Spoils of the Titan War {Theory - Spoilers All} — Transcript
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- 0:01Welcome, welcome, patrons. I am super
- 0:03late on this video as I tend to be these
- 0:05days, but I promised that the next major
- 0:07video for me would be a revisit on the
- 0:09Titans. And look,
- 0:12there's just a lot. So, I'm going to try
- 0:13and do a few smaller angles to the Titan
- 0:16lore rather than just like one big
- 0:18monster video because uh at this stage
- 0:21in my life, I'm more likely to get it
- 0:22done this way. So, uh let's begin with a
- 0:25look at the Titans through the filter we
- 0:27see the most often, as the broken
- 0:29remains from their war with Elvhenan.
- 0:32The Fade's war and reality.
- 0:35The war between the Titans and the
- 0:36Evanuris isn't new to us. We've gotten
- 0:38hints of it from at least Trespasser.
- 0:40But, what happened?
- 0:42In our best guess, and also describing
- 0:44it a bit flippantly, the spirits of the
- 0:46Fade got really bored and decided to
- 0:48steal the power from the Titans to make
- 0:49their flesh. The Titans uh didn't like
- 0:52this, so a war broke out between the
- 0:53Titans and the elves. Which, a side note
- 0:55that I think is interesting, the war is
- 0:57only ever described as the Titans versus
- 1:00the elves, not really the dwarves. The
- 1:02dwarves are obviously there, but they
- 1:04are described as workers. There is no
- 1:07evidence that the dwarves as a people
- 1:08ever really fought the elves, or at the
- 1:10very least, the elves didn't see the
- 1:12dwarves as people, which uh also isn't
- 1:15above them, either.
- 1:16Anyway, the Evanuris yoinked the Titans'
- 1:18minds into a wee box, and the elves used
- 1:20that power for their empire. And I break
- 1:23away from this again because who did the
- 1:25yoinking is a bit muddied. Veilguard
- 1:27does not actually say who did it. The
- 1:29artbook may declare that it was Solas,
- 1:31but there was also cut dialogue in
- 1:33Veilguard that references the dagger and
- 1:34the deed to be Mythal's sin. And even in
- 1:37Inquisition, there is a small line that
- 1:39references Mythal to be the culprit. In
- 1:42truth, it could also have been both, a
- 1:43spell that required two powerful
- 1:45Evanuris. After all, in the redeem
- 1:47ending for Solas, Mythal does say that
- 1:49the sins they did, they did together.
- 1:52The elves then freely used the Titans
- 1:53how they saw fit, as we see with lyrium
- 1:56and tons of Elvhen artifacts, and even a
- 1:57whole lyrium processing center in
- 1:59Trespasser. So, what on earth could all
- 2:02this tell us about the Titans? Well,
- 2:05part of the mystery of the Titans is
- 2:06that we don't know what exactly they
- 2:08did. What was their power? How did they
- 2:11interact with the Fade? What was their
- 2:12anatomy like? While I can't answer all
- 2:15of this, I think looking at some of the
- 2:17artifacts made by the Elvhen might be
- 2:19able to sketch out an idea of what these
- 2:21great beings were capable of.
- 2:23The Wellspring. Oh boy. Okay, so the
- 2:26quick and dirty version of the history
- 2:28of the red lyrium idol/dagger is that it
- 2:31gets made with the purpose of sundering
- 2:33the Titans. It gets used, and then there
- 2:35are thousands of years of unknown
- 2:37history where this item goes or does,
- 2:40until finally it's used to kill Mythal.
- 2:42From there, Solas then retrieves it,
- 2:44takes the shattered pieces of her spirit
- 2:45idol/lyrium dagger, and then Veil Solas
- 2:47goes into slumber mode, and the dagger
- 2:49somehow ends up in the Deep Roads. Hawke
- 2:51and company find it, blah blah blah.
- 2:53Solas purifies it of the Blight, and
- 2:55here we have the events of Veilguard,
- 2:57and then Harding touches it and connects
- 2:58to the stone. It's a long-winded history
- 3:01with a lot of interesting holes that I
- 3:02wish were filled, but the one I want to
- 3:04focus on today is not the Elvhen drama
- 3:06surrounding its creation and use, but
- 3:08the purest lyrium that's made out of.
