#YOU HAVE BROUGHT SIN TO HEAVEN AND DOOM UPON ALL THE WORLD

[noblcgames]

And So is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world. —Threnodies 8.13

[spiteslucanis]

dragon age aesthetic: [1/3] games ⇢ dragon age: origins

And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world — Threnodies 8:13

[halliserres]

And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world.

[warden-enchantress-archive]

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world."

[rachelamberish]

Have to get this out before the cohesive thought escapes my ADD brain so excuse me if this is word garbage:

The passage from the chant of light about the maker’s first born children being spirits and he thinks they suck bc they don’t want to create anything new and original. So then his second born children are people with physical bodies. “In your heart shall burn an unquenchable flame all consuming and never satisfied”. Like.

Okay i have no inclination where a lot of the passages in the chant even come from, other than that I assume a large source is Andraste herself who was presumably a host of Mythal (Morrigan in Veilguard describes Mythal’s spirit coming to her in a dream in the EXACT same way it is described the Maker approached Andraste and also the Andraste’s line being only women thing and. Yeah. I hope/assume we’re just all on the same page with this now).

So like. I think this passage was a bastardized-by-time-and-interpretation account of Mythal (and the other Evanuris) being unsatisfied with their spirit forms and then proceeding to take physical ones.

Actually now that i think about it I want to reread the whole chant. Because that shit now just takes on entirely new context.

“And so the golden city blackens with each step you take in my hall, marvel at perfection for it is fleeting, you have brought sin to heaven and doom upon all the world.” Could very easily be — again — a bastardized version of some shit Solas ACTUALLY said to the magisters that breached his prison and in so doing unleashed the blight.

“They looked upon what Pride had wrought and despaired”??? Like please. I’m going back to read that fucking Chant.

[dudewheresmynug]

So um. The ancient Tevinter Magisters became the first darkspawn because, when they entered the "golden" city, they ran into the blighted Evanuris, who blighted them, huh.

"And so is the Golden City blackened

With each step you take in my Hall.

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting.

You have brought Sin to Heaven

And doom upon all the world."

- Threnodies 8:13

Do you think the city was ever golden?? Or has it always been the black city, because of the blighted evanuris who lived there?

[illusivesoul]

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world"

[daitranscripts]

Skyhold Conversation: Mother Giselle

Investigate: Tell Me About Corypheus

Skyhold Masterpost

PC: Can you tell me anything about Corypheus?

Giselle: I know nothing of the man personally, but the Chant of Light speaks of what he claims to be. “No matter their power, their triumphs, the mage-lords of Tevinter were men, and doomed to die. The a voice whispered within their hearts, ‘Shall you surrender your power, to time like the beasts of the fields?’ You are Lords of the earth! Go forth and claim the empty throne of Heaven and be gods.”

Dialogue options:

Special: An Old God. [1]

General: Let’s discuss another matter. [2]

1 - Special: An Old God. PC: That was one of the Old Gods speaking in their dreams? Giselle: Yes. Dumat, as I understand it. “In secret they worked magic upon magic… All their power and their vanity turned against the Veil, until at last, it gave away.”

Dialogue options:

Special: That sounds familiar.

Special: That sounds familiar. PC: That sounds like what happened with the Breach. Giselle: Very similar, Inquisitor. “Above them, a river of light, before them the throne of Heaven, waiting. Beneath their feet, the footprints of the Maker, and all around them echoed a vast silence. but when they took a single step towards the empty throne, a great voice cried out… Shaking the very foundations of Heaven and the earth.”

Dialogue options:

Special: Corypheus disagrees with that.

Special: Corypheus disagrees with that. PC: Corypheus said he only found chaos and corruption. Giselle: The Chant of Light says that it was beautiful until the Maker Himself spoke. “‘And so is the golden city blackened with each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven, and doom upon all the world.’”

Dialogue options:

Special: Again, that sounds different.

Special: Again, that sounds different. PC: Corypheus seemed so certain that he heard nothing. He described it as “dead whispers.” Giselle: Bitterness, perhaps? He paid a high price for his crime. “Violently they were cast down, for no mortal may walk bodily in the realm of dreams… Bearing the mark of their Crime.”

Dialogue options:

Special: Like my mark?

Special: Like my mark? PC: Waking bodily in the realm of dreams is exactly what Corypheus said he did. But the mark… Could it be related to the mark I bear? Giselle: I cannot say. Perhaps Andraste saw clearly and we misinterpreted her words. It was always taught that the mark they bore was the shape of darkspawn. “Bodies so maimed and distorted that none should see them and know them for men.” That is all I know of your adversary, Inquisitor.

