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The New Lore of Dragon Age: The Veilguard — Transcript

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  1. 0:15welcome back to class my dear students I
  2. 0:18am Professor Absalom and it's very nice
  3. 0:20to see you all again now as some of you
  4. 0:24might already know there have been
  5. 0:26several new scientific findings and
  6. 0:29discovery
  7. 0:30regarding this class as subject matter
  8. 0:33during recent time namely the world of
  9. 0:36Dragon
  10. 0:37Age much of this information after
  11. 0:40having been verified and cross
  12. 0:42referenced to ensure its validity has
  13. 0:44not only shed new light on questions we
  14. 0:47might have previously had regarding the
  15. 0:49history and lore of Dragon Age it has to
  16. 0:53put it mildly turned much of it on its
  17. 0:56head much of what we previously thought
  18. 0:59was established facts have now changed
  19. 1:01completely due to these new findings and
  20. 1:04many Mysteries have now received
  21. 1:07answers honestly I have to say all of
  22. 1:10this is quite overwhelming what all of
  23. 1:13this entails for future academic
  24. 1:16research into this
  25. 1:17topic it will take years to sort all of
  26. 1:21this out let me tell you but let's get
  27. 1:24into it shall we during this lecture I
  28. 1:27will as well as I can go through most of
  29. 1:29the the major new findings in regards to
  30. 1:32the lore of Dragon Age if you believe I
  31. 1:35missed some Vital Information be sure to
  32. 1:37let me know in the comments after this
  33. 1:39lecture I will endeavor to not mix in
  34. 1:43any of my own personal feelings or
  35. 1:45biases into this lecture and will simply
  36. 1:48tell you the facts of what we have found
  37. 1:50out as well as I can we have quite a lot
  38. 1:54to go through so let's get started shall
  39. 1:57we in the Years following the exed
  40. 2:00Council and the fate of the Inquisition
  41. 2:02in 944 Dragon the elf Mage known as
  42. 2:06Solus would be revealed as the dread
  43. 2:09wolf one of the ancient evanuris once
  44. 2:13worshiped as Gods by the elves denying
  45. 2:16that the evanor or himself were gods and
  46. 2:19simply very powerful Mages it was
  47. 2:21soulless who had led a revolt against
  48. 2:24the tyranny of the evanuris that
  49. 2:26resulted in him banishing them to a
  50. 2:28prison in the fade and creating the veil
  51. 2:32that separates this world and the Beyond
  52. 2:35this had led to the diminishing of the
  53. 2:37elves in the years that followed where
  54. 2:39they lost much of their magic longevity
  55. 2:42and culture weakened by this effort sess
  56. 2:45awoke thousands of years later after a
  57. 2:48long Slumber and decided to rectify his
  58. 2:51perceived mistake after seeing how much
  59. 2:54the elves had lost after the conflict
  60. 2:56between the Inquisition and chifus and
  61. 2:59the exalted Council soless dedicated the
  62. 3:02following years to gather followers the
  63. 3:05Agents of fen herel with the ultimate
  64. 3:07goal of Bringing Down the veil flooding
  65. 3:10the world with the raw essence of the
  66. 3:12fade and restoring the power and glory
  67. 3:15of the Elven people this would culminate
  68. 3:18in the ritual in the arthan forest in
  69. 3:22952
  70. 3:24Dragon at the same time much of Northern
  71. 3:27thus would become a Battleground
  72. 3:30as the military arm of the kunari the
  73. 3:33antam launched an invasion of the
  74. 3:37continent the triumphant leadership of
  75. 3:40the cun the Salasar had a very hands-off
  76. 3:44approach in regards to the emergence of
  77. 3:46the preach and the inquisition's
  78. 3:48conflict with chifus during the early
  79. 3:50940s Dragon sending representatives to
  80. 3:54the Inquisition and observing the
  81. 3:56ongoing situation from afar kunari
  82. 3:59leadership decided to play the long game
  83. 4:02if the bus were to be brought into the
  84. 4:04cune it would be through willing
  85. 4:06conversion to the cause not
  86. 4:08opportunistic military
  87. 4:10actions this mindset angered many within
  88. 4:14the antam and the Ben hassrath who were
  89. 4:16of the opinion that the southerners
  90. 4:18could not control the dangers of magic
  91. 4:21and had to be conquered as fast as
  92. 4:23possible to minimize potential overall
  93. 4:26damage they had to act if their own
  94. 4:29leaders were too weak willed to do
  95. 4:32so following the failure of the dragon's
  96. 4:35breath plan in 944 Dragon which sought
  97. 4:38to eliminate most of southern fetus's
  98. 4:40leadership and laying the grounds for a
  99. 4:42swift kunari Invasion and conversion of
  100. 4:45the South kunari leadership were thrown
  101. 4:48into disarray the plot had been carried
  102. 4:50out by Rogue elements within the benas
  103. 4:54and the antam and was unsanctioned by
  104. 4:57the triumvirate of the cun it had
  105. 5:00however despite its failure been very
  106. 5:03popular among many kunari who feared the
  107. 5:06dangers of magic and wanted a fast
  108. 5:08solution to the actions of the bus while
  109. 5:12the responsible Ben hassrath operatives
  110. 5:14gave in and surrendered to the
  111. 5:16triumvirate the various kith shocks and
  112. 5:19caban of the antam generals and Admirals
  113. 5:23respectively refused to back down
  114. 5:26according to them the plot had failed
  115. 5:29because it had not not gone far enough
  116. 5:31the bus were at this point Unworthy of
  117. 5:34simple education and peaceful conversion
  118. 5:37to the cun they had to be either
  119. 5:40conquered or destroyed entirely a former
  120. 5:44companion to the hero felon known by his
  121. 5:47then title of Sten spoke out against his
  122. 5:50warmongering generals and for this they
  123. 5:54renounced him as corrupt and almost
  124. 5:57succeeded at killing him ambushing the
  125. 6:00arishok at a war council the former Sten
  126. 6:03only managed to survive and flee the
  127. 6:05scene due to a few loyal kunari
  128. 6:09soldiers as the former arishok and his
  129. 6:11loyal men fled they then turned
  130. 6:14themselves over to the benrath and
  131. 6:16renounced their previous statuses within
  132. 6:19the military following this the antam as
  133. 6:23the rany S Rowan writes in her work
  134. 6:26quote went to war a body now bereft of
  135. 6:31mind and soul end quote First the antam
  136. 6:36fell on the tent Imperium who had been
  137. 6:39at war with the kunari for ages around
  138. 6:42the year 944 to 945 Dragon the war was
  139. 6:46renewed as the antam invaded and
  140. 6:49captured the cities of Ventus formerly
  141. 6:52kinus KES and nenan in quick succession
  142. 6:57then the antam moved on to the rest of
  143. 7:00the north as the thedosians were taken
  144. 7:03completely by
  145. 7:05surprise conquering antiva and Northern
  146. 7:08ravan the invading antam then pushed as
  147. 7:11far south as the Menan River before once
  148. 7:15again turning their full might on the
  149. 7:18tent Imperium due to the anam's fear of
  150. 7:21necromancy and an unwillingness to open
  151. 7:24a new warfront with trinter still in
  152. 7:26play Nara was spared the anti am's
  153. 7:30Onslaught with their Mighty gatlocke
  154. 7:32weapons the antam pushed westwards into
  155. 7:36tent until they were halted at the city
  156. 7:39of vyrantium which offered Fierce
  157. 7:41resistance and forced the antam to dig
  158. 7:44in for a protracted Siege The Invasion
  159. 7:48had been quite the brutal military feat
  160. 7:51within the span of just a few years
  161. 7:53almost half of Northern thetus had
  162. 7:56fallen to the antam but the an some were
  163. 8:00far less organized and efficient than
  164. 8:03one might think and the longer the
  165. 8:05conflict went on the more this became
  166. 8:09apparent there were two main reasons for
  167. 8:11this the first was that by breaking away
  168. 8:14from the rest of the cune the antam now
  169. 8:17fought alone with no Specialists like
  170. 8:20quarter Masters Craftsmen healers Etc
  171. 8:24that would have normally accompanied
  172. 8:25them had they not split from the rest of
  173. 8:27the C without sufficient ways to create
  174. 8:30supply lines or food production of their
  175. 8:32own the invading antam had to constantly
