
What Pride Had Wrought
The Well of Sorrows, or vir'abelasan, is an ancient nexus of ley energies located within the Temple of Mythal.
Background[edit | edit source]
Involvement[edit | edit source]
Corypheus began searching the Arbor Wilds for elven artifacts. Morrigan assumes that he was searching for an eluvian to physically enter the Fade, but when she and the Inquisitor overhear him talk about the Well of Sorrows, it makes them doubt that the eluvian is the darkspawn's true goal.
Corypheus' general, either Samson or Calpernia, has been prepared to be "The Vessel" of the Well's power.
The leader of the temple's guardians, Abelas, attempts to destroy the Well to prevent it from being desecrated by outsiders. If the Inquisitor had allied with Abelas earlier, he can be convinced to relent and allow access to the Well, though he warns that doing so will come with a price: whoever drinks from the Well will gain the knowledge of the previous servants of Mythal, but be bound to the will of the elven goddess.

Whoever drank from the Well begins to hear the voices of Mythal's servants, who reveal that Corypheus' Red Lyrium Dragon is the key to defeating him; by killing the dragon, it will disrupt Corypheus' ability to leap into other bodies, rendering him vulnerable.
When the Inquisitor and Morrigan later encounter Flemeth, the voices from the Well reveal that she is the vessel of Mythal and whoever drank from the Well can be controlled at her whim.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Patrick Weekes has jokingly stated that the Well tastes like honeysuckle and cinnamon.[1]
- According to Erasthenes, he believes that the power of the Well is similar to Urthemiel's based on his own knowledge of the old gods and the nature of the binding and Calpernia's training.
Codex entries[edit | edit source]
Codex entry: Old Elven Writing