We should note that when Harding uses magic her veins grow blue. Like she has Titan/Lyrium blood. I assume her new magical abilities have more to do with the awakening of some dormant Titan rather than her connection to the fade.
I immediately thought of Sandal when I saw her magic too. I'm convinced it has to do with Titans awakening, and Sandal plays into the equation. He's the one that dropped the news of Solas' return in DA2, he definitely has a hand in things to come.
Very possible she did mention she felt weird within the teige,as for titans waking it's possible we don't really know what there connection are to the elvan gods
4:48 The Descent DLC explains this. Valta connected with a Titan and immediately gained magical powers. There is at least one living Titan out there, and that's incredibly important to the story. There were clues all over DAI, in particular in the DLC, about what happened with Mythal, the Titans and the Dwarves. The connection of the Dwarves to the Stone (which is probably the Titans themselves) was severed by Mythal when she killed a Titan. Lyrium, the source of magic and the common thread between the Fade and the waking world, is literally a Titan's blood. So anyone with a deep connection to a Titan and its lifeblood, can access the Fade, and because of it, do magic. Female dwarves in particular, share a close connection to lyrium and are the ones who can detect lyrium veins for mining. After the events that took place in The Descent it was obvious we were going to get Dwarven mages at some point. And since Harding is a surface dwarf and is feeling this new connection, imagine what's going on in Orzammar and Kal-Sharok...
1. Connection of the dwarves to the stone is not coming from Titans. At least not actively, it's part of being born dwarf. Every dwarf that is not living on the surface, has it to some decree. If it was defined by their connection to the titan, they would slowly lose it up as titans power faded. But only those dwarves who chose to leave Orzammar(or simply put, chose to live on surface) will lose it slowly over time. So the important part is not about Titan, it is about dwarf being close to their natural habitat(Varric said himself that he lost that sense since he is surface dwarf) 2. Dwarves have no connection to the Fade whatsoever. None. In a sense, they are like Tranquil, but their connection was never severed. It is nonexistent. I do not think that Valta's power came from the Fade. I think it came from Titan itself. I can see something like Titans actually being able to access Fade(which could also be the reason why Evanuris and Mythal chose to go on hunt for them or maybe they just wanted Lyrium, their blood) and by connecting with specific dwarf, they are being able to give power to those they deem worthy(Like Valta). But not by bestowing connection to the Fade, but rather by serving as power source. 3. That connection to the Titan, i do not remember it exactly, but can you tell me where to find that Mythal severed the connection between Dwarves and Titans? I am honestly curious what i missed or had forgotten. I thought that Titans chose that isolation to prevent more of them from being killed. OOoooh, imagine if we will see Blighted Titan to make appearance in the next game(or in one of it's DLCs). I mean Lyrium can be tainted and it is blood of a Titan, so what if Titan can be corrupted too? edit. One more thing... There are already two types of Magic that have a very weird connection to the Fade. Blood Magic and Blight Magic. If i remember correctly from DA:O, noone knows where Blight Magic is coming from, but it is not through connection with the Fade. Rather the infection is the source of power.