  176. 8:36remain on the offensive in order to feed
  177. 8:38the Army and as The Invasion Force
  178. 8:41encountered tougher strategical targets
  179. 8:44that forced them to engage in Siege
  180. 8:46Warfare like virtium the overall War
  181. 8:49Machine of the antam stumbled and
  182. 8:52stalled the issue of occupation had also
  183. 8:55become a second thought to many of the
  184. 8:57Anam kth shocks as they were more
  185. 9:00focused on conquering new lands than
  186. 9:02actually holding those lands that they
  187. 9:04had conquered and successfully occupying
  188. 9:07them the second reason is overall loss
  189. 9:10of spiritual and Military cohesion the
  190. 9:14anam's overall chain of command
  191. 9:16completely broke down during the course
  192. 9:18of the war with the various kith shocks
  193. 9:20and caban becoming nothing more than
  194. 9:23powerful Warlords with personal armies
  195. 9:27pursuing their own agendas in instead of
  196. 9:29an overall strategic plan many of them
  197. 9:32have been reduced to simple Pirates or
  198. 9:35roving armies of Bandits once again Seer
  199. 9:39Rowan puts it well in her work Marlo
  200. 9:42cune the loss of Reason quote it is easy
  201. 9:46to think that the antam broke from the
  202. 9:48kunari as one but the reality is that of
  203. 9:51a vase shattering into countless shards
  204. 9:54each broken in its own way reflecting
  205. 9:57the warlord who now leads each kth some
  206. 10:01like the butcher in traviso use their
  207. 10:04new freedom to indulge in cultures long
  208. 10:06forbidden to them others like atesok the
  209. 10:10dragon king or is katari Master killer
  210. 10:14in Rain reject foreign cultures and
  211. 10:17either lean on the trappings of the
  212. 10:19antam or invent a Heritage to inspire
  213. 10:23the Loyalty of their soldiers what seems
  214. 10:26consistent among the antam Warlords is
  215. 10:29is cruelty from Baku nasar flaming wind
  216. 10:34whose ships terrorize the northern
  217. 10:36coasts to kashar Jewel taker whose kith
  218. 10:40have become a bandit Army in the
  219. 10:42mountains outside morus I believe the
  220. 10:45reason to be twofold first these kith
  221. 10:48shocks feared that their army might turn
  222. 10:51upon them as they turned upon the arish
  223. 10:53shock so they drive their soldiers
  224. 10:57through fear and second there are very
  225. 11:00few kind and thoughtful antam this is an
  226. 11:04observation not an insult the cun has
  227. 11:07two words for healer one is Rari A
  228. 11:11Healer priest whose name literally means
  229. 11:14one who helps the other is marim an
  230. 11:18antam Battlefield healer whose name
  231. 11:21comes from marwa ad or do not let them
  232. 11:25fall those under the C have jobs
  233. 11:28selected for them by their teachers so
  234. 11:31any Young kunari Too thoughtful or too
  235. 11:34sensitive for the harsh life of the
  236. 11:36antam would have been made Rari instead
  237. 11:39of marim the kunari in their wisdom
  238. 11:43decided that all children who were
  239. 11:45naturally prepared to follow orders and
  240. 11:48hurt others should be placed in the UN
  241. 11:52and this is the result end quote in
  242. 11:56previous conflicts the Anam were held
  243. 11:59back back from excessive cruelty or
  244. 12:01atrocities against their opponents by
  245. 12:03the morality and spiritual supervision
  246. 12:06of the rest of the C gatlocke were not
  247. 12:09to be used against civilian targets and
  248. 12:12there would at least be an attempt by
  249. 12:14the cune to convert civilians in the
  250. 12:17wake of a conflict or during occupation
  251. 12:20but since the antam broke with the rest
  252. 12:22of the cune at the start of the war
  253. 12:25these rules and restraints have now been
  254. 12:27thrown to the wind the brutality that
  255. 12:30the advancing antam forces have shown
  256. 12:33during the conflict especially against
  257. 12:36civilians at nenan and against slaves in
  258. 12:39varanum respectively served to unite the
  259. 12:43populace against the Anton rather than
  260. 12:46to Garner potential support for them as
  261. 12:50of the Year 952 dragon virtium is still
  262. 12:54besieged bombarded day and night from
  263. 12:57both land and sea but the city still
  264. 13:00holds firm and the antam have not
  265. 13:03managed to advance further into the
  266. 13:05Imperium slowly The antam Invasion has
  267. 13:09now grinded to a halt and splintered
  268. 13:12into many different
  269. 13:15pieces during the same time as the Anam
  270. 13:18Rebellion took place the tent Imperium
  271. 13:21as a nation went through a period of
  272. 13:24political change and
  273. 13:26upheaval after the defeat of corus by
  274. 13:28the Inquisition in 942 Dragon the
  275. 13:31venator cult worshiping the creature as
  276. 13:34a god lost much of its cohesion and
  277. 13:37strength in the rest of the continent
  278. 13:39the cult did maintain its influence
  279. 13:42within the imperium's borders however
  280. 13:44not only in secret but also as a
  281. 13:47powerful political faction within the
  282. 13:49ruling
  283. 13:51magisterium the vitor's Twisted ambition
  284. 13:54of restoring the ancient glories of tent
  285. 13:57resulted in a poit iCal counter reaction
  286. 14:00within the
  287. 14:02magisterium Magister mearis tilani along
  288. 14:05with Dorian pavas famous companion to
  289. 14:08The Inquisitor co-founded the political
  290. 14:11faction known as the luceri somewhere
  291. 14:14between the years 941 and 944 dren
  292. 14:18despite its focus on combating venator
  293. 14:21influence the luceri were far from a
  294. 14:23single issue party taking a Firm Stance
  295. 14:26against political Corruption of all
  296. 14:28sorts along with championing greater
  297. 14:30rights for non- mes and the abolition of
  298. 14:34slavery while gaining some support among
  299. 14:37both the populace and within the
  300. 14:39magisterium the faction met with immense
  301. 14:41push back from the more traditionalist
  302. 14:44establishment of toin Politics As of 944
  303. 14:48Dragon the dozen or so young magisters
  304. 14:50that had joined the party Dorian himself
  305. 14:53described as quote junior members of the
  306. 14:56magisterium two filled with fire and
  307. 14:59seal and so wildly inept at politics May
  308. 15:03keeps a bucket of ice water on hand in
  309. 15:06case one accidently ulates himself end
  310. 15:09quote despite support from such powerful
  311. 15:12individuals as the new Imperial Divine
  312. 15:15the lucer were forced to disband in
  313. 15:18around the year 951 Dragon due to mearis
  314. 15:22being accused of treason and getting
  315. 15:25kicked out of the magisterium opting out
  316. 15:28of the political Mavis now took her
  317. 15:30organization underground and reformed
  318. 15:33what had been the luceri into a proper
  319. 15:36resistance movement called The Shadow
  320. 15:40dragons acting as agents of positive
  321. 15:43change the shadow dragons now try to
  322. 15:46accomplish their goals through more
  323. 15:47direct means freeing slaves fighting
  324. 15:51corruption countering the venatori and
  325. 15:53their blood magic and so on one of the
  326. 15:55new leaders of this hidden organization
  327. 15:58a mysterious curious figure known as the
  328. 16:00Viper have allegedly Been instrumental
  329. 16:03in freeing many slaves during successful
  330. 16:05slave rebellions Across the Nation many
  331. 16:09of the slave rebellions also seem to
  332. 16:11have gotten funding from members in the
  333. 16:13Dwarven Ambassador an organization
  334. 16:16mayares is well known to have good
  335. 16:18relations with Magister Dorian pavas
  336. 16:21retaining his seat in the magisterium is
  337. 16:24secretly a part of the Shadow dragons
  338. 16:27and tries his best to act for change in
  339. 16:30the open while the rest of the Shadow
  340. 16:32dragons act as light Bringers in the
  341. 16:34dark seeking to free the people of T
  342. 16:37Vinter from their unjust
  343. 16:40rulers in the rest of Northern thetas
  344. 16:42many other important factions would act
  345. 16:45to become instrumental in the years that
  346. 16:47followed close to the borders of tenter
  347. 16:50in the ancient Aran Forest an
  348. 16:53organization known as the veil jumpers
