Dragon Age: Miscellaneous Theories — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome back to Talking Dragon Age, the show where  I talk about Dragon Age! Today, we’re covering a
2. 0:04bunch of theories that didn’t really fit under a  single theme like dwarves or elves or the Blight.
3. 0:10So let’s start off here and talk about the Scaled  Ones. In The Descent, we find journals describing
4. 0:15a brief conflict between a contingent of dwarves  and an unknown group called the Scaled Ones.
5. 0:20They’re described as being humanoid, covered in  scales, and attacking with their teeth and claws.
6. 0:25An easy answer to what these things were  are human reavers, as Cassandra describes
7. 0:30some as growing scales and going mad. But  some aspects don’t line up in that case.
8. 0:35For one, after one of them is killed, the others  are surprised to see that and end up retreating.
9. 0:41Savage monsters like the crazed reavers or  darkspawn probably wouldn’t haven’t done
10. 0:45that. There’s also the fact that their armor  caused a dwarven axe to just bounce off. Um…
11. 0:52that’s pretty dang unique armor. Even dwarven  armor doesn’t hold against their own axes.
12. 0:59And then there’s a ritual. They speak an  unknown language, and bow to some kind
13. 1:03of priestess that breathes fire. Then they  abandon their camp, and we don’t know why.
14. 1:09So we have no idea what these things  were. It’s possible they are the Fex,
15. 1:14a native species of Par Vollen, or members of  the Kossith, which are a whole other topic.
16. 1:20It’s also possible these things were some kind  of spirits or demons, but we really have no idea.
17. 1:25They’re probably their own thing, but it’s  odd that this is the only mention of them;
18. 1:31except possibly these elven murals. We have to  wonder, are they involved with the Titans like
19. 1:37the Sha-Brytol, thus surviving the darkspawn? Or…  I don’t know. If they lived in the Deep Roads,
20. 1:45they’d have to deal with the darkspawn. But if  they were on the surface, why have we not heard
21. 1:50of anyone else encountering them? Maybe they were  involved with a pool like from Horrors of Hormak?
22. 1:57Here’s a thought… the Sha-Brytol had  an obnoxious amount of fighters with
23. 2:02really strong weaponry. Um… who have they been  fighting for the past few thousand years? I mean,
24. 2:09it seems the darkspawn avoided the Titan  they were in. Do you think maybe they’ve
25. 2:13actually been fighting the  Scaled Ones? Just a thought.
26. 2:18One last thing I want to mention  is that they could possibly be
27. 2:21the shadowy group that the Presence in the Vial in
28. 2:24the Brecilian Ruins remembers. Let’s  talk about that place for a minute.
29. 2:29I do recommend checking out my dedicated  video for it, because there’s a lot going
30. 2:32on there. In short, humans probably built  the place, but elves lived there too,
31. 2:37and probably not as slaves. I think the place  was specifically studying elven artifacts.
32. 2:43Speaking of elven artifacts, the Dalish Elf Origin  Ruins were probably built by the same people,
33. 2:48and the Eluvian… many people think Tamlen  saw the Black City when looking in it,
34. 2:54I personally prefer the theory  that it was a dwarven thaig.
35. 2:58And speaking of the dwarves… yeah, I couldn’t  think of a better segue, the Legion of Steel was
36. 3:04a contingent of hundreds of golems that were sent  into the Deep Roads to find the Anvil of the Void.
37. 3:09It was a bad plan, and the golems were all lost,  but I don’t think they were destroyed. Rather, I
38. 3:16think they got lost, or were sealed in somewhere.  So in other words, I think hundreds of golems are
39. 3:22still alive, just inactive, and buried somewhere.  Maybe we’ll find them someday in the future.
40. 3:29And speaking of underground stuff - I’m really  stretching these connections - let’s talk about
41. 3:34the Grand Necropolis and Mortalitasi. Again, my  dedicated video for it has much more information.
42. 3:40But basically, the place goes super deep  underground; and the deeper you go, the more
43. 3:44wonky things get. As though the Veil is crazy  thin. Like, worse than we’ve ever seen before.
44. 3:52And even the Mourn Watch don’t know  everything that’s down there. I think…
45. 3:57the people who built the place STARTED  construction from deep within the earth,
46. 4:01and built up to the surface. As for how and why  the Nevarrans have the beliefs they do about
47. 4:07death… it’s unclear. We know the practices  and beliefs about death displacing a spirit
48. 4:13started with a Tevinter guy named Vitus Fabria,  but we don’t know how he developed this belief.
49. 4:19I think he found something at the bottom of where  the Necropolis now is that caused him to develop
50. 4:24this belief - probably something elven, but  who knows? It’s also possible the whole thing
51. 4:30was a cover-up. I kinda like that idea, but  it’s really just speculation at this point.
52. 4:36As for the modern Mortalitasi, I think  most of them are just doing their normal,
53. 4:40body-preserving thing. But some of them  are political snakes, and that’s dangerous.
54. 4:46Okay, I’m pretty done finding segues, I’m just  gonna start saying whatever comes to mind.
55. 4:50I suspect we’re going to have to make a choice  about who rules Antiva - either restoring
56. 4:55power to the monarchy, possibly by allying  with a shady group called The Rosso Noche,
57. 5:00or else giving more power to the  Merchant Princes, or the Antivan Crows.
