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Fun fact: The sign "Battye & Palm" is a Discworld Easter Egg - in the novel Night Watch, Rosemary Palm is a seamstress and Sandra Battye is a real seamstress (truly working with needle :D).They are flatmates. They deal with ppl depending on which seamstress is being looked for :).
#good omens#gos2#season 2#photos#promo photos#show promo photos#hq photos#michael sheen#aziraphale#cute aziraphale#<3#battye & palm#discworld#easter eggs#discworld easer eggs#terry pratchett#terry pratchett easter eggs#fun facts#rosemary palm#sandrea batty#:)#seamstress#night watch#soho
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Here's my discworld folder for music sheets. Ă la - what I did during my summer singing camp at the and of August. But hey it did wake up my artistic soul, even though not the type it was arming at xD.
#great a'tuin#the night watch#reginald shoe#john âmossyâ lawn#agony aunts#rosemary palm#sandra battye#roberta meserole#havelock vetinari#nobby nobbs#cmot dibbler#lu-tze#carcer dun#john keel#(not really but technically)#sam vimes#fred colon#discworld death#granny weatherwax#the guarding dark#the summoning dark#tonker#lofty#eskarina smith#tiffany aching#susan sto helit#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#my art#fanart
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Ayla Battye
#Ayla Battye#images that pop#bodies that pop#fit and sexy#fitness#fitbody#bodybuilder#fitblr#girls with muscles#female bodybuilding#female muscle#striking#sculpted body#beautiful body#shredded#muscles that rock the soul#scorching
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DATV Writer Confirmation
There are spoilers in this. Characters that have been shown/mentioned in marketing. I will be updating this as we go.
Brianne Battye - Neve
Sheryl Chee - Lace Harding
John Dombrow - Davrin
John Epler - Bellara
Sylvia Feketekuty - Emmrich
Mary Kirby - Varric, Lucanis, Illario, co-wrote Viago and Teia
Luke Kristjanson - co-wrote Viago and Teia, Crow faction quests
Trick Weekes - Taash
#datv spoilers#da4 spoilers#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age 4#datv#da4#mary kirby#trick weekes#brianne battye#john epler#luke kristjanson#sylvia feketekuty#john dombrow#sheryl chee
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CĂ©sar Morales Anderson - photo by Richard Battye
#CĂ©sar Morales Anderson#Richard Battye#bailarĂn#danseur#dancer#ballerino#tĂ€nzer#boys of ballet#ballet men#ballet#dance
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I was today years old when I realised that Sandra Battye in Night Watch specialises in crochet and therefore might call herself a hooker.
Hooker is also a slang term for... 'seamstress' in the UK.
The puns in these books >.<
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Oh Sylvia Feketekuty wrote the short story in nevarra and luck in the garden!!! I love luck in the garden, in case Dorian appears I hope she's his writer because she really had his tone perfectly
#and oh maybe the other writer i forgot is Brianna Battye? was she Cullen's writer? that would be great#I'm scrolling through tevinters's nights to see the writers and the cute warders are called Evka and Antoine okay#horrible of me to forget their names i really loved these two#so okay i guess the remaining writers are Sheryl chee lukas kristjanson and Brianna battye#all 3 of them if i remember correctly and she wrote cullen wrote characters i love so whoever wrote davrin and harding is a victory for me#nice#why don't they just say it now writing is stressing me out#dragon age
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Sandra B. used MUSHROOM! It's super effective!
The Princess Maker sprites are so hard to make consistent and so big, so I decided to use a different style. I'm still not sure if flapper Rosie/Sandra necessarily fits in Night-Watch era Ankh Morpork (or any Ankh-Morpork at all) but it looks good, so I'm going with it. Seamstresses and needlewomen. Needlewomen and seamstresses.