Dialogue options:

General: It matches, but not perfectly. [3]

General: Thank you. [4]

General: That’s just myth. [5]

3 - General: It matches, but not perfectly. PC: Some of the Chant of Light describes what we’ve seen and what Corypheus said. But not all of it… Giselle: The Chant of Light is the work of mankind. We of all people must accept that mankind is fallible. Listeners may have misheard Andraste’s songs. Just one word sung incorrectly could change everything. And how many verses were stricken or changed for foolish political reasons, like the Canticle of Shartan? [6]

4 - General: Thank you. PC: Thank you for taking the time to share that with me, Revered Mother. Giselle: All faithful should recite the Chant of Light once a week. It would speak ill of me to fall behind. Take what the Chant says, but do not be bound by it. [6]

5 - General: That’s just myth. PC: That’s nothing but myth and legend. Giselle: Myth and legend that matches at least some of what your adversary himself said. You want a literal truth, and I cannot fault you for it. I would, as well, if I faced such a foe. [6]

6 - Scene continues.

Giselle: A century from now, your own story may be another verse… and who knows how much truth it will hold? Still, I would trust these words over any spoken by Corypheus. I hope they help you. Scene ends.

2 - General: Let’s discuss another matter. PC: Can I ask you about something else? Giselle: If you wish. Scene ends.

[daotranscripts]

Introduction

Golden text appears on a black background:

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world." - Canticle of Threnodies 8:13

The text fades away in a shower of golden flecks. A golden palace appears, with black hooded figures before it. These figures are doing a ritual.

Duncan: The Chantry teaches us that it is the hubris of men which brought the darkspawn into our world.

The golden palace drains of colour and turns black. Veins sprout out of the palace and join to a black tree enclosed within a black box.

Duncan: The mages had sought to usurp Heaven, but instead they destroyed it.

The tree loses its leaves and drains further down, to previously hooded figures, faces now revealed. They drain of all colour and their eyes turn white.

Duncan: They were cast out, twisted and cursed by their own corruption.

The screen flashes, showing their faces contorted in horror. The camera pans down, showing five hunched figures with distorted faces. The scene fades to black.

Duncan: They returned as monsters, the first of the darkspawn.

The camera pans to a burning wagon with a dead dwarf lying beside it. As it continues to move, more bodies are revealed as something off screen drags an injured dwarf.

Duncan: They became a Blight upon the lands, unstoppable and relentless.

Another dwarf helps the injured dwarf to stand, joined by a legion of dwarves and a stone golem. Something pounds at a great stone gate. The legion prepares to attack, showing even more dwarves and golems. An ogre crashes through the door and darkspawn begin to slaughter the dwarves. The scene fades to black on a dwarf impaled on a spear.

Duncan: The dwarven kingdoms were the first to fall, and from the Deep Roads the darkspawn drove at us again and again until finally we neared annihilation.

Humans run at darkspawn on the surface.

Duncan: Until the Grey Wardens came.

They destroy a horde of darkspawn. A mage sets a small group on fire. An elven archer shoots an arrow through a genlock about to attack the mage. A dwarven warrior jumps past the archer and cuts a hurlock in half. Elves and humans alike flee an oncoming horde of darkspawn as the city around them burns. A dwarf brings his hammer down upon a hurlock. Cut to black.

Duncan: Men and women from every race, warriors and mages, barbarians and kings… the Grey Wardens sacrificed everything to stem the tide of darkness… and prevailed.

Arrows are embedded in a cliff face. Three bodies hang from a tree. Duncan walks past the remnants of a skirmish in the forest, a few dead bodies on the ground while a small fire burns in the background. He approaches the edge of the cliff and rolls a body over with his foot to inspect it. Two hurlocks approach him from behind.

Duncan: It has been four centuries since that victory and we have kept our vigil. We have watched and waited for the darkspawn to return. But those who once called us heroes… have forgotten.

He pushes one hurlock to the edge of the cliff while he stabs the other. He leaves his sword in its chest as he returns to the hurlock at the edge. He shoves it off, then takes a moment to catch his breath and wipe his mouth with the back of his hand. He turns around, fires burning in the forest in the background.

Duncan: We are few now, and our warnings have been ignored for too long.

The camera zooms into the background, focusing on the fire and storm clouds gathering above the trees in the distance.

Duncan: It may even be too late, for I have seen with my own eyes what lies on the horizon.

