Abomination



It is said that a long time ago, the Maker created the Fade and the spirits within it as his first world and beings. But he was dissatisfied with the result and left the Fade behind, creating the world of Thedas instead. Supposedly, ever since then the spirits from the Fade have watched humanity with curiousity and, in the case of the more malicious spirits, envy and desire. These more malicious spirits, known as Demons desire the world beyond the fade and as such, they often try to possess whatever they can from beyond the Fade with varying results. An Abomination is such a result, the result of a demon possessing a living human or elf. Mages are those who are most commonly unfortunate enough to be possessed and turned into abominations, because of the fact that mages draw their magic from the Fade as well as because of the Harrowing every mage is put through. While it is supposedly theoretically possible to free someone who has been posssessed, it has never been done, mostly because an Abomination is incredibly dangerous.