Random Musing

[zute]

“Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?”
 Calvin & Hobbes

That quote got me to thinking about who was the first guy who decided to drink darkspawn blood. Then I thought, wait... it also takes archdemon blood. So how could the first Grey Wardens have been created before they had slain their first archdemon? 

Comments

[zute]

A very spooky thing about that codex entry is that it says the Grey Warden's soul is destroyed, not that they just died. For people who believed in some sort of afterlife that would be rather terrifying I should think.

[elysium_fic]

I agree, it's a rather grim prospect.

[scarylady]

How do they know?

[zute]

Ah! Excellent question. :)

[aithne]

I can think of several alternative explanations for what happens to the Warden/archdemon pair. None of them are pleasant, at all. Possibly the "destroyed" thing is a less bitter pill to swallow than the other possibilities.