  349. 16:55were founded during this time at the
  350. 16:58core an Vin organization founded by the
  351. 17:00dish they welcome anyone who wishes to
  352. 17:03explore the forest for old Elven
  353. 17:06artifacts research Elven history and
  354. 17:09magic and ultimately to restore the
  355. 17:11order to the forest many members are
  356. 17:14experts in these areas that have been
  357. 17:16mentioned littered with all types of
  358. 17:19ruins of the old Elven Empire much of
  359. 17:21the old magic and technology that is
  360. 17:24part of the forest have in later years
  361. 17:26become unstable and dangerous seeking to
  362. 17:30understand their past and Salvage some
  363. 17:32knowledge for the future they Brave
  364. 17:34arthon forest in search of answers a
  365. 17:37prominent adviser and friend of the veil
  366. 17:40jumpers who lend her expertise to the
  367. 17:42group whenever she can especially in
  368. 17:44regards to aluvion Magic and history is
  369. 17:49the lady Morgan daughter of fth and
  370. 17:52vessel of what is left of the Goddess
  371. 17:55mythal meanwhile in the underfell the
  372. 17:58first Warden have summoned many of the
  373. 18:00gry wardens active in the rest of the
  374. 18:02continent back to weop Fortress for
  375. 18:05unspecified reasons in the region known
  376. 18:07as the high anderfels the wardens have
  377. 18:10also engaged in a secret project to
  378. 18:13reintroduce the Griffins back into the
  379. 18:15Grey Warden order after a clutch of 13
  380. 18:19Griffin eggs suspended in magical stasis
  381. 18:22were discovered by a group of wardens
  382. 18:24back in 942 Dragon the order started a
  383. 18:27secret training program in an old
  384. 18:29abandoned Warden Fortress transforming
  385. 18:32it into an ay where the creatures could
  386. 18:35be raised and trained to hopefully once
  387. 18:37more become a part of the Grey Warden
  388. 18:41order in Rain the famous Smuggler and
  389. 18:44pirate Admiral Isabella of the
  390. 18:46felicisima Armada has now also become
  391. 18:49the leader of the Lords of Fortune a
  392. 18:52guild of treasure hunters and
  393. 18:54adventurers based out of the ranian
  394. 18:57coast and in antiva The antivan Crows
  395. 19:01form much of the resistance against the
  396. 19:03occupying antam forces the city of
  397. 19:06traviso is the seat of butcher daata the
  398. 19:10leader of the occupying force and it is
  399. 19:12also here that the antivan crows put up
  400. 19:15much of its Fierce resistance against
  401. 19:17the foreign Invaders In The Years
  402. 19:20following the exalted Council varic
  403. 19:23tethis and inquisitorial Scout lace
  404. 19:25Harding was charged by The Inquisitor to
  405. 19:28track down and stop soless from enacting
  406. 19:31his malicious plans for thetus as well
  407. 19:34as putting together a team that could
  408. 19:36Aid them in this endeavor varic and
  409. 19:39Harding's Journey would take them across
  410. 19:41thetas from the depths of the deep roads
  411. 19:44and the woods of the arthon forest and
  412. 19:47lastly menus during this time they would
  413. 19:50also recruit another member into their
  414. 19:53party an individual who received the
  415. 19:55nickname Rook by varic in 952 dragon
  416. 20:00with the help of a private Mage
  417. 20:02detective and tentor Native by the name
  418. 20:04of Nev gallis the group found what had
  419. 20:08been The Dread Wolf's hideout in the
  420. 20:10imperium's capital and not a moment too
  421. 20:13soon as tears in reality started to show
  422. 20:16up all across the city and demons poured
  423. 20:19out to threaten the physical world
  424. 20:22whatever Solus planned to do he had now
  425. 20:24started in The Hideout the group
  426. 20:26uncovered an Elven aluvia
  427. 20:29which led directly to a ritual site deep
  428. 20:32within the arthan
  429. 20:34forest here magical energy was running
  430. 20:37rampant as soless was in the midst of
  431. 20:40performing a horrifying ritual that
  432. 20:43would see the world flooded with demons
  433. 20:45spirits and the raw essence of the fade
  434. 20:49splitting the veil by using a dagger
  435. 20:52made out of pure lirium Solus was at the
  436. 20:55very last second stopped by the
  437. 20:58intervention ition of rook varic and the
  438. 21:00rest of the group but as a result
  439. 21:04something great and terrible managed to
  440. 21:06slip across the veil and into
  441. 21:09thetus you see the ritual had a
  442. 21:12secondary purpose and that was to move
  443. 21:15two incredibly powerful and dangerous
  444. 21:18entities in the fade from a failing
  445. 21:21prison to a new and safer prison with
  446. 21:25the ritual disrupted these two entities
  447. 21:28managed to escape into the physical
  448. 21:30world and soless in turn was sealed
  449. 21:33within the fade
  450. 21:35himself the escapes were none other than
  451. 21:40the two remaining members of the
  452. 21:43evanuris El Ganan and Gillan
  453. 21:50name finding shelter and a safe haven
  454. 21:53within the crossroads a Nexus for the
  455. 21:56uans created by the ancient elves
  456. 21:59rook and his companions established
  457. 22:01themselves at a place known as the
  458. 22:03lighthouse a place within the crossroads
  459. 22:06that turns out to have been the old
  460. 22:09headquarters for sess' Rebellion against
  461. 22:12the evanuris during ancient times from
  462. 22:15here ironically Rook assembled a team
  463. 22:18and through the interconnecting passages
  464. 22:20of the crossroads utilized several more
  465. 22:23aluvion across Northern thetas in order
  466. 22:26to combat the rising threat that was the
  467. 22:28two remaining Elven Gods this group
  468. 22:31would become known as the veil guard it
  469. 22:35is through the veil guard's exploration
  470. 22:37of the crossroads and by exploring the
  471. 22:39past memories of sess' rebellion that
  472. 22:42many of these new and Earth shattering
  473. 22:44discoveries have been made Rook also
  474. 22:47maintained a mystical connection to
  475. 22:49Solus which allowed Rook to sometimes
  476. 22:51converse with the dreadwolf from Beyond
  477. 22:53the Veil through some type of meditation
  478. 22:57it is mainly from these firsthand
  479. 22:58accounts that much of what has
  480. 23:00previously been Unknown about fetus's
  481. 23:02past has now come to light we might as
  482. 23:05well start in as much of a chronological
  483. 23:08order as we can namely with the time
  484. 23:10before the veil and the origins of the
  485. 23:14Elven
  486. 23:16race what solers have previously stated
  487. 23:19about the origins of the elves we can
  488. 23:21now clearly confirm to be correct the
  489. 23:24first elves were actually spirits that
  490. 23:27in ancient times inhabited a world where
  491. 23:30the fade and the physical world were one
  492. 23:33and the same these Spirits crafted
  493. 23:36physical bodies for themselves out of
  494. 23:39lium and were the individuals we know
  495. 23:43today as the
  496. 23:45evanuris the lyan bodies allowed the
  497. 23:47first elves to retain the immense
  498. 23:49magical power that they possessed as
  499. 23:51spirits in their new physical forms
  500. 23:55their new bodies also enabled them to
  501. 23:57procreate and as such the Elven race as
  502. 24:00a whole quickly came to
  503. 24:03be seemingly last to create a body among
  504. 24:07the evanuris at least was Solus himself
  505. 24:11who had his reservations about
  506. 24:12manifesting into a physical body lium
  507. 24:16was the blood of the mighty Titans of
  508. 24:19the earth and each time a spirit created
  509. 24:21a new body for itself the Earth Shook
  510. 24:25and the Titans were hurt as the larium
  511. 24:28was extracted from their bodies soless
  512. 24:31feared the Wrath of the Titans but was
  513. 24:33also reluctant to give up his ethereal
  514. 24:36form he only did So eventually because
  515. 24:40of his dear friend mythal who begged him
  516. 24:43to become corporeal so that his wisdom
  517. 24:46would not be lost to the new race of
  518. 24:49elves sess' fears would be realized down
  519. 24:53the line however as the Titans rose up
  520. 24:56in Anger against the young race of elves
  521. 24:59like bugs the elves had stolen the
  522. 25:01Titans own blood from their veins and