@@HanithSVK tldr; DA fans overthink everything 😆 I really hate replying to this on a phone, RU-vid comments are the worst way to discuss lore, especially because I can't easily post links to the stuff I'm talking about and show where they can be found. *First off, these are my conclusions, they are of course, not established canon, with the exception of the actual information given in the games.* It's possible to find proof for some of what you're contesting in the codex entries of various documents/poems/notes/artwork we find. 1. The connection to the Stone is _definitely_ coming from a Titan. The carvings found and translated by Valta near the Wellspring say this concerning the Titan: "It shapes the Stone. It _is_ the Stone. It sculpts the world within and without". The dwarves are children of the Stone, so judging by this entry, they're actually the children of Titans, which is definitely a deep connection. While there's nothing to confirm it (well, maybe Harding's new powers and Valta's journal entries), it seems the Dwarves once had the power to literally shape stone, at will. Like... magic? ;) If this is a gift offered to some by the Titans, or if it was something every dwarf had in the past is unknown. Maybe this is where the notion of Paragons comes from initially. People chosen by the Titans to be exceptional and wield some fraction of the Titans' powers. With the loss of the Titans it might have started to depend on intelligence and natural skill. 2. Access to the Fade in the waking world is made through lyrium, that is the one constant. Granted, sometimes by blood, but now that we know lyrium is the very blood of the earth itself, it's what gives the Titans the ability to shape the world to its liking, that only makes blood magic make even more sense. Lyrium exists in both the Fade and the waking world, and mages use it to bridge the two worlds and draw from the Fade the ability to shape all things. When people use magic they're simply thinning the Veil and reaching into the Fade and pulling things, powers and properties out from it. This is how elves used to build their cities, and how those cities fell apart when Solas created the Veil, because he cut everyone and everything off from the Fade. And even the ancient elves needed lyrium to shape things, which is at the core of the problem and why Mythal led an army down underground in order to kill a Titan who was not too happy with the elves changing the land so much. Note: It's actually interesting to consider that perhaps the Evanuris were unable to become as powerful as other elvhen Dreamers (who don't need lyrium to access the Fade) and decided to try to get as much lyrium as possible in their hands in order to become more powerful, and why maybe Mythal ended up making the difficult decision to kill and lock away Titans so their blood could no longer be used to fuel the Evanuris' hunger for power. She might have had no choice in what she ended up doing. Okay, back to my wall of text ;). So knowing the dwarves have no connection to the Fade, while they're so connected to lyrium (not just mining, they can hear it sing in the Stone) it's something that should give you pause. This makes their lack of magic seem deliberate more than natural. They have no connection to the Fade _now_ , but there's no reason why they shouldn't have had it before the war against Mythal, before Titans were murdered, and before the Shaperate erased more records than it should have in order to erase their past. Dwarves can physically enter the Fade, and the Fade is an actual physical place (or state), so there's no reason to think they can't have had access to it before. What we know now is what the Shaperate kept in the records, and that is... iffy at best. You can find several random journal pages written by Valta where she goes deeper into her thoughts on how the now awaken Titan is filling those gaps in dwarven history, and how the dwarves were much more than what they became after they lost their "parent". And finally, the Qunari also claim they don't dream, but we know that's a lie, because there are Qunari mages, and they're absurdly powerful. Btw, have you read about the theory that some people have proposed that Qunari (the horned people, not the converted) are actually the result of an experiment of trying to breed dragons with elves? It would explain the magic superpowers, the pointy ears and the volatile temperament. It's so crazy it might be true. 3. As for the severing of the connection between Titans and dwarves, we know there _was_ a connection (Valta literally says it after she reaches the Wellspring and makes contact with the Titan), we know Mythal is involved because we find a veilfire rune in the Crossroads , specifically the Shattered Library, about how Mythal struck down a Titan and the Evanuris sealed the area so everyone would forget about it. She led elves underground and fought the dwarves for a reason, and that reason was she killed their parent, their God, their Titan. This crippled the Dwarves and caused their downfall. The veilfire rune says "Let no one wake its (the Titan's) anger", which is pretty suspicious if you ask me. I completely agree with you there. Red, angry, hot lyrium has the Blight; an angry or blighted Titan would be a heck of a dangerous and awful thing (maybe dangerous and angry enough to be calling out to whatever misformed beings it could conjure, have them make armies and try to breach the surface in order to take vengeance and kill everything in sight). The point is, by killing the Titan she removed/stole something from the Dwarves, and that something was the deep, complex and powerful connection they had with a creation entity and all its powers. 4 - The final piece of the puzzle is... Where does the Blight come from? There's something buried deeper than the Titan, there's something at the center of the very world spewing this hatred, maybe even infecting the Titans themselves. In the begining I thought it was just the trapped Evanuris, but the hatred, the monstrously vicious vibe is deeper than that. Those other often forgotten "Gods" need to be talked about more. There's so much more I'd like to mention (Sandal, his possible hybrid nature, Tyrdda Bright-Axe being a mage and having a mage child with a dwarf, Kirkwall and its shape as giant rune built to be used with blood magic as an entrance to the Golden City, the seven Great Dragons used as locks to the Evanuris' prison being corrupted by the blight and turning into Archdemons) but this is already too long. Anyway, let's see what comes up when Veilguard is released. This story is just too good to be left to conjecture.