- 3:11What makes the dagger so special? What
- 3:13happened to Harding? And why was this
- 3:15idea so special? It's one of the few
- 3:18ideas that was in the scrapped version
- 3:20of Dragon Age 4 to make it into
- 3:21Veilguard.
- 3:23Both the idol and the dagger are
- 3:25described as being made of pure lyrium,
- 3:28some of the purest kind there is.
- 3:30What does that even mean? So, I'm of two
- 3:32minds.
- 3:34First, in the background of the series,
- 3:35things like lyrium potions, lyrium
- 3:37enchantments, and even the lyrium that
- 3:39Southern Templars take are all diluted
- 3:41to some degree. Lyrium is also described
- 3:44as a metal. I did some quick research
- 3:46into metal purity, uh and like most of
- 3:49it is unrelated, but raw metal ores
- 3:51usually filled with other trace amounts
- 3:53of substances. I imagine the same is
- 3:54going to be true with lyrium. In real
- 3:56life, it seems that what is called pure
- 3:58in metals is often like 99.99
- 4:029 whatever of that metal. It never seems
- 4:05to be a guaranteed 100. And to even
- 4:07achieve that much, the ore must be
- 4:09processed. So, it's possible that the
- 4:11lyrium of the dagger was so highly and
- 4:14painstakingly processed that it exceeded
- 4:16that of normal processing in Thedas.
- 4:18Second is uh more vibes. It's made of a
- 4:22Titan heart. You know, that big chunk of
- 4:23lyrium you find in the Descent? Yeah,
- 4:25just a big shard right there and from
- 4:27like the middle of that thing or
- 4:28something. Maybe it's even combo, where
- 4:30the small dagger is the processed
- 4:32version of the big heart. The only real
- 4:34evidence I have to point to this is that
- 4:36it's only when Valta comes close to the
- 4:38heart that she is chosen by the Titan.
- 4:40It would make sense for Harding to come
- 4:41into contact with a similar substance
- 4:43and get zapped in a similar way. So,
- 4:45okay, that's what the dagger is, but
- 4:48what can it do? It would take forever to
- 4:50go into deep details, so let's just
- 4:52rattle these off as I can think of them.
- 4:54Things the idol/dagger has been proven
- 4:56to do in the Dragon Age series:
- 4:58interfere with mental states and
- 4:59decision-making, causing hallucinations,
- 5:01paranoia, and anger. Thins the Veil,
- 5:04cuts the Veil, but also makes the Veil.
- 5:06Pierces through a number of powerful
- 5:08enchantments. Regenerate itself once
- 5:10destroyed. Copy abilities that the user
- 5:12has seen, I guess. I'm not sure what the
- 5:16mechanics of this gameplay device would
- 5:18be, but you know what I mean. Holds onto
- 5:19shards of spirits that it has sundered.
- 5:21Now, this is unknown if this works on
- 5:23like non-spirits, like um
- 5:26Barracks. Acts as a sort of listening
- 5:28device, although this might be a
- 5:30secondary enchantment or a simpler use
- 5:32of lyrium as seen in Inquisition, where
- 5:34a normal lyrium device is used as a
- 5:36similar effect in Calpernia's quest
- 5:37line. And finally, animate metal
- 5:40statues, which is probably my favorite
- 5:41use of this this dang thing. Now, let's
- 5:44keep this slide safe, and I'll bring it
- 5:45back as we go on.
- 5:47The foci, the magical MacGuffin from
- 5:49Dragon Age: Inquisition, is an
- 5:50interesting piece of the puzzle. As
- 5:52well, it's not technically confirmed to
- 5:54be made from the Titans, the mural and a
- 5:55few codex entries start to make you
- 5:57think.
- 5:58The first major codex entry is from the
- 6:00Frostback Mountains, a codex originally
- 6:02from Dragon Age: Origins. It tells the
- 6:04story of a tale from the Avvar's
- 6:05beliefs, where Korth, the Mountain
- 6:07Father, keeps his heart in a cask, and
- 6:09the Lady of the Skies tries to find it.
- 6:11Unfortunately, I'm going to force you to
- 6:12just listen to the whole thing, so here
- 6:14we go. Even mountains had a heart once.