  523. 25:04the Titans Now sought to swipe them away
  524. 25:08and so the first war in history came to
  525. 25:11pass between the Elves and the
  526. 25:16Titans the Titans themselves were as we
  527. 25:20know the Primeval natives of thetas
  528. 25:23living underneath the ground but
  529. 25:25apparently also roaming above ground as
  530. 25:28well in these ancient times the
  531. 25:31ancestors of the dwarves were the
  532. 25:32children of the Titans and they took
  533. 25:35care of their
  534. 25:37Elders the Titans and the dwarves were
  535. 25:39connected through something known as
  536. 25:42isun a hyn sung by the ancient Titans
  537. 25:47that acted as a constant statement of
  538. 25:50existence roughly translated the term
  539. 25:53means I or we are here the ISAT tunal
  540. 25:58possibly worked as some kind of hive
  541. 26:00mind to the dwarves similar to that of
  542. 26:03ants or bees where it gave them a
  543. 26:06purpose and made them understand their
  544. 26:09role in the grand scheme of things at
  545. 26:12the start of the war with the Titans
  546. 26:15alanan methal Solus and the rest of the
  547. 26:18evanuris took command of the Elven race
  548. 26:21as leaders and Generals swearing to
  549. 26:24relinquish this power once the threat of
  550. 26:26the Titans had been dealt with the war
  551. 26:30was hard fought with methal reportedly
  552. 26:33bringing down at least one of the Titans
  553. 26:35during the fighting but the Titans were
  554. 26:38Relentless and the elves were soon on
  555. 26:41the back foot it was then that mythal
  556. 26:44conceived of a plan to finally put an
  557. 26:47end to the
  558. 26:49conflict a plan that would have
  559. 26:52devastating consequences for the rest of
  560. 26:55the
  561. 26:56world at the the request of mythal
  562. 26:59soless reluctantly crafted a weapon that
  563. 27:02would be able to devastate every living
  564. 27:05Titan on the face of thetas a magical
  565. 27:09dagger made out of pure larium with a
  566. 27:13proper ritual the weapon could be used
  567. 27:15to Sunder every single Titan in
  568. 27:18existence from its respective Spirit
  569. 27:22essentially making the Titans as a race
  570. 27:25tranquil and completely cut off from the
  571. 27:29fade Solus warned that if the dreams of
  572. 27:32the Titans were severed this way they
  573. 27:35would surely be driven mad by anger and
  574. 27:39pain and transform into something
  575. 27:41hitherto unseen within the
  576. 27:44fade recognizing this methal still
  577. 27:48persisted that this was the only way
  578. 27:51that the war could be ended and a safe
  579. 27:53future for the Elven people could be
  580. 27:56secured as such
  581. 27:58sollus eventually carried out this
  582. 28:01ritual and used the dagger to sever the
  583. 28:04Titans bodies from their minds some
  584. 28:07Titans died on the spot While others
  585. 28:10simply fell into a deep Slumber beneath
  586. 28:13the Earth and became
  587. 28:15forgotten the dwarves were also affected
  588. 28:18by this event as the isun could no
  589. 28:21longer be heard as clearly as before the
  590. 28:24hyn was forgotten and the dwarves were
  591. 28:27largely left without purpose and souls
  592. 28:30becoming less collectivist and more
  593. 28:33individualistic as time went on they
  594. 28:36still retained their Stone sense which
  595. 28:38allowed them to navigate skillfully
  596. 28:41underground and hear the song of lium
  597. 28:44but not at all to the same extent as
  598. 28:46when they had been connected to the
  599. 28:49Titans the shaper VTA and Scout lace
  600. 28:52Harding would be two individuals who
  601. 28:54would rekindle the old Titan magic and
  602. 28:57reestablish a part of the aunal in
  603. 28:59modern times after investigating the
  604. 29:02origins of the Titans in the latter's
  605. 29:04case with some help from the dwarves of
  606. 29:08curro sess' fears would once again be
  607. 29:12realized as the confused wounded and
  608. 29:15wrathful severed dreams of the Titans
  609. 29:18started to warp and mutate within the
  610. 29:21fade into something terrible a
  611. 29:24disembodied blight of pain and anger
  612. 29:29this seems to be the actual origins of
  613. 29:33the blight its taint and in extension
  614. 29:37the dark spawn to make sure that this
  615. 29:40blight would never spread and threaten
  616. 29:42the world as a whole the two companions
  617. 29:45created a prison for the blight within
  618. 29:47the fade and placed powerful magical
  619. 29:50Wards upon it this prison is most likely
  620. 29:54the structure most associated with the
  621. 29:57blight to death day namely the black
  622. 30:00City within the
  623. 30:03fade Now we move on to the reign of the
  624. 30:06evanuris and ancient
  625. 30:09elvon we have some previous knowledge
  626. 30:11about the true nature and governance of
  627. 30:13the evanuris but with this new
  628. 30:16information at hand the true scope of
  629. 30:18their reign can now be fully
  630. 30:21understood the evanuris rose first as
  631. 30:24generals then as Elders Kings and lastly
  632. 30:29as self-proclaimed gods of the elves the
  633. 30:32reign of these powerful Mages evolved
  634. 30:34into tyranny as much of the ancient
  635. 30:36Elven population were enslaved to the
  636. 30:39evanuris and used to further their own
  637. 30:42personal Ambitions as tools rather than
  638. 30:45as people not even creatures of nature
  639. 30:48were free from this enslavement as the
  640. 30:51primary members of the evanuris each
  641. 30:53enthralled a high Dragon to serve them
  642. 30:57and their nefarious means more on these
  643. 31:00Dragon throlls
  644. 31:02later despite this mythal and soulless
  645. 31:05still trying to steer the group with
  646. 31:07some sort of morality but it was to no
  647. 31:10avail it seems that beyond the scope of
  648. 31:13the nine primary members of the evanuris
  649. 31:15there were supposedly more members of
  650. 31:17the organization Beyond this number
  651. 31:19during the ancient days an example of
  652. 31:22one who Rose to the rank of primary of
  653. 31:25anurous was Gillan formerly a servant of
  654. 31:28andruil promoted for her skill at
  655. 31:31creating creatures and monsters who
  656. 31:34would protect and serve the elves a
  657. 31:37talent that later turned into malice as
  658. 31:40Gillan was promised more power and Magic
  659. 31:43by her peers throughout the years and
  660. 31:45her Creations turned more and more
  661. 31:49grotesque Solus tried to persuade Gillan
  662. 31:52of the errors of her ways while also
  663. 31:54reaching out to Elgan in an attempt to
  664. 31:56persuade him to not Shackled the minds
  665. 31:58of the elves as well as their bodies now
  666. 32:01that the reign of the evanuris was
  667. 32:03established both pleas fell on deaf ears
  668. 32:07while ruling with an iron fist the
  669. 32:10evanuris did meet with some challenges
  670. 32:12to their rule one of these were the
  671. 32:15threat of the Forgotten ones while Solus
  672. 32:19would later be Affiliated somewhat with
  673. 32:21this group due to evanuris propaganda
  674. 32:24and the Twisted perceptions of the past
  675. 32:26that existed among the day in modern
  676. 32:28times the Forgotten ones would be known
  677. 32:31to later histories as the evil gods of
  678. 32:34the elves the Forgotten ones were as it
  679. 32:37is revealed powerful Warlords that
  680. 32:40sought to overthrow the evanuris by
  681. 32:43creating armies of demons demons that
  682. 32:47had once been normal elves one of the
  683. 32:50Forgotten ones by the name of anaris
  684. 32:52would perform one such Rebellion against
  685. 32:55the evanuris and would attempt to gain
  686. 32:57power again during the time of the veil
  687. 33:00guard the evanuris also conducted a war
  688. 33:03against forces from Beyond the Sea
  689. 33:07enemies that might be the mysterious
  690. 33:09beings called the
  691. 33:12executors to defend their continent the
  692. 33:15evanuris were ruthless and employed many
  693. 33:18horrible strategems against their
  694. 33:20enemies one example is andruil who
  695. 33:23created magical Wards along the coasts
  696. 33:26and bound the light force of her slaves
  697. 33:29to the wards supposedly to protect Aran
