The New Lore of Dragon Age: The Veilguard — Transcript
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- 0:15welcome back to class my dear students I
- 0:18am Professor Absalom and it's very nice
- 0:20to see you all again now as some of you
- 0:24might already know there have been
- 0:26several new scientific findings and
- 0:29discovery
- 0:30regarding this class as subject matter
- 0:33during recent time namely the world of
- 0:36Dragon
- 0:37Age much of this information after
- 0:40having been verified and cross
- 0:42referenced to ensure its validity has
- 0:44not only shed new light on questions we
- 0:47might have previously had regarding the
- 0:49history and lore of Dragon Age it has to
- 0:53put it mildly turned much of it on its
- 0:56head much of what we previously thought
- 0:59was established facts have now changed
- 1:01completely due to these new findings and
- 1:04many Mysteries have now received
- 1:07answers honestly I have to say all of
- 1:10this is quite overwhelming what all of
- 1:13this entails for future academic
- 1:16research into this
- 1:17topic it will take years to sort all of
- 1:21this out let me tell you but let's get
- 1:24into it shall we during this lecture I
- 1:27will as well as I can go through most of
- 1:29the the major new findings in regards to
- 1:32the lore of Dragon Age if you believe I
- 1:35missed some Vital Information be sure to
- 1:37let me know in the comments after this
- 1:39lecture I will endeavor to not mix in
- 1:43any of my own personal feelings or
- 1:45biases into this lecture and will simply
- 1:48tell you the facts of what we have found
- 1:50out as well as I can we have quite a lot
- 1:54to go through so let's get started shall
- 1:57we in the Years following the exed
- 2:00Council and the fate of the Inquisition
- 2:02in 944 Dragon the elf Mage known as
- 2:06Solus would be revealed as the dread
- 2:09wolf one of the ancient evanuris once
- 2:13worshiped as Gods by the elves denying
- 2:16that the evanor or himself were gods and
- 2:19simply very powerful Mages it was
- 2:21soulless who had led a revolt against
- 2:24the tyranny of the evanuris that
- 2:26resulted in him banishing them to a
- 2:28prison in the fade and creating the veil
- 2:32that separates this world and the Beyond
- 2:35this had led to the diminishing of the
- 2:37elves in the years that followed where
- 2:39they lost much of their magic longevity
- 2:42and culture weakened by this effort sess
- 2:45awoke thousands of years later after a
- 2:48long Slumber and decided to rectify his
- 2:51perceived mistake after seeing how much
- 2:54the elves had lost after the conflict
- 2:56between the Inquisition and chifus and
- 2:59the exalted Council soless dedicated the
- 3:02following years to gather followers the
- 3:05Agents of fen herel with the ultimate
- 3:07goal of Bringing Down the veil flooding
- 3:10the world with the raw essence of the
- 3:12fade and restoring the power and glory
- 3:15of the Elven people this would culminate
- 3:18in the ritual in the arthan forest in
- 3:22952
- 3:24Dragon at the same time much of Northern
- 3:27thus would become a Battleground
- 3:30as the military arm of the kunari the
- 3:33antam launched an invasion of the
- 3:37continent the triumphant leadership of
- 3:40the cun the Salasar had a very hands-off
- 3:44approach in regards to the emergence of
- 3:46the preach and the inquisition's
- 3:48conflict with chifus during the early
- 3:50940s Dragon sending representatives to
- 3:54the Inquisition and observing the
- 3:56ongoing situation from afar kunari
- 3:59leadership decided to play the long game
- 4:02if the bus were to be brought into the
- 4:04cune it would be through willing
- 4:06conversion to the cause not
- 4:08opportunistic military
- 4:10actions this mindset angered many within
- 4:14the antam and the Ben hassrath who were
- 4:16of the opinion that the southerners
- 4:18could not control the dangers of magic
- 4:21and had to be conquered as fast as
- 4:23possible to minimize potential overall
- 4:26damage they had to act if their own
- 4:29leaders were too weak willed to do
- 4:32so following the failure of the dragon's
- 4:35breath plan in 944 Dragon which sought
- 4:38to eliminate most of southern fetus's
- 4:40leadership and laying the grounds for a
- 4:42swift kunari Invasion and conversion of
- 4:45the South kunari leadership were thrown
- 4:48into disarray the plot had been carried
- 4:50out by Rogue elements within the benas
- 4:54and the antam and was unsanctioned by
- 4:57the triumvirate of the cun it had
- 5:00however despite its failure been very
- 5:03popular among many kunari who feared the
- 5:06dangers of magic and wanted a fast
- 5:08solution to the actions of the bus while
- 5:12the responsible Ben hassrath operatives
- 5:14gave in and surrendered to the
- 5:16triumvirate the various kith shocks and
- 5:19caban of the antam generals and Admirals
- 5:23respectively refused to back down
- 5:26according to them the plot had failed
- 5:29because it had not not gone far enough
- 5:31the bus were at this point Unworthy of
- 5:34simple education and peaceful conversion
- 5:37to the cun they had to be either
- 5:40conquered or destroyed entirely a former
- 5:44companion to the hero felon known by his
- 5:47then title of Sten spoke out against his
- 5:50warmongering generals and for this they
- 5:54renounced him as corrupt and almost
- 5:57succeeded at killing him ambushing the
- 6:00arishok at a war council the former Sten
- 6:03only managed to survive and flee the
- 6:05scene due to a few loyal kunari
- 6:09soldiers as the former arishok and his
- 6:11loyal men fled they then turned
- 6:14themselves over to the benrath and
- 6:16renounced their previous statuses within
- 6:19the military following this the antam as
- 6:23the rany S Rowan writes in her work
- 6:26quote went to war a body now bereft of
- 6:31mind and soul end quote First the antam
- 6:36fell on the tent Imperium who had been
- 6:39at war with the kunari for ages around
- 6:42the year 944 to 945 Dragon the war was
- 6:46renewed as the antam invaded and
- 6:49captured the cities of Ventus formerly
- 6:52kinus KES and nenan in quick succession
- 6:57then the antam moved on to the rest of
- 7:00the north as the thedosians were taken
- 7:03completely by
- 7:05surprise conquering antiva and Northern
- 7:08ravan the invading antam then pushed as
- 7:11far south as the Menan River before once
- 7:15again turning their full might on the
- 7:18tent Imperium due to the anam's fear of
- 7:21necromancy and an unwillingness to open
- 7:24a new warfront with trinter still in
- 7:26play Nara was spared the anti am's
- 7:30Onslaught with their Mighty gatlocke
- 7:32weapons the antam pushed westwards into
- 7:36tent until they were halted at the city
- 7:39of vyrantium which offered Fierce
- 7:41resistance and forced the antam to dig
- 7:44in for a protracted Siege The Invasion
- 7:48had been quite the brutal military feat
- 7:51within the span of just a few years
- 7:53almost half of Northern thetus had
- 7:56fallen to the antam but the an some were
- 8:00far less organized and efficient than
- 8:03one might think and the longer the
- 8:05conflict went on the more this became
- 8:09apparent there were two main reasons for
- 8:11this the first was that by breaking away
- 8:14from the rest of the cune the antam now
- 8:17fought alone with no Specialists like
- 8:20quarter Masters Craftsmen healers Etc
- 8:24that would have normally accompanied
- 8:25them had they not split from the rest of
- 8:27the C without sufficient ways to create
- 8:30supply lines or food production of their