- 6:17When the world was young, Korth, the
- 6:18Mountain Father, kept his throne at the
- 6:20peak of the Bellanaris, the mountain
- 6:22that lies at the center of the world,
- 6:24from which he could see all the corners
- 6:26of earth and sky.
- 6:27And he saw strong men become weak, brave
- 6:30men grow cowardly, and wise men turned
- 6:32for love.
- 6:34Korth devised a plan that he might never
- 6:36be betrayed by his own heart, by taking
- 6:38it out and hiding it where no soul would
- 6:40ever dare search [music] for it. He
- 6:42sealed it inside a golden cask, buried
- 6:45it in the earth, and raised around it
- 6:47the fiercest mountains the world had
- 6:49ever seen, the Frostbacks, to guard it.
- 6:52But, without his heart, the Mountain
- 6:53Father grew cruel. His chest was filled
- 6:56with bitter mountain winds that shrieked
- 6:58and howled like lost souls. Food lost
- 7:01its flavor, music had no sweetness, and
- 7:03he lost all joy in deeds of valor. He
- 7:06sent avalanches and earthquakes to
- 7:07torment the tribes of men. Gods and men
- 7:10rose against him, calling him a tyrant.
- 7:13But, with no heart, Korth could not be
- 7:14slain.
- 7:16Soon, there were no heroes left, either
- 7:17among men or gods, who would dare
- 7:19challenge Korth.
- 7:22The Lady of the Skies sent the best of
- 7:24her children, the swiftest, the
- 7:26cleverest, the strongest flyers, to
- 7:28scour the mountains for the missing
- 7:29heart. And for a year and a day, they
- 7:31searched. But, sparrow and raven,
- 7:34vulture and eagle, swift and albatross
- 7:37returned to her with nothing.
- 7:39Then, the ptarmigan spoke up [music] and
- 7:41offered to find the god-chief's heart.
- 7:43The other birds laughed, for the
- 7:44ptarmigan is a tiny bird, too humble to
- 7:46soar, which spends half its time hopping
- 7:48along the ground. The lady would not
- 7:51give the little creature her blessing,
- 7:52for the mountains were too fierce, even
- 7:54for eagles. But, the ptarmigan set out
- 7:56anyway.
- 7:57The little bird traveled deep into the
- 7:59Frostbacks. When she could not fly, she
- 8:01crawled. She hugged the ground and
- 8:03weathered the worst mountain winds, and
- 8:05so made lonely way to the valley where
- 8:07the heart beat. With all the god's
- 8:10terrible deeds, the heart was far too
- 8:11heavy for the tiny bird to carry. So,
- 8:14she rolled it, little by little, out of
- 8:16the valley and down a cliff. And when
- 8:18the golden cask struck the earth, it
- 8:20shattered.
- 8:21The heart was full almost to bursting,
- 8:23and the pain of it roused the mountain
- 8:25god to come see what had happened.
- 8:28When Korth neared his heart, it leapt
- 8:30back into his chest, and he was whole
- 8:31again. Then, Hakkon Wintersbreath bound
- 8:34Korth's chest with three bands of iron
- 8:36and three bands of ice, so it can never
- 8:38again escape. And all the remaining gods
- 8:41named the ptarmigan honored above even
- 8:43the loftiest eagles.
- 8:45The other main codex entry is from
- 8:46Trespasser, titled Veilfire Runes of the
- 8:49Deep Roads.
- 8:50In the light of the Veilfire, the runes
- 8:52seem to shift, coiling and uncoiling
- 8:54like snakes. A thunderous voice shatters
- 8:57the stillness, shouting, "Hail Mythal,
- 9:00adjudicator and savior. She has struck
- 9:03down the pillars of the earth and
- 9:04tethered their domain onto the people.
- 9:06Praise her name forever."
- 9:08For a moment, the scent of blood fills
- 9:10the air, and there is a vivid image of
- 9:12green vines growing and enveloping a
- 9:14sphere of fire.
- 9:16The vision grows dark. An eon seems to
- 9:18pass.
- 9:19Then, the runes crackle as if filled
- 9:22with an angry energy.
- 9:23A new vision appears. Elves collapsing
- 9:26caverns, sealing the Deep Roads with
- 9:28stone and magic. Terror. Heart pounding.
