Ah, I see. Whoops, I misremembered a lot of the details, didn't I? Though I am still pretty sure the Blight is related to the attempt to enter the Golden City. We will see, I guess!Joccaren said:It was the Tevinter Imperium that entered the city, but through the games things are really kind of... Unclear on exactly what happened. The Church says that the Maker flung them out and cursed them. One of the Magisters who entered the city says it was empty. The Demons and Spirits of the Fade never remember it being Golden, it was always black [At least if memory serves]. There's something very weird going on with that part of the fade. My bets are on the Elven gods being behind it all, and their magic has fucked everything up, and that's what most of Inquisition's lore in the area tends to focus on - what happened to the Elves, and that it isn't what history remembers. Not directly related to the Blight, but to me it kind of indicates some connection, especially considering what happened with the Elven Gods, and the fact that Red Lyrium is, IIRC, Blighted Lyrium, and it spews forth from the Fade when it is openned... Its all very messed up ATM, but hopefully future games clear up that part of the lore some. I like the mystery, but you've got to keep feeding us pieces to figure it out with.infohippie said:Okay, I'm sidetracking from the point of the thread here to indulge in some idle speculation, but eh...
I haven't played Dragon Age Inquisition, and DA2 (spit) was pretty light on Blight lore (as well as being pretty light on just about everything else, including "content" and "fun"), but going by DA1 I am guessing that the originators of the Blight were in fact the elves that tried to reach the Black City back when it was still Golden.Joccaren said:The only thing I really have to say here is, do the dragons lead the blight?
They're generals, sure, but they didn't start the blight AFAIK. They're likely not the ones calling the really major shots either. They're gods, corrupted by the blight, and naturally when you've got a god-level dragon, corrupted by the forces you are attacking into leading them... Well, yeah, that's going to be the final boss.
Whatever it was that created the Blight and ends up being likely the big bad of the whole series, is likely to be some sort of Demon. It came from the Fade, and that is the realm of demons and spirits.
With the way its going, it probably has something to do with the damn Elven gods as well, but there's too much unclear at the moment. I'd just say that the dragon made sense as a boss fight, because it was corrupted by the Blight. Its not necessarily the blight's creator, but its general, and that makes sense. If you've got a corrupted dragon-god, why not use it?
We haven't yet seen the true mastermind behind the Blight, and I'm taking a guess its unlikely to be a Dragon. Unless its a demon dragon, but that would be lame.