- 8:32own the invading antam had to constantly
- 8:36remain on the offensive in order to feed
- 8:38the Army and as The Invasion Force
- 8:41encountered tougher strategical targets
- 8:44that forced them to engage in Siege
- 8:46Warfare like virtium the overall War
- 8:49Machine of the antam stumbled and
- 8:52stalled the issue of occupation had also
- 8:55become a second thought to many of the
- 8:57Anam kth shocks as they were more
- 9:00focused on conquering new lands than
- 9:02actually holding those lands that they
- 9:04had conquered and successfully occupying
- 9:07them the second reason is overall loss
- 9:10of spiritual and Military cohesion the
- 9:14anam's overall chain of command
- 9:16completely broke down during the course
- 9:18of the war with the various kith shocks
- 9:20and caban becoming nothing more than
- 9:23powerful Warlords with personal armies
- 9:27pursuing their own agendas in instead of
- 9:29an overall strategic plan many of them
- 9:32have been reduced to simple Pirates or
- 9:35roving armies of Bandits once again Seer
- 9:39Rowan puts it well in her work Marlo
- 9:42cune the loss of Reason quote it is easy
- 9:46to think that the antam broke from the
- 9:48kunari as one but the reality is that of
- 9:51a vase shattering into countless shards
- 9:54each broken in its own way reflecting
- 9:57the warlord who now leads each kth some
- 10:01like the butcher in traviso use their
- 10:04new freedom to indulge in cultures long
- 10:06forbidden to them others like atesok the
- 10:10dragon king or is katari Master killer
- 10:14in Rain reject foreign cultures and
- 10:17either lean on the trappings of the
- 10:19antam or invent a Heritage to inspire
- 10:23the Loyalty of their soldiers what seems
- 10:26consistent among the antam Warlords is
- 10:29is cruelty from Baku nasar flaming wind
- 10:34whose ships terrorize the northern
- 10:36coasts to kashar Jewel taker whose kith
- 10:40have become a bandit Army in the
- 10:42mountains outside morus I believe the
- 10:45reason to be twofold first these kith
- 10:48shocks feared that their army might turn
- 10:51upon them as they turned upon the arish
- 10:53shock so they drive their soldiers
- 10:57through fear and second there are very
- 11:00few kind and thoughtful antam this is an
- 11:04observation not an insult the cun has
- 11:07two words for healer one is Rari A
- 11:11Healer priest whose name literally means
- 11:14one who helps the other is marim an
- 11:18antam Battlefield healer whose name
- 11:21comes from marwa ad or do not let them
- 11:25fall those under the C have jobs
- 11:28selected for them by their teachers so
- 11:31any Young kunari Too thoughtful or too
- 11:34sensitive for the harsh life of the
- 11:36antam would have been made Rari instead
- 11:39of marim the kunari in their wisdom
- 11:43decided that all children who were
- 11:45naturally prepared to follow orders and
- 11:48hurt others should be placed in the UN
- 11:52and this is the result end quote in
- 11:56previous conflicts the Anam were held
- 11:59back back from excessive cruelty or
- 12:01atrocities against their opponents by
- 12:03the morality and spiritual supervision
- 12:06of the rest of the C gatlocke were not
- 12:09to be used against civilian targets and
- 12:12there would at least be an attempt by
- 12:14the cune to convert civilians in the
- 12:17wake of a conflict or during occupation
- 12:20but since the antam broke with the rest
- 12:22of the cune at the start of the war
- 12:25these rules and restraints have now been
- 12:27thrown to the wind the brutality that
- 12:30the advancing antam forces have shown
- 12:33during the conflict especially against
- 12:36civilians at nenan and against slaves in
- 12:39varanum respectively served to unite the
- 12:43populace against the Anton rather than
- 12:46to Garner potential support for them as
- 12:50of the Year 952 dragon virtium is still
- 12:54besieged bombarded day and night from
- 12:57both land and sea but the city still
- 13:00holds firm and the antam have not
- 13:03managed to advance further into the
- 13:05Imperium slowly The antam Invasion has
- 13:09now grinded to a halt and splintered
- 13:12into many different
- 13:15pieces during the same time as the Anam
- 13:18Rebellion took place the tent Imperium
- 13:21as a nation went through a period of
- 13:24political change and
- 13:26upheaval after the defeat of corus by
- 13:28the Inquisition in 942 Dragon the
- 13:31venator cult worshiping the creature as
- 13:34a god lost much of its cohesion and
- 13:37strength in the rest of the continent
- 13:39the cult did maintain its influence
- 13:42within the imperium's borders however
- 13:44not only in secret but also as a
- 13:47powerful political faction within the
- 13:49ruling
- 13:51magisterium the vitor's Twisted ambition
- 13:54of restoring the ancient glories of tent
- 13:57resulted in a poit iCal counter reaction
- 14:00within the
- 14:02magisterium Magister mearis tilani along
- 14:05with Dorian pavas famous companion to
- 14:08The Inquisitor co-founded the political
- 14:11faction known as the luceri somewhere
- 14:14between the years 941 and 944 dren
- 14:18despite its focus on combating venator
- 14:21influence the luceri were far from a
- 14:23single issue party taking a Firm Stance
- 14:26against political Corruption of all
- 14:28sorts along with championing greater
- 14:30rights for non- mes and the abolition of
- 14:34slavery while gaining some support among
- 14:37both the populace and within the
- 14:39magisterium the faction met with immense
- 14:41push back from the more traditionalist
- 14:44establishment of toin Politics As of 944
- 14:48Dragon the dozen or so young magisters
- 14:50that had joined the party Dorian himself
- 14:53described as quote junior members of the
- 14:56magisterium two filled with fire and
- 14:59seal and so wildly inept at politics May
- 15:03keeps a bucket of ice water on hand in
- 15:06case one accidently ulates himself end
- 15:09quote despite support from such powerful
- 15:12individuals as the new Imperial Divine
- 15:15the lucer were forced to disband in
- 15:18around the year 951 Dragon due to mearis
- 15:22being accused of treason and getting
- 15:25kicked out of the magisterium opting out
- 15:28of the political Mavis now took her
- 15:30organization underground and reformed
- 15:33what had been the luceri into a proper
- 15:36resistance movement called The Shadow
- 15:40dragons acting as agents of positive
- 15:43change the shadow dragons now try to
- 15:46accomplish their goals through more
- 15:47direct means freeing slaves fighting
- 15:51corruption countering the venatori and
- 15:53their blood magic and so on one of the
- 15:55new leaders of this hidden organization
- 15:58a mysterious curious figure known as the
- 16:00Viper have allegedly Been instrumental
- 16:03in freeing many slaves during successful
- 16:05slave rebellions Across the Nation many
- 16:09of the slave rebellions also seem to
- 16:11have gotten funding from members in the
- 16:13Dwarven Ambassador an organization
- 16:16mayares is well known to have good
- 16:18relations with Magister Dorian pavas
- 16:21retaining his seat in the magisterium is
- 16:24secretly a part of the Shadow dragons
- 16:27and tries his best to act for change in
- 16:30the open while the rest of the Shadow
- 16:32dragons act as light Bringers in the
- 16:34dark seeking to free the people of T
- 16:37Vinter from their unjust
- 16:40rulers in the rest of Northern thetas
- 16:42many other important factions would act
- 16:45to become instrumental in the years that