- 9:31Ice cold as the last of the spells is
- 9:33cast. A voice whispers, "What the
- 9:35Evanuris in their greed could unleash
- 9:37would end us all. Let this place be
- 9:40forgotten. Let no one wake its anger.
- 9:43The people must rise before their false
- 9:45gods destroy them all."
- 9:47Yes, yes, Katie, this is all well and
- 9:49good, but this has been common fandom
- 9:51knowledge for a decade. What am I
- 9:53getting at here? Well, under the
- 9:55assumption that this describes what the
- 9:57elves did to the heart of a titan, I
- 9:59want to ask two questions.
- 10:01Why so many and what about the dagger?
- 10:04Now, focusing on the latter first, we
- 10:06saw the heart of a titan. We see what
- 10:08both the foci and the dagger look like.
- 10:11One clearly looks like it could possibly
- 10:13be from this mass while the other
- 10:15doesn't.
- 10:16The only other clue to the construction
- 10:18of foci is the small passage from
- 10:20another codex in Trespasser.
- 10:22For a moment, the scent of blood fills
- 10:24the air. There is a vivid green vines
- 10:27growing and enveloping a sphere of fire.
- 10:29The descriptions of vines and green does
- 10:32sort of seem to match a vague
- 10:34description of the foci and that the
- 10:36rest of the codex talks about titans and
- 10:38the blight related things does connect
- 10:39it to the titans as a whole. But it
- 10:42looks like nothing we have seen coming
- 10:44from the titans. We even get the chance
- 10:45to look inside one and nothing seems to
- 10:48stand out. So, what in a titan is this
- 10:51sphere of fire? Magma perhaps? Something
- 10:54else? And why was this thing so powerful
- 10:57yet we have never seen it raw? This
- 11:00brings me to my next question why we
- 11:01only see one active in Inquisition. In
- 11:03Trespasser, you get this wonderful
- 11:06little moment where you start to notice
- 11:07that there are broken foci littering the
- 11:09Vir Dirthara. Like they are everywhere.
- 11:13Absolutely everywhere. What Corypheus
- 11:15had wasn't some special and unique item
- 11:18but something kind of common.
- 11:20If this was something so common the
- 11:22elves used a ton of it, it's possible
- 11:24that we have never seen it in its raw
- 11:26form because it doesn't exist anymore or
- 11:29even that its raw form is
- 11:30unrecognizable. I have no answers as to
- 11:33what this sphere of fire could be.
- 11:35Perhaps a small part of titans that is
- 11:36covered in magma to protect itself? The
- 11:39Frostback Mountain codex described that
- 11:40the heart was in a cask. Perhaps what is
- 11:42physical of the foci is just a holder
- 11:44for something that is unseen. Now,
- 11:46Veilguard did have some updates on the
- 11:48journey of this particular design from
- 11:50Solas' mural that we have guessed to be
- 11:53what the creation of the foci is. Namely
- 11:55the first regret mural that you unlock.
- 11:57Mythal and Elgarnan are standing on this
- 11:58cracked circle that clearly has the same
- 12:00flower design and their hands are golden
- 12:02with the pattern similar to that of like
- 12:04the fingerprint foci
- 12:06pattern going on thing. In the mural
- 12:09where Solas meets with all for the last
- 12:10time, there's also a tiny foci-like
- 12:13circles surrounded by the dotted line
- 12:15that I suspect represents the veil but I
- 12:17don't really know. Uh the mural where
- 12:19Solas and Mythal discuss the sundering
- 12:21of the titans is completely absent from
- 12:23any similar designs and instead seeing
- 12:25this teardrop shape that seems to
- 12:26represent their soul, spirit, whatever
- 12:29you want to call it. And then finally in
- 12:30the mural where Solas creates the veil,
- 12:32one could argue that this red mega star
- 12:35shape could represent a twist of the
- 12:37flower shape that we know.
- 12:39As a personal guess that comes from
- 12:41nothing but vibes, I want to suggest
- 12:43that this mural, the first one,
- 12:44describes the first kill of a titan. But
- 12:47I don't really know. And here I want to
- 12:49take the wheels of the story car and
- 12:51take a sharp turn to left to talk about
- 12:53tranquility. The art book describes what
- 12:55happens to the titan as making them
- 12:57tranquil. In the series, tranquility has
- 12:59been described as taking the emotions
- 13:01from a person by severing the connection
- 13:02between the mind and
- 13:05something, the fade. It's a little more
- 13:08uh I don't know I don't know.