#discworld#discworld fanart#princess maker 2#or#vimes maker#gnu terry pratchett#pixel art#battle sprites#Rosemary Palm#Sandra Battye#Did I accidentally invoke a Utena colour scheme?#DID I ACCIDENTALLY PUT SANDRA IN ANTHY'S LAST OUTFIT?#she's crocheting in pink because they're socks for Rosie
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They're right and they should say it
(source: http://www.dumpeddrunkanddalish.com/2019/12/mary-kirby-and-brianne-battye-conquer.html)
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Audible Theater Challenges Dating with a Surprisingly Sharp "Strategic Love Play"
#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #MiriamBattye's #StrategicLovePlay directed by #KatiePosner w/ @heleneyorke #HeleneYorke @michaelzegen #MichaelZegen @audibletheater #ChaseThisProductions at #MinettaLaneTheatre #audibletheater
HelĂ©ne York and Michael Zegen in Audibleâs Strategic Love Play. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Strategic Love Play By Ross âAre you OK?â he asks, as the two face off over beers after matching online. The two strangers sit, grinning and frowning at one another in a bar for a drink, dragging in expectations and a whole lot of online dating trauma (or should I call itâŠ
#Chase This Productions#Heléne York#Katie Posner#Michael Zegen#Miriam Battye#off broadway#Strategic Love Play
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It Ain't Half Mild, Mum
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Wednesday 29th March 2023 Deborah Moggach adapts her own novel for the stage, a story of British retirees retiring to a âretirement hotelâ in Bangalore. Theyâre a motley bunch, each with their own reason for leaving Blighty behind. We see them arrive, have teething problems, settle in, and ultimately fight for the hotelâs survival. âŠ
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#Anant Varman#Belinda Lang#Eileen Battye#Graham See#Grand Theatre#Marlen Sidaway#Nishad More#Paola Dionisotti#Paul Nicholas#Rekha John-Cheriyan#review#Shila Iqbal#Tessa Peake-Jones#The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel#Wolverhampton
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard - major characters' writers
Varric Tethras - Mary Kirby Lace Harding - Sheryl Chee Neve Gallus - Brianne Battye Lucanis Dellamorte - Mary Kirby Emmrich Volkarin - Sylvia Feketekuty Davrin - John Dombrow Bellara Lutare - John Epler Taash - Trick Weekes
Note: BW have said that the characters were all team efforts too, with other writers and also multiple departments working together to bring them to life! :)
#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: dreadwolf#dragon age 4#the dread wolf rises#da4#dragon age#bioware#video games#(i think Jessica said Brianne was her writer during the panel)#edit: Trick has now confirmed Brianne for Neve
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Hamish Scott - Birmingham Royal Ballet - photo by Richard Battye
#richard battye#hamish scott#birmingham royal ballet#british ballet dancers#dance#ballet#bailarĂn#ballerino#danseur#dancer#boys of ballet#ballet men
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Map of Soho Good Omens Season 2 - Part 1 (Location and general map)
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Update: Map now identifies Lucky Snake and the coffee shop listed in Aziraphale's clipboard may indeed be Give Me Coffee I think we all have wondered how the GO Soho looks like and where it would be in real London. So using all the screenshots, BTS pictures and videos I could find I did my best to map out where things are. It is not to scale but everything I could see is there. I originally had all the pictures and explanations in this post but soon it became obvious it was going to be too long and impractical so I had to split it in different posts and I hope I got it right. The map has five reference points (circle with two diverging lines); imagine the circle is you, standing in the set, and the lines are your viewpoint if you were taking a picture from there. The left side of Whickber Street (#1 and #2) is in Part 2, the intersecting street (#3 and #4) is in Part 3 and the right half of Whickber Street (#5) is in Part 4.
As to where the bookshop would be in real London. We know that Whickber Street is supposed to be Berwick Street so let's start there. The intersecting street is not obvious from the show. In this post Neil said he imagines the bookshop to be where Gosh! Comics is (Peter Street) while Michael Ralph and Douglas McKinnon probably put it at The Week (on Broadwick Street). Because it is ambiguous and really you can do whatever you want, I just left it as "intersecting street". We know from the book that Crowley takes Wardour Street after the bookshop fire. Wardour is behind Berwick so in our map it would be where the Chinese Buffet Restaurant is, considering they run more or less parallel. On the other side, we have the Windmill Theatre located on Great Windmill Street. From Berwick St. and Peter St. it takes three minutes to walk to the theatre, it is that close! (yes, I know, Crowley was conducting business two blocks from the bookshop while not talking to Aziraphale for 80 years). I have never been in that part of London so I used Google Maps streetview and based only on that, I like the corner of Berwick St. and Broadwick St. better. It has the crooked intersection but the proximity of the theatre matches Peter St. better, so whatever works better for you!