- 16:47followed close to the borders of tenter
- 16:50in the ancient Aran Forest an
- 16:53organization known as the veil jumpers
- 16:55were founded during this time at the
- 16:58core an Vin organization founded by the
- 17:00dish they welcome anyone who wishes to
- 17:03explore the forest for old Elven
- 17:06artifacts research Elven history and
- 17:09magic and ultimately to restore the
- 17:11order to the forest many members are
- 17:14experts in these areas that have been
- 17:16mentioned littered with all types of
- 17:19ruins of the old Elven Empire much of
- 17:21the old magic and technology that is
- 17:24part of the forest have in later years
- 17:26become unstable and dangerous seeking to
- 17:30understand their past and Salvage some
- 17:32knowledge for the future they Brave
- 17:34arthon forest in search of answers a
- 17:37prominent adviser and friend of the veil
- 17:40jumpers who lend her expertise to the
- 17:42group whenever she can especially in
- 17:44regards to aluvion Magic and history is
- 17:49the lady Morgan daughter of fth and
- 17:52vessel of what is left of the Goddess
- 17:55mythal meanwhile in the underfell the
- 17:58first Warden have summoned many of the
- 18:00gry wardens active in the rest of the
- 18:02continent back to weop Fortress for
- 18:05unspecified reasons in the region known
- 18:07as the high anderfels the wardens have
- 18:10also engaged in a secret project to
- 18:13reintroduce the Griffins back into the
- 18:15Grey Warden order after a clutch of 13
- 18:19Griffin eggs suspended in magical stasis
- 18:22were discovered by a group of wardens
- 18:24back in 942 Dragon the order started a
- 18:27secret training program in an old
- 18:29abandoned Warden Fortress transforming
- 18:32it into an ay where the creatures could
- 18:35be raised and trained to hopefully once
- 18:37more become a part of the Grey Warden
- 18:41order in Rain the famous Smuggler and
- 18:44pirate Admiral Isabella of the
- 18:46felicisima Armada has now also become
- 18:49the leader of the Lords of Fortune a
- 18:52guild of treasure hunters and
- 18:54adventurers based out of the ranian
- 18:57coast and in antiva The antivan Crows
- 19:01form much of the resistance against the
- 19:03occupying antam forces the city of
- 19:06traviso is the seat of butcher daata the
- 19:10leader of the occupying force and it is
- 19:12also here that the antivan crows put up
- 19:15much of its Fierce resistance against
- 19:17the foreign Invaders In The Years
- 19:20following the exalted Council varic
- 19:23tethis and inquisitorial Scout lace
- 19:25Harding was charged by The Inquisitor to
- 19:28track down and stop soless from enacting
- 19:31his malicious plans for thetus as well
- 19:34as putting together a team that could
- 19:36Aid them in this endeavor varic and
- 19:39Harding's Journey would take them across
- 19:41thetas from the depths of the deep roads
- 19:44and the woods of the arthon forest and
- 19:47lastly menus during this time they would
- 19:50also recruit another member into their
- 19:53party an individual who received the
- 19:55nickname Rook by varic in 952 dragon
- 20:00with the help of a private Mage
- 20:02detective and tentor Native by the name
- 20:04of Nev gallis the group found what had
- 20:08been The Dread Wolf's hideout in the
- 20:10imperium's capital and not a moment too
- 20:13soon as tears in reality started to show
- 20:16up all across the city and demons poured
- 20:19out to threaten the physical world
- 20:22whatever Solus planned to do he had now
- 20:24started in The Hideout the group
- 20:26uncovered an Elven aluvia
- 20:29which led directly to a ritual site deep
- 20:32within the arthan
- 20:34forest here magical energy was running
- 20:37rampant as soless was in the midst of
- 20:40performing a horrifying ritual that
- 20:43would see the world flooded with demons
- 20:45spirits and the raw essence of the fade
- 20:49splitting the veil by using a dagger
- 20:52made out of pure lirium Solus was at the
- 20:55very last second stopped by the
- 20:58intervention ition of rook varic and the
- 21:00rest of the group but as a result
- 21:04something great and terrible managed to
- 21:06slip across the veil and into
- 21:09thetus you see the ritual had a
- 21:12secondary purpose and that was to move
- 21:15two incredibly powerful and dangerous
- 21:18entities in the fade from a failing
- 21:21prison to a new and safer prison with
- 21:25the ritual disrupted these two entities
- 21:28managed to escape into the physical
- 21:30world and soless in turn was sealed
- 21:33within the fade
- 21:35himself the escapes were none other than
- 21:40the two remaining members of the
- 21:43evanuris El Ganan and Gillan
- 21:50name finding shelter and a safe haven
- 21:53within the crossroads a Nexus for the
- 21:56uans created by the ancient elves
- 21:59rook and his companions established
- 22:01themselves at a place known as the
- 22:03lighthouse a place within the crossroads
- 22:06that turns out to have been the old
- 22:09headquarters for sess' Rebellion against
- 22:12the evanuris during ancient times from
- 22:15here ironically Rook assembled a team
- 22:18and through the interconnecting passages
- 22:20of the crossroads utilized several more
- 22:23aluvion across Northern thetas in order
- 22:26to combat the rising threat that was the
- 22:28two remaining Elven Gods this group
- 22:31would become known as the veil guard it
- 22:35is through the veil guard's exploration
- 22:37of the crossroads and by exploring the
- 22:39past memories of sess' rebellion that
- 22:42many of these new and Earth shattering
- 22:44discoveries have been made Rook also
- 22:47maintained a mystical connection to
- 22:49Solus which allowed Rook to sometimes
- 22:51converse with the dreadwolf from Beyond
- 22:53the Veil through some type of meditation
- 22:57it is mainly from these firsthand
- 22:58accounts that much of what has
- 23:00previously been Unknown about fetus's
- 23:02past has now come to light we might as
- 23:05well start in as much of a chronological
- 23:08order as we can namely with the time
- 23:10before the veil and the origins of the
- 23:14Elven
- 23:16race what solers have previously stated
- 23:19about the origins of the elves we can
- 23:21now clearly confirm to be correct the
- 23:24first elves were actually spirits that
- 23:27in ancient times inhabited a world where
- 23:30the fade and the physical world were one
- 23:33and the same these Spirits crafted
- 23:36physical bodies for themselves out of
- 23:39lium and were the individuals we know
- 23:43today as the
- 23:45evanuris the lyan bodies allowed the
- 23:47first elves to retain the immense
- 23:49magical power that they possessed as
- 23:51spirits in their new physical forms
- 23:55their new bodies also enabled them to
- 23:57procreate and as such the Elven race as
- 24:00a whole quickly came to
- 24:03be seemingly last to create a body among
- 24:07the evanuris at least was Solus himself
- 24:11who had his reservations about
- 24:12manifesting into a physical body lium
- 24:16was the blood of the mighty Titans of
- 24:19the earth and each time a spirit created
- 24:21a new body for itself the Earth Shook
- 24:25and the Titans were hurt as the larium
- 24:28was extracted from their bodies soless
- 24:31feared the Wrath of the Titans but was
- 24:33also reluctant to give up his ethereal
- 24:36form he only did So eventually because
- 24:40of his dear friend mythal who begged him
- 24:43to become corporeal so that his wisdom
- 24:46would not be lost to the new race of
- 24:49elves sess' fears would be realized down
