This reminds me of why I think Flemeth left a contingency plan to stop Solas (perhaps Morrigan given a part of Mythal? Perhaps the person who drank from the well?) She may have things she objects to, but overall, she likes the people and world that is now. I can’t believe she wouldn’t guess what he’d want to do and have something already in place to stop it.

While Flemeth says that she will have her revenge, which will shake the very foundation of the world (or something like that), I don’t believe she would be ok with Solas’ plan. Whenever we meet her or her children – they preserve. Morrigan is taught to preserve ancient mysteries and magic, Yavana is preserving the dragons. Flemeth herself keeps watching over the Dalish in some way, and helps the Wardens to stop the Blight. I think the key is that she didn’t spend millennia sleeping. Instead she dwelled in this world, lived in it, watched how it evolved, and she understands its beauty. And despite her bitterness, she cares. In Origins she says that she has done far more for the world than it deserves, considering what it had done to her. But she keeps caring. Because good or bad, she’s the Mother.

I hope her story is not over. She’s one of the most interesting characters in Thedas, and I’m curious what is her plan.

Tell me about the old ruins you explored. 

“Life is grand. You know that. The more experienced a person is, the deeper they go into life, the less black and white it is. And that incredibly interesting shade of grey gets to be played. But within that shade, there are infinite varieties, right? So I think that’s just her. The black is the bad guy, white is the good guy. But we all know the true parameters of life lie in between those two. And Flemeth is the absolute exploration thereof.” - Kate Mulgrew, in “A Shade of Flemeth”

IDIDNTREALIZEREDWASFUCKINGFLEMETHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

OMG I HAD NO IDEA D8

“Magic is dangerous, just as fire is dangerous. Anyone who forgets this truth gets burned.” - Vivienne

In her travels, Vivienne found an old grimoire: it spoke of fire and dragons. But how dangerous can one book be to a mage of her calibre? 

…Far far away, Flemeth felt the Fade stir and whisper to her, and then she knew the perfect company to invite for tea and gossip on her mountaintop.

Revisiting the old Dragon Age fighting game notion that I had doodled a few things on some time ago. While at work yesterday, I found myself mulling on this particular Witch vs. Witch battle. I guess this is sort of like Marvel vs. Capcom … except it’s Disney vs. BioWare?

Flemeth - Mass Age

CONFESSION: I used to love Flemeth dearly, and I still love her voice actress, but the way that she treats Morrigan reminds me too much of my abusive grandfather. Because of this, I’ve never had a problem killing her for Morrigan

This is one thing I don’t understand about people. Flemeth is clearly very abusive to Morrigan, and has been from a young age - and has presumably been so to all those other daughters (and maybe sons?) whose bodies she’s stolen over the years. I can understand people liking her as an interesting and well-written character, but when people start talking like she’s a good person, it baffles me.

This.

I am a fly in the ointment, a whisper in the shadows. I am also an old, old woman. More than that, you need not know.

/dead

This post is even better now than it was this morning.

You know, I wonder if the reason Flemeth wanted Morrigan to have the OGB was so that Flemeth could take it over (instead of Morrigan) when the child comes of age.  Not only is the child in her bloodline, but it is the child of a Warden, with the soul of the Old God Urthemiel.

Imagine the power.

If so, bet her dragon panties were in a twist if the Warden didn’t go through with the Dark Ritual.

That was always my assumption. And YES.

Yes, and yes. Although I suspect Flemeth wants “custody” of the child as soon as possible, long before he comes of age. And I think Morrigan suspects it as well. This is why she leaves Thedas, not because of the Warden, but because she is trying to hide her child (and herself) from Flemeth. Because a child raised by Flemeth, and brainwashed along the way would be MUCH more useful than a child raised by Morrigan. (From Flemeth’s perspective, anyway). 

Maybe I've just read too much Sandman, but I have a bit of headcanon that Flemeth wanted a daughter for this purpose, and Morrigan produced a son in part to thwart her. Could Flemeth possess a man? Does that throw a wrench in the works? We never hear anything about sons of Flemeth, only daughters.

