The Blight, The Black Sin

[Thorn The Dragon]

"Thedas is a land of fierce diversity, from the assassin-princes of Antiva to the faded griffons of the Anderfels, but in my travels, I have found one tale that unites the people of this land. It is a story of pride and damnation, and although the telling differs, the essence of the tale remains the same.

At the height of its power, the Tevinter Imperium stretched over much of Thedas, uniting the known world under the rule of the tyrannical magisters. It is said that the Old Gods whom the magisters worshipped gave them the knowledge of blood magic, and the magisters used this forbidden power to cement their rule. The blood of elven slaves and humans alike ran down imperial altars to fuel magister greed, the tales of their excesses so horrifying that one can only be grateful that blood magic is prohibited today.

But all that stands tall must eventually fall. Perhaps they foresaw their ruin, or perhaps their pride knew no bounds, but whatever the reason, the magisters dared to open a magical portal into the Golden City at the heart of the Fade. They sought to usurp the Maker's throne, long left unattended in the Golden City after the Maker turned his back on his creations. They would storm heaven itself with their power and become as gods.

This is what the Chantry, in its oft-exercised tendency to understate, refers to as the second sin.

According to most versions of the tale, the magisters did indeed reach the Golden City and walked into the home of the Maker, where no living being before them had dared, or been able, to tread. But humanity is not meant to walk in heaven. The magisters were wicked with pride and other sins, and their presence tainted the Golden City. What once was a perfect, holy citadel became a twisted home of darkness and nightmares. The magisters were expelled back through their gateway and cursed for their treachery. As the Golden City had been tainted, so were the magisters twisted and transformed into things of darkness--the very first of the darkspawn. The Golden City, once a shining beacon at the heart of the Fade, became the Black City, a reminder of all that man's pride has cost."



Much of this was contain from Dragon age Origins, a Bioware copyright.
social.bioware.com/wiki/dragonage/index.php/The_First_Blight
I plan to edit a few areas but the plot simply was inspired by Bioware's amazing piece of work. I applaud them

[Stealthy]

Very nice post. I can't see the plot in it very well... Things rock and roll music does. *rolls eyes*

[Thorn The Dragon]

This is the part 2, last part

I believe I am not understating when I say that the second sin unleashed the bane of all life upon Thedas. The darkspawn are more virulent than the worst plague, a heartless force of nature that came into our world like an ill wind. We know from accounts of later Blights (as these darkspawn invasions came to be called--never has a more appropriate name existed) that the darkspawn spread disease and famine wherever they tread. The earth itself is corrupted by their presence, the sky roiling with angry black clouds. I do not exaggerate, my friends, when I say that a mass gathering of darkspawn is an omen of dread cataclysm.

It is said that those cursed magisters who became the first darkspawn scratched at the very earth to find solace in the darkness of the dwarven Deep Roads, and there in the shadows they multiplied. Whether by intelligent design or by some last vestige of worship in their minds, they attempted to locate the Old Gods they had once served. They found what they sought: Dumat, first among the Old Gods, once known as the Dragon of Silence before the Maker imprisoned him and all his brethren beneath the earth for the first sin: usurping the Maker's place in mankind's heart.

The slumbering dragon awoke, freed from the Maker's prison by his twisted followers, and became corrupted himself. Dumat was transformed into the first archdemon, his great and terrible power given will by a rotting, unholy mind. With the darkspawn horde following, Dumat rose and took wing in the skies once again, bringing ruin to the world the Maker had created. The Old God had become the eye of a dark storm that would ravage the entire world.”

[Stealthy]

I like it. Very nice plot. Mostly all we gotta do is get it translated into the sites Dragon terms.

[Thorn The Dragon]

I'll summarize it for you guys that listen to to much rock and roll XP

The evil sorcery of Blood Magic released an evil

The evil took to the shadows and eventually ended up in the land we refer to as Heaven ((The Fade))

The darkness took over The Golden City ((Center of light, Beacon of hope itself))

The event showed Humans that their sins would come back to haunt them

The evil slowly spread to all corners of the land called Fereldon, releasing a terrible energy and hordes of terrible monsters called Dark Spawn, which ravaged the lands and destroyed all in their path.

The Maker himself was lost beyond the Darkness. ((Maker=God))

The terrible dark energy released a powerful dragon prisoned down far below the Earth's surface.

This dragon became known as the Archdemon, the center of the Blight itself.

[Stealthy]

Haha! The summery was very nice. I got most of it already though (summary helped).

I was thinking maybe the "darkspawn" wouldn't even be dragons... Hmm...

[Thorn The Dragon]

They wouldn't be. Only the high ranking officers which branch out from the Arch Demon. They would be like the Dragon-Hunters we faced on our journey to the council last plot.

[Stealthy]

They should be something like that... Maybe a kind of creature that no one knows what they are except they are... bad...