- 24:53the line however as the Titans rose up
- 24:56in Anger against the young race of elves
- 24:59like bugs the elves had stolen the
- 25:01Titans own blood from their veins and
- 25:04the Titans Now sought to swipe them away
- 25:08and so the first war in history came to
- 25:11pass between the Elves and the
- 25:16Titans the Titans themselves were as we
- 25:20know the Primeval natives of thetas
- 25:23living underneath the ground but
- 25:25apparently also roaming above ground as
- 25:28well in these ancient times the
- 25:31ancestors of the dwarves were the
- 25:32children of the Titans and they took
- 25:35care of their
- 25:37Elders the Titans and the dwarves were
- 25:39connected through something known as
- 25:42isun a hyn sung by the ancient Titans
- 25:47that acted as a constant statement of
- 25:50existence roughly translated the term
- 25:53means I or we are here the ISAT tunal
- 25:58possibly worked as some kind of hive
- 26:00mind to the dwarves similar to that of
- 26:03ants or bees where it gave them a
- 26:06purpose and made them understand their
- 26:09role in the grand scheme of things at
- 26:12the start of the war with the Titans
- 26:15alanan methal Solus and the rest of the
- 26:18evanuris took command of the Elven race
- 26:21as leaders and Generals swearing to
- 26:24relinquish this power once the threat of
- 26:26the Titans had been dealt with the war
- 26:30was hard fought with methal reportedly
- 26:33bringing down at least one of the Titans
- 26:35during the fighting but the Titans were
- 26:38Relentless and the elves were soon on
- 26:41the back foot it was then that mythal
- 26:44conceived of a plan to finally put an
- 26:47end to the
- 26:49conflict a plan that would have
- 26:52devastating consequences for the rest of
- 26:55the
- 26:56world at the the request of mythal
- 26:59soless reluctantly crafted a weapon that
- 27:02would be able to devastate every living
- 27:05Titan on the face of thetas a magical
- 27:09dagger made out of pure larium with a
- 27:13proper ritual the weapon could be used
- 27:15to Sunder every single Titan in
- 27:18existence from its respective Spirit
- 27:22essentially making the Titans as a race
- 27:25tranquil and completely cut off from the
- 27:29fade Solus warned that if the dreams of
- 27:32the Titans were severed this way they
- 27:35would surely be driven mad by anger and
- 27:39pain and transform into something
- 27:41hitherto unseen within the
- 27:44fade recognizing this methal still
- 27:48persisted that this was the only way
- 27:51that the war could be ended and a safe
- 27:53future for the Elven people could be
- 27:56secured as such
- 27:58sollus eventually carried out this
- 28:01ritual and used the dagger to sever the
- 28:04Titans bodies from their minds some
- 28:07Titans died on the spot While others
- 28:10simply fell into a deep Slumber beneath
- 28:13the Earth and became
- 28:15forgotten the dwarves were also affected
- 28:18by this event as the isun could no
- 28:21longer be heard as clearly as before the
- 28:24hyn was forgotten and the dwarves were
- 28:27largely left without purpose and souls
- 28:30becoming less collectivist and more
- 28:33individualistic as time went on they
- 28:36still retained their Stone sense which
- 28:38allowed them to navigate skillfully
- 28:41underground and hear the song of lium
- 28:44but not at all to the same extent as
- 28:46when they had been connected to the
- 28:49Titans the shaper VTA and Scout lace
- 28:52Harding would be two individuals who
- 28:54would rekindle the old Titan magic and
- 28:57reestablish a part of the aunal in
- 28:59modern times after investigating the
- 29:02origins of the Titans in the latter's
- 29:04case with some help from the dwarves of
- 29:08curro sess' fears would once again be
- 29:12realized as the confused wounded and
- 29:15wrathful severed dreams of the Titans
- 29:18started to warp and mutate within the
- 29:21fade into something terrible a
- 29:24disembodied blight of pain and anger
- 29:29this seems to be the actual origins of
- 29:33the blight its taint and in extension
- 29:37the dark spawn to make sure that this
- 29:40blight would never spread and threaten
- 29:42the world as a whole the two companions
- 29:45created a prison for the blight within
- 29:47the fade and placed powerful magical
- 29:50Wards upon it this prison is most likely
- 29:54the structure most associated with the
- 29:57blight to death day namely the black
- 30:00City within the
- 30:03fade Now we move on to the reign of the
- 30:06evanuris and ancient
- 30:09elvon we have some previous knowledge
- 30:11about the true nature and governance of
- 30:13the evanuris but with this new
- 30:16information at hand the true scope of
- 30:18their reign can now be fully
- 30:21understood the evanuris rose first as
- 30:24generals then as Elders Kings and lastly
- 30:29as self-proclaimed gods of the elves the
- 30:32reign of these powerful Mages evolved
- 30:34into tyranny as much of the ancient
- 30:36Elven population were enslaved to the
- 30:39evanuris and used to further their own
- 30:42personal Ambitions as tools rather than
- 30:45as people not even creatures of nature
- 30:48were free from this enslavement as the
- 30:51primary members of the evanuris each
- 30:53enthralled a high Dragon to serve them
- 30:57and their nefarious means more on these
- 31:00Dragon throlls
- 31:02later despite this mythal and soulless
- 31:05still trying to steer the group with
- 31:07some sort of morality but it was to no
- 31:10avail it seems that beyond the scope of
- 31:13the nine primary members of the evanuris
- 31:15there were supposedly more members of
- 31:17the organization Beyond this number
- 31:19during the ancient days an example of
- 31:22one who Rose to the rank of primary of
- 31:25anurous was Gillan formerly a servant of
- 31:28andruil promoted for her skill at
- 31:31creating creatures and monsters who
- 31:34would protect and serve the elves a
- 31:37talent that later turned into malice as
- 31:40Gillan was promised more power and Magic
- 31:43by her peers throughout the years and
- 31:45her Creations turned more and more
- 31:49grotesque Solus tried to persuade Gillan
- 31:52of the errors of her ways while also
- 31:54reaching out to Elgan in an attempt to
- 31:56persuade him to not Shackled the minds
- 31:58of the elves as well as their bodies now
- 32:01that the reign of the evanuris was
- 32:03established both pleas fell on deaf ears
- 32:07while ruling with an iron fist the
- 32:10evanuris did meet with some challenges
- 32:12to their rule one of these were the
- 32:15threat of the Forgotten ones while Solus
- 32:19would later be Affiliated somewhat with
- 32:21this group due to evanuris propaganda
- 32:24and the Twisted perceptions of the past
- 32:26that existed among the day in modern
- 32:28times the Forgotten ones would be known
- 32:31to later histories as the evil gods of
- 32:34the elves the Forgotten ones were as it
- 32:37is revealed powerful Warlords that
- 32:40sought to overthrow the evanuris by
- 32:43creating armies of demons demons that
- 32:47had once been normal elves one of the
- 32:50Forgotten ones by the name of anaris
- 32:52would perform one such Rebellion against
- 32:55the evanuris and would attempt to gain
- 32:57power again during the time of the veil
- 33:00guard the evanuris also conducted a war
- 33:03against forces from Beyond the Sea
- 33:07enemies that might be the mysterious
- 33:09beings called the
- 33:12executors to defend their continent the
- 33:15evanuris were ruthless and employed many
- 33:18horrible strategems against their
