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Spoils of the Titan War {Theory - Spoilers All} — Transcript

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  1. 0:01Welcome, welcome, patrons. I am super
  2. 0:03late on this video as I tend to be these
  3. 0:05days, but I promised that the next major
  4. 0:07video for me would be a revisit on the
  5. 0:09Titans. And look,
  6. 0:12there's just a lot. So, I'm going to try
  7. 0:13and do a few smaller angles to the Titan
  8. 0:16lore rather than just like one big
  9. 0:18monster video because uh at this stage
  10. 0:21in my life, I'm more likely to get it
  11. 0:22done this way. So, uh let's begin with a
  12. 0:25look at the Titans through the filter we
  13. 0:27see the most often, as the broken
  14. 0:29remains from their war with Elvhenan.
  15. 0:32The Fade's war and reality.
  16. 0:35The war between the Titans and the
  17. 0:36Evanuris isn't new to us. We've gotten
  18. 0:38hints of it from at least Trespasser.
  19. 0:40But, what happened?
  20. 0:42In our best guess, and also describing
  21. 0:44it a bit flippantly, the spirits of the
  22. 0:46Fade got really bored and decided to
  23. 0:48steal the power from the Titans to make
  24. 0:49their flesh. The Titans uh didn't like
  25. 0:52this, so a war broke out between the
  26. 0:53Titans and the elves. Which, a side note
  27. 0:55that I think is interesting, the war is
  28. 0:57only ever described as the Titans versus
  29. 1:00the elves, not really the dwarves. The
  30. 1:02dwarves are obviously there, but they
  31. 1:04are described as workers. There is no
  32. 1:07evidence that the dwarves as a people
  33. 1:08ever really fought the elves, or at the
  34. 1:10very least, the elves didn't see the
  35. 1:12dwarves as people, which uh also isn't
  36. 1:15above them, either.
  37. 1:16Anyway, the Evanuris yoinked the Titans'
  38. 1:18minds into a wee box, and the elves used
  39. 1:20that power for their empire. And I break
  40. 1:23away from this again because who did the
  41. 1:25yoinking is a bit muddied. Veilguard
  42. 1:27does not actually say who did it. The
  43. 1:29artbook may declare that it was Solas,
  44. 1:31but there was also cut dialogue in
  45. 1:33Veilguard that references the dagger and
  46. 1:34the deed to be Mythal's sin. And even in
  47. 1:37Inquisition, there is a small line that
  48. 1:39references Mythal to be the culprit. In
  49. 1:42truth, it could also have been both, a
  50. 1:43spell that required two powerful
  51. 1:45Evanuris. After all, in the redeem
  52. 1:47ending for Solas, Mythal does say that
  53. 1:49the sins they did, they did together.
  54. 1:52The elves then freely used the Titans
  55. 1:53how they saw fit, as we see with lyrium
  56. 1:56and tons of Elvhen artifacts, and even a
  57. 1:57whole lyrium processing center in
  58. 1:59Trespasser. So, what on earth could all
  59. 2:02this tell us about the Titans? Well,
  60. 2:05part of the mystery of the Titans is
  61. 2:06that we don't know what exactly they
  62. 2:08did. What was their power? How did they
  63. 2:11interact with the Fade? What was their
  64. 2:12anatomy like? While I can't answer all
  65. 2:15of this, I think looking at some of the
  66. 2:17artifacts made by the Elvhen might be
  67. 2:19able to sketch out an idea of what these
  68. 2:21great beings were capable of.
  69. 2:23The Wellspring. Oh boy. Okay, so the
  70. 2:26quick and dirty version of the history
  71. 2:28of the red lyrium idol/dagger is that it
  72. 2:31gets made with the purpose of sundering
  73. 2:33the Titans. It gets used, and then there
  74. 2:35are thousands of years of unknown
  75. 2:37history where this item goes or does,
  76. 2:40until finally it's used to kill Mythal.
  77. 2:42From there, Solas then retrieves it,
  78. 2:44takes the shattered pieces of her spirit
  79. 2:45idol/lyrium dagger, and then Veil Solas
  80. 2:47goes into slumber mode, and the dagger
  81. 2:49somehow ends up in the Deep Roads. Hawke
  82. 2:51and company find it, blah blah blah.