I'm probably not the first to say this, but I will just in case. There is literally an entire book out that explains how griffons are back lol. It wasn't a mystery or surprise. It was even teased at the end of the Trespasser DLC if you made Blackwall join the Wardens.
It sucks that the books aren't as available as the games are. The only time I hear anything about the books is from comments on videos. Tried the library, tried asking in the bookstore. Online buying it is suspicious as I can't be sure it's the right thing.
@@heftyhadrosaur8740 last time I checked they were all available on Amazon. I'm sure Barnes and Noble or something similar have them on their online store as well. Ghil on RU-vid has done vids about them including links where you can find them.
There are 9 elven gods. 2 of them were Fen’harel and Mythal. Mythal was killed and Fen’harel slumbered for thousands of years That leaves 7 elven gods. There are also 7 archdemons. 5 have been killed by the grey wardens during blights. Leaving 2 left. Now there are 2 “blighted” elven gods That are the big bad guys in veilguard. Coincidence?
I also thought that this might be the case, but it seems all too easy. I believe the Old Gods, aka Archdemons, may be something entirely different. We know that they are dragons, turning Archdemons, that's for a fact. Yes, their number equals the locked Evanuris, but it was stated that Fen'Harel made the elven gods' prison(s?) elsewhere, somewhere in the Fade/Beyond. So, the Archdemons might be their, I don't know, physical forms or whatever, with their spirits/essences remaining in the Fade - but didn't the Dread Wolf cast them into the Fade (or the Beyond, whichever you prefer) in their physical forms? Someone more knowledgeable may correct me on that matter, if I'm mistaken - I'm quite new to this lore, and it's vast, a lot to take in. Spoilers ahead: During the Tresspasser, we also learn the reason for creating the Veil in the first place: the Evanuris killing Mythal - but at the same time, Solas states that the first people, his people, don't die so easily (so again, wouldn't it be too easy killing the Evanuris as Archdemons? I know there's a great price for destroying the old god's soul but let's put that aside for a sec). He also stated, I believe it was banter between companions, that there is no connection "in any lore" that would make the Evanuris the Old Gods (whether it's another lie by omission or not, I don't know). In any case, I think that the Archdemons may be either some kind of seals and destroying them is, ultimately, a dire notion; or they are fragments of Mythal's soul, each given to the elven gods after "killing" her (excluding Solas and Mythal herself lol). We know that Flemeth had a part of Mythal, but it was only a faint wisp, if I recall correctly. As I've mentioned before, Solas stated that his people don't die so easily - maybe Evanuris literally tore Mythal's soul apart, a fragment for each of them (while that one wisp fleed), and somehow it ended up as we'd already seen. I've read somewhere that if it's the Inquisitor who drinks from the Well, they hear whispers of Mythal speaking the Calling, that's also interesting. Also, Mythal is often depicted as a dragon, so that's something (unless all the Evanuris were dragons, I've seen a lot of different theories). There's also the matter of the Forgotten Ones and the Titans lol
So yeah with the Griffon thing, it was explained in one of the books, but a grey warden from the Third blight saved an infected clutch of eggs. Towards the end of that Blight she figured out how to use blood magic to remove the blight from them and then sealed the eggs away in suspended animation. She also took precautions to make sure that only a certain type of person could find them (an Elven mage). One did find them very recently and helped to nurture and raise them with the Grey Wardens in secret like a wildlife preserve. That's where this one came from. So if the other eggs are still alive they are babies too. Probably being entrusted to certain Wardens since Davrin has one. (Can't remember who, but someone in Inquisition also mentions that they heard rumors of Griffons maybe making a comeback.)