  698. 33:32against potential enemies the wards were
  699. 33:35in fact used only to empower andruel
  700. 33:38herself with the life force of her
  701. 33:41captured
  702. 33:42slaves it was possibly during or in the
  703. 33:46wake of these conflicts and wars that
  704. 33:49the evanuris started to weaken the warts
  705. 33:52around the prison in the fade to use the
  706. 33:56blight for their own nefarious
  707. 34:00purposes if the ancient stories of the
  708. 34:03elves are to be believed andruel was the
  709. 34:06first of the evanuris to come into
  710. 34:08contact with the taint of the blight and
  711. 34:10its horrendous power the legend about
  712. 34:13her donning an armor of the abyss and
  713. 34:16being driven mad before mythal stopped
  714. 34:18her might be a first example of the
  715. 34:21taint affecting a creature this might
  716. 34:24also have been the moment when the rest
  717. 34:26of the evanuris start started to take an
  718. 34:28interest in the blight as a weapon to be
  719. 34:31wielded soless had felt for some time
  720. 34:34that the wards around the blight's
  721. 34:36prison in the fade had been weakened and
  722. 34:39warned methal about this methal in turn
  723. 34:42endeavored to speak to the rest of the
  724. 34:45evanuris and remind them of the dangers
  725. 34:47of the blight's magic and stop them if
  726. 34:50they try to get to it and would not
  727. 34:52listen to reason this would be her
  728. 34:55undoing as the rest of the evanuris
  729. 34:58murdered
  730. 34:59mythal this became the straw that broke
  731. 35:02the camel's back for Solus as he
  732. 35:05instigated a fullscale revolt against
  733. 35:08the evanuris seeking to topple the
  734. 35:10self-proclaimed Gods from their Thrones
  735. 35:13and freeing the elves from their
  736. 35:15enslavement using the lighthouse and the
  737. 35:18crossroads as a base of operations and a
  738. 35:21safe haven for refugees and freed slaves
  739. 35:23during the Rebellion Solus and his
  740. 35:26General and friend fell as son engaged
  741. 35:28in many forms of warfare against their
  742. 35:31enemies sub auge sabotage and Guerilla
  743. 35:34tactics were all used in their struggle
  744. 35:37even Spirits were convinced by Solas to
  745. 35:40fight alongside him but as the Revolt
  746. 35:42went on and the more brutal it became
  747. 35:45soless became more and more ruthless in
  748. 35:48the use of his agents and Allied Spirits
  749. 35:51in order to further his goals the
  750. 35:54evanuris would match his cruelty during
  751. 35:57many OCC ations during one such the
  752. 36:00previously mentioned Wards bound to
  753. 36:02andruil were assaulted by the Agents of
  754. 36:05fen herel and the slaves bound to the
  755. 36:07devices were freed as the truth of the
  756. 36:09wards was spread to The Wider populace
  757. 36:12andruil countered this by killing an
  758. 36:16enormous amount of elves at the warding
  759. 36:18sites and then framed soless and his
  760. 36:21agent for the murder implicating that
  761. 36:24the rebels put the safety of arthon at
  762. 36:27risk with these attacks though this was
  763. 36:30regrettable soless insisted that the
  764. 36:33evanuris were now becoming more and more
  765. 36:35desperate another event of note during
  766. 36:38the rebellion was when one of the
  767. 36:39members of the evanuris besides the
  768. 36:42primary Pantheon was brought Low by
  769. 36:44Solus this unnamed member was known for
  770. 36:48his cruelty towards his servants and
  771. 36:50slaves making them reluctant to join
  772. 36:52solace's cause for fear of retaliation
  773. 36:56so sollace started at ridiculing the man
  774. 36:59and this spread from Elf to elf until
  775. 37:02the cruel master was surrounded by
  776. 37:04nothing but mocking laughter for the
  777. 37:06next 12 years this resulted in his mind
  778. 37:09shattering and his slaves rising up to
  779. 37:12join soless in the aftermath the
  780. 37:15conflict reached its ultimate conclusion
  781. 37:17when Solas finally managed to banish the
  782. 37:20evanuris to the fade and separated it
  783. 37:24and the material world by creating the
  784. 37:26Veil binding the lives of the evanuris
  785. 37:29to the veil in order to sustain it this
  786. 37:33would also result in the decline of the
  787. 37:35Elven race as they were now cut off from
  788. 37:38the fade their immortality withered away
  789. 37:42along with their culture technology and
  790. 37:45history soless would as we now know fall
  791. 37:49into a deep Slumber after this Titanic
  792. 37:52Endeavor the prison where the evanuris
  793. 37:55were sealed is also revealed to us and
  794. 37:57its location is quite revelatory to US
  795. 38:01changing quite a lot of what we
  796. 38:03previously thought we knew the blight as
  797. 38:06well as the evanuris were sealed away
  798. 38:10within the black City in the fade the
  799. 38:13city itself seems to be some sort of
  800. 38:16ancient Elven structure maybe even a
  801. 38:19palace this seems to disprove much of
  802. 38:22the established andrastian Doctrine and
  803. 38:25the chantry's version of what the black
  804. 38:27City and the fade is if the Golden City
  805. 38:32was actually a Palace built by the
  806. 38:35ancient elves and acted as a prison for
  807. 38:37the blight and the evanuris then the
  808. 38:40maker did not build the Golden City at
  809. 38:44all and the maker did not separate the
  810. 38:47world from the fade either that was
  811. 38:50solace's doing the theological
  812. 38:53ramifications of these Revelations might
  813. 38:55be staggering but as as far as we know
  814. 38:58this is not common knowledge to the
  815. 39:00faithful of thas at this moment in
  816. 39:04time while on the topic of revelatory
  817. 39:07facts let's again touch upon the dragon
  818. 39:10THS of the
  819. 39:11evanuris each member of the pantheon
  820. 39:14except for Solus and methal had in the
  821. 39:18time of ancient elvon bound to
  822. 39:20themselves a personal High Dragon for
  823. 39:23protection and personal use into the
  824. 39:27these Dragon THS each member of the
  825. 39:30evanuris also bound their own life force
  826. 39:33and spirit resulting in the evanuris
  827. 39:36becoming virtually unkillable as long as
  828. 39:39their pet dragons were alive after
  829. 39:42soless imprison their masters in the
  830. 39:44fade the dragon throlls remained on the
  831. 39:47material plane slumbering within
  832. 39:51Subterranean Caverns but these dragons
  833. 39:54were still connected to their masters
  834. 39:56and acted as conduits for the evanuris
  835. 40:00through which they spoke to Dreaming
  836. 40:02Minds as Solus
  837. 40:05reveals this is how the ancient tenter
  838. 40:08people were influenced into creating the
  839. 40:12old gods whom they later
  840. 40:15worshiped the old gods never existed as
  841. 40:19a separate Pantheon of deities but were
  842. 40:22in fact the high Dragon THS of the
  843. 40:25evanuris worship shipped as Gods the
  844. 40:29names of the Dragon thalls became the
  845. 40:31names of the old gods that were woried
  846. 40:34in ancient
  847. 40:36toin through this connection with their
  848. 40:38dragon THS the evanuris spoke through
  849. 40:41them to influence and manipulate the
  850. 40:43faithful of tenter with the most famous
  851. 40:46and egregious example of convincing the
  852. 40:49Magister siderial into breaching the
  853. 40:51fade and releasing a small portion of
  854. 40:54the blight into the real world laying
  855. 40:57the the groundworks for the spread of
  856. 40:59the dark spawn and the blights led by
  857. 41:02the infected Dragon throlls known as
  858. 41:05Arch demons the dragon thrs of each
  859. 41:08respective member of the evanuris have
  860. 41:11also been Unearthed with more or less
  861. 41:14certainty Elgan and gillan's thrs were
  862. 41:17Lucan and razak respectively while uial
  863. 41:22belonged to June to to Silas andural to
  864. 41:27and druel zazel to fondin and dumat to
  865. 41:33deraman one of the final subjects
  866. 41:35regarding our new discoveries of ancient
  867. 41:38Elven history and the of anuras that
  868. 41:40will be discussed here is the fate of
  869. 41:44methal as mentioned methal was murdered
  870. 41:47by the other members of the evanuris
  871. 41:50with her own lium dagger no less the