  83. 2:53Solas purifies it of the Blight, and
  84. 2:55here we have the events of Veilguard,
  85. 2:57and then Harding touches it and connects
  86. 2:58to the stone. It's a long-winded history
  87. 3:01with a lot of interesting holes that I
  88. 3:02wish were filled, but the one I want to
  89. 3:04focus on today is not the Elvhen drama
  90. 3:06surrounding its creation and use, but
  91. 3:08the purest lyrium that's made out of.
  92. 3:11What makes the dagger so special? What
  93. 3:13happened to Harding? And why was this
  94. 3:15idea so special? It's one of the few
  95. 3:18ideas that was in the scrapped version
  96. 3:20of Dragon Age 4 to make it into
  97. 3:21Veilguard.
  98. 3:23Both the idol and the dagger are
  99. 3:25described as being made of pure lyrium,
  100. 3:28some of the purest kind there is.
  101. 3:30What does that even mean? So, I'm of two
  102. 3:32minds.
  103. 3:34First, in the background of the series,
  104. 3:35things like lyrium potions, lyrium
  105. 3:37enchantments, and even the lyrium that
  106. 3:39Southern Templars take are all diluted
  107. 3:41to some degree. Lyrium is also described
  108. 3:44as a metal. I did some quick research
  109. 3:46into metal purity, uh and like most of
  110. 3:49it is unrelated, but raw metal ores
  111. 3:51usually filled with other trace amounts
  112. 3:53of substances. I imagine the same is
  113. 3:54going to be true with lyrium. In real
  114. 3:56life, it seems that what is called pure
  115. 3:58in metals is often like 99.99
  116. 4:029 whatever of that metal. It never seems
  117. 4:05to be a guaranteed 100. And to even
  118. 4:07achieve that much, the ore must be
  119. 4:09processed. So, it's possible that the
  120. 4:11lyrium of the dagger was so highly and
  121. 4:14painstakingly processed that it exceeded
  122. 4:16that of normal processing in Thedas.
  123. 4:18Second is uh more vibes. It's made of a
  124. 4:22Titan heart. You know, that big chunk of
  125. 4:23lyrium you find in the Descent? Yeah,
  126. 4:25just a big shard right there and from
  127. 4:27like the middle of that thing or
  128. 4:28something. Maybe it's even combo, where
  129. 4:30the small dagger is the processed
  130. 4:32version of the big heart. The only real
  131. 4:34evidence I have to point to this is that
  132. 4:36it's only when Valta comes close to the
  133. 4:38heart that she is chosen by the Titan.
  134. 4:40It would make sense for Harding to come
  135. 4:41into contact with a similar substance
  136. 4:43and get zapped in a similar way. So,
  137. 4:45okay, that's what the dagger is, but
  138. 4:48what can it do? It would take forever to
  139. 4:50go into deep details, so let's just
  140. 4:52rattle these off as I can think of them.
  141. 4:54Things the idol/dagger has been proven
  142. 4:56to do in the Dragon Age series:
  143. 4:58interfere with mental states and
  144. 4:59decision-making, causing hallucinations,
  145. 5:01paranoia, and anger. Thins the Veil,
  146. 5:04cuts the Veil, but also makes the Veil.
  147. 5:06Pierces through a number of powerful
  148. 5:08enchantments. Regenerate itself once
  149. 5:10destroyed. Copy abilities that the user
  150. 5:12has seen, I guess. I'm not sure what the
  151. 5:16mechanics of this gameplay device would
  152. 5:18be, but you know what I mean. Holds onto
  153. 5:19shards of spirits that it has sundered.
  154. 5:21Now, this is unknown if this works on
  155. 5:23like non-spirits, like um
  156. 5:26Barracks. Acts as a sort of listening
  157. 5:28device, although this might be a
  158. 5:30secondary enchantment or a simpler use
  159. 5:32of lyrium as seen in Inquisition, where
  160. 5:34a normal lyrium device is used as a
  161. 5:36similar effect in Calpernia's quest
  162. 5:37line. And finally, animate metal
  163. 5:40statues, which is probably my favorite
  164. 5:41use of this this dang thing. Now, let's
  165. 5:44keep this slide safe, and I'll bring it
  166. 5:45back as we go on.
