#thedas has recovered every time and there isn't actually any reason to assume this will be different

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Not going to lie, seeing people act like the South is Totally Destroyed Forever Because Blight and Bioware are Bad Writers for not going into the aftermath after beating Solas and Elgar'nan is equally hilarious to me. Presumably DAV takes place over around the same length of time as the other non-time-skipping games (so a year), and the assault on the South doesn't start immediately. Guys, we know what happens when a place is full of Blight for a year. It happened in literally the first game. The damage done by the fighting will be more extensive here and the death toll significantly higher just due to the scale, the aftermath will take a lot of time and effort (and Bioware probably didn't go into it for what I assume is the same reason they don't talk about the death toll and cleanup in any detail after DAO or DAI, namely that that's a wildly depressing note to end the game on), but in terms of specifically long-term damage due to Blight... uh, if it was that bad Ferelden wouldn't exist anymore. Parts of the Anderfels are still blighted now after the First and Second Blights hit them and lasted 192 and 90 years respectively, the attack on the South in DAV is significantly shorter and that's not even touching on how we're repeatedly told throughout the Wardens' quest line that the Blight is changing and things are coming back from it in a way no one thought was possible (see the thing with the flowers in Hossberg and also Neve/Bellara apparently being healed or at least recovering a good deal of the damage after Elgar'nan's defeat). We also don't actually know how bad the damage is to begin with; Quiz loses contact with large areas, but as far as I'm aware it's never made clear whether that's because those areas were completely obliterated or just because the situation got bad enough to cut them off from any contact (which we know can happen in Blights without the cut off area being destroyed; see Kal-Sharok, which managed reasonably fine for nearly a millennium after being cut off from all communication with Orzammar). The South is going to be fine once it's had time to rebuild and recover. At least as fine as Ferelden was post-Blight or most of Thedas was after tears in the Fade opened up and spat out demons everywhere for a year (plus however long it took Quiz to close all the more distant ones). Calm down.

It's genuinely kind of hilarious to me seeing people whine about how the blight doesn't seem to be hurting the Veilguard even though it's supposed to be super dangerous like that makes DAV uniquely bad when Hawke and Quiz are swanning around the Deep Roads and jumping up and down on red lyrium with zero ill effects and even in DAO your non-Warden companions can get coated in darkspawn blood and be fine. Guys, it's a gameplay thing so your party doesn't die of exposure to stuff in the game's environment. Calm your tits.