

We are going to need access to the eluvian network. And think of the story possibilities in dealing with Solas or the Qunari. Need to get into the deepest part of the Deep Roads? Done? The Fade?! Hey, it can happen. We didn’t notice other areas of the Deep Roads where eluvians could have been, but we will look again the next time one of us is running around down there.Īs to how they will be used in DA4, eluvians make difficult or impossible plot points possible. The presence of elven spirit guardians certainly makes the latter a distinct possibility. Or it is still hidden, just like the Lights of Arlathan were hidden. It would be logical for Cadash Thaig to have an eluvian since we know elves from Arlathan fled there, but it was either smashed or removed when Kal-Sharok destroyed the thaig. We didn’t see any signs of eluvians in the Deep Roads in either DAO or DA2, but Trespasser proves that they did exist in certain places of the Deep Roads. It is too good a reference back to Origins not to use it in a future game.)

Anyway, whatever he saw, I’m betting we eventually find out it was something important. That would make it difficult for Tam to get back to Ferelden if he was pulled in…unless he was tainted but never actually went into the eluvian. Someone on our YouTube suggested the ruins of Arlathan. Or at least Tamlen saw a city underground with “a great blackness”. Even with all the mirrors that were collected and broken by the Qunari, there are probably hundreds of others that lay undisturbed ones across Thedas including in some of the ancient thaigs. (We have lots of pictures on that post, btw.) There are enough eluvians scattered around Ferelden and Orlais to make for “a great plot device”, which is how Decima described their probably use in DA4. We looked into eluvians a bit ago, mostly trying to locate all the places they could have been in Origins and a follow up on that post here.