- 33:20enemies one example is andruil who
- 33:23created magical Wards along the coasts
- 33:26and bound the light force of her slaves
- 33:29to the wards supposedly to protect Aran
- 33:32against potential enemies the wards were
- 33:35in fact used only to empower andruel
- 33:38herself with the life force of her
- 33:41captured
- 33:42slaves it was possibly during or in the
- 33:46wake of these conflicts and wars that
- 33:49the evanuris started to weaken the warts
- 33:52around the prison in the fade to use the
- 33:56blight for their own nefarious
- 34:00purposes if the ancient stories of the
- 34:03elves are to be believed andruel was the
- 34:06first of the evanuris to come into
- 34:08contact with the taint of the blight and
- 34:10its horrendous power the legend about
- 34:13her donning an armor of the abyss and
- 34:16being driven mad before mythal stopped
- 34:18her might be a first example of the
- 34:21taint affecting a creature this might
- 34:24also have been the moment when the rest
- 34:26of the evanuris start started to take an
- 34:28interest in the blight as a weapon to be
- 34:31wielded soless had felt for some time
- 34:34that the wards around the blight's
- 34:36prison in the fade had been weakened and
- 34:39warned methal about this methal in turn
- 34:42endeavored to speak to the rest of the
- 34:45evanuris and remind them of the dangers
- 34:47of the blight's magic and stop them if
- 34:50they try to get to it and would not
- 34:52listen to reason this would be her
- 34:55undoing as the rest of the evanuris
- 34:58murdered
- 34:59mythal this became the straw that broke
- 35:02the camel's back for Solus as he
- 35:05instigated a fullscale revolt against
- 35:08the evanuris seeking to topple the
- 35:10self-proclaimed Gods from their Thrones
- 35:13and freeing the elves from their
- 35:15enslavement using the lighthouse and the
- 35:18crossroads as a base of operations and a
- 35:21safe haven for refugees and freed slaves
- 35:23during the Rebellion Solus and his
- 35:26General and friend fell as son engaged
- 35:28in many forms of warfare against their
- 35:31enemies sub auge sabotage and Guerilla
- 35:34tactics were all used in their struggle
- 35:37even Spirits were convinced by Solas to
- 35:40fight alongside him but as the Revolt
- 35:42went on and the more brutal it became
- 35:45soless became more and more ruthless in
- 35:48the use of his agents and Allied Spirits
- 35:51in order to further his goals the
- 35:54evanuris would match his cruelty during
- 35:57many OCC ations during one such the
- 36:00previously mentioned Wards bound to
- 36:02andruil were assaulted by the Agents of
- 36:05fen herel and the slaves bound to the
- 36:07devices were freed as the truth of the
- 36:09wards was spread to The Wider populace
- 36:12andruil countered this by killing an
- 36:16enormous amount of elves at the warding
- 36:18sites and then framed soless and his
- 36:21agent for the murder implicating that
- 36:24the rebels put the safety of arthon at
- 36:27risk with these attacks though this was
- 36:30regrettable soless insisted that the
- 36:33evanuris were now becoming more and more
- 36:35desperate another event of note during
- 36:38the rebellion was when one of the
- 36:39members of the evanuris besides the
- 36:42primary Pantheon was brought Low by
- 36:44Solus this unnamed member was known for
- 36:48his cruelty towards his servants and
- 36:50slaves making them reluctant to join
- 36:52solace's cause for fear of retaliation
- 36:56so sollace started at ridiculing the man
- 36:59and this spread from Elf to elf until
- 37:02the cruel master was surrounded by
- 37:04nothing but mocking laughter for the
- 37:06next 12 years this resulted in his mind
- 37:09shattering and his slaves rising up to
- 37:12join soless in the aftermath the
- 37:15conflict reached its ultimate conclusion
- 37:17when Solas finally managed to banish the
- 37:20evanuris to the fade and separated it
- 37:24and the material world by creating the
- 37:26Veil binding the lives of the evanuris
- 37:29to the veil in order to sustain it this
- 37:33would also result in the decline of the
- 37:35Elven race as they were now cut off from
- 37:38the fade their immortality withered away
- 37:42along with their culture technology and
- 37:45history soless would as we now know fall
- 37:49into a deep Slumber after this Titanic
- 37:52Endeavor the prison where the evanuris
- 37:55were sealed is also revealed to us and
- 37:57its location is quite revelatory to US
- 38:01changing quite a lot of what we
- 38:03previously thought we knew the blight as
- 38:06well as the evanuris were sealed away
- 38:10within the black City in the fade the
- 38:13city itself seems to be some sort of
- 38:16ancient Elven structure maybe even a
- 38:19palace this seems to disprove much of
- 38:22the established andrastian Doctrine and
- 38:25the chantry's version of what the black
- 38:27City and the fade is if the Golden City
- 38:32was actually a Palace built by the
- 38:35ancient elves and acted as a prison for
- 38:37the blight and the evanuris then the
- 38:40maker did not build the Golden City at
- 38:44all and the maker did not separate the
- 38:47world from the fade either that was
- 38:50solace's doing the theological
- 38:53ramifications of these Revelations might
- 38:55be staggering but as as far as we know
- 38:58this is not common knowledge to the
- 39:00faithful of thas at this moment in
- 39:04time while on the topic of revelatory
- 39:07facts let's again touch upon the dragon
- 39:10THS of the
- 39:11evanuris each member of the pantheon
- 39:14except for Solus and methal had in the
- 39:18time of ancient elvon bound to
- 39:20themselves a personal High Dragon for
- 39:23protection and personal use into the
- 39:27these Dragon THS each member of the
- 39:30evanuris also bound their own life force
- 39:33and spirit resulting in the evanuris
- 39:36becoming virtually unkillable as long as
- 39:39their pet dragons were alive after
- 39:42soless imprison their masters in the
- 39:44fade the dragon throlls remained on the
- 39:47material plane slumbering within
- 39:51Subterranean Caverns but these dragons
- 39:54were still connected to their masters
- 39:56and acted as conduits for the evanuris
- 40:00through which they spoke to Dreaming
- 40:02Minds as Solus
- 40:05reveals this is how the ancient tenter
- 40:08people were influenced into creating the
- 40:12old gods whom they later
- 40:15worshiped the old gods never existed as
- 40:19a separate Pantheon of deities but were
- 40:22in fact the high Dragon THS of the
- 40:25evanuris worship shipped as Gods the
- 40:29names of the Dragon thalls became the
- 40:31names of the old gods that were woried
- 40:34in ancient
- 40:36toin through this connection with their
- 40:38dragon THS the evanuris spoke through
- 40:41them to influence and manipulate the
- 40:43faithful of tenter with the most famous
- 40:46and egregious example of convincing the
- 40:49Magister siderial into breaching the
- 40:51fade and releasing a small portion of
- 40:54the blight into the real world laying
- 40:57the the groundworks for the spread of
- 40:59the dark spawn and the blights led by
- 41:02the infected Dragon throlls known as
- 41:05Arch demons the dragon thrs of each
- 41:08respective member of the evanuris have
- 41:11also been Unearthed with more or less
- 41:14certainty Elgan and gillan's thrs were
- 41:17Lucan and razak respectively while uial
- 41:22belonged to June to to Silas andural to
- 41:27and druel zazel to fondin and dumat to
- 41:33deraman one of the final subjects
- 41:35regarding our new discoveries of ancient
