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? 

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[sleepyowlet]

"A disturbance in the Fade, I sense. Vigiliant we must be. If underestimate the power of the Darkspawn we do, doomed all will be."

*snicker*

Sorry, no offence... but that made me laugh. Yeah, it's never explained in the game what mages do and do not sense. How does one know a person is a mage? Perhaps they would sense the Archdemon nearby, if somebody had the sense to let them leave the tower? Perhaps Mages don't sense anything at all (only Wynne, since she's one with a Spirit) - if they'd be able to sense magic, wouldn't they also know a Bloodmage, if they'd come across one? As it seems they don't, since people suspect that Jowan's one of those, but nobody seems to know for sure.
Maybe Archdemon blood is needed if a non-Mage Warden wants to prepare the Joining, but a mage might be able to concentrate the Taint in normal Darkspawn blood? That might explain why Duncan sends you to collect three vials of the stuff - perhaps he has Bendrik do the preparations? And since Riordan is on his own without a Warden mage, he needs the Archdemon blood.