  167. 5:47The foci, the magical MacGuffin from
  168. 5:49Dragon Age: Inquisition, is an
  169. 5:50interesting piece of the puzzle. As
  170. 5:52well, it's not technically confirmed to
  171. 5:54be made from the Titans, the mural and a
  172. 5:55few codex entries start to make you
  173. 5:57think.
  174. 5:58The first major codex entry is from the
  175. 6:00Frostback Mountains, a codex originally
  176. 6:02from Dragon Age: Origins. It tells the
  177. 6:04story of a tale from the Avvar's
  178. 6:05beliefs, where Korth, the Mountain
  179. 6:07Father, keeps his heart in a cask, and
  180. 6:09the Lady of the Skies tries to find it.
  181. 6:11Unfortunately, I'm going to force you to
  182. 6:12just listen to the whole thing, so here
  183. 6:14we go. Even mountains had a heart once.
  184. 6:17When the world was young, Korth, the
  185. 6:18Mountain Father, kept his throne at the
  186. 6:20peak of the Bellanaris, the mountain
  187. 6:22that lies at the center of the world,
  188. 6:24from which he could see all the corners
  189. 6:26of earth and sky.
  190. 6:27And he saw strong men become weak, brave
  191. 6:30men grow cowardly, and wise men turned
  192. 6:32for love.
  193. 6:34Korth devised a plan that he might never
  194. 6:36be betrayed by his own heart, by taking
  195. 6:38it out and hiding it where no soul would
  196. 6:40ever dare search [music] for it. He
  197. 6:42sealed it inside a golden cask, buried
  198. 6:45it in the earth, and raised around it
  199. 6:47the fiercest mountains the world had
  200. 6:49ever seen, the Frostbacks, to guard it.
  201. 6:52But, without his heart, the Mountain
  202. 6:53Father grew cruel. His chest was filled
  203. 6:56with bitter mountain winds that shrieked
  204. 6:58and howled like lost souls. Food lost
  205. 7:01its flavor, music had no sweetness, and
  206. 7:03he lost all joy in deeds of valor. He
  207. 7:06sent avalanches and earthquakes to
  208. 7:07torment the tribes of men. Gods and men
  209. 7:10rose against him, calling him a tyrant.
  210. 7:13But, with no heart, Korth could not be
  211. 7:14slain.
  212. 7:16Soon, there were no heroes left, either
  213. 7:17among men or gods, who would dare
  214. 7:19challenge Korth.
  215. 7:22The Lady of the Skies sent the best of
  216. 7:24her children, the swiftest, the
  217. 7:26cleverest, the strongest flyers, to
  218. 7:28scour the mountains for the missing
  219. 7:29heart. And for a year and a day, they
  220. 7:31searched. But, sparrow and raven,
  221. 7:34vulture and eagle, swift and albatross
  222. 7:37returned to her with nothing.
  223. 7:39Then, the ptarmigan spoke up [music] and
  224. 7:41offered to find the god-chief's heart.
  225. 7:43The other birds laughed, for the
  226. 7:44ptarmigan is a tiny bird, too humble to
  227. 7:46soar, which spends half its time hopping
  228. 7:48along the ground. The lady would not
  229. 7:51give the little creature her blessing,
  230. 7:52for the mountains were too fierce, even
  231. 7:54for eagles. But, the ptarmigan set out
  232. 7:56anyway.
  233. 7:57The little bird traveled deep into the
  234. 7:59Frostbacks. When she could not fly, she
  235. 8:01crawled. She hugged the ground and
  236. 8:03weathered the worst mountain winds, and
  237. 8:05so made lonely way to the valley where
  238. 8:07the heart beat. With all the god's
  239. 8:10terrible deeds, the heart was far too
  240. 8:11heavy for the tiny bird to carry. So,
  241. 8:14she rolled it, little by little, out of
  242. 8:16the valley and down a cliff. And when
  243. 8:18the golden cask struck the earth, it
  244. 8:20shattered.