I was 'old' then and am 'old' now, 51 :) I got DA:I for my 42nd birthday, so maybe I'll get this for my 52nd haha. So much has happened, in life, in that time.
Technically Sandal didn't use magic per se. But Sandal is the only character we've seen that can use an enchantment rune without it being in a weapon. And dammit, I want to see Sandal make a return! Maybe surprise us because of the connection to the Titans starting to manifest thanks to Valta returns his mind...
@@cmwinchell He actually did. In DA2 when he gets lost in the Deep Roads. Hawke finds him surrounded by stone-ified darkspawn. Hawke asks how he did it. Sandal replies: "Not enchantment." But, like you, I'd love to see Sandal return. :-)
@@virginiamurr3703 He also hands Hawke a rune and says "Boom" which implies he used the rune specifically. Technically not magic, but regardless on if we decide to argue back and forth we both know that, thanks at least partly to the Descent DLC and Shaper Valta connecting with the titan, Sandal is definitely a mage now. And before some grammar person points it out: Holy Run-on Sentence, Batman!
@@cmwinchell LOL ... no worry about run-on sentences. :-) I agree very much that the Valta and Titan pieces are super important. Can't wait to see how they flesh it all out. Take Care!
Ah there are quite a lot of mistakes in this video. It's likely to confuse new players. For example, the fate of the griffons is described in the books and there was a clutch of saved eggs. Magic is not just tied to the Fade - there are many forms of magic and you mentioned just 1. And then the blight does not mean what you mentioned... "blighted" also means corrupted. The whole DAI was about red lyrium (corrupted by blight) and Corypheus, but there is no actual Blight. So Blight does not just refer to an event of an Old God being woken up.
Love the Last Flight book, so the baby griffons go to the Grey Wardens, but it seems Davron randomly finds one out and about?? So did he escape from Weisshaupt or is Dans theory correct?? Guess we'll find out in a couple of months, just super excited to have a griffin
"First day they come, and catch everyone... Second day they beat us up and eat some for meat..." - I am not going further, but this is the first thing that heard in my head after seeing broodmother in this trailer.
I had the same impression. Even told my husband about it, but he pointed out how the one in Origins looked so absurdly different, whereas whatever's in the trailer still looks like a person. Maybe it could be some sort of experiment by Ghilan'ain...
@@itsamelunanella The one in Origins that you face off against was a Dwarf, so she would birth Genlocks (Up until The Warden and Co killed her that is.) The Mother in Awakening was driven mad by The Architect awakening her. She was a human at first so she produces Hurlocks. Given the narrative I suspect that the broodmother in Veilguard will be an Elven broodmother; which means plenty of Shrieks. I'd prefer a Qunari broodmother. At least Ogres aren't completely invisible before they attack.
we didn't go to arlathan tho, that's the crossroads. It's a place 'in between' the fade and reality. To my nerdy knowledge, we have never actually seen arlathan the city. I hope we do in the future though!
Yes. Solas was wrong. "The Last Flight" brought out a magically hidden clutch of 400 year old (I think that's the timeline) Griffon eggs, which the Grey Wardens began raising. They better not mess that up ever again. So cool to see a Griffon!
5:18 or so. Sandal in DA2 actually used magic to turn some darkspawn into stone during DA2's exploration quest into the Deep Roads which ended Act 1 after the quest was completed. Harding turned some creatures into stone just like Sandal did with the Darkspawn. Sandal is the dwarf who said "Enchantment" all the time and was used to enchant items in Origins and DA2. In the Descent dlc for Inquisition we learned more about the Dwarves and their connection to the Titans. So, maybe there are some Titan stuff going on which is allowing Dwarves to access magic.
Harding's powers most likely coming from a Titan or Lyrium (their blood). It's not a magic per se. Templars used Lyrium to ground the reality around them, make it more real, while magic is a domain of dreams and strives in chaos.