- 41:38Elven history and the of anuras that
- 41:40will be discussed here is the fate of
- 41:44methal as mentioned methal was murdered
- 41:47by the other members of the evanuris
- 41:50with her own lium dagger no less the
- 41:53same larium dagger that soless had used
- 41:56against the Titan
- 41:57and the dagger that would later end up
- 42:00in rook's hands yet small fragments of
- 42:03her soul managed to survive the death of
- 42:06her physical body and were scattered in
- 42:09the aftermath of her death sollus
- 42:12managed to retrieve a small fragment of
- 42:14mythal soul from the lirium dagger that
- 42:17ended her life and since then this small
- 42:20fragment have resided deep within the
- 42:23crossroads the other major fragment of
- 42:25mythal's Soul inhabited many willing
- 42:27Souls both elves and humans during the
- 42:31ages following her demise still
- 42:33retaining much of her memories
- 42:35personality and some of her magical
- 42:37power she lended those she possessed
- 42:41with these gifts as well as appearing in
- 42:43dreams to offer advice and the sorts she
- 42:47still cared very much for the elves but
- 42:49were limited in her abilities to Aid
- 42:52them with the death of fth at the hands
- 42:54of soless in order for him to retain
- 42:56some of his Godlike Powers a sliver of
- 43:00mythol Soul made its way to her daughter
- 43:03Morgan who accepted it into her own body
- 43:07becoming the next host of mythal's
- 43:09memories and some of her
- 43:13powers moving on to the weapon that
- 43:16dealt the killing blow to mithal as well
- 43:18as playing an instrumental part in Elvin
- 43:20history the lium dagger this item has
- 43:24been revealed to in fact be the the same
- 43:27as another well-known item that Scholars
- 43:30of these subjects have encountered
- 43:32before namely the lirium idol found by
- 43:37hawk and Barton's expedition in the Deep
- 43:40roads back in 931 Dragon according to
- 43:45Harding the idol had been lodged inside
- 43:48the crystallized remains of Meredith
- 43:50Stannard in kirkwall right up until a
- 43:53couple of years before the events of 952
- 43:56dragon
- 43:57when Solus himself presumably retrieved
- 44:00it there are also rumors of sollus
- 44:02retrieving the idol after it had already
- 44:04been dislodged from Meredith's Body by
- 44:07other people purifying it of red lium
- 44:11and restoring it to its original form
- 44:14the dagger would be used during sess'
- 44:16ritual in 952 dragon and would later
- 44:19find its way into rook's
- 44:23hands from new historical findings we
- 44:26have also learned more about the ancient
- 44:28history of the kith and kunari as well
- 44:31as new and interesting facets of their
- 44:34people and culture during rook's travels
- 44:37they encounter a canari named Tash who
- 44:41has the rare ability to breathe fire
- 44:44from taj's mother Rook also encounters
- 44:47an ancient tablet written by the ancient
- 44:50kunari or maybe even the kith before the
- 44:53cun after its secretive meaning was
- 44:56revealed by T fire a number of
- 44:58interesting things were revealed about
- 45:00the kunari the fire breathers are known
- 45:03as adari within kunari society and are
- 45:07exceptionally rare individuals normally
- 45:10recruited straight into the antam under
- 45:12the cun the tablet revealed the origins
- 45:16of the
- 45:17adari the words of the tablet were as
- 45:19mentioned revealed by Dragonfire and
- 45:22they were apparently written with that
- 45:25in mind and heeds the read to not trust
- 45:28anything that is not hidden in the same
- 45:30way the text speaks of the creation of
- 45:33the adari by the ancient kunari with the
- 45:36use of Dragon Blood exactly how they
- 45:40were created is unclear the purpose of
- 45:43the adari was to help combat an ancient
- 45:46evil known as the devouring storm in the
- 45:51text this enemy was the reason that the
- 45:54kunari fled from across the ocean to the
- 45:57shores of thas in the first place to
- 46:00escape this devouring storm and
- 46:04according to the tablet some sort of
- 46:06sickness followed the canari to thetas
- 46:09making them perish from that as well the
- 46:12tablet's text also implies that the
- 46:15ancient enemy the devouring storm will
- 46:18eventually follow the Kari across the
- 46:21sea and so the threat continues to loom
- 46:24on the
- 46:25horizon the the knowledge regarding the
- 46:28threat of this ancient enemy and of the
- 46:30adari were lost to the canari overall
- 46:34and mainly preserved in the words of
- 46:36these ancient and rare
- 46:39tablets this information now that it has
- 46:42been revealed have great implications
- 46:44for kunari history and it raises even
- 46:47more questions was the philosophy of the
- 46:50K created as a way to hold the kith
- 46:53people together in the face of the
- 46:54devouring storm how exactly were the
- 46:58adari created by the use of Dragon Blood
- 47:01back in the day has the ancient homeland
- 47:03of the kunari across the sea now been
- 47:06completely taken over by this enemy and
- 47:09what is the nature of the devouring
- 47:12storm is it a person an organization or
- 47:16something more akin to a force of nature
- 47:18or
- 47:19sickness these are all questions that we
- 47:22will hopefully one day have answers to
- 47:26from another one of rook's companions
- 47:29the esteemed professor emerik volaran of
- 47:32the mourn watch Department of the Naran
- 47:34mortalitasi we glimpse a few previously
- 47:37unknown facts of the grand necropolis of
- 47:40Navara and the mourn watch
- 47:43itself we first of all have the fact
- 47:46that King Marcus pentas the currently
- 47:49ruling and very old monarch of Navara is
- 47:52in fact
- 47:54Undead the king's old age and the the
- 47:57fact that he is childless and without an
- 47:59apparent Heir has been a looming
- 48:02political problem for Navara for many
- 48:04years Emme tells us that half the naara
- 48:08nobility probably suspects what the
- 48:11reason for the king's unnatural
- 48:13longevity is a result of by now and that
- 48:16he worries what the other nations of
- 48:19thetus were to think of Navara if word
- 48:22got out that it is currently ruled by an
- 48:25undead King
- 48:27the other interesting fact revolves
- 48:30around the
- 48:31liches a lich is simply put a mage that
- 48:36has been transformed into a very
- 48:39powerful Undead but still retains his
- 48:42soul and
- 48:44Consciousness this transformation gives
- 48:47the individual Lich new and Powerful
- 48:50magical powers at their disposal and
- 48:53essentially makes the individual in
- 48:55question imort moral the mightiest of
- 48:58the grand necropolis Defenders are the
- 49:01Lich Lords a group of liches sworn to
- 49:04protect not only the necropolis but
- 49:07creation itself against the dark Forces
- 49:11of the world this one and the fade
- 49:14becoming a lich is no easy task however
- 49:18and mourat members who are determined to
- 49:20undertake this Hing Journey will be
- 49:23tested over the course of many years if
- 49:27a candidate makes it through the years
- 49:29of testing they will face one last
- 49:32challenge before lichdom is achieved one
- 49:35last sifting of the Soul those who are
- 49:39unworthy will die on the spot others
- 49:43might become something known as half
- 49:44litches an undead who is still mortal
- 49:48and who is forced to hunt down and
- 49:50consume Souls of others in order to
- 49:53sustain
- 49:54themselves but if a candidate is found
