Key takeaways
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The Darkspawn are agents of mindless destruction that seek to undo civilization under the archdemon.
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Desire Demons are seductive and cunning, cruelly manipulating mortals to their advantage.
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Fen’Harel sealed away the gods, leading to the enslavement of the Daelian elves, and will play a major role in The Veilguard.
The world of Thedas is filled with equal parts beauty and terror. the next Dragon Age: Veil Guard gets players out of their seats to re-immerse themselves in this fantastic scenario, but lest they forget how terrifying it can be, it’s important to remind everyone of some of the most evil entities in the Dragon Age series.
The game has no shortage of characters that are antagonistic towards the player and the group. Loghain Mac Tir, for example, is one of those antagonists who, while he is certainly reprehensible, cannot be described as truly evil in the same way that the Darkspawn hordes are. For the beings who are truly the most destructive in the world. Dragon Age series, fans need look no further.
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The dark spawn
These creatures are meaningless and only serve to destroy
- Worst act committed: Torture mortal women to turn them into brood mothers.
The Darkspawn are the central driving force of darkness that set the events of the first game in motion. In many ways, the Darkspawn are a manifestation of the Blight that will rise to the surface when a forgotten old god becomes corrupted over time. Fighting hordes of these voracious enemies is what defines much of Dragon Age: Origins and, to a lesser extent, its two sequel titles. The Darkspawn serve only to try to undo civilization as the hand of the ruthless archdemon, a corrupt old god who has awakened from his slumber.
Like some other role-playing games, Dragon Age: Origins gives players the ability to become villains, but not even the most callous of the Gray Wardens will be able to defeat these ferocious and vile hordes of destructive demons. It is worth mentioning, however, that due to the nature of the blood in their veins, a small part of each Gray Warden is imbued with the essence of these uniquely evil creatures.
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Demons of desire
Among the most insidious and cunning demons
- First appearance: Dragon Age: Origins
- Worst act committed: Possessing Connor
Desire Demons are among the most adept at seducing magicians into taking possession. They, along with the more brutal (but still intelligent) Pride Demons, are among the main sources of abominations that appear in Ferelden. They are incredibly cunning and know how to use mortal inhibitions and desires to their own advantage. While in theory these demons are more opportunistic or “neutral evil”, there are some clear examples in Dragon Age: Origins of these demons doing some pretty reprehensible things to mortals.
Using one of the many forms of magic in Dragon AgeThe Desire Demon’s possession of Connor is an incredibly brutal and confrontational scene in Originsone that combines that mystical horror with a more emotionally focused one as players see a mother struggling to deal with a comatose husband and tormented son. If not dealt with properly, the Demon of Desire will force the player to make a rather brutal decision: kill a small child or allow this ruthless demon to possess him.
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the mother
A mad broodmother who grants darkspawn unique strength
- First appearance: Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
- Worst act committed: Producing hordes of awakened Darkspawn to attack Amaranthine
The Mother was one of the two main Darkspawn that drove the events in Wake up. Like other Broodmothers, she was once a mortal woman. This means that a particularly dark and gruesome fate befell her to turn her into the monster that players see at the time of Wake upwhen he sends relentless hordes of Darkspawn into the Arling of Amaranthine to destroy it and, by extension, the Gray Warden. There is a certain appearance of pity that should be given to her since, unlike others on this list, she was not always evil.
She and her ever-changing army of Darkspawn want to reconnect with the Archdemon, who apparently kept her individual thoughts immersed in the fog of a haunting song, perhaps the same kind of terrible sound the Gray Wardens hear in their dreams.
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Corypheus
An ancient and vengeful evil
- Worst act committed: Breaking a gap between Thedas and the Fade.
Corypheus has a long and deep history related to the history of Thedas. He was a magister and priest of the magisterium and one of the ambitious wizards who walked the halls of the Maker and sanctified them forever, leading to the Blight. At least, that’s how the official Chantry narrative describes things. Even if the magistrates actually stopped at the Creator’s abode to leave a basket of fruits, or as Corypheus says, the magi found the Creator’s Golden City already blackened and empty, Corypheus is still a twisted and tyrannical individual who has served as a driving force of evil on more than one occasion.
Corypheus, in addition to being one of the first darkspawn and instigator of the Blight, abused the Calling within all the Gray Wardens to manipulate them and free him. By InquisitionHis revelations in the Black City lead him to believe that, in fact, no god exists. Most people turn to Nietzsche, or perhaps Fall Out Boy, when they come to this conclusion, but Corypheus attempts to break the boundaries between Thedas and the Fade and ascend to become a deity who can physically manipulate the mortal world. His attack on Haven is one of the most complete raids in the entire series, even if it does lead the Inquisition to the impressive Skyhold.
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Fen’Harel
A trickster God personified by betrayal
- Worst act committed: Sealing the gods, allowing the enslavement of the Daelic elves.
In the long tradition of Dragon AgeFen’Harel was a trickster god revered by the elves, who occupied a place within the two clans of gods: the Forgotten, about whom very little information remains, and the Makers, who play the role of a species of ancestor gods during the elves Fen’Harel, also known as Dreadwolf, tricked both sides of the gods and sealed them in the abyss and the heavens respectively, cutting off their contact with the mortal world.
Regardless of how a party feels about this action, locking up the gods has been a constant starting point for many of the world’s ills, including the catastrophic massacre and enslavement that occurred in Arlathan, which resulted in a blow to Daelish. culture that was never recovered. It is said that Fen’Harel went mad with laughter after deceiving the gods, proving that he did so with malice in mind. As people could have deduced from Veil Guardworking title, Dread Wolf Fen’Harel, who posed as a well-known character in Inquisitionwill play a prominent role in the next epic installment of the Dragon Age series. There’s no denying the evil that Fen’Harel is capable of unleashing, but will everything be so black and white in the new title? Players will simply have to wait and see.