  245. 8:21The heart was full almost to bursting,
  246. 8:23and the pain of it roused the mountain
  247. 8:25god to come see what had happened.
  248. 8:28When Korth neared his heart, it leapt
  249. 8:30back into his chest, and he was whole
  250. 8:31again. Then, Hakkon Wintersbreath bound
  251. 8:34Korth's chest with three bands of iron
  252. 8:36and three bands of ice, so it can never
  253. 8:38again escape. And all the remaining gods
  254. 8:41named the ptarmigan honored above even
  255. 8:43the loftiest eagles.
  256. 8:45The other main codex entry is from
  257. 8:46Trespasser, titled Veilfire Runes of the
  258. 8:49Deep Roads.
  259. 8:50In the light of the Veilfire, the runes
  260. 8:52seem to shift, coiling and uncoiling
  261. 8:54like snakes. A thunderous voice shatters
  262. 8:57the stillness, shouting, "Hail Mythal,
  263. 9:00adjudicator and savior. She has struck
  264. 9:03down the pillars of the earth and
  265. 9:04tethered their domain onto the people.
  266. 9:06Praise her name forever."
  267. 9:08For a moment, the scent of blood fills
  268. 9:10the air, and there is a vivid image of
  269. 9:12green vines growing and enveloping a
  270. 9:14sphere of fire.
  271. 9:16The vision grows dark. An eon seems to
  272. 9:18pass.
  273. 9:19Then, the runes crackle as if filled
  274. 9:22with an angry energy.
  275. 9:23A new vision appears. Elves collapsing
  276. 9:26caverns, sealing the Deep Roads with
  277. 9:28stone and magic. Terror. Heart pounding.
  278. 9:31Ice cold as the last of the spells is
  279. 9:33cast. A voice whispers, "What the
  280. 9:35Evanuris in their greed could unleash
  281. 9:37would end us all. Let this place be
  282. 9:40forgotten. Let no one wake its anger.
  283. 9:43The people must rise before their false
  284. 9:45gods destroy them all."
  285. 9:47Yes, yes, Katie, this is all well and
  286. 9:49good, but this has been common fandom
  287. 9:51knowledge for a decade. What am I
  288. 9:53getting at here? Well, under the
  289. 9:55assumption that this describes what the
  290. 9:57elves did to the heart of a titan, I
  291. 9:59want to ask two questions.
  292. 10:01Why so many and what about the dagger?
  293. 10:04Now, focusing on the latter first, we
  294. 10:06saw the heart of a titan. We see what
  295. 10:08both the foci and the dagger look like.
  296. 10:11One clearly looks like it could possibly
  297. 10:13be from this mass while the other
  298. 10:15doesn't.
  299. 10:16The only other clue to the construction
  300. 10:18of foci is the small passage from
  301. 10:20another codex in Trespasser.
  302. 10:22For a moment, the scent of blood fills
  303. 10:24the air. There is a vivid green vines
  304. 10:27growing and enveloping a sphere of fire.
  305. 10:29The descriptions of vines and green does
  306. 10:32sort of seem to match a vague
  307. 10:34description of the foci and that the
  308. 10:36rest of the codex talks about titans and
  309. 10:38the blight related things does connect
  310. 10:39it to the titans as a whole. But it
  311. 10:42looks like nothing we have seen coming
  312. 10:44from the titans. We even get the chance
  313. 10:45to look inside one and nothing seems to
  314. 10:48stand out. So, what in a titan is this
  315. 10:51sphere of fire? Magma perhaps? Something
  316. 10:54else? And why was this thing so powerful
  317. 10:57yet we have never seen it raw? This
  318. 11:00brings me to my next question why we
  319. 11:01only see one active in Inquisition. In
  320. 11:03Trespasser, you get this wonderful
  321. 11:06little moment where you start to notice
  322. 11:07that there are broken foci littering the
  323. 11:09Vir Dirthara. Like they are everywhere.
  324. 11:13Absolutely everywhere. What Corypheus
  325. 11:15had wasn't some special and unique item
  326. 11:18but something kind of common.
