the Maker was a bastardization of Solas?
thought second blight was 20 years after the first blight?
I think DA:4 will be a double arch demon blight
Great video, but you actually got some facts mistaken. During the first blight you said only four thiags survived: Orzammar, Guundar, Hormak, and Kal Sharok. Actually these are the only four kingdoms of the dwarves to survive. So more than 4 thaigs survived the first blight
O.o I had no idea that's the urban definition of taint. Still, they should keep using it for continuity's sake
I think so too. I hate that a bunch of fools made a new definition for taint. But taint sounds better for the disease like substance that corrupts while the blight is an event of a topside invasion of darkspawn lead by an archdemon.
Fifth blight ended so fast cause Ferelden is small kingdom , it would never survive if the blight would continue for years ... Another thing is that , previous blights were spread across Thedas and not focused on one kingdom ... Safe to say Urthemiel did have easy job and he failed at it from military perspective ..
lol who uses the word taint for that
Omg i would looooove to play with a game or DLC which takes place at the time when the magisters broke into the golden city, that would be so interesting to find out what really happened
Do we know why the Old Gods fell silent after the Magisters breached the Golden City?
Probably because the ruse was up and the Magisters brought the taint back to the material world to create Darkspawn that would seek out the old gods bodies. They no longer needed to talk to them anymore.
Dragon Age: Oranges
I only honestly hope the last two Old Gods get awoken and tainted in Dragon Age 4, either as a result of stopping Solas or Solas causing the Blight before being stopped
I’d actually to know what your current world is in your world.
So there are 2 Blights left.
lol, not exactly.... Watch her, "The Dread Wolf Rises" Speculation video!
Just curious but how did tevinter or anyone know that dumat was dumat? And not just a tainted high dragon
Honest to god, the in-lore answer is basically 'Scholars thought really hard about it'. In reality, we just take the word of the game, and so far it hasn't hinted that we were lied to, haha.
@@GhilDirthalen gotcha 😂 lol been curious about that for a long time
The knowledge wasn't immediate! The Tevinter people continued to expect their Old Gods to answer, and slowly turned against an impotent priesthood in the face of silence, so they didn't seem to have any impression it was Dumat at first. I'm guessing it was the Wardens who officially put two and two together? Those in the advanced stages of infection can hear the Archdemon's thoughts, so he may even have identified himself somehow.
You know, when playing DA:O I was under impression that it was the 6th Blight
So does that mean there will be 2 more blights before they stop forever?
imagine if its one last blight and two archdemons awaken at the same time. that would be really cool ngl
Who was the first Arch demon
Its in the Video
Dumat
So is Corypheus' dragon in Inquisition an Old God?
6 months late but no, he is a tainted high dragon.
Its bad Im damn near 40 and giggled like a 4 year old at 0:51
This is probably a silly question…But how do Thedas historians know which Old God was the leader of which Blight? Is there some indication? Did the Archdemons announce which Old God they were?? Lol
The Wardens at Weisshaupt have a lot of secret information pertaining the Old Gods, they even know exactly where each prison is located
kinda like THE DARKNESS IN DESTINY
Welp now we wield it and it’s god awfully broken
@@shaddaiprejean9899 yep
the taint lmaoooo
With what we saw in Origins and realizing that the Fifth Blight only lasted 1 year. How in the HELL did the first Blight not consume the whole world after 192 years?!?!?
Probably the reason The World wasn't entirely corrupted was because,.. during the majority of that 192 Year Blight, the Dwarves suffered the most Losses (Considering they lost Countless Underground Thaigs before the Blight was even Acknowledged on The Surface)... and THEN the Darkspawn Surfaced for the First time, .... and you gotta keep in mind, that they SUCCEEDED in slaying The First Archdemon Dumat, they only failed at PERMANENTLY killing him, THEN they killed him Grey Wardens!
So the First Blight was without a Doubt one of the Bloodiest!
Yeah, the First Blight wasn't just focused on the surface, it had just as much civilization to fight in the form of the dwarves as it did the surface people above, so it's really like it was trying to destroy two worlds rather than just one. Plus, it seems each Blight is more concentrated than the last; along with being shorter, each successive Blight affects a smaller area but does more damage to it in that time. You may notice that previous Blight histories include long sieges on major cities and fortresses, yet the forces directed against Denerim (and to a lesser extent Ostagar) were so overwhelming that they bypassed the siege stage entirely. Urthemiel's Blight was such a concentrated tide of destruction that cities would simply be toppled directly rather than besieged, so the only option for the army was to try to form a wedge against the numeric superiority of the horde, isolate Urthemiel, and kill it before the Blight could gain real steam. Conversely, despite the defensive technology being demonstrably weaker back then than now (Cullen points out and then proves that Adamant Fortress is no match for modern siege equipment), Minrathous and Weisshaupt survived for a very long time under siege in the First and Second Blights respectively, implying the Darkspawn horde was simply too thin and spread out hitting so many countries at once for it to be overwhelmingly devastating in any particular place. The First Blight hit the entire continent weakly, the Second hit half the continent stronger, the Third hit the whole Free Marches pretty hard, the Fourth nearly burned Antiva to the ground, and the Fifth stood to lay absolute waste to every city it passed if not for the Hero of Ferelden.
NO UVE GOTTEN THE TAINT
This may sound a noob question... What game is this?
10 months late, but, the bulk of the imagery is from Dragon Age: Inquisition, with a few appropriate bits of Dragon Age: Origins thrown in
5th blight was beaten by my Grey warden. Mages were got more freedom and Alistair is king. That was my choses. Great game, i did enjoy in it.
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why don't the grey wardens find and protect the old gods from the dark-spawn
Because they are not easily accessible as they are deep underground and the grey wardens would have to fight a great number of darkspawn in order to get to them.
My guess is that they don't know where exactly are the remaining old gods and searching for them in the deep roads would take too much time and effort, not to forget that they'll have to fight (nearly) limitless number of darkspawn and they need supply (food, water) and rest :P
Also, the GW are subject to the calling and I don't remember in which game it was said exactly (Origins or Inquisition), but the nearer you are to the old god/archdemon, the louder the song will be
That would be an amazing dungeon crawler though
Jojisen the deep roads in Origins were one of my favourite part of the game, in DA2 it was lame and in Inquisition it was was good but I was disappointed that we didn't get a broodmother
Zyad Hakmi the deep roads were so long in Origins and repeated itself too much.
if you could talk a bit slower it would really help us non-native English speakers to understand you
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It's pronounced
GO-LEM not GOLL-UM.
A Golem is an artificially created creature of clay or stone, based off Jewish mythology.
Gollum is the name of Smeagol in Lord of the Rings.
They make the same mistake in DAO, it was so annoying.
I wish Bioware would add new things to the world and game without meddling with pre-existing rules and lore. Changing the Darkspawn and regulating certain clothing and armour to a "class" is so fucking stupid.
If you do a LORE video and say NO spoiler then it's not a LORE video ... not a complete one :(
Dwarves being pronounced as "dorves" really throws me off :/