- 49:58to be worthy the person in question is
- 50:01ritualistically killed and then brought
- 50:03back to life as the soul is drawn back
- 50:06into the body again the person then
- 50:09Rises as part of a hallowed and Immortal
- 50:13cast pledged to protect the living in
- 50:16death lichdom carries with it its
- 50:19downsides however as the person in
- 50:21question appearance-wise is now a
- 50:24ghastly skeletal monstros
- 50:27and must hide its new appearance with
- 50:30magical glamour so as to not frighten
- 50:32humans who are not inducted into the
- 50:34ranks of the
- 50:36mortalitasi and while some new senses
- 50:38and powers are gifted to the Lich in
- 50:41question other senses more connected to
- 50:44the living are dulled over
- 50:48time we spoke earlier about the
- 50:51surviving Griffins as the person
- 50:54ultimately responsible for the near
- 50:56Extinction of the species would once
- 50:58again show up to threaten this new
- 51:01generation of griffins this individual a
- 51:05monster known as the Gloom howler for
- 51:07its hideous screams would eventually
- 51:10kidnap all remaining Griffins except for
- 51:14one a son the Griffin of the warden
- 51:17Davin a member of rook's veil guard
- 51:21pursuing the Gloom howler rook and the
- 51:23veil guard finally uncovered the truth
- 51:26behind the monster and why it had
- 51:28abducted the last surviving
- 51:31Griffins the Gloom howler's original
- 51:34identity was none other than the warden
- 51:38Isa sister to gel and the Mage
- 51:41originally though inadvertedly it should
- 51:44be stated responsible for the blood
- 51:47magic modified joining ritual that led
- 51:50to the extinction of the Griffins in the
- 51:53aftermath of the fourth blight isaya had
- 51:56also been the one who after realizing
- 51:59the scope of her mistakes saved the 13
- 52:02Griffin eggs in the first place
- 52:05cleansing them from corruption and
- 52:07putting them in magical suspended
- 52:09animation so that they were found more
- 52:11than 400 years later in 942 Dragon after
- 52:16this last Good Deed isaya set off on her
- 52:20calling and throughout the years the
- 52:22dark spawn taint deteriorated both her
- 52:26mind and body until she turned into a
- 52:29ghoul unrecognizable from her previous
- 52:32self she evolved into the Gloom howler
- 52:35and also developed the ability to
- 52:37control dark spawn to some extent some
- 52:40parts of her past she retained however
- 52:44memories of the Griffins in particular
- 52:47the reason she kidnaps the Griffins in
- 52:49952 dragon is revealed to the veil guard
- 52:53later in their investigation as the
- 52:56Gloom ER seeks to infect the Griffins
- 52:59with the dark spawn taint this is
- 53:01similar to what she did back in the
- 53:04exalted age and in her mind she is
- 53:07convinced that this will protect and
- 53:09keep the Griffins safe she also plans to
- 53:13enct Revenge upon the gray wardens whom
- 53:16she thought let the original Griffins
- 53:19down the Gloom howler goes to Great
- 53:22Lengths to achieve this Twisted goal
- 53:25including stealing blood from the
- 53:27remains of the arch demon zazel to
- 53:30corrupt the Griffins with these remains
- 53:33along with many other lost and hidden
- 53:35relics were being kept at a secret Fort
- 53:38known as The Cauldron in the
- 53:41anderfels the Gloom H howler would even
- 53:43go so far as to build a mirror version
- 53:47of The Fortress of Weiss deep down in
- 53:50the Deep roads managing to corrupt
- 53:53several wardens as well to serve as its
- 53:56Defender Enders all this to taint the
- 53:59last remaining Griffins in existence and
- 54:01to enact a twisted vengeance upon the
- 54:04gray
- 54:06wardens rook and the veil guard would
- 54:08combat the evil forces of the two Elven
- 54:11Gods over much of Northern thetas
- 54:14including the members of the venatori
- 54:17and the
- 54:18Anam battles would rage at the Grey
- 54:21Warden Fortress of weop and Grand cities
- 54:24like menus and Travis would come under
- 54:27attack from blighted dragons just to
- 54:30name a few examples but while events
- 54:32were unfolding in the north so too did
- 54:36they unfold in the south of thas at the
- 54:38same time the evanuris were hellbent on
- 54:42bringing blight war and destruction not
- 54:45just to the north of thetas but to the
- 54:48entire continent a new blight had risen
- 54:53a blight Modified by the Monstrous
- 54:55villain and intellect that was
- 54:59Gillan Gillan had attained her position
- 55:02among the aurus by creating creatures
- 55:04and Monsters the dark spawn was no
- 55:07different and as she had weaponized the
- 55:10blight in the days of ancient Aron so
- 55:13too did she modify the dark spawn in the
- 55:16fight against the veil guard she
- 55:19considered the sliver of blight that the
- 55:21magisters had Unleashed on thetas and
- 55:24the way it corrupted people into dark
- 55:25spawn to be crude altering the dark
- 55:29spawn to apparently resemble more those
- 55:32of ancient time their appearance changed
- 55:36and their bodies were strengthened she
- 55:38also introduced pools of blight that
- 55:42were easily coaxed to produce dark spawn
- 55:45repeatedly apparently without the use of
- 55:48a brood mother the blight itself could
- 55:51now also take a more physical shape in
- 55:54the world by corrupting nature and the
- 55:56area it was surrounded by more so than
- 55:59it already was able to do boils tendrils
- 56:04and corrupted blighted matter could Now
- 56:07cover the land in a disgusting display
- 56:09of
- 56:10blight this new blight the sixth and
- 56:14probably final blight would strike the
- 56:17South like a dark Avalanche of death and
- 56:21ruin and this information is truly some
- 56:24of the most harrowing of the new
- 56:26findings that have been revealed to us
- 56:29so some students might want to steal
- 56:32themselves for what they are about to
- 56:34hear the attack on the south was first
- 56:37and foremost carried out by the proxies
- 56:39of the evanuris at the start of the war
- 56:42the vitori in orlay as they made common
- 56:45cause with a splinter faction within the
- 56:47orian nobility causing a civil war that
- 56:51destabilized the nation and the antam
- 56:55and its Naval for forces raiding and
- 56:57pillaging the coast lines of the South
- 57:00the dark spawn would just like during
- 57:03the previous blight a mass in huge
- 57:06numbers in the Wilds south of ostagar
- 57:10leading the defense of the South apart
- 57:13from each separate nation and their
- 57:15respective armies of course was The
- 57:18Inquisitor and what remained of the
- 57:20Inquisition still using skyhold as a
- 57:23base of
- 57:24operations the ven Tori although
- 57:27managing to capture the orian capital of
- 57:29Valerio and launching attacks onto the
- 57:32free marches as far east as kirkwall
- 57:35would eventually be fought to a
- 57:37standstill and the Untamed Naval forces
- 57:40would be driven from the Seas of the
- 57:42South with the help of Isabella and the
- 57:44felicisima
- 57:46Armada the armies of the free marches
- 57:49would even unite under one Banner to
- 57:51March South to their allies' assistance
- 57:54after dealing with many their own
- 57:57problems it would be the threat of the
- 57:59blight and the dark spawn falling upon
- 58:02Southern Faldon that would result in the
- 58:05hardest blow for the South the blight
- 58:08would consume much of Eastern and
- 58:11Southern Falon even the capital of denim
- 58:14would fall to its corruption where the
