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Paintings indicate that it was within mankind's history that once the city was Golden and not Black.<ref name=Prima>''[[Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide#Collector's Edition|Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide]]''</ref> |
Paintings indicate that it was within mankind's history that once the city was Golden and not Black.<ref name=Prima>''[[Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide#Collector's Edition|Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide]]''</ref> |
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| − | The [[Chantry]] teaches that after the Maker created His [[spirit|firsborn]], He "called forth a city with towers of gold, streets with music for cobblestones, and banners which flew without wind".<ref name=Thr5>[[Chant_of_Light_verses#Canticle_of_Threnodies|Canticle of Threnodies 5:1-8]]</ref> It was a perfect, holy citadel<ref name=FB>[[Codex entry: The First Blight: Chapter 1]]</ref> where He dwelled on His golden throne,<ref name=Thr5/> and spirits populated its many spires.<ref name=FC>[[Codex entry: The Maker's First Children]]</ref> When His [[human|secondborn]] started to worship the [[Old Gods]] and thus committed the Original Sin, the Maker abandoned the Golden City and His ungrateful children<ref name=FB/><ref name=DG>{{BSN|author=[[David Gaider]]|date=2010|url=http://forum.bioware.com/topic/40364-the-chantry-the-maker-the-old-gods-questions/page-3#entry508158|title=The Chantry, The Maker, The Old Gods: questions|access=March 23, 2015}}</ref>, and it sat locked and empty.<ref name=Prima/> |
+ | The [[Chantry]] teaches that after the Maker created His [[spirit|firsborn]], He "called forth a city with towers of gold, streets with music for cobblestones, and banners which flew without wind".<ref name=Thr5>[[Chant_of_Light_verses#Canticle_of_Threnodies|Canticle of Threnodies 5:1-8]]</ref> It was a perfect, holy citadel<ref name=FB>[[Codex entry: The First Blight: Chapter 1]]</ref> where He dwelled on His golden throne,<ref name=Thr5/> and spirits populated its many spires.<ref name=FC>[[Codex entry: The Maker's First Children]]</ref><ref name=Prima/> When His [[human|secondborn]] started to worship the [[Old Gods]] and thus committed the Original Sin, the Maker abandoned the Golden City and His ungrateful children<ref name=FB/><ref name=DG>{{BSN|author=[[David Gaider]]|date=2010|url=http://forum.bioware.com/topic/40364-the-chantry-the-maker-the-old-gods-questions/page-3#entry508158|title=The Chantry, The Maker, The Old Gods: questions|access=March 23, 2015}}</ref>, and it sat locked and empty.<ref name=Prima/> |
The Maker's mortal children entered the city when they died. |
The Maker's mortal children entered the city when they died. |
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| − | Dissatisfied with spirits, the Maker expelled them from the Golden City, but there are conflicting accounts on the timing of this event: before the creation of men<ref name=FC/>, directly after that ("sealed the gates")<ref name=Thr5/> or when He left the city.<ref name=Prima/> |
+ | Dissatisfied with spirits, the Maker expelled them from the Golden City, but there are conflicting accounts on the timing of this event: before the creation of men<ref name=FC/><ref name=Prima/>, directly after that ("sealed the gates")<ref name=Thr5/> or when He left the city.<ref name=Prima/> |
Some accounts suggest that the [[Old Gods]] began whispering to humanity from the Golden City in -2800 [[Ancient Age|Ancient]], three hundred years after the arrival of [[human]]s in Thedas.<ref>{{Cite wot|12}}</ref> People of ancient [[Tevinter]] believed the Creator had abandoned the city long before that and they were adrift, rescued by the Old Gods.<ref name=DG/> |
Some accounts suggest that the [[Old Gods]] began whispering to humanity from the Golden City in -2800 [[Ancient Age|Ancient]], three hundred years after the arrival of [[human]]s in Thedas.<ref>{{Cite wot|12}}</ref> People of ancient [[Tevinter]] believed the Creator had abandoned the city long before that and they were adrift, rescued by the Old Gods.<ref name=DG/> |
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Revision as of 21:57, 1 August 2015
At a touch, the gate swung wide,
And the Light parted before them like a curtain
Swept aside by nothing.