This doesn’t mean Harding is a mage tho. She (like Fenris) glows blue when using magical abilities but that doesn’t necessarily (like Fenris) make her a mage. We don’t know what’s going on yet, but this isn’t technically new for the lore, magic abilities being lyrium-based rather than fade-based, and probably ties into the Titan plot line. If lyrium is titan blood and dwarves are made from titans, maybe lyrium is dormant in their blood somehow?
For Fenris it was a Lyrium Tattoo that his master did for him just like Elves use blood to make their Tattoo, but for Harding it's definitely something else, probably like Sandal, and that theory you got is indeed interesting
@Big Dan Gaming another thing that would’ve been worth mentioning in regards to Harding is that she most likely might have some sort of connection to the Titans. If you watch her closely in the trailer when Harding casts magic her veins glow a light blue color
Someone would've mentioned it, so it might as well be me. Us having a griffon in a party has nothing to do with Arlathan . And there are spoilers for "The Last Flight" coming, so there, people have been warned. In "The Last Flight" novel, we learn that in the ending stages of the Fourth Blight, a batch of griffon eggs was, in an act of truly romantic heroism, cured by a Grey Warden, who transferred the blight from them to herself, and then essentially put them in a magical stasis. The same Warden made sure to leave hints as to the whereabouts of the eggs, so that a noble soul among future Wardens could find the eggs and nurture them, bringing them back to extinction. We even got hints in DAI that the griffons were already being taken care of back then.
First of all, there has been ongoing debate that the "Old Gods" are actually the Evanuris, merely going by different names. At the very least, since there's a one-to-one correlation between them (there were 7 Evanuris and 7 Old Gods), there must be some connection. Secondly, Harding is not the first dwarf to display magical abilities. Remember Sandal? He seemingly helped our Gray Warden out on the way to the final fight with the Archdemon, appearing magically out of nowhere and surrounded by dead Darkspawn. The in Dragon Age 2 he also magically froze a darkspawn ogre. Then there's Valta from the Descent DLC in Inquisition, who also seemed to gain some magical ability near the end of that storyline. So, no, Harding isn't the first dwarf to exhibit magical abilities. As for the Griffons, you got most of that right, but the Gray Warden who sacrificed himself during the 4th Blight had a sister who managed to purge the taint from the clutch of eggs fathered by her brother's griffin, Crookytail, and she hid away the 13 eggs. So that would explain why Assan exists.
i feel like it’s important to note that technically though sandal seems to also be the only other dwarf magically inclined being a rune savant. runes are usually handled & applied via mages or assumably someone fade-touched as implied by the inquisitor applying the runes themselves. bodahn in origins says that sandal was lyrium-addled from his time in the deep roads; it’s also worth mentioning that he seems to have some sort of ability to conduct prophesies or be “attached” to something between him saying that darkspawns would arrive & they did to the prophecy daii about magic coming back & assumably the veil tearing. there’s also showing of him standing in bloodied areas surrounded by dead darkspawns in origins & daii despite not showing any ability to handle them. when hawke asks abt the frozen ogre he simply says “not enchantment” possibly referring to using magic - either way in any instance besides scout displaying magic, dagna’s ability to understand & comprehend magic, sandal’s mysterious abilities the dwarves seems to have some understanding of magic despite them supposedly not being able to use it. whether it be from exposure to lyrium, the blight (through red lyrium or other means), or the fade somehow dwarves are connected to magic
I'm guessing the dragon with blue highlights and tendrils is Ghilan'nain in her dragon form, and the dragon with orange highlights is Elgar'nan in dragon form.
