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So i just finished Legacy and I'm just wondering did anyone else notice that Corypheus said that the Golden City was already Black and tainted when he got there. Catawk (talk) 14:58, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Way I took it was that when they got there it was black, but it wasn't that it was already black, their presence made it black. 88.110.51.208 (talk) 15:18, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

At first I thought along the same lines of User:Catawk, but then he said, "Darkness...ever since." Was he referring to "ever since" his fall/incarceration, or ever since the corruption of the Golden City? I was left quite confused. King Cousland | Talk 15:25, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Did it say this? Interesting. I haven't actually gotten to play it yet, but if that is indeed what it said, then it is a step closer towards confirming a theory that this random newb has been nursing for a long, long time... The Walker (talk) 23:35, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

It could have turned black as soon as they got there, like the second person said. That darkness line I took to mean himself, but then again maybe not since he seemed to be unaware that he had ever slept. Either way, it was some big stuff to learn that lore was actually true. Xelestial (talk) 21:59, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

I want to know if the Maker actually existed. ;| --Dragonzzilla 22:10, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

Well, that is something that definitely has more plausibility now, since so far the Chantry has been telling the truth surprisingly. But it seems more like BioWare will try to make the Maker be someone or something else than what we've been "taught". Xelestial (talk) 22:48, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

The conversation makes it seem like the city really was Golden at some point. I see two possibilities here: A) The entrance of the Magisters did not turn the city black; rather, the mere act of opening a way through the veil/fade and into the city corrupted it before the magisters even stepped through. B) and this is my favored possibility, and one that I have thought about for a while, the entire thing was a trick. The Old Gods in the fade saw the magisters about to enter the city, and so they pre-emptively corrupted it as part of an elaborate plan to get themselves freed from their underground prisons. This would imply that the Golden City was merely a place in the fade, albeit special, and not the Maker's home. Perhaps the old gods didn't want to reveal their earthly (thedasly?) location directly to the magisters for fear they would realize the old gods were just really old dragons.

People will say the end of Legacy supports the Chant of Light, but I don't think it does. It's been confirmed that the magisters brought the taint to Thedas from the black city, and that this was when the city stopped being Golden. But it doesn't say anything about what the Golden City actually was, who lived there, why it turned black, or why it spawned the taint. The best lies are rooted in fact. 131.215.35.183 (talk) 01:39, August 2, 2011 (UTC)