The Black City, formerly known as the Golden City and the heart of heaven, is a city in the Fade, said to be the former seat of the Maker or the realm of the Old Gods, depending on the religious perspective.[2]
Early History
Paintings indicate that it was within mankind's history that once the city was Golden and not Black.[3]
The Chantry teaches that after the Maker created His firsborn, He "called forth a city with towers of gold, streets with music for cobblestones, and banners which flew without wind".[4] It was a perfect, holy citadel[5] where He dwelled on His golden throne,[4] and spirits populated its many spires.[6][3] When His secondborn started to worship the Old Gods and thus committed the Original Sin, the Maker abandoned the Golden City and His ungrateful children[5][7], and it sat locked and empty.[3]
The Maker's mortal children entered the city when they died.
Dissatisfied with spirits, the Maker expelled them from the Golden City, but there are conflicting accounts on the timing of this event: before the creation of men[6][3], directly after that ("sealed the gates")[4] or when He left the city.[3]
Some accounts suggest that the Old Gods began whispering to humanity from the Golden City in -2800 Ancient, three hundred years after the arrival of humans in Thedas.[8] People of ancient Tevinter believed the Creator had abandoned the city long before that and they were adrift, rescued by the Old Gods.[7]
Elves believe that their gods have been trapped in the Eternal City at the heart of Beyond[9] and that Fen'Harel still roams the Beyond, keeping watch over the gods lest they escape from their prisons.[10]
Blackening
- Main article: Second Sin
In -395 Ancient (800 TE) seven Magisters Sidereal, each a High Priest to one of the Old Gods[11], opened a gate into the Golden City with blood magic and entered it physically. The city turned black as soon as they arrived, and the mages were cast back to Thedas as the first darkspawn, triggering the First Blight.[12]
Avernus stated that the Black City holds "an answer to what the taint is."[13]
Current State
Today the Black City is a home of darkness and nightmares[5] with cold and twisted spires[14], "its towers forever stained, its gates forever shut".[15] An island[16] with the Black City is the one constant geographical feature within the Fade. At any time, one can look up and see it in the sky, always in the distance.[17] Actually traveling to the Black City from elsewhere in the Fade is impossible. Even the most powerful spirits and demons seem to avoid the place[18][19] lest they become tainted.[3]
According to the Chantry, there is no more heaven for souls to pass into after death. Those who worship the Maker are gathered to His side while those who do not must wander endlessly in the Void. This is not a form of punishment, but a consequence of human corruption.
The Chantry believes that when the Chant of Light is sung from the four corners of the world, He will return, remove the sin in the Black City and thereby destroy the darkspawn forever[3], and make the mortal world a paradise.
Involvement
The Black City is visible in the background when the Inquisitor is drawn into the Fade. If present, Solas comments that he has never seen the Black City so close before, while Cole delivers a cryptic line "They still remember when they were higher, before it woke up and everything fell."
Corypheus' recreation of the Black City
Trivia
- It is claimed that an elf named Temolai created a helm that allowed him to gaze upon the Black City. The craftsman was lost forever.[20]
Gallery
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See also
References
- ↑
Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 2, p. 58
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, pp. 177, 179
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Canticle of Threnodies 5:1-8
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Codex entry: The First Blight: Chapter 1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Codex entry: The Maker's First Children
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 David Gaider (2010). "The Chantry, The Maker, The Old Gods: questions" . BioWare Social Network. Retrieved on March 23, 2015.
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 12
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 143
- ↑ Codex entry: Arlathan: Part Two
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 2, p. 54
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, pp. 27, 155
- ↑ Codex entry: Avernus's Notes
- ↑ Codex entry: Quillback
- ↑ Canticle of Andraste 1:11
- ↑ Dragon Age: Asunder, Chapter 12
- ↑ Gaider, David (April 8, 2011). "Where is the Black City?" . The BioWare Forum. Retrieved on February 28, 2014.
- ↑ Codex entry: The Black City
- ↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 141
- ↑ The Long Sight
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