So…we have seen lots of evidence to suggest that Flemeth might be puppet-mastering the events of DA throughout the whole story. I’m willing to think she might be the actual big villain

(Well, not really, I think she’s…

headcanon has always been that Flemeth is a big baddie, probably an Archdemon that somehow kept her mind. But hell, I’m weird like that.

Huh. I actually don’t see Flemeth as a villain at all. Though there is undeniably destruction in her wake, I don’t see her as evil. I believe she will ultimately be revealed as a positive force for change in Thedas. 

I would love it if they revealed an important role for Sandal, and even further away from him existing primarily as a punchline. 

haha, my headcanons are always weird don’t mind me. it’s not even that i see her as evil, just that i see her as this force that can’t really control herself or the world around her. but then, we know that she isn’t a very good person, she was pretty much raising a child to have a spare body around.

hell, i get why she did it, and i love flemeth, but that doesn’t strike me as a person who’s going to be all that much of a positive force in the world.

I think maybe I’m the one with the weird headcanon. Because, for instance, I don’t take Flemeth’s relationship and intentions toward her daughters at face value.

I don’t take anything about Flemeth at face value. 

Bolded, because yes. I agree entirely. Whatever game Flemeth is playing, I think it's far more complex and nuanced than what we can see on the surface. To extend the metaphor, I think she's playing chess on a level that most of us can't even imagine, and she may be the only one who can read the entire board.

So…we have seen lots of evidence to suggest that Flemeth might be puppet-mastering the events of DA throughout the whole story. I’m willing to think she might be the actual big villain 

(Well, not really, I think she’s just pulling some strings and laughing her ass off watching everyone run around trying to fight a fire with a water dropper, but she is definitely pushing things and I don’t think she is necessarily a good guy.)

But. 

But what if Bodhan and Sandal are actually the true heroes of the whole story when everything is said and done?

Really, that’s all I’ve got. 

The random places my brain goes. Don’t mind me.

I like this idea. I am certain Sandal will prove to be important in some way, but I can’t settle on a headcanon yet (Old God reborn? The Maker himself? Although I doubt Sandal is the Maker since I LIKE Sandal and I think the Maker is an arse, assuming he even exists at all). But yeah. SANDAL! 

Villain is a strong word, but Flemeth definitely has an endgame. Sandal could be her agent, deliberately or (more likely IMO) unwittingly. Either she discovered him and pushed him into the path of the people who matter so that he could have maximum impact. And let’s not forget that the Warden and Hawke both live solely because she wills it. She chose them. 

My fondest hope for DA3 is that the PC be someone that Flemeth didn’t pick out (and wouldn’t have chosen if she could). Suddenly not everything is going according to the roadmap, and she’s pissed as hell. Maybe angry enough to finally tip her hand a bit. Idle imaginings. 

I like this thought. Major happenings in which Flemeth is not pulling any strings. Although sometimes I wonder how much she's actually controlling events, and how much she just knows where to toss a bomb to have the maximum impact.

Flemeth by *yuhime

LMAO!

Hee hee. I also love the casual clothes in camp.

Some meta thoughts and questions about Yavana

I’ve been thinking about the Silent Grove lately (not too surprising; my NaNo/DABB2 is basically an AU of the story that begins with that comic), and I’ve got some questions bubbling around in my head, and I thought I’d talk through them here, and post them to see what other people have to say. Also, maybe this will whet our appetites for the final issue of Those Who Speak which comes out tomorrow. I thought about waiting to post this, just in case any of these questions are answered in the last issue of TWS, but I sincerely doubt they will be. (Although I do hope that some of my further questions, which I’ll put in a separate post later, MIGHT be answered in this last issue. Maybe). Since this will be spoilerish for anyone who hasn’t yet read the comics (and also, possibly, longish), I’ll put it behind a cut. Also, as the first at least two posts, this one will focus on Yavana. 

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