- 13:10The two most pressing mysteries of
- 13:11tranquility is what exactly is being
- 13:14severed and how that process works.
- 13:16Weirdly enough, we do know how to cure
- 13:19tranquility. A spirit needs to
- 13:21re-establish the mind's connection to
- 13:22the fade. But does a titan need to be
- 13:25connected to the fade? In the past, I
- 13:27have personally thought of magic like an
- 13:29internet connection. The fade is a Wi-Fi
- 13:31signal. So, elves and humans and Qunari
- 13:33who are able to tap into the fade can
- 13:35use it on their own. Meanwhile, the
- 13:37dwarves do not have a Wi-Fi card and
- 13:39need an ethernet connection to the
- 13:40titans to get their abilities and
- 13:42dreams. If this is the case, then the
- 13:44question I have is are the titans a
- 13:46router or are they another form of an
- 13:49internet?
- 13:50Meaning do they have completely
- 13:52different magic set than most people?
- 13:54So, let's move past the unknown of
- 13:56sundering the titans' minds from either
- 13:58the fade or its own abilities.
- 14:00What was placed in the box? The art book
- 14:03describes it as their soul and matched
- 14:05the in-game murals by representing that
- 14:07with a teardrop shape. So, whatever is
- 14:10in the foci is not that. So, then
- 14:15what is left to capture? I'm about to
- 14:17throw spaghetti at the wall here, so
- 14:18excuse me, but I'd like to draw in this.
- 14:21This is the symbol of chaos. Uh Wiki
- 14:24says that the this symbol itself is
- 14:25actually from a 70s fantasy novel um but
- 14:28it's also used in pop culture a ton. I'm
- 14:29familiar with it, too, just from like
- 14:31osmosis of other things. I had no idea
- 14:33it was from this book. But uh that part
- 14:36doesn't matter as much to me. But if you
- 14:38scrub off the arrows, it's the exact
- 14:40same symbol. Titan's main ability is to
- 14:43reinforce reality, to create what is
- 14:45physical, order in the chaos. What if
- 14:49the symbol is to represent that idea? A
- 14:51stolen magic bottled up and secured,
- 14:54used by the elves to create their own
- 14:55physical world. The flowering symbol is
- 14:58just to represent the titan's magic
- 15:00ability. It's mana. So, okay. That's our
- 15:03best guess as to what it could
- 15:05physically be on a titan. Now, what does
- 15:08it do? Let's bring out the slide again
- 15:10and add it on to it. So, the foci makes
- 15:12holes in the veil, imparts the anchor
- 15:14onto the inquisitor which seals holes
- 15:16and acts as a key to the veil. Boom.
- 15:20Uh which to be fair, I think was more
- 15:22that it had gained power over time and
- 15:24then exploded when opened again
- 15:26as that's what Solas says in
- 15:27Inquisition. But the fact that it
- 15:29generates power over time, I think is
- 15:32also interesting.
- 15:33Solas also describes that he would have
- 15:35used the power of the orb to tear down
- 15:37the veil and reshape reality and this
- 15:39ability he was able to reproduce in
- 15:42finding and cleansing the dagger and
- 15:44taking Mythal's power from Flemeth along
- 15:46with some sort of ritual prep that we
- 15:48see off screen.
- 15:49And that's really all we see it doing in
- 15:52Inquisition at least.
- 15:54The nullifiers. In the middle of the
- 15:56lighthouse, there is this floating
- 15:58lamp-like thing with the rings floating
- 16:00around it. It's never really explained
- 16:03but is upgraded as you explore the hub
- 16:05in the game. Unless you have a good eye
- 16:07or messed around with the camera tools,
- 16:09you might not have noticed that the
- 16:11circle in the middle is one of the foci
- 16:13from Inquisition.