  327. 11:20If this was something so common the
  328. 11:22elves used a ton of it, it's possible
  329. 11:24that we have never seen it in its raw
  330. 11:26form because it doesn't exist anymore or
  331. 11:29even that its raw form is
  332. 11:30unrecognizable. I have no answers as to
  333. 11:33what this sphere of fire could be.
  334. 11:35Perhaps a small part of titans that is
  335. 11:36covered in magma to protect itself? The
  336. 11:39Frostback Mountain codex described that
  337. 11:40the heart was in a cask. Perhaps what is
  338. 11:42physical of the foci is just a holder
  339. 11:44for something that is unseen. Now,
  340. 11:46Veilguard did have some updates on the
  341. 11:48journey of this particular design from
  342. 11:50Solas' mural that we have guessed to be
  343. 11:53what the creation of the foci is. Namely
  344. 11:55the first regret mural that you unlock.
  345. 11:57Mythal and Elgarnan are standing on this
  346. 11:58cracked circle that clearly has the same
  347. 12:00flower design and their hands are golden
  348. 12:02with the pattern similar to that of like
  349. 12:04the fingerprint foci
  350. 12:06pattern going on thing. In the mural
  351. 12:09where Solas meets with all for the last
  352. 12:10time, there's also a tiny foci-like
  353. 12:13circles surrounded by the dotted line
  354. 12:15that I suspect represents the veil but I
  355. 12:17don't really know. Uh the mural where
  356. 12:19Solas and Mythal discuss the sundering
  357. 12:21of the titans is completely absent from
  358. 12:23any similar designs and instead seeing
  359. 12:25this teardrop shape that seems to
  360. 12:26represent their soul, spirit, whatever
  361. 12:29you want to call it. And then finally in
  362. 12:30the mural where Solas creates the veil,
  363. 12:32one could argue that this red mega star
  364. 12:35shape could represent a twist of the
  365. 12:37flower shape that we know.
  366. 12:39As a personal guess that comes from
  367. 12:41nothing but vibes, I want to suggest
  368. 12:43that this mural, the first one,
  369. 12:44describes the first kill of a titan. But
  370. 12:47I don't really know. And here I want to
  371. 12:49take the wheels of the story car and
  372. 12:51take a sharp turn to left to talk about
  373. 12:53tranquility. The art book describes what
  374. 12:55happens to the titan as making them
  375. 12:57tranquil. In the series, tranquility has
  376. 12:59been described as taking the emotions
  377. 13:01from a person by severing the connection
  378. 13:02between the mind and
  379. 13:05something, the fade. It's a little more
  380. 13:08uh I don't know I don't know.
  381. 13:10The two most pressing mysteries of
  382. 13:11tranquility is what exactly is being
  383. 13:14severed and how that process works.
  384. 13:16Weirdly enough, we do know how to cure
  385. 13:19tranquility. A spirit needs to
  386. 13:21re-establish the mind's connection to
  387. 13:22the fade. But does a titan need to be
  388. 13:25connected to the fade? In the past, I
  389. 13:27have personally thought of magic like an
  390. 13:29internet connection. The fade is a Wi-Fi
  391. 13:31signal. So, elves and humans and Qunari
  392. 13:33who are able to tap into the fade can
  393. 13:35use it on their own. Meanwhile, the
  394. 13:37dwarves do not have a Wi-Fi card and
  395. 13:39need an ethernet connection to the
  396. 13:40titans to get their abilities and
  397. 13:42dreams. If this is the case, then the
  398. 13:44question I have is are the titans a
  399. 13:46router or are they another form of an
  400. 13:49internet?
  401. 13:50Meaning do they have completely
  402. 13:52different magic set than most people?
  403. 13:54So, let's move past the unknown of
  404. 13:56sundering the titans' minds from either
  405. 13:58the fade or its own abilities.
  406. 14:00What was placed in the box? The art book
  407. 14:03describes it as their soul and matched
  408. 14:05the in-game murals by representing that
  409. 14:07with a teardrop shape. So, whatever is
  410. 14:10in the foci is not that. So, then
  411. 14:15what is left to capture? I'm about to
  412. 14:17throw spaghetti at the wall here, so
  413. 14:18excuse me, but I'd like to draw in this.