  872. 41:53same larium dagger that soless had used
  873. 41:56against the Titan
  874. 41:57and the dagger that would later end up
  875. 42:00in rook's hands yet small fragments of
  876. 42:03her soul managed to survive the death of
  877. 42:06her physical body and were scattered in
  878. 42:09the aftermath of her death sollus
  879. 42:12managed to retrieve a small fragment of
  880. 42:14mythal soul from the lirium dagger that
  881. 42:17ended her life and since then this small
  882. 42:20fragment have resided deep within the
  883. 42:23crossroads the other major fragment of
  884. 42:25mythal's Soul inhabited many willing
  885. 42:27Souls both elves and humans during the
  886. 42:31ages following her demise still
  887. 42:33retaining much of her memories
  888. 42:35personality and some of her magical
  889. 42:37power she lended those she possessed
  890. 42:41with these gifts as well as appearing in
  891. 42:43dreams to offer advice and the sorts she
  892. 42:47still cared very much for the elves but
  893. 42:49were limited in her abilities to Aid
  894. 42:52them with the death of fth at the hands
  895. 42:54of soless in order for him to retain
  896. 42:56some of his Godlike Powers a sliver of
  897. 43:00mythol Soul made its way to her daughter
  898. 43:03Morgan who accepted it into her own body
  899. 43:07becoming the next host of mythal's
  900. 43:09memories and some of her
  901. 43:13powers moving on to the weapon that
  902. 43:16dealt the killing blow to mithal as well
  903. 43:18as playing an instrumental part in Elvin
  904. 43:20history the lium dagger this item has
  905. 43:24been revealed to in fact be the the same
  906. 43:27as another well-known item that Scholars
  907. 43:30of these subjects have encountered
  908. 43:32before namely the lirium idol found by
  909. 43:37hawk and Barton's expedition in the Deep
  910. 43:40roads back in 931 Dragon according to
  911. 43:45Harding the idol had been lodged inside
  912. 43:48the crystallized remains of Meredith
  913. 43:50Stannard in kirkwall right up until a
  914. 43:53couple of years before the events of 952
  915. 43:56dragon
  916. 43:57when Solus himself presumably retrieved
  917. 44:00it there are also rumors of sollus
  918. 44:02retrieving the idol after it had already
  919. 44:04been dislodged from Meredith's Body by
  920. 44:07other people purifying it of red lium
  921. 44:11and restoring it to its original form
  922. 44:14the dagger would be used during sess'
  923. 44:16ritual in 952 dragon and would later
  924. 44:19find its way into rook's
  925. 44:23hands from new historical findings we
  926. 44:26have also learned more about the ancient
  927. 44:28history of the kith and kunari as well
  928. 44:31as new and interesting facets of their
  929. 44:34people and culture during rook's travels
  930. 44:37they encounter a canari named Tash who
  931. 44:41has the rare ability to breathe fire
  932. 44:44from taj's mother Rook also encounters
  933. 44:47an ancient tablet written by the ancient
  934. 44:50kunari or maybe even the kith before the
  935. 44:53cun after its secretive meaning was
  936. 44:56revealed by T fire a number of
  937. 44:58interesting things were revealed about
  938. 45:00the kunari the fire breathers are known
  939. 45:03as adari within kunari society and are
  940. 45:07exceptionally rare individuals normally
  941. 45:10recruited straight into the antam under
  942. 45:12the cun the tablet revealed the origins
  943. 45:16of the
  944. 45:17adari the words of the tablet were as
  945. 45:19mentioned revealed by Dragonfire and
  946. 45:22they were apparently written with that
  947. 45:25in mind and heeds the read to not trust
  948. 45:28anything that is not hidden in the same
  949. 45:30way the text speaks of the creation of
  950. 45:33the adari by the ancient kunari with the
  951. 45:36use of Dragon Blood exactly how they
  952. 45:40were created is unclear the purpose of
  953. 45:43the adari was to help combat an ancient
  954. 45:46evil known as the devouring storm in the
  955. 45:51text this enemy was the reason that the
  956. 45:54kunari fled from across the ocean to the
  957. 45:57shores of thas in the first place to
  958. 46:00escape this devouring storm and
  959. 46:04according to the tablet some sort of
  960. 46:06sickness followed the canari to thetas
  961. 46:09making them perish from that as well the
  962. 46:12tablet's text also implies that the
  963. 46:15ancient enemy the devouring storm will
  964. 46:18eventually follow the Kari across the
  965. 46:21sea and so the threat continues to loom
  966. 46:24on the
  967. 46:25horizon the the knowledge regarding the
  968. 46:28threat of this ancient enemy and of the
  969. 46:30adari were lost to the canari overall
  970. 46:34and mainly preserved in the words of
  971. 46:36these ancient and rare
  972. 46:39tablets this information now that it has
  973. 46:42been revealed have great implications
  974. 46:44for kunari history and it raises even
  975. 46:47more questions was the philosophy of the
  976. 46:50K created as a way to hold the kith
  977. 46:53people together in the face of the
  978. 46:54devouring storm how exactly were the
  979. 46:58adari created by the use of Dragon Blood
  980. 47:01back in the day has the ancient homeland
  981. 47:03of the kunari across the sea now been
  982. 47:06completely taken over by this enemy and
  983. 47:09what is the nature of the devouring
  984. 47:12storm is it a person an organization or
  985. 47:16something more akin to a force of nature
  986. 47:18or
  987. 47:19sickness these are all questions that we
  988. 47:22will hopefully one day have answers to
  989. 47:26from another one of rook's companions
  990. 47:29the esteemed professor emerik volaran of
  991. 47:32the mourn watch Department of the Naran
  992. 47:34mortalitasi we glimpse a few previously
  993. 47:37unknown facts of the grand necropolis of
  994. 47:40Navara and the mourn watch
  995. 47:43itself we first of all have the fact
  996. 47:46that King Marcus pentas the currently
  997. 47:49ruling and very old monarch of Navara is
  998. 47:52in fact
  999. 47:54Undead the king's old age and the the
  1000. 47:57fact that he is childless and without an
  1001. 47:59apparent Heir has been a looming
  1002. 48:02political problem for Navara for many
  1003. 48:04years Emme tells us that half the naara
  1004. 48:08nobility probably suspects what the
  1005. 48:11reason for the king's unnatural
  1006. 48:13longevity is a result of by now and that
  1007. 48:16he worries what the other nations of
  1008. 48:19thetus were to think of Navara if word
  1009. 48:22got out that it is currently ruled by an
  1010. 48:25undead King
  1011. 48:27the other interesting fact revolves
  1012. 48:30around the
  1013. 48:31liches a lich is simply put a mage that
  1014. 48:36has been transformed into a very
  1015. 48:39powerful Undead but still retains his
  1016. 48:42soul and
  1017. 48:44Consciousness this transformation gives
  1018. 48:47the individual Lich new and Powerful
  1019. 48:50magical powers at their disposal and
  1020. 48:53essentially makes the individual in
  1021. 48:55question imort moral the mightiest of
  1022. 48:58the grand necropolis Defenders are the
  1023. 49:01Lich Lords a group of liches sworn to
  1024. 49:04protect not only the necropolis but
  1025. 49:07creation itself against the dark Forces
  1026. 49:11of the world this one and the fade
  1027. 49:14becoming a lich is no easy task however
  1028. 49:18and mourat members who are determined to
  1029. 49:20undertake this Hing Journey will be
  1030. 49:23tested over the course of many years if
  1031. 49:27a candidate makes it through the years
  1032. 49:29of testing they will face one last
  1033. 49:32challenge before lichdom is achieved one
  1034. 49:35last sifting of the Soul those who are
  1035. 49:39unworthy will die on the spot others
  1036. 49:43might become something known as half
  1037. 49:44litches an undead who is still mortal
  1038. 49:48and who is forced to hunt down and
  1039. 49:50consume Souls of others in order to
  1040. 49:53sustain
  1041. 49:54themselves but if a candidate is found
  1042. 49:58to be worthy the person in question is
  1043. 50:01ritualistically killed and then brought
  1044. 50:03back to life as the soul is drawn back
  1045. 50:06into the body again the person then
  1046. 50:09Rises as part of a hallowed and Immortal