- 58:17blight had been active previously almost
- 58:19as if it had laid dormant for years it
- 58:22sprung up at the event of the six blight
- 58:26through an alliance brokered by The
- 58:28Inquisitor between felon oramar the
- 58:32avars and the chastened tribes the
- 58:34leaders of Faldon managed to hold the
- 58:36blight and the dark spawn at Bay for a
- 58:39long time but eventually the dark spawn
- 58:42attacking felon previously a trickle but
- 58:46later an Unstoppable flood marshaled a
- 58:49hoorde which numbers were unheard of
- 58:53cities and villages in the south of the
- 58:55country were abandoned and in the end
- 58:58the stronghold of redcliffe could not
- 59:00hold out and fell to the enemy the
- 59:04shores of lake kalanad wried with
- 59:06corruption as the land sickened and died
- 59:10leaving those felons that might survive
- 59:13this catastrophe to succumb to
- 59:15starvation if not slain by dark spawn or
- 59:19corrupted by blight skyhold housed
- 59:22refugees and stood firm against the
- 59:24darkspawn onslaught but supplies became
- 59:27fewer and
- 59:29fewer at the end of the blight as the
- 59:31forces of the veil guard were preparing
- 59:34their assault on occupied menus and the
- 59:37eclipsed son of el Ganan hung in the sky
- 59:40much of Falon as well as large parts of
- 59:43orlay and the free marches had been
- 59:46consumed by the bite oramar if the
- 59:50reports are to be believed hangs on by a
- 59:53thread but reports have become few and
- 59:56far between whatever future remains for
- 59:59Southern thetas and its people when the
- 1:00:02sixth blight comes to an end remains to
- 1:00:05be seen but from what have been revealed
- 1:00:09it most assuredly looks like a sorrowful
- 1:00:12and Bleak
- 1:00:18one and yet as all these catastrophes
- 1:00:22unfold and are laid bare there are
- 1:00:25rumors of something lurking behind it
- 1:00:27all something that have been pulling the
- 1:00:30strings all along and directing events
- 1:00:33to suit their goals until the poison
- 1:00:37fruit has
- 1:00:39ripened during the early 940s Dragon the
- 1:00:44Inquisition came into contact with a
- 1:00:46network of spies controlled by an
- 1:00:49organization called the
- 1:00:53executors this organization claimed to
- 1:00:55speak
- 1:00:56on behalf of those across the
- 1:00:59sea what lies across the oceans of
- 1:01:02thetas have long been a mystery however
- 1:01:05it seems like those that supposedly live
- 1:01:07across it have a keen interest in what
- 1:01:10goes on in
- 1:01:12thetas the executors declared that the
- 1:01:15inquisition's cause was just and that
- 1:01:18chifus was a threat to all supporting
- 1:01:21them in their Endeavor sharing some
- 1:01:23knowledge with the Inquisition the ex
- 1:01:25executors then revealed that their
- 1:01:27intention was to watch and observe what
- 1:01:30was going on on the continent and
- 1:01:33declared that for the moment we are not
- 1:01:37your enemies what the executors and the
- 1:01:40powers across the sea actually are is
- 1:01:44not yet known but this is not the first
- 1:01:47time that this enigmatic organization
- 1:01:50has had dealings with
- 1:01:51thetas during the days of ancient elvon
- 1:01:55the Urus as I mentioned earlier
- 1:01:58considered those across the sea to be
- 1:02:00enemies and andruil's Wards were at
- 1:02:04first meant to protect against attacks
- 1:02:06from these
- 1:02:07enemies later in history it seems like
- 1:02:10the ancient tenter Imperium had some
- 1:02:13knowledge of those across the sea
- 1:02:16possibly Through The Whispers of the
- 1:02:18aurus across the fade masquerading as
- 1:02:21their old gods denter even constructed
- 1:02:24an enormous flight in Fortress in
- 1:02:27menrath that were supposed to be used as
- 1:02:29a defense system against those across
- 1:02:32the sea called Emil's
- 1:02:35Shield the priesthood of emel argued
- 1:02:38constantly with the priesthood of Lucan
- 1:02:41at this time who instead wanted to
- 1:02:43transform the Fortress from a defensive
- 1:02:46weapon into an offensive one in order to
- 1:02:49destroy the threat from across the
- 1:02:52ocean only on rare occasions have the
- 1:02:55executors actually been seen on thetas
- 1:02:59one such rare occasion was when an
- 1:03:02Executor sometime after the year 944
- 1:03:05Dragon attended a secretive meeting of
- 1:03:08spies to relay what it knew about soless
- 1:03:12and his plans the attending
- 1:03:14inquisitorial agent Charter witnessed
- 1:03:17the cloaked and hooded being and
- 1:03:19witnessed its demise as well as sollus
- 1:03:23himself interrupted the meeting and
- 1:03:25preventing the executive from speaking
- 1:03:28by petrifying it later warning Charter
- 1:03:31of how dangerous those across the sea
- 1:03:35was traces of the executors and their
- 1:03:38covert activity have been encountered on
- 1:03:41thetas on a few occasions revealing
- 1:03:44mysterious circles or fragments of
- 1:03:47circles these mysterious artifacts were
- 1:03:50once stumbled upon by two DISH elves
- 1:03:54from Clan Ursel
- 1:03:56who decided to investigate these things
- 1:03:59further this eventually LED them to a
- 1:04:01collapsed section of the deep roads
- 1:04:04seemingly in close proximity to the
- 1:04:07ocean or even leading under it there
- 1:04:11they encountered and survived an
- 1:04:14encounter with an Executor whom they
- 1:04:17decided to flee from they did not
- 1:04:20investigate the matter further rook and
- 1:04:23the veil guard encountered three of the
- 1:04:25these mysterious circles in their
- 1:04:27Journeys circles that when combined
- 1:04:30formed the symbol of the executors met
- 1:04:34with the voice of presumably an unseen
- 1:04:36executor at the place of each circle
- 1:04:38Rook was cryptically informed that the
- 1:04:42executors have observed what has been
- 1:04:44going on in thetus and are waiting for
- 1:04:47the right time to reveal themselves and
- 1:04:51their
- 1:04:52plans with that we will end to today's
- 1:04:56lesson here as I said these new findings
- 1:05:00changes a lot and I do not blame you at
- 1:05:03all if some of you might be feeling a
- 1:05:06bit overwhelmed trust me so am I but we
- 1:05:10will endeavor to understand this new
- 1:05:12information to the best of our abilities
- 1:05:14and to uncover whatever Mysteries that
- 1:05:16still May lurk out in the unknown it is
- 1:05:20the nature of academic and scientific
- 1:05:22study that new information comes to
- 1:05:24light and changes our perceptions of
- 1:05:27things it seems that not just you
- 1:05:30students but I myself have some reading
- 1:05:33to do so I thank you very much for
- 1:05:36attending today's lesson until next
- 1:05:38class have a good day my
- 1:05:44friends thank you all very much for
- 1:05:46watching the video after I have actually
- 1:05:49finished the game it took me quite a
- 1:05:52while to compile everything that I had
- 1:05:54taken notes on into a new script and a
- 1:05:57video so thank you all for your patience
- 1:06:00as I wrote in the latest Community
- 1:06:02update there will be a sort of review
- 1:06:05slash discussion slash rant video about
- 1:06:09the veil guard in the future as well as
- 1:06:12the video on Falon those are the two
- 1:06:15upcoming videos and after that I have
- 1:06:18some plans going into the new year for
- 1:06:21new content thank you all for your
- 1:06:24continued support and I hope hope that
- 1:06:262025 will be a good year for all of us
- 1:06:29until next time have a good one
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