  414. 14:21This is the symbol of chaos. Uh Wiki
  415. 14:24says that the this symbol itself is
  416. 14:25actually from a 70s fantasy novel um but
  417. 14:28it's also used in pop culture a ton. I'm
  418. 14:29familiar with it, too, just from like
  419. 14:31osmosis of other things. I had no idea
  420. 14:33it was from this book. But uh that part
  421. 14:36doesn't matter as much to me. But if you
  422. 14:38scrub off the arrows, it's the exact
  423. 14:40same symbol. Titan's main ability is to
  424. 14:43reinforce reality, to create what is
  425. 14:45physical, order in the chaos. What if
  426. 14:49the symbol is to represent that idea? A
  427. 14:51stolen magic bottled up and secured,
  428. 14:54used by the elves to create their own
  429. 14:55physical world. The flowering symbol is
  430. 14:58just to represent the titan's magic
  431. 15:00ability. It's mana. So, okay. That's our
  432. 15:03best guess as to what it could
  433. 15:05physically be on a titan. Now, what does
  434. 15:08it do? Let's bring out the slide again
  435. 15:10and add it on to it. So, the foci makes
  436. 15:12holes in the veil, imparts the anchor
  437. 15:14onto the inquisitor which seals holes
  438. 15:16and acts as a key to the veil. Boom.
  439. 15:20Uh which to be fair, I think was more
  440. 15:22that it had gained power over time and
  441. 15:24then exploded when opened again
  442. 15:26as that's what Solas says in
  443. 15:27Inquisition. But the fact that it
  444. 15:29generates power over time, I think is
  445. 15:32also interesting.
  446. 15:33Solas also describes that he would have
  447. 15:35used the power of the orb to tear down
  448. 15:37the veil and reshape reality and this
  449. 15:39ability he was able to reproduce in
  450. 15:42finding and cleansing the dagger and
  451. 15:44taking Mythal's power from Flemeth along
  452. 15:46with some sort of ritual prep that we
  453. 15:48see off screen.
  454. 15:49And that's really all we see it doing in
  455. 15:52Inquisition at least.
  456. 15:54The nullifiers. In the middle of the
  457. 15:56lighthouse, there is this floating
  458. 15:58lamp-like thing with the rings floating
  459. 16:00around it. It's never really explained
  460. 16:03but is upgraded as you explore the hub
  461. 16:05in the game. Unless you have a good eye
  462. 16:07or messed around with the camera tools,
  463. 16:09you might not have noticed that the
  464. 16:11circle in the middle is one of the foci
  465. 16:13from Inquisition.
  466. 16:15Note it isn't the exact one from
  467. 16:16Inquisition because those broken remains
  468. 16:19Solas has seemed to keep in his man I
  469. 16:21miss having friends nostalgia room. But
  470. 16:23it is one like it. Then later on, you
  471. 16:25activate one of those Inquisition elven
  472. 16:27artifacts. It zaps the orb to become
  473. 16:29this crazy metal variant. Uh now in the
  474. 16:32files, this thing, the metal variant
  475. 16:34very specifically, is called the elven
  476. 16:36nullifier which I think is a huge clue
  477. 16:39as to how this works. Now, as far as I
  478. 16:41can tell, the only two places I could
  479. 16:43find this nullifier thing is in the
  480. 16:45lighthouse and then like the metal
  481. 16:47variation in the ossuary.
  482. 16:49Also, the ossuary one is [ __ ] huge.
  483. 16:51Now, in the files of Veilguard, there
  484. 16:53was a cut quest that actually made this
  485. 16:55moment of the little orb becoming the
  486. 16:58big weird metal thing more meaningful.
  487. 17:00The TLDR version was that the orb
  488. 17:02started to fail, the Evanuris were
  489. 17:04trying to break into the lighthouse and
  490. 17:05then with the help of our team, we were
  491. 17:06able to basically change the light bulb
  492. 17:08with the weird metal version. It was
  493. 17:10supposed to be this big quest thing.