  1047. 50:13cast pledged to protect the living in
  1048. 50:16death lichdom carries with it its
  1049. 50:19downsides however as the person in
  1050. 50:21question appearance-wise is now a
  1051. 50:24ghastly skeletal monstros
  1052. 50:27and must hide its new appearance with
  1053. 50:30magical glamour so as to not frighten
  1054. 50:32humans who are not inducted into the
  1055. 50:34ranks of the
  1056. 50:36mortalitasi and while some new senses
  1057. 50:38and powers are gifted to the Lich in
  1058. 50:41question other senses more connected to
  1059. 50:44the living are dulled over
  1060. 50:48time we spoke earlier about the
  1061. 50:51surviving Griffins as the person
  1062. 50:54ultimately responsible for the near
  1063. 50:56Extinction of the species would once
  1064. 50:58again show up to threaten this new
  1065. 51:01generation of griffins this individual a
  1066. 51:05monster known as the Gloom howler for
  1067. 51:07its hideous screams would eventually
  1068. 51:10kidnap all remaining Griffins except for
  1069. 51:14one a son the Griffin of the warden
  1070. 51:17Davin a member of rook's veil guard
  1071. 51:21pursuing the Gloom howler rook and the
  1072. 51:23veil guard finally uncovered the truth
  1073. 51:26behind the monster and why it had
  1074. 51:28abducted the last surviving
  1075. 51:31Griffins the Gloom howler's original
  1076. 51:34identity was none other than the warden
  1077. 51:38Isa sister to gel and the Mage
  1078. 51:41originally though inadvertedly it should
  1079. 51:44be stated responsible for the blood
  1080. 51:47magic modified joining ritual that led
  1081. 51:50to the extinction of the Griffins in the
  1082. 51:53aftermath of the fourth blight isaya had
  1083. 51:56also been the one who after realizing
  1084. 51:59the scope of her mistakes saved the 13
  1085. 52:02Griffin eggs in the first place
  1086. 52:05cleansing them from corruption and
  1087. 52:07putting them in magical suspended
  1088. 52:09animation so that they were found more
  1089. 52:11than 400 years later in 942 Dragon after
  1090. 52:16this last Good Deed isaya set off on her
  1091. 52:20calling and throughout the years the
  1092. 52:22dark spawn taint deteriorated both her
  1093. 52:26mind and body until she turned into a
  1094. 52:29ghoul unrecognizable from her previous
  1095. 52:32self she evolved into the Gloom howler
  1096. 52:35and also developed the ability to
  1097. 52:37control dark spawn to some extent some
  1098. 52:40parts of her past she retained however
  1099. 52:44memories of the Griffins in particular
  1100. 52:47the reason she kidnaps the Griffins in
  1101. 52:49952 dragon is revealed to the veil guard
  1102. 52:53later in their investigation as the
  1103. 52:56Gloom ER seeks to infect the Griffins
  1104. 52:59with the dark spawn taint this is
  1105. 53:01similar to what she did back in the
  1106. 53:04exalted age and in her mind she is
  1107. 53:07convinced that this will protect and
  1108. 53:09keep the Griffins safe she also plans to
  1109. 53:13enct Revenge upon the gray wardens whom
  1110. 53:16she thought let the original Griffins
  1111. 53:19down the Gloom howler goes to Great
  1112. 53:22Lengths to achieve this Twisted goal
  1113. 53:25including stealing blood from the
  1114. 53:27remains of the arch demon zazel to
  1115. 53:30corrupt the Griffins with these remains
  1116. 53:33along with many other lost and hidden
  1117. 53:35relics were being kept at a secret Fort
  1118. 53:38known as The Cauldron in the
  1119. 53:41anderfels the Gloom H howler would even
  1120. 53:43go so far as to build a mirror version
  1121. 53:47of The Fortress of Weiss deep down in
  1122. 53:50the Deep roads managing to corrupt
  1123. 53:53several wardens as well to serve as its
  1124. 53:56Defender Enders all this to taint the
  1125. 53:59last remaining Griffins in existence and
  1126. 54:01to enact a twisted vengeance upon the
  1127. 54:04gray
  1128. 54:06wardens rook and the veil guard would
  1129. 54:08combat the evil forces of the two Elven
  1130. 54:11Gods over much of Northern thetas
  1131. 54:14including the members of the venatori
  1132. 54:17and the
  1133. 54:18Anam battles would rage at the Grey
  1134. 54:21Warden Fortress of weop and Grand cities
  1135. 54:24like menus and Travis would come under
  1136. 54:27attack from blighted dragons just to
  1137. 54:30name a few examples but while events
  1138. 54:32were unfolding in the north so too did
  1139. 54:36they unfold in the south of thas at the
  1140. 54:38same time the evanuris were hellbent on
  1141. 54:42bringing blight war and destruction not
  1142. 54:45just to the north of thetas but to the
  1143. 54:48entire continent a new blight had risen
  1144. 54:53a blight Modified by the Monstrous
  1145. 54:55villain and intellect that was
  1146. 54:59Gillan Gillan had attained her position
  1147. 55:02among the aurus by creating creatures
  1148. 55:04and Monsters the dark spawn was no
  1149. 55:07different and as she had weaponized the
  1150. 55:10blight in the days of ancient Aron so
  1151. 55:13too did she modify the dark spawn in the
  1152. 55:16fight against the veil guard she
  1153. 55:19considered the sliver of blight that the
  1154. 55:21magisters had Unleashed on thetas and
  1155. 55:24the way it corrupted people into dark
  1156. 55:25spawn to be crude altering the dark
  1157. 55:29spawn to apparently resemble more those
  1158. 55:32of ancient time their appearance changed
  1159. 55:36and their bodies were strengthened she
  1160. 55:38also introduced pools of blight that
  1161. 55:42were easily coaxed to produce dark spawn
  1162. 55:45repeatedly apparently without the use of
  1163. 55:48a brood mother the blight itself could
  1164. 55:51now also take a more physical shape in
  1165. 55:54the world by corrupting nature and the
  1166. 55:56area it was surrounded by more so than
  1167. 55:59it already was able to do boils tendrils
  1168. 56:04and corrupted blighted matter could Now
  1169. 56:07cover the land in a disgusting display
  1170. 56:09of
  1171. 56:10blight this new blight the sixth and
  1172. 56:14probably final blight would strike the
  1173. 56:17South like a dark Avalanche of death and
  1174. 56:21ruin and this information is truly some
  1175. 56:24of the most harrowing of the new
  1176. 56:26findings that have been revealed to us
  1177. 56:29so some students might want to steal
  1178. 56:32themselves for what they are about to
  1179. 56:34hear the attack on the south was first
  1180. 56:37and foremost carried out by the proxies
  1181. 56:39of the evanuris at the start of the war
  1182. 56:42the vitori in orlay as they made common
  1183. 56:45cause with a splinter faction within the
  1184. 56:47orian nobility causing a civil war that
  1185. 56:51destabilized the nation and the antam
  1186. 56:55and its Naval for forces raiding and
  1187. 56:57pillaging the coast lines of the South
  1188. 57:00the dark spawn would just like during
  1189. 57:03the previous blight a mass in huge
  1190. 57:06numbers in the Wilds south of ostagar
  1191. 57:10leading the defense of the South apart
  1192. 57:13from each separate nation and their
  1193. 57:15respective armies of course was The
  1194. 57:18Inquisitor and what remained of the
  1195. 57:20Inquisition still using skyhold as a
  1196. 57:23base of
  1197. 57:24operations the ven Tori although
  1198. 57:27managing to capture the orian capital of
  1199. 57:29Valerio and launching attacks onto the
  1200. 57:32free marches as far east as kirkwall
  1201. 57:35would eventually be fought to a
  1202. 57:37standstill and the Untamed Naval forces
  1203. 57:40would be driven from the Seas of the
  1204. 57:42South with the help of Isabella and the
  1205. 57:44felicisima
  1206. 57:46Armada the armies of the free marches
  1207. 57:49would even unite under one Banner to
  1208. 57:51March South to their allies' assistance
  1209. 57:54after dealing with many their own
  1210. 57:57problems it would be the threat of the
  1211. 57:59blight and the dark spawn falling upon
  1212. 58:02Southern Faldon that would result in the
  1213. 58:05hardest blow for the South the blight
  1214. 58:08would consume much of Eastern and
  1215. 58:11Southern Falon even the capital of denim
  1216. 58:14would fall to its corruption where the
  1217. 58:17blight had been active previously almost
  1218. 58:19as if it had laid dormant for years it
  1219. 58:22sprung up at the event of the six blight
