*narrows eyes suspiciously*
HOLY SHIT
wait, what is this reference? I feel like I’m missing something.
i’m guessing that something like that could hold fenris’s memories? since it says “minrathous”
oh it was definitely trauma, but here’s my theory about Danarius: he intentionally wiped his mind, maybe through a combination of torture and magic via the lyrium ritual. we know Danarius can do it willingly and that it wasn’t just an accidental consequence of the lyrium ritual itself because if you give Fenris back to him he does it again.
it’s an effort to control Fenris and mold him into the perfect victim. the thing is, wouldn’t Danarius want a backup plan, just in case he went too far and rendered Fenris completely passive—Tranquil-like? Danarius doesn’t seem to want that; he wants obedience, but he’s obsessed with Fenris/whoever Leto might have been.
so I’m thinking Danarius might have made “copies” of his memories in one of these dwarven relics just in case something ever went wrong and he needed to restore a portion of Fenris’ mind.