  494. 17:13Now, what does this do and what can we
  495. 17:16add to the slide? So, I think the
  496. 17:19nullifier seems to hold back
  497. 17:22stuff. We see examples of both the fade
  498. 17:24and water. Inside of its bubble, reality
  499. 17:27is cemented in place. I would describe
  500. 17:29it as like a sort of ward, being able to
  501. 17:32hold things in place and remember where
  502. 17:33things should be. It's kind of like
  503. 17:35saving the position of everything inside
  504. 17:37so you don't constantly have to think
  505. 17:38about it cuz I imagine like if you're in
  506. 17:39the fade and like everything is to your
  507. 17:41whim, like if you don't if you're not
  508. 17:43like constantly thinking about where
  509. 17:45something is, it just isn't there
  510. 17:46anymore. That's how I think about it.
  511. 17:48So, then I imagine what this nullifier
  512. 17:50does is kind of like nullify the fade's
  513. 17:52effect of doing that and like cement
  514. 17:54reality. So, if you put something down
  515. 17:56somewhere, it's going to still be there.
  516. 17:58Mostly. It's going to try. It's going to
  517. 18:00do its best. Maybe there's a quality
  518. 18:02issue here. I don't know.
  519. 18:04I'm making this up. Lyrium. So, we know
  520. 18:06the elves use lyrium. In a codex from
  521. 18:08Inquisition, there was so much lyrium
  522. 18:10usage in Arlathan the city was described
  523. 18:12looking so blue it ached to look at. We
  524. 18:15also already know a lot about lyrium, so
  525. 18:17I'm largely going to skip this part and
  526. 18:19just go straight to lyrium's abilities
  527. 18:20for the slide.
  528. 18:22In modern Thedas, lyrium is for
  529. 18:23enchanting, templar drugs, and very
  530. 18:25rarely mana potions. It's unknown how
  531. 18:27much of these uses were known to
  532. 18:29Elgarnan although elven magic items seem
  533. 18:31to have a lot of blue elements to them
  534. 18:33and I'm going to assume that means it's
  535. 18:35lyrium. Memory storage. Lyrium has a
  536. 18:37very clear usage as storing memories and
  537. 18:40thoughts. This was used a ton by the
  538. 18:43dwarves although I'm not sure how much
  539. 18:44the elves use it as that. Although there
  540. 18:46is a spin-off I could do about the Nadas
  541. 18:48Thedas in here but that's for another
  542. 18:50theory. Transportation. Eluvians are
  543. 18:53made from lyrium.
  544. 18:54Um I don't think it's like the whole
  545. 18:56thing but there's a core component here
  546. 18:58that is lyrium based. Like that's uh
  547. 18:59from a codex that we just got. Anyway.
  548. 19:02Procreation. Elves manifesting bodies
  549. 19:04with lyrium. This seemed to still be in
  550. 19:06practice up to the fall of the empire as
  551. 19:08seen with the mysterious coffins in the
  552. 19:10lyrium processing center. At least this
  553. 19:12is my read on what this all was. Uh
  554. 19:15that's not really confirmed but like
  555. 19:18what else is it? Another theory I heard
  556. 19:20is that these are supposed to be elves
  557. 19:21in uh Uthenera but why would you sleep
  558. 19:24in a lyrium processing center?
  559. 19:26I don't know. So, I think it's bodies or
  560. 19:28something. I don't know. That's my
  561. 19:30interpretation. It could be something
  562. 19:32different. It sings. That metal ore has
  563. 19:35a hum to it. This itself really isn't an
  564. 19:37ability. It just kind of
  565. 19:39does that. The Blight. Ah yes, our
  566. 19:42lovely new entry into titan's lore. The
  567. 19:45Blight was revealed to be the tainted
  568. 19:46dreams of the titans. Raw anger and
  569. 19:49hatred, the souls of all the titans
  570. 19:51stuffed into a wee little box, poked and
  571. 19:53used by the Evanuris.
