This is a theory that I’ve been trying to put into a coherent form for a while now. Most of this was speculation before I beat Trespasser, so anything that I talk about which is Trespasser specific I will put below a cut.
While running around like a crazy person to beat my canon run before playing Trespasser, I wandered around the Emerald Graves to finish the Inner Circle personal quests. There is a landmark that I’ve seen before, claimed before, read before, but never gave it much thought. It’s the wolf statue near camp, The Knight’s Guardian. I claimed it in my canon run, and I was reading it (really reading it) my eyes went wide.
Traveling through the Emerald Graves in the Dales, one will see dozens of carven stone wolves. The Dalish call these the Knights’ Guardians. In the days of elven Halamshiral, wolf companions walked alongside Emerald Knights, never leaving the side of their chosen knight. Wolf and elf would fight together, eat together, and when the knights slept, wolves would guard them. The statues were erected in memory of their unbreakable bond.
—An excerpt from In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar by Brother Genitivi (x)
Immediately I thought of Mythal. Why? The wolf statues. There are wolf statues everywhere - Mythal’s shrine, Mythal’s temple, the eluvian in the epilogue. Everywhere there is a statue of Mythal (dragon) there is almost ALWAYS a flanking wolf statue.
Here are some pictures from her shrine, the temple, and the end eluvian (sorry for the poor quality of the one of the temple’s inner sanctum):
Why would someone raised as a goddess share in her glory by placing statues representing another god in her most treasured, sacred places? This always bothered me, but now (with some confirmation from Trespasser) it makes sense.
Go back to the codex on the elven warriors and their wolf companions.
“In the days of elven Halamshiral, wolf companions walked alongside Emerald Knights, never leaving the side of their chosen knight. Wolf and elf would fight together, eat together, and when the knights slept, wolves would guard them. The statues were erected in memory of their unbreakable bond.”
In the elven culture, wolves represented guardians, friends, companions. Why would Fen’Harel choose to be represented as a wolf, the Dread Wolf?
Because he was Mythal’s guardian.
On to the facts presented in Trespasser.
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