58. 5:05The mage “prison” called Aeonar  is probably in northern Ferelden,
59. 5:09but its exact location and connection to  the Imperial Highway was covered up by
60. 5:13the Templars. The Veil there is also super  thin, and something happened that caused
61. 5:18literally everyone there to vanish without  a trace. Would make a good DLC, I think.
62. 5:26The Avvar god Korth is a Titan.
63. 5:29Feynriel COULD show up even if he was made  Tranquil. He could have studied some stuff
64. 5:34that could help us. Whether he’s Tranquil,  possessed, or apprenticed to a magister,
65. 5:38he could have a good cameo. But, that  choice is not accounted for and… *sigh*
66. 5:47The Order of Fiery Promise kind of has the same  goal as Solas, so I was thinking they might end
67. 5:52up helping him, but now I have no idea. They’re  a cool concept and I want to see more of them.
68. 5:58Okay, now we got some big ones to cover.  Let's talk about Andraste. So I can't go
69. 6:03over everything about her, because that's kind  of a lot. So I'll just cover the highlights.
70. 6:09I suspect at some point, Andraste was possessed  by a spirit of faith, and that's part of what
71. 6:14enabled her to perform many miracles. I suspect  that's also the reason the Ashes are able to
72. 6:19heal people. Andraste was almost certainly a  mage. Some suspect she was a host for Mythal,
73. 6:25given certain similarities in their lives,  including the fact that they only had daughters,
74. 6:29and those daughters only had daughters.  Personally, I hope that is not the case.
75. 6:35It's less interesting to me if that were the case.  That's not to say Mythal couldn't have influenced
76. 6:40her in some way, possibly by her host at the time.  Maybe her mother or her sister’s mother. Also
77. 6:47possibly guiding Havard to bring Andraste's Ashes  to a Temple that was once Mythal's. But I don't
78. 6:53like the idea of them being one and the same. Also, some suggest Andraste was an Old God Baby,
79. 6:59given she was born the same year Dumat was  defeated. However, I don't like that idea
80. 7:04either. More information in her dedicated video. I also have a theory about a possible descendant
81. 7:09of hers. Leliana. One way or another, Leliana was  special. She's naturally resistant to the Blight,
82. 7:17and if she was killed in the Temple of  Sacred Ashes, she is brought back to life,
83. 7:21possibly by the Titan. But why would she have been  chosen like that? I think the Titan or whatever
84. 7:27recognized her as the descendant of the woman  whose ashes have stayed in the Temple for so long.
85. 7:35Next we have the ExECutors, the ones who  ExECute the will of Those Across the Sea
86. 7:39with precise ExECution. For anyone who doesn't  know, this is me whining about the pronunciation
87. 7:44of ExECutors over Executors. There's not too  much to say on them, just that even Solas is
88. 7:49wary of them. They have plans for Thedas, but  we don't know what. They allegedly recruited
89. 7:56members of the Inquisition peacefully, which  is... weird. I suspect "Those Across the Sea"
90. 8:02refers to the Kossith. But really, who knows?  I'm curious what the Qunari know about them.
91. 8:10Someone - a fellow mage - was watching  over Bethany Hawke as a possible recruit
92. 8:15for... something. I personally suspect  it was the ExECutors, but we really
93. 8:20have no idea. It could have been anyone. But what made Bethany special enough to
94. 8:26be watched over like this? I think it has  to do with the Hawke bloodline. In Legacy,
95. 8:32it only seems to matter because it was  Malcome's blood that renewed Corypheus's
96. 8:37binding. But there's something else. Malcome  was naturally talented, as were his children.
97. 8:44I believe the reason for this is that  they are distant descendants of Calenhad,
98. 8:48who drank the blood of a Great Dragon - one of  extraordinarily few who did so. Other reavers
99. 8:54only drank the blood of regular dragons or High  Dragons. Great Dragons are above even them.
100. 9:01I think one of Calenhad's descendants was  a mage, and so was kept away from court.
101. 9:07They eventually would have founded or married  into the Hawke bloodline, making them a VERY
102. 9:12distant cousin of Alistair and Cailan. Oh I think Hawke could have survived in
103. 9:18the Fade in some form, possibly like the  way Justinia did, however that works. But
104. 9:24we've never known someone to die while  physically and completely in the Fade.
105. 9:30I would prefer this to only be the case  for Hawke, and not the Warden - possibly
106. 9:34justified by the Blight. Just makes the  choice more meaningful. But that’s not
107. 9:39included in Veilguard either, so… *sigh* Oh, I almost forgot some! Uh, Garahel is a
108. 9:47time traveler! I honestly think that’s my favorite  theory I’ve ever posted. The Doylist explanation
109. 9:53is that it’s just a goof that caused a plot  hole, but my theory is Watsonian. Doylist means
110. 9:59from a meta perspective, Watsonian  means an in-universe perspective.
111. 10:04And last… uh… there’s a culture known as the  Voshai off to the West. They suffered some
112. 10:11kind of massive cataclysm, and… I suspect  the Warden went there on their quest for a
113. 10:16cure. See my Beyond Thedas video for more  information. Just wanted to mention that.
114. 10:23And I think that's about it. I’m not  gonna try to recap all of that. So
115. 10:27let me know what you like here,  what you’re most excited to see,
116. 10:30and if you have any of your own theories.  So that’s it for now, guys! Thank you
117. 10:34all so much for watching! Don’t forget to  comment & Like, and remember: tela nadas.