Oof, so much wrong info in this video. One: Last Flight explains why griffons have returned. Two: Elvhenan was the name of the Elven empire, Arlathan was basically the capital city, theorized to now be the Black City in the Fade. Three: (forgivable since Until We Sleep kinda contradicts established lore and this is a new development in Dwarf lore) Dwarvin Magic does not come from the Fade but rather from their connection to the Titans demonstrated in the Descent DLC in Inquisition whom have been dormant thus likely result in the loss of their magic leaving only the Stone Sense that Dwarves from Orzammar, and likely Kal-Sharok as well, have that helps them navigate underground and find lyrium, now established to be Titan “blood”, Surface Dwarves losing this ability. Please please please PLEASE use the Dragon Age Wiki, I beg you.
So, I don't think that the weakening of the Veil is what gives Harding her powers, at least not directly. In Inquisition the DLC The Descent the Titan below is waking up which I think could be what leads to Harding developing her own powers because Dwarves are commonly referred to as Children of the Stone. So, maybe the weakening of the veil is what causes the Titans to wake up which in turn awakens latent Dwarf abilities that don't have any connection to the Fade. It makes me wonder what the Dwarves were like during the time of the Evanuris, before Solas created the Veil
I might be mistaken on that but wasn't there a hint or theory that the elven gods and old gods are one and the same or at least connected? Also Morrigan making a return, sign me up, hopefully it's not just for fanservice. Always liked her ambiguous character and the work Claudia Black (her VA) did.
Come on Big Dan you make out that Harding using magic is the first time a Dwarf uses magic in the Dragon Age universe that would be incorrect during "The decent" Valta gained magical powers so powerful that it even scared The Inquisitor. The Inquisitor tries to convince her to join The Inquisition to keep an eye on her to help train her but she flat out refuses due to the new connection and power she feels. later we find out if you go back into the newly found lyrium mines. Valta revives her slain companion due to this new powerful magic she has received directly from a Titan heart blood, she then walls off the city next to the titan heart blood. Keeping her word leaving access to the new lyrium mines to help the Inquisition mages. I think you should really go back and re-play the previous games if your gonna spout lore in your content.
You should just take this video down. Do some research and try again. You got almost everything wrong from the old god's connection to the evanuris, saying that we've been to arlathan, griffins surviving in arlathan and harding being the first dwarf with magical abilities. It's all completely wrong and false information.
I'm super excited to get back to Thedas. The games/stories tie together so well that I want to see/hear what happened to my Warden/Inquisitor and Isabella and Zevran and Cassandra...
Morrigans headpiece is the same as Flemith’s/ Mythal’s. I’m predicting that what Flemith/ Mythal did at the end of inquisition when she put some ‘essence’ of herself into the eluvian, she had a plan w Morrigan to take on Mythal’s essence.
and here i am, still salty about how the end of Dragon Age Awakening got 0 payoff... like what happened to my warden that followed morrigan through the Veil? What happened to their son with the arch demon soul? Aside of some really small mentions i dont really recall any of it in the sequels.
I'm still not sold on this game. The characters are just too cartoonish looking for Dragon Age and the people developing this seems more concerned about kicking the previous games than trying to hype this one.
did not like that subscribe pull.... yeah its fun but... I was hooked until it was a ploy to join the channel.... you get me? i feel a little side lined. no hate, enjoying your content but just didn't enjoy the wool over the eyes. just saying as someone who may enjoy more content like this just didn't need that
I haven’t seen where it’s stated that the Elven gods aren’t the old gods or at the very least connected to them. I’m inclined to believe that the old gods are either a familiar or are the former physical bodies of the Elven gods and the reason that only two of the Elven gods escaped is because they are the only ones left alive. I think that the Elven gods caused the blights trying to regain power in the physical world and when each arch demon was killed so was its connected Elven god. So in the game we are going to see the final blights take place with it being a double blight since we see the Elven gods become two different arch demons. And bring in the lore from the Deep Rods dlc from inquisition I think the Elven gods sealed the titans away underground and the reason Solas wanted to re-prison the Elven gods instead of kill them is because if all the Elven gods die the titans will be set free and that could be the cliffhanger hanger leading to DA5 the titans rising again.