Cut to black. Player enters character creation.

[dragon-age-codex-entries]

Codex entry: Doom Upon All the World

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world."

—Canticle of Threnodies 8:13

"There is very little of the infamous Thirteenth Verse that we can take literally. It speaks in the voice of the Maker Himself; since He has never deigned to speak to His children directly, we can rest assured it is a work of fiction. There are facts, however, that support it, at least in part. Records remain from the time prior to the First Blight saying that, yes, seven magisters did open a portal to enter the Fade physically. These seven—whose true names we have lost either to legend or deliberate obscurement—did so at the behest of the Old Gods, who "whispered from their ancient prisons." We also know that the Golden City, visible from every part of the Fade by any mage at the time, turned black as night the moment these seven breached its gates. Everything else—the accusations of "sin", the suggestion that these seven became the first darkspawn, that they were directly responsible for the Blights to come—all of that is conjecture."

—From Questioning the Chant by Magister Vibius Agorian

[leinton]

"And so is the Golden City blackened

With each step you take in my Hall.

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting.

You have brought Sin to Heaven

And doom upon all the world."

-Threnodies 8:13

[filmbro]

L + ratio + you have brought sin to heaven and doom upon all the world

[dragonageheritageposts]

Jan 24, 2018.

[ID: A screenshot from the opening of Dragon Age Origins which reads: "And so is the Golden City blackened with each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven and doom upon all the world. -Canticle of Threnodies 8:13." End ID]

hearing ea might add microtransactions to Dragon Age 4

[rosaliachristian]

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Bishop Robert Barron

Cycle C

Lent

5th wk of Lent

Daily Reading

First Reading

Numbers 21:4-9

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way.The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.”So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Psalm

Psalm 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21

Do not hide your face from me     in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me;     answer me speedily in the day when I call. For my days pass away like smoke,     and my bones burn like a furnace. Do not hide your face from me     in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me;     answer me speedily in the day when I call. For my days pass away like smoke,     and my bones burn like a furnace. that he looked down from his holy height,     from heaven the Lord looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners,     to set free those who were doomed to die; so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,     and his praise in Jerusalem.

Gospel Reading

John 8:21-30

Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”Then the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”They said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Why do I speak to you at all? I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me. And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

Reflection

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus predicts his death on the cross. We are meant to see on that cross not simply a violent display, but rather our own ugliness. What brought Jesus to the cross? Stupidity, anger, mistrust, institutional injustice, betrayal of a friend, denial, unspeakable cruelty, scapegoating, fear, etc. In other words, all of our dysfunction is revealed on that cross.  So far so awful. But we can’t stop telling the story at this point. Dante and every other spiritual master knew that the only way up is down. When we live in convenient darkness, unaware of our sins, we will never make spiritual progress. So we need the light, however painful it is. But then we can begin to rise.  On the cross of Jesus, we meet our own sin. But we also meet the divine mercy that has taken that sin upon himself in order to swallow it up. We have found, in that cross, the way up. We want to hold up this thing that was considered too horrible to look at. We want to embrace and kiss the very source of our pain.

[telleskyggene]

The Chant of Light: The Blight

No matter their power, their triumphs, The mage-lords of Tevinter were men And doomed to die. Then a voice whispered within their hearts, Shall you surrender your power To time like the beasts of the fields? You are the Lords of the earth! Go forth to claim the empty throne Of Heaven and be gods. In secret they worked Magic upon magic All their power and all their vanity They turned against the Veil Until at last, it gave way. Above them, a river of Light, Before them the throne of Heaven, waiting, Beneath their feet The footprints of the Maker, And all around them echoed a vast Silence. But when they took a single step Toward the empty throne A great voice cried out Shaking the very foundations Of Heaven and earth: And So is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world. Violently were they cast down, For no mortal may walk bodily In the realm of dreams, Bearing the mark of their Crime: Bodies so maimed And distorted that none should see them And know them for men. Deep into the earth they fled, Away from the Light. In Darkness eternal they searched For those who had goaded them on, Until at last they found their prize, Their god, their betrayer: The sleeping dragon Dumat. Their taint Twisted even the false-god, and the whisperer Awoke at last, in pain and horror, and led Them to wreak havoc upon all the nations of the world: The first Blight.

—From Threnodies 8.

[mmmhhhmmmyyy]

The opening message in dao always gives me goosebumps like “you have brought sin to heaven and doom upon all the world.” FUUUUCKK the writing and lore was so good. You have brought sin to heaven goes so hard