There is one place missing from the set map though: Brown's World of Carpets! It is nowhere to be found, we simply don't know where it is My very personal headcanon is that it is nothing but a desk inside the furniture store. I find that idea of the guy most worried about storefront looks being the one without a storefront very amusing, but don't mind me, it is just my very silly hc XD Now, we know Aziraphale has a list for the shops he needs to visit. And we know he wrote it in alphabetical order which begs the question: Where is the Dirty Donkey?! Are they not invited? And what about the fabric shop? And Bilton Scaggs? Battye and Palm? The News Agency? Is "Mo Coffee? No Coffee?" supposed to be Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death? Or is there another coffee shop somewhere? @crow-bee23 suggested it could be "Me Coffee" which it is entirely possible, the full name is kind of long. So many questions to ask Mr. Brown.
Anyway, I put pictures and details on the shops in parts 2, 3 and 4. Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens 2 set#good omens soho#A. Z. Fell & Co#the dirty donkey#Windmill theatre#whickber street#berwick street#peter street#broadwick street#the bookshop#good omens 3#they will be using the same set after all
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I Saw Solas's Origin in an Achievement Icon and It Opened My Eyes on 15 Years of Lore
â PART SEVEN: if you haven't read previous parts, do it now! â
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Welcome, friends and travellers! I wanted to get some thoughts recorded before Veilguard's release so I could see if I am right about an absolute BOATLOAD of theories I have.
In short: I saw the achievement list when it was released. I have seen the backstory hints for Solas included in said list. AND MY MIND WAS BLOWN.
You have been warned: THIS COLLECTION OF THEORIES INCLUDES SPOILERS FOR EVERY DRAGON AGE GAME AND ALL PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL UP TO AND INCLUDING OCTOBER 18, 2024.
Come sit down with me. Make a nice cup of tea (and hide it from Solas). We've got a lot of unpacking to do.
(Image from Brianne Battye's Won't Know When. it's a great read! not the spoiler, though.)
Today's Discussion: The Tragedy of the Evanuris (3/3)
â Pestilent Doom Upon All the World â
Welcome back! If you're new here, go read all the other parts. Yes, I know there are six of them. There's a reason there are six of them! The context is building as we go, I promise.
If you made it this far, you're a hero. Thanks for bearing with me through the muddled chronology of the earlier Evanuris. I promise: it matters, for when we get to Solas in future (soon!!) instalments.
Now, the most immediate threat to Thedas: the blight. We know the story of Ancient Elvhenan ends (in one sense) with Solas creating the Veil, sealing the Evanuris in their prisons, keeping the blight from consuming all Thedas. We know that the blight involves red lyrium, but not how it involves red lyrium. We know that Ghilan'nain and Andruil have had contact with it, but not how.
The truth is: all the Evanuris are guilty, in their own way. Ghilan'nain's and Andruil's story is only part of the blight's storyâand figuring out the rest of it will piece together some of the final gaps in the puzzle that is Solas Dragonage.
Let's begin.
"Blackened Hearts" and Portents of Doom
Pestilent Hate
"Banal Malas Elgara" â What WAS the Blight's Beginning?
Andruil: Huntress of the Void
Mythal: Intervention, Too Late
Ghilan'nain: Mother of Monsters, Who Once Was Most Sensitive
One Mistake Becomes Everyone's Weapon
"Blackened Hearts" and Portents of Doom
There is a reason I went over all the Evanuris, even the ones not most immediately related to Veilguard. It was to establish a pattern: the Evanuris all harvested from the Titans to do horrible experiments on both spirits and corporeal people.
The Titans are living organisms. We see Shaper Valta describe their song as "breathing." Red lyrium contains the Blight, and the Blight only affects living things. We even see red lyrium growing in the Fade.
There is not an Evanuris among the bunch who is not guilty of taking from the Forgotten Ones. Mythal mined their bodies for lyrium, which she made into people. Sylaise and June did the same, each with their own horrible experiments. Elgar'nan took it one step further, sundering spirits under his domain. Dirthamen shoved additional spirits/demons into the bodies of his worshippersâand animals, trees, etc. Falon'Din may have made it his mission to kill all Titans entirely, but blackened their hearts instead (we'll get into the meaning of that very shortly).