  1220. 58:26through an alliance brokered by The
  1221. 58:28Inquisitor between felon oramar the
  1222. 58:32avars and the chastened tribes the
  1223. 58:34leaders of Faldon managed to hold the
  1224. 58:36blight and the dark spawn at Bay for a
  1225. 58:39long time but eventually the dark spawn
  1226. 58:42attacking felon previously a trickle but
  1227. 58:46later an Unstoppable flood marshaled a
  1228. 58:49hoorde which numbers were unheard of
  1229. 58:53cities and villages in the south of the
  1230. 58:55country were abandoned and in the end
  1231. 58:58the stronghold of redcliffe could not
  1232. 59:00hold out and fell to the enemy the
  1233. 59:04shores of lake kalanad wried with
  1234. 59:06corruption as the land sickened and died
  1235. 59:10leaving those felons that might survive
  1236. 59:13this catastrophe to succumb to
  1237. 59:15starvation if not slain by dark spawn or
  1238. 59:19corrupted by blight skyhold housed
  1239. 59:22refugees and stood firm against the
  1240. 59:24darkspawn onslaught but supplies became
  1241. 59:27fewer and
  1242. 59:29fewer at the end of the blight as the
  1243. 59:31forces of the veil guard were preparing
  1244. 59:34their assault on occupied menus and the
  1245. 59:37eclipsed son of el Ganan hung in the sky
  1246. 59:40much of Falon as well as large parts of
  1247. 59:43orlay and the free marches had been
  1248. 59:46consumed by the bite oramar if the
  1249. 59:50reports are to be believed hangs on by a
  1250. 59:53thread but reports have become few and
  1251. 59:56far between whatever future remains for
  1252. 59:59Southern thetas and its people when the
  1253. 1:00:02sixth blight comes to an end remains to
  1254. 1:00:05be seen but from what have been revealed
  1255. 1:00:09it most assuredly looks like a sorrowful
  1256. 1:00:12and Bleak
  1257. 1:00:18one and yet as all these catastrophes
  1258. 1:00:22unfold and are laid bare there are
  1259. 1:00:25rumors of something lurking behind it
  1260. 1:00:27all something that have been pulling the
  1261. 1:00:30strings all along and directing events
  1262. 1:00:33to suit their goals until the poison
  1263. 1:00:37fruit has
  1264. 1:00:39ripened during the early 940s Dragon the
  1265. 1:00:44Inquisition came into contact with a
  1266. 1:00:46network of spies controlled by an
  1267. 1:00:49organization called the
  1268. 1:00:53executors this organization claimed to
  1269. 1:00:55speak
  1270. 1:00:56on behalf of those across the
  1271. 1:00:59sea what lies across the oceans of
  1272. 1:01:02thetas have long been a mystery however
  1273. 1:01:05it seems like those that supposedly live
  1274. 1:01:07across it have a keen interest in what
  1275. 1:01:10goes on in
  1276. 1:01:12thetas the executors declared that the
  1277. 1:01:15inquisition's cause was just and that
  1278. 1:01:18chifus was a threat to all supporting
  1279. 1:01:21them in their Endeavor sharing some
  1280. 1:01:23knowledge with the Inquisition the ex
  1281. 1:01:25executors then revealed that their
  1282. 1:01:27intention was to watch and observe what
  1283. 1:01:30was going on on the continent and
  1284. 1:01:33declared that for the moment we are not
  1285. 1:01:37your enemies what the executors and the
  1286. 1:01:40powers across the sea actually are is
  1287. 1:01:44not yet known but this is not the first
  1288. 1:01:47time that this enigmatic organization
  1289. 1:01:50has had dealings with
  1290. 1:01:51thetas during the days of ancient elvon
  1291. 1:01:55the Urus as I mentioned earlier
  1292. 1:01:58considered those across the sea to be
  1293. 1:02:00enemies and andruil's Wards were at
  1294. 1:02:04first meant to protect against attacks
  1295. 1:02:06from these
  1296. 1:02:07enemies later in history it seems like
  1297. 1:02:10the ancient tenter Imperium had some
  1298. 1:02:13knowledge of those across the sea
  1299. 1:02:16possibly Through The Whispers of the
  1300. 1:02:18aurus across the fade masquerading as
  1301. 1:02:21their old gods denter even constructed
  1302. 1:02:24an enormous flight in Fortress in
  1303. 1:02:27menrath that were supposed to be used as
  1304. 1:02:29a defense system against those across
  1305. 1:02:32the sea called Emil's
  1306. 1:02:35Shield the priesthood of emel argued
  1307. 1:02:38constantly with the priesthood of Lucan
  1308. 1:02:41at this time who instead wanted to
  1309. 1:02:43transform the Fortress from a defensive
  1310. 1:02:46weapon into an offensive one in order to
  1311. 1:02:49destroy the threat from across the
  1312. 1:02:52ocean only on rare occasions have the
  1313. 1:02:55executors actually been seen on thetas
  1314. 1:02:59one such rare occasion was when an
  1315. 1:03:02Executor sometime after the year 944
  1316. 1:03:05Dragon attended a secretive meeting of
  1317. 1:03:08spies to relay what it knew about soless
  1318. 1:03:12and his plans the attending
  1319. 1:03:14inquisitorial agent Charter witnessed
  1320. 1:03:17the cloaked and hooded being and
  1321. 1:03:19witnessed its demise as well as sollus
  1322. 1:03:23himself interrupted the meeting and
  1323. 1:03:25preventing the executive from speaking
  1324. 1:03:28by petrifying it later warning Charter
  1325. 1:03:31of how dangerous those across the sea
  1326. 1:03:35was traces of the executors and their
  1327. 1:03:38covert activity have been encountered on
  1328. 1:03:41thetas on a few occasions revealing
  1329. 1:03:44mysterious circles or fragments of
  1330. 1:03:47circles these mysterious artifacts were
  1331. 1:03:50once stumbled upon by two DISH elves
  1332. 1:03:54from Clan Ursel
  1333. 1:03:56who decided to investigate these things
  1334. 1:03:59further this eventually LED them to a
  1335. 1:04:01collapsed section of the deep roads
  1336. 1:04:04seemingly in close proximity to the
  1337. 1:04:07ocean or even leading under it there
  1338. 1:04:11they encountered and survived an
  1339. 1:04:14encounter with an Executor whom they
  1340. 1:04:17decided to flee from they did not
  1341. 1:04:20investigate the matter further rook and
  1342. 1:04:23the veil guard encountered three of the
  1343. 1:04:25these mysterious circles in their
  1344. 1:04:27Journeys circles that when combined
  1345. 1:04:30formed the symbol of the executors met
  1346. 1:04:34with the voice of presumably an unseen
  1347. 1:04:36executor at the place of each circle
  1348. 1:04:38Rook was cryptically informed that the
  1349. 1:04:42executors have observed what has been
  1350. 1:04:44going on in thetus and are waiting for
  1351. 1:04:47the right time to reveal themselves and
  1352. 1:04:51their
  1353. 1:04:52plans with that we will end to today's
  1354. 1:04:56lesson here as I said these new findings
  1355. 1:05:00changes a lot and I do not blame you at
  1356. 1:05:03all if some of you might be feeling a
  1357. 1:05:06bit overwhelmed trust me so am I but we
  1358. 1:05:10will endeavor to understand this new
  1359. 1:05:12information to the best of our abilities
  1360. 1:05:14and to uncover whatever Mysteries that
  1361. 1:05:16still May lurk out in the unknown it is
  1362. 1:05:20the nature of academic and scientific
  1363. 1:05:22study that new information comes to
  1364. 1:05:24light and changes our perceptions of
  1365. 1:05:27things it seems that not just you
  1366. 1:05:30students but I myself have some reading
  1367. 1:05:33to do so I thank you very much for
  1368. 1:05:36attending today's lesson until next
  1369. 1:05:38class have a good day my
  1370. 1:05:44friends thank you all very much for
  1371. 1:05:46watching the video after I have actually
  1372. 1:05:49finished the game it took me quite a
  1373. 1:05:52while to compile everything that I had
  1374. 1:05:54taken notes on into a new script and a
  1375. 1:05:57video so thank you all for your patience
  1376. 1:06:00as I wrote in the latest Community
  1377. 1:06:02update there will be a sort of review
  1378. 1:06:05slash discussion slash rant video about
  1379. 1:06:09the veil guard in the future as well as
  1380. 1:06:12the video on Falon those are the two
  1381. 1:06:15upcoming videos and after that I have
  1382. 1:06:18some plans going into the new year for
  1383. 1:06:21new content thank you all for your
  1384. 1:06:24continued support and I hope hope that
  1385. 1:06:262025 will be a good year for all of us
  1386. 1:06:29until next time have a good one

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