So... The archdemons are old gods... And the old gods are elven gods.... And yes, im calling it now because theres no way we saying they aint the same since the old god mythal takes is sent back to the fade and now we have blighted elven gods, aint a coincidence
The old gods are not the same as the evanuris… that’s a bold assertion given that the evanuris seem to take dragon form also. More likely the old gods are the forgotten ones - the pantheon of elven ‘gods’ who were enemies of the evanuris faction.
With Scout Harding using magic, I wonder if Dagna was able to uncover something in her magical research, that enables some dwarves to use magic. I must admit getting a touch emotional at hearing Claudia Black's voice, and seeing Morrigan.
morrigan appearance surprise me like, it doesn't look like her. did the ritual complete, about mythal/flemeth transfered to her, or perhaps its the knowledge from the well that make her changes
She's about 40 now. It actually annoyed me that everyone looked the same in Inquisition as they did in Origins. Varric obviously looks a lot different as well. I just assume someone pointed out to them that people do age and change clothes now and again. Now if someone can just explain to Bethesda that accents are to do with location and not race then we'll be all good
There was an entire book about the return of the griffons, The Last Flight. The book takes place in between inquisition and veilguard. In the book, a group of new wardens found a clutch of Griffon eggs that were preserved from the blight back from the 4th blight. The end of the book ends with 10 Griffons hatching from the eggs and it is now around 10 years later, so maybe some of those griffons have begun to reproduce resulting in the baby Griffon Assan.
I just want another mabari companion like origins 😢 I'm not a super huge fan of the griffin making a return ill be honest..but I will leave judgements fully until I experience the game x.x
I feel like each elven god will command one of the main threats. That being demons and darkspawn. My main theory is that her being an elven god, who could have been corrupted into being the first broodmother, or she was the creator. The other is in command of the demons, probably going to hear more lore about lyrium
Greetings Big Dan, I have some facts to share about your information. In elven lore and history that can be founded in games and in certain articles is shared not only tales about days of glory of their people, but as well as revealing facts what happened between elf’s and humans. In one of such articles is written information that on second or third blight when Tevinter Imperium needed a help to protect themselves from Blight they asked elves for assistance and elves declined giving any help to humans, after blight ended, it was decided that elves need to pay for their decision, so begun the well known divine march (excuse me for not writing with proper naming of the subjects, bringing from memory this facts). And the rest is known about elven fates, elves than asked their gods for help, but they couldn’t help because of Fen Harel ceiling them and forgotten ones with the veil. Now about the gryphons, well information about them is certainly hardly to find and read about as their existing ended with fourth blight, In the book The Last Flight is written all the details about gryphons. The forth blights heroes Garahel’s sister Isseya trying to heal one of the dying gryphon from blight illness, (he bitted one of darkspawns to protect his master), she used blood magic in combination with joining ritual, but gryphons haven’t drinked blood, they overcome the joining ritual with use of blood magic. She used magic to make their minds ease and accept the darkspawn blood, but it turn them into beasts filled with rage and suffer. The magic spread like illness that’s true and Isseya couldn’t heal them, but she could save the remaining eggs that haven’t suffered from illness. So, she sealed them away and kept hidden the diary in which she wrote her story Alf life and story about fourth blight. The gryphon seen in the trailer is one of those hatchlings, and if grey wardens still teach their mabari to not bite the dark spawn they should know that it was vital to teach gryphons to not bite as well, so if there will be darkspawn I’m sure the little gryphon will be alright.
Pretty sure harding is gaining abilities from the titans. Also, the elven gods and the old tevinter gods are almost certainly the same but different names (think Rome and Greek pantheons)
I can’t help but wonder if every companion is going to have magic of some kind. Lucanis is an assassin and he clearly has some magical ability with the wings, Harding is a dwarf with magic, and we know that Bellara is a mage yet she uses a bow. I’m hoping I get to be a true sword-wielding arcane warrior again and the chances of that happening are growing with every new trailer.
Scout harding is using magic because the base of operations is in the fade... she is gaining a connection to the fade and therefor starting to feel the flow of magic