Not only do these actions solidify Solas's motivations for imprisoning all of the Evanuris, regardless of the blight that would threaten everythingâit also sets the stage for that blight to emerge.
Every Evanuris did something that could have prompted the blight's beginning. Their wretched crimes doomed all of Thedas. It's just a matter of figuring out the exact moment that doom took shape.
Long has it been debated in the DA fandom about whether red lyrium began the blights, or whether the blights caused red lyrium to start growing within the Titans. I could not decide which argument I believed more...
Until I saw Solas's Manifestation memory icon, and then read World of Thedas.
Pestilent Hate
Remember how I said a couple of times before that the Titans are named similarly to spirits/demons in World of Thedas?
Long have many of us in the fandom wailed over the fact that Spite is on this list. But I think that, collectively, most of us overlooked Pestilence.
Let us go over what we know. According to both the Chant of Light and the Dwarven faith and ancient elvhen texts, Titans shaped the world. They are living beings, whose blood is everywhere. They are named in the same fashion as spirits, and can evidently be "turned" in the same ways as spirits, likely because all spirits are formed from Titans' thoughts.
All four of these Forgotten Ones have been "turned." We also know that what "turns" a spirit in Thedas is trauma: usually the trauma of passing through the Veil.
Seeing the name Pestilence, I checked my theory against all other sources available to me, starting with what we know of the blight thus far.
Ancient elven sources refer to the blight as a plague that spread through Andruil's lands (more on that later). Again, it is mentioned as a plague in a blood-memory on a Tevinter statue. The Chant of Light also makes mention of the word "plague:"
There in the depths of the earth they dwelled, Spreading their taint as a plague, growing in number Until they were a multitude.
But I wanted to go one step further. I wanted to see if pestilence would be mentioned explicitly, in any way that might point it back to the Forgotten Ones.
(17) The Seven struck against the Archon With all their twisted magic, But no pestilent hate could turn aside Tevinter's Ferryman. (18) Across the plain, the Archon saw, Where the defilers stood, corruption, Blackness all consuming, Threatened to engulf his land and all his people. With fire and lightning he strove To cleanse the spreading poison from the earth, To no avail. Magic could not undo What evil had done.
There: the Seven (the Magisters Sidereal, the ones who went to the Blackened City) turned pestilent hate against the Archon when he tried to stop them. That magic is then described as defiled, corrupted, a blackness all consuming, threatening to engulf his land and all his people. It is likened to poison spreading through the earthâwhich we now know can be interpreted as the Titans' domain.
But magic could not undo what evil had done, in much the same way that flinging fire and lightning at a demon will not persuade it to revert back to its former, friendly nature.
I do not believe the Magisters were the first ones to bring the blight to what would become the Silent Plains. In fact, I do not believe that to necessarily be Andruil, either, who famously stalked the Void to hunt the Forgotten Ones.
I think the real culprit comes sooner: the foundation of every Evanuris atrocity.
The mining of Titans for people.
"Banal Malas Elgara" â What WAS the Blight's Beginning?
One of the first songs I posted about, way back in part 2 of this series, may hold the key to our entire understanding of the Blight.
Ir sa tel'nal Mythal las ma theneras Ir san'a emma Him solas evanuris Da'durgen'lin Banal malas elgara Bellanaris, bellanaris.
Isatunoll Mythal gives you dreams Lyrium within Becomes Solas Evanuris Little stone boy...
Here is where I paused, because I remembered something about the elven language: a word that does not appear in this song, but is cited in World of Thedas vol 1. Something I had not considered, even when I wrote part 2 of this theory, because the realizations are happening that fast.
Banalhan: "This place of nothing," the Elven name for the Blight, or, rather, where the Blight comes from.
If "Banalhan" is where the Blight comes from, and "-an" is the suffix that denotes a place name, then what is the root word for Blight?
Banal.
The rest of the song would then become:
Blight you give to the Many-Spirit (Titan) Forever, forever.
Oh.
But hang on a moment: we don't see Mythal wielding the Blight like Ghilan'nain is in Veilguard. We haven't seen her do it even once! In fact, Solas describes Mythal as the lone voice of reason among the Evanuris, and laments the fact that the others killed her.