- 16:15Note it isn't the exact one from
- 16:16Inquisition because those broken remains
- 16:19Solas has seemed to keep in his man I
- 16:21miss having friends nostalgia room. But
- 16:23it is one like it. Then later on, you
- 16:25activate one of those Inquisition elven
- 16:27artifacts. It zaps the orb to become
- 16:29this crazy metal variant. Uh now in the
- 16:32files, this thing, the metal variant
- 16:34very specifically, is called the elven
- 16:36nullifier which I think is a huge clue
- 16:39as to how this works. Now, as far as I
- 16:41can tell, the only two places I could
- 16:43find this nullifier thing is in the
- 16:45lighthouse and then like the metal
- 16:47variation in the ossuary.
- 16:49Also, the ossuary one is [ __ ] huge.
- 16:51Now, in the files of Veilguard, there
- 16:53was a cut quest that actually made this
- 16:55moment of the little orb becoming the
- 16:58big weird metal thing more meaningful.
- 17:00The TLDR version was that the orb
- 17:02started to fail, the Evanuris were
- 17:04trying to break into the lighthouse and
- 17:05then with the help of our team, we were
- 17:06able to basically change the light bulb
- 17:08with the weird metal version. It was
- 17:10supposed to be this big quest thing.
- 17:13Now, what does this do and what can we
- 17:16add to the slide? So, I think the
- 17:19nullifier seems to hold back
- 17:22stuff. We see examples of both the fade
- 17:24and water. Inside of its bubble, reality
- 17:27is cemented in place. I would describe
- 17:29it as like a sort of ward, being able to
- 17:32hold things in place and remember where
- 17:33things should be. It's kind of like
- 17:35saving the position of everything inside
- 17:37so you don't constantly have to think
- 17:38about it cuz I imagine like if you're in
- 17:39the fade and like everything is to your
- 17:41whim, like if you don't if you're not
- 17:43like constantly thinking about where
- 17:45something is, it just isn't there
- 17:46anymore. That's how I think about it.
- 17:48So, then I imagine what this nullifier
- 17:50does is kind of like nullify the fade's
- 17:52effect of doing that and like cement
- 17:54reality. So, if you put something down
- 17:56somewhere, it's going to still be there.
- 17:58Mostly. It's going to try. It's going to
- 18:00do its best. Maybe there's a quality
- 18:02issue here. I don't know.
- 18:04I'm making this up. Lyrium. So, we know
- 18:06the elves use lyrium. In a codex from
- 18:08Inquisition, there was so much lyrium
- 18:10usage in Arlathan the city was described
- 18:12looking so blue it ached to look at. We
- 18:15also already know a lot about lyrium, so
- 18:17I'm largely going to skip this part and
- 18:19just go straight to lyrium's abilities
- 18:20for the slide.
- 18:22In modern Thedas, lyrium is for
- 18:23enchanting, templar drugs, and very
- 18:25rarely mana potions. It's unknown how
- 18:27much of these uses were known to
- 18:29Elgarnan although elven magic items seem
- 18:31to have a lot of blue elements to them
- 18:33and I'm going to assume that means it's
- 18:35lyrium. Memory storage. Lyrium has a
- 18:37very clear usage as storing memories and
- 18:40thoughts. This was used a ton by the
- 18:43dwarves although I'm not sure how much
- 18:44the elves use it as that. Although there
- 18:46is a spin-off I could do about the Nadas
- 18:48Thedas in here but that's for another
- 18:50theory. Transportation. Eluvians are
- 18:53made from lyrium.
- 18:54Um I don't think it's like the whole
- 18:56thing but there's a core component here
- 18:58that is lyrium based. Like that's uh
- 18:59from a codex that we just got. Anyway.
- 19:02Procreation. Elves manifesting bodies
- 19:04with lyrium. This seemed to still be in
- 19:06practice up to the fall of the empire as
- 19:08seen with the mysterious coffins in the
- 19:10lyrium processing center. At least this
- 19:12is my read on what this all was. Uh
- 19:15that's not really confirmed but like
- 19:18what else is it? Another theory I heard
- 19:20is that these are supposed to be elves
- 19:21in uh Uthenera but why would you sleep
- 19:24in a lyrium processing center?
- 19:26I don't know. So, I think it's bodies or
- 19:28something. I don't know. That's my
- 19:30interpretation. It could be something
- 19:32different. It sings. That metal ore has
- 19:35a hum to it. This itself really isn't an
- 19:37ability. It just kind of
- 19:39does that. The Blight. Ah yes, our
- 19:42lovely new entry into titan's lore. The
- 19:45Blight was revealed to be the tainted
- 19:46dreams of the titans. Raw anger and
- 19:49hatred, the souls of all the titans
- 19:51stuffed into a wee little box, poked and
- 19:53used by the Evanuris.
