The Mother

"You took that beautiful music from us, and left us nothing!"

The Mother is one of the main antagonists in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening. She used to be a female human before she turned into a broodmother.

Bugs
Some experience the cutscene of the Mother's death being replayed in an endless loop, preventing the credits from being shown. Hitting Esc repeatedly may end the cycle. Pressing the start button several times seems to end the loop.

Quotes

 * "You took that beautiful music from us, and left us nothing!!" - In regards to the Architect's efforts to grant Darkspawn independence.
 * "Ah, but perhaps the Warden would like to hear how it was the Father who began the Blight? You want the source of the archdemon, the one who brought all our kind to the surface? Here he is!" - Informing the Warden Commander the Architect's actions caused the Fifth Blight.
 * "He claims he wishes the darkspawn to be free. What he truly wants is to CORRECT them!"

Companion reactions to The Mother
These reactions are said only if the Architect's offer of help fighting the Mother has been refused and he was slain alongside Utha:


 * The Mother: "If it isn't the hero of the hour! The slayer of the mighty Father, come to claim a reward! Oh, what a delicious day!"


 * Anders: "They just get bigger and uglier, don't they?"
 * Nathaniel: "What is THAT?!"
 * Oghren: "That's a lot of nipples!"
 * Justice: "This is the Mother, surely. A disgusting thing of evil and hate!"
 * Sigrun: "By the Ancestors! Do all broodmothers smell this bad?"
 * Velanna: "Creators preserve us! I have never seen such foulness!"


 * The Mother: "Am I not beautiful? (laughs)"

Trivia

 * In Jade Empire, another Bioware game, there is a creature called 'The Mother' that bears similar traits - being the matriarchal entity of a race of twisted humanoids ("Cannibals"), begetting a legion of 'offspring', with the desire to wreak havoc upon the land on the surface.
 * Her ungrateful nature towards her awakening from the call of the Old Gods may be explained in the fact that she is not actually a darkspawn, but a ghoul. As seen with Hespith's narration of the transformation, broodmothers are special forms of ghouls that are forced to eat the dead (sometimes relatives and friends). The madness of The Mother may have resulted from a similar process, and the song of the old gods kept her from reliving the memories.