Mythal is known not for her greed, nor her impulsivity, but her wisdom and restraint. It makes me think that this codex about the ancient elves sealing the Deep Roads belongs in this portion of the Evanuris's history: before the rise of Ghilan'nain, and before the end was near.
In the light of the veilfire, the runes seem to shift, coiling and uncoiling like snakes. A thunderous voice shatters the stillness, shouting: "Hail Mythal, adjudicator and savior! She has struck down the pillars of the earth and rendered their demesne unto the People! Praise her name forever!" For a moment, the scent of blood fills the air, and there is a vivid image of green vines growing and enveloping a sphere of fire.
Part one seems to be what we know: Mythal struck down the Titans and farmed people. But then?
The vision grows dark. An aeon seems to pass. Then the runes crackle, as if filled with an angry energy. A new vision appears: elves collapsing caverns, sealing the Deep Roads with stone and magic. Terror, heart-pounding, ice-cold, as the last of the spells is cast.
Elves hurriedly sealing the Deep Roads. Terror, as the last of the spells is cast. We know that Terror is the name of one of the Forgotten Ones, and I would imagine that this codex describes that Titan turning.
But if this Forgotten One is Terror? What came next confused me, for a time.
A voice whispers: "What the Evanuris in their greed could unleash would end us all. Let this place be forgotten. Let no one wake its anger. The People must rise before their false gods destroy them all."
This is the exact same language that's getting used about the blight in Veilguardânamely, by Solas, who hinted at this concept in Inquisition as well. The blight threatens to end all creation, so what is it doing associated with Terror, not Pestilence?
"Pestilent hate" does not refer only to Pestilence's hatred. It refers to hatred that spreads like pestilence, from those "blackened hearts" of the Titans.
Many have thought of it before I: the blight is the Titans' defence mechanism against the Evanuris's war effort and subsequent crimes.
Mythal was wise enough to seal it all away. But the others?
Andruil: Huntress of the Void
Many of you are already familiar with Andruil, and so I will be brief.
Before I dive into the blight material, I'd like to draw quick mention to: yup, Andruil was also taking spirits. She took the "screams of the south wind," which I am going to interpret means "spirits of the Fade in the south."
She took the gathering storm, trapped its fury in golden limbs, and strung it with the screams of the south wind. Andruil, blood and force, your people pray to you. Grant that your eye may not fall upon us. Spare us the moment we become Your prey.
Since we know that the Titans are un-sundered in her time, this does still count as stealing from the Forgotten Ones in the same way as mining lyrium does.
Back to the blight, and to the hunting codices that many of us know and love.
One day Andruil grew tired of hunting mortal men and beasts. She began stalking the Forgotten Ones, wicked things that thrive in the abyss. Yet even a god should not linger there, and each time she entered the Void, Andruil suffered longer and longer periods of madness after returning.
I want to draw attention to this first paragraph because of the mention of its timing. Prior to this codex, the Evanuris loved fighting the Titans! They loved mining the Titans for lyrium! For people! This is the first mention we see of venturing to the Abyss being an inadvisable thing to do. This tells me she went after the Titans became "wicked things." Now, there was a danger. Now, there was blight.
Andruil put on armor made of the Void, and all forgot her true face. She made weapons of darkness, and plague ate her lands. She howled things meant to be forgotten, and the other gods became fearful Andruil would hunt them in turn.
Important to note: the wiki lists that darkness and taint/blight are the same thing. Additionally, Andruil howled things meant to be forgotten. Knowing what we know now about lyrium, and about how darkspawn hear a unique callingâI'm going to wager that Andruil heard the songs of these twisted/tainted Titans, whether or not that counts as the Calling.
Plague ate her lands. We know "lands" refers to Titans (remember that Elgar'nan was asked to tame the land). Therefore: plague (blight) ravaged the Titan of her domain.
Most importantly: the other gods became fearful Andruil would hunt them. They weren't afraid of that before. It means she must have changed.
(I'm not going to discuss the lyrium armor at this point; every Evanuris has done many a Lyrium Crime, and I do not think there's anything super substantive in Andruil wearing lyrium armor, save for the fact that it is probably red, as her art in The Missing [comic image pictured above] suggests.)