- 19:54So, what kind of abilities can we add to
- 19:56this slide? Connection. So, with all of
- 19:58these we do have to consider that we
- 20:00only see the corrupted version of these
- 20:02abilities. So, as all blighted creatures
- 20:05can sense one another and even listen to
- 20:07a master of some sort within the song of
- 20:10the Blight, one can imagine what this
- 20:12would have been like for the dwarves,
- 20:14hearing the song of the Titan or maybe
- 20:16even their ancestors. Uh what what what
- 20:18you know, what would that sound like? We
- 20:19know Harding has some of that, but what
- 20:21would that look like if it was
- 20:22everybody? Spread. The Blight acts like
- 20:24a sort of virus and infecting and
- 20:26blighting all it touches. Now, what if
- 20:28instead this was used to pass on the
- 20:31connection to the Titans and dwarves
- 20:32from parent to child? Perhaps even used
- 20:35as a defense, connected elves and humans
- 20:37to the hive mind to make it see reason
- 20:39or perhaps even communicate with the
- 20:40collective. Creation.
- 20:43The Blight can create physical things,
- 20:45from darkspawn to weird tentacles to
- 20:47whatever the [ __ ] the children were.
- 20:48Obviously, we see this as like, you
- 20:50know,
- 20:51bodies being made.
- 20:53Back to the Titans. Okay, so let's bring
- 20:56back the slide.
- 20:57In short, there are at least four main
- 20:59parts to the Titan that are unique
- 21:01enough. You have whatever pure lyrium
- 21:04the dagger is made up of, the
- 21:05flower-symboled orbs, regular lyrium,
- 21:08and the drop-shaped souls.
- 21:11I also think among these abilities are
- 21:13themes. Here I have highlighted in red
- 21:16powers that I think all revolve around
- 21:18memory. And in green, some
- 21:20reality-reinforcing
- 21:22ability type of things. I also think
- 21:24this list is non-exhaustive and that
- 21:26some of these abilities might have even
- 21:27combined into some
- 21:29weird third thing. So, like Harding and
- 21:32even Dagna in Inquisition mentioned
- 21:34there is some sort of hive mind with the
- 21:36Titans and the dwarves. Perhaps Return
- 21:38to the Stone was more literal, and that
- 21:40dwarven souls used to be sucked up into
- 21:43the memory of a Titan. However, this was
- 21:45never used by the immortal elves that we
- 21:48know of, at least.
- 21:50And this is part where I would draw some
- 21:51like fun conclusions, but next step in
- 21:53this small series is actually taking a
- 21:54look at the in-game assets for the
- 21:56Titans, but I'm going to save that for
- 21:58another day. For now, we're going to
- 21:59take this slide, slip it into our little
- 22:01lore folder, and I'll see you next year
- 22:03when I do the follow-up. Uh that's a
- 22:05joke. Oh god, it's going to be another
- 22:06year. I'm going to explode. I So,
- 22:08hopefully sooner than that. Hopefully.
- 22:11And that, dear patrons, is all that I
- 22:12have for uses of a dead Titan. Or an
- 22:14asleep one. I guess you don't really
- 22:16know. Thank you all for being so patient
- 22:17with me. I do have some fun stuff
- 22:18cooking in the background, so I hope
- 22:20that this video is a signal for more
- 22:21consistent uploads now that I'm uh moved
- 22:24in finally settled into a place that
- 22:26I'll be at for a while. Uh and uh do you
- 22:28still have any grand questions, proof
- 22:29that I'm wrong, comments about your own
- 22:31fan theory? Feel free to
- 22:33um
- 22:34I used to say tweet me on Twitter, but
- 22:35I'm off Twitter now. Oh, [ __ ] Has it
- 22:38been this long that I haven't edited the
- 22:39script since I left Twitter? [ __ ] man.
- 22:41Uh feel free to um
- 22:44at me at Blue Sky, I guess. That's kind
- 22:46of where I am now. That's it.
- 22:49Anyway, that's the rest of all.
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