  572. 19:54So, what kind of abilities can we add to
  573. 19:56this slide? Connection. So, with all of
  574. 19:58these we do have to consider that we
  575. 20:00only see the corrupted version of these
  576. 20:02abilities. So, as all blighted creatures
  577. 20:05can sense one another and even listen to
  578. 20:07a master of some sort within the song of
  579. 20:10the Blight, one can imagine what this
  580. 20:12would have been like for the dwarves,
  581. 20:14hearing the song of the Titan or maybe
  582. 20:16even their ancestors. Uh what what what
  583. 20:18you know, what would that sound like? We
  584. 20:19know Harding has some of that, but what
  585. 20:21would that look like if it was
  586. 20:22everybody? Spread. The Blight acts like
  587. 20:24a sort of virus and infecting and
  588. 20:26blighting all it touches. Now, what if
  589. 20:28instead this was used to pass on the
  590. 20:31connection to the Titans and dwarves
  591. 20:32from parent to child? Perhaps even used
  592. 20:35as a defense, connected elves and humans
  593. 20:37to the hive mind to make it see reason
  594. 20:39or perhaps even communicate with the
  595. 20:40collective. Creation.
  596. 20:43The Blight can create physical things,
  597. 20:45from darkspawn to weird tentacles to
  598. 20:47whatever the [ __ ] the children were.
  599. 20:48Obviously, we see this as like, you
  600. 20:50know,
  601. 20:51bodies being made.
  602. 20:53Back to the Titans. Okay, so let's bring
  603. 20:56back the slide.
  604. 20:57In short, there are at least four main
  605. 20:59parts to the Titan that are unique
  606. 21:01enough. You have whatever pure lyrium
  607. 21:04the dagger is made up of, the
  608. 21:05flower-symboled orbs, regular lyrium,
  609. 21:08and the drop-shaped souls.
  610. 21:11I also think among these abilities are
  611. 21:13themes. Here I have highlighted in red
  612. 21:16powers that I think all revolve around
  613. 21:18memory. And in green, some
  614. 21:20reality-reinforcing
  615. 21:22ability type of things. I also think
  616. 21:24this list is non-exhaustive and that
  617. 21:26some of these abilities might have even
  618. 21:27combined into some
  619. 21:29weird third thing. So, like Harding and
  620. 21:32even Dagna in Inquisition mentioned
  621. 21:34there is some sort of hive mind with the
  622. 21:36Titans and the dwarves. Perhaps Return
  623. 21:38to the Stone was more literal, and that
  624. 21:40dwarven souls used to be sucked up into
  625. 21:43the memory of a Titan. However, this was
  626. 21:45never used by the immortal elves that we
  627. 21:48know of, at least.
  628. 21:50And this is part where I would draw some
  629. 21:51like fun conclusions, but next step in
  630. 21:53this small series is actually taking a
  631. 21:54look at the in-game assets for the
  632. 21:56Titans, but I'm going to save that for
  633. 21:58another day. For now, we're going to
  634. 21:59take this slide, slip it into our little
  635. 22:01lore folder, and I'll see you next year
  636. 22:03when I do the follow-up. Uh that's a
  637. 22:05joke. Oh god, it's going to be another
  638. 22:06year. I'm going to explode. I So,
  639. 22:08hopefully sooner than that. Hopefully.
  640. 22:11And that, dear patrons, is all that I
  641. 22:12have for uses of a dead Titan. Or an
  642. 22:14asleep one. I guess you don't really
  643. 22:16know. Thank you all for being so patient
  644. 22:17with me. I do have some fun stuff
  645. 22:18cooking in the background, so I hope
  646. 22:20that this video is a signal for more
  647. 22:21consistent uploads now that I'm uh moved
  648. 22:24in finally settled into a place that
  649. 22:26I'll be at for a while. Uh and uh do you
  650. 22:28still have any grand questions, proof
  651. 22:29that I'm wrong, comments about your own
  652. 22:31fan theory? Feel free to
  653. 22:33um
  654. 22:34I used to say tweet me on Twitter, but
  655. 22:35I'm off Twitter now. Oh, [ __ ] Has it
  656. 22:38been this long that I haven't edited the
  657. 22:39script since I left Twitter? [ __ ] man.
  658. 22:41Uh feel free to um
  659. 22:44at me at Blue Sky, I guess. That's kind
  660. 22:46of where I am now. That's it.
  661. 22:49Anyway, that's the rest of all.

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