My key takeaway is: Andruil did not create the blight, nor did she discover it. The Evanuris knew about the blight, and Mythal's elves had tried to seal it away. Andruil's crime is that she stalked the Forgotten Ones again, bringing the blight back to the pantheon.
Mythal: Intervention, Too Late?
Remember that Solas refers to Mythal as the lone voice of reason among the Evanuris? He was likely referring to what came next in that codex.
So Mythal spread rumors of a monstrous creature and took the form of a great serpent, waiting for Andruil at the base of a mountain. When Andruil came, Mythal sprang on the hunter. They fought for three days and nights, Andruil slashing deep gouges in the serpent's hide. But Mythal's magic sapped Andruil's strength, and stole her knowledge of how to find the Void. After this, the great hunter could never make her way back to the abyss, and peace returned.
We all know the point of this codex: that Mythal stepped in to intervene when Andruil came back carrying the blight. I want to draw attention to a few key facts here.
Mythal is clearly using lyrium/Titan-based magic, while Andruil is using the "air"/Fade-based magic. Remember that Andruil's bow was strung with screams from the wind: this is that. Mythal's magic counters Andruil's, just like templars' magic counters mages' magic.
Mythal then takes Andruil's memories away from her with this lyrium-based magic. The only way that we are aware of how to do that is by then Shaping the memory into the Stone. This is where a lot of people link Andruil, Sera, and the Small Painted Box found in Origins and referenced in Sera's dialogue (another theory I have no time to elaborate onâI am positive it is located somewhere, if you go hunting!)
Andruil is never mentioned as getting these memories back. But that does not mean that knowledge of the blight halted there.
In fact... Andruil raised up a mortal to the ranks of the Evanuris, just like Mythal did for Solas. Since we know Solas's origin. . .
Ghilan'nain: Mother of Monsters, Who Was Once Most Sensitive
"As you were raised up from mortal men to stand with our Creators, our Makers, so raise me up now to defend this world." â Inquisitor Ameridan
Ghilan'nain is oft cited as a follower of Andruil. We know, though, from the stories of Mythal, Falon'Din, Sylaise, and even June, that followers of the Evanuris do not necessarily mean mortals who chose to follow them. Rather, we know that follower most often means creation.
Ghilan'nain is a creation of Andruil, who created many monsters for Andruil to hunt. In fact, as the goddess of sacrifice, that seems to be what Andruil wanted the most from her "followers."
My most important question is: where did Ghilan'nain come from, to make her the way that she is? It's likeliest that Solas came from the same Titan that Mythal initially locked away (or another similarly blighted Titan). Yet, Solas is not... Like Thatâą, the way Ghilan'nain is.
(AKA, I don't see him sliding around on tentacles, creating all manner of horrors under 12 different mountains in Nevarra.)
Ghilan'nain seems to be the strongest proponent of and most skilled wielder of blight magic among the Evanuris. I think it has everything to do with the Titan she came from. And I think we can guess at which one that is, based on a few key details.
First, we know that the Titan Mythal sealed away was likely Terror. Second, we have a codex from another of the Forgotten Ones: Geldauran.
There are no gods. There is only the subject and the object, the actor and the acted upon. Those with will to earn dominance over others gain title not by nature but by deed. I am Geldauran, and I refuse those who would exert will upon me. Let Andruil's bow crack, let June's fire grow cold. Let them build temples and lure the faithful with promises. Their pride will consume them, and I, forgotten, will claim power of my own, apart from them until I strike in mastery.
Geldauran is speaking out against specifically two of the Evanuris: Andruil and June. If Geldauran had first been mined by Mythal, wouldn't Mythal's name also have been mentioned, as Mythal's horrors are the first among the Evanuris (as far as I can tell)?
But no: there are only two mentioned here. I believe Andruil and June, therefore, were both mining from Geldauran.
What was Ghilan'nain doing, before joining the Evanuris? Staying away from all the elvhen, creating.
Ghilan'nain kept herself apart from the People. She used her power to create animals none had ever seen.
I'm imagining this means she is hanging out nearby her Titan, down in the Abyss.
The skies teemed with her monsters, the land with her beasts.
