
RELATED: Why Dragon Age 4 Could Reveal More About the World Beyond ThedasĮven if the Evanuris don’t actually turn out to be the creators of the Darkspawn, the Blight could still play a key role in Solas plan to restore the ancient Elven empire. They’re extremely powerful magical beings, and seeing the Empire destroyed by the Tevinter Imperium, there’s a poetic justice in turning Tevinter’s most powerful mages into monsters that would wreak havoc on human civilization. This makes the old Elven gods prime suspects for the creators the Darkspawn.

In the end, he won by creating the Veil, trapping the Evanuris in the Fade and cutting the Elves off from their natural source of magic. Solas led a rebellion in response, gaining the name the Dread Wolf. When Mythal objected, she was killed, though her spirit would eventually return possessing Flemeth. They were extremely powerful Elven mages who ascended to a godlike status in their society, and, aside from Mythal and Solas, began using their newfound power to make slaves of their own people. The Evanuris, the Elven pantheon, were not real gods. The true origins of the Darkspawn might not lie in humanity’s history, but in the history of the Elves of Thedas. It’s possible the Maker never existed at all.

The Imperial Chantry does not follow this account, and Corypheus, Inquisition’s villain and one of those original Magisters who breached the Veil, hinted in the last game that the Magisters did enter the Maker’s Golden City, but found his throne already empty. As punishment, the Maker turned them into the Darkspawn, triggering the First Blight, and vowed to leave his creation until the day the chant of light was sung from all four corners of the world. Dragon Age: Origins opens with one account, explaining that long ago the Magisters of the Tevinter Imperium used blood magic to break through the Veil and enter the Maker’s Golden City in the Fade. The origins of the Darkspawn remains one of Dragon Age’s biggest mysteries.