And this? We know skies means the Fade, full of her monsters. What monsters are known to inhabit the Fade? Demons. As for the land, that's the Titans' domain, and it encapsulates every other creature: anything corporeal.
Andruil hunted them all, and after a year of killing, approached Ghilan'nain with an offer: the gods would share their power with Ghilan'nain, but only if she destroyed her creations, for they were too untamed to remain among the People. Ghilan'nain agreed and asked for three days to undo what she had made.
The creations were hurting the elvhen: the Evanuris's other creations. Their other property. And so Ghilan'nain, spirit of Geldauran, was asked to leave the Titan's domain, promised the power of the Evanuris instead.
(We won't go over the "which monsters did she kill and why did Pride stop her hand" here, because it is not relevant for a discussion of the blight, except to say that griffons are peculiarly resistant to the blight.)
Let's assume that this Titan, Geldauran, was a spirit of Creation, or something similar.
What is the opposite of creation? Life? Pestilence.
While I believe that the blight is the defence mechanism of every injured or angered Titan, I believe that Pestilence affords Ghilan'nain with different abilities than the other Evanuris, save for June/June's domain (who, also, as Architect? 100% was "improving upon" his own creations with what sounds like the fires of a forge).
This is also why I think that Ghilan'nain and Andruil's relationship matters as much as it does. I'm not the first to speculate that it's Andruil making up Ghilan'nain's second torso. I'm not the first one to have latched on to how Solas said Ghilan'nain was, "most sensitive of us."
Conclusion? Ghilan'nain did not invent the blight. Once, she may have even created beautiful creatures on purpose.
I believe that there may have been a point where Ghilan'nain tried to cure Andruil of the blight. A point where she was more aligned with Creation/Healing than Pestilence. Where what she wanted was to populate the world with good things, healthy things. The halla we see in the open world (not the insectoid monstrosities painted in Hormak and other temples). The griffons, maybe.
But somewhere along the wayâperhaps even because of Andruil hunting her TitanâGhilan'nain changed. And when she changed, (re)discovering the blight as it was brought back by Andruil?
No one could keep it a secret any longer. And if there is one thing we know about the Evanuris, it is that every single one of them has done unspeakable acts in the name of augmenting the lives of their creations, to the detriment of everything and everyone else.
Thirst for power among the Evanuris would threaten to blight the world, and it was all of their fault at once.
One Mistake Becomes Everyone's Weapon
ThisâTHIS is why I spent 6,000 words going over the other Evanuris. Because the blight is not the fault of just Andruil, or just Ghilan'nain, as so many of us believed for so long.
In fact, the blight sounds like it first made its appearance because of Mythal. Mythal, the only one to turn away from it and try to keep others away from it, lest everything else be destroyed.
Every single other Evanuris has expressed nothing but interest in it, that we have seen. Elgar'nan is using it in Veilguard, from what we know. Falon'Din maybe wanted every Titan to die, not live in peace. Dirthamen might have tricked the Magisters Sidereal into entering the Golden City just to blight them all and escape himself. Sylaise and June both pushed their creations to the limits of what is possible, bending life to their command and their image.
Every single one of them had an archdemon. A blighted dragon. All but Mythal (that we know of).
THIS is why Solas cannot stop with just imprisoning Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan, or Ghil and Elgar'nan and Andruil, or even any six of the seven.
The tragedy of the Evanuris is that every single one of the pantheon was unstoppable in their greed. Every single Evanuris caused the events that led to the blight. Every single Evanuris ignored Mythal's warnings.
And they all killed her, in the end.
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AAAAA THANK YOU for reading this far, AGAIN, if you have! I'm trying to finish up the entirety of my theory collection before Veilguard drops, so stay tuned!
Also: I am essentially FULLY OFFLINE to try and avoid game spoilers! As these reviews have just gone live today (10/28), I am not reading my notifications/replies, and am appearing here only to continue posting my theories. I have heard that the embargo has been broken at least once already and I refuse to risk it, so I will respond to messages and notifications once I have played Veilguard for a bit.
(Mutuals, if you need me, you may DM me, as long as you do not mention the reviews in any capacity.)
This series is close to its end. It should wrap up after 9 or 10 parts in total.
Coming Up Next: The Story of Solas Evanuris, Da'Durgen'lin.
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