Also known as Lusacan, All-Father, Eldest of the Sun, Sun-Tamer, God King, God of Vengeance, God of the Sun, Crown of Arlathan, First of the Firstborn, Lord of the Day and of the Night, General of the Enlightened Army, Creator, Destroyer, Will made Manifest, Collector of All the Titles (more to be added)
You will find random musings about Elgar'nan here. Mostly headcanon stuff, my personal takes on canon lore, probably no real serious lore master type stuff, if I'm going to be honest.
Summary: An alternate universe where the Evanuris answered for their war crimes against the Titans, the rebellion never occurred, a veil was never made, and the blights never happened.
After a long period spent in isolation, Elgar'nan and his chosen family returned to witness what the world became during their absence.
A collection of writing dabbles about my modern AU with Motorcycle "Outlaw" Gang flavor.
Post Veilguard, these two needed a happy ending. Elgar'nan and Vallira (my OC) are in the Fade as Spirits again, manifesting the forms they held for thousands of years.
Spirit!Elgar'nan and Spirit!Mythal, and a tiny orb of Harmony developing between them. Also a silly comic of the real (/silly) reason that Elgar'nan decided to take form to begin with.
Happiest of birthdays to one of my most beloved people and best thing Dragon Age fandom has brought into my life, @idunnaldwir. You know me and you know that I won't be extremely sappy until I am very drunk, so I guess you'll hear more in a few hours. I love you, thank you for being who you are ♡♡♡
I forgot to add them here, but here was my contribution to @ancientsofarlathan Summer Solstice event.
Day 1; Firstborn
Elgar'nan after having just made his body. It was also pride month but the color flag symbolism here is actually on accident. It just so happens to fit my headcanon on his transition from Spirit -> physical form.
Day 2; Titans
Elgar'nan facing off against a Titan at night with two blades made up of arcane energy.
Day 3; before blight / after blight
The before blight side is also before he starts taking shots of dragon's blood in my headcanon, too, as that is where he gets his fire breath, glowy irises, and black sclera. (HC)
The after blight side is Veilguard era when he sick from the blight, paled from 1000+ years of isolation away from the Sun, and aged from the effects of the Veil + Self-Actualization. (HC)
I've been thinking about shenanigans in my headcanon, developing the "villain's side" of Veilguard and I wanted to share a perspective I'm focusing on.
Elgar'nan takes a while to recognize Rook and their team as a problem while Ghilan'nain struggles against them. And I don't think that was a failure on his part.
I think Ghil was embarrassed by every failure she runs into. Perhaps hides it from him. Because Elgar'nan canonically seems to be like that figure you try to keep impressing. Like that boss that compliments your work and showing favoritism towards you that you know is capable of being cruel.
Perhaps that is why it takes until Fire and Ice for Ghilan'nain to tell Elgar'nan about the Dread Wolf's influence. Because she can't hide her failures anymore now that Elgar'nan had to come save her. And he scolds her a little until he senses the problem child (Rook) breaking free from his magic, and he immediately switches to strategy and asset protection. From then on, he is who Rook runs into. He finds and gets out his archdemon. He keeps Ghilan'nain close.
Though in my headcanon, he's warped into Tyranny because absolute control is the way to protect those he loves, so these scenarios have a slightly different feel to them for me. But food for thought, regardless.
If anyone has any canon proof beyond the Elvhen religion codices, please share 💛
I was talking to good friends of mine and it was pointed out that canonically Elgar'nan and Mythal's relationship was never confirmed.
We do not get a lot of content of Mythal being addressed by or alongside Elgar'nan, but the parts we do aren't screaming "this is/was my husband."
Politically, publicly, they were likely together for sake of appearances but all of the pantheon except Ghilan'nain had labels that suggested they were their children and as far as we know Ghilan'nain is possibly the only mortal born to even have parents (if she even was. Labeled so in game files but never directly addressed. Though, we know through Morrigan that Dirthamen and Falon'Din were confirmed to be of the same spirit and were therefore spiritborn, not mortal). Elgar'nan could have called everyone his brother/sister (in the non-familial sense) and went about his day.
Mythal probably loved Elgar'nan but we don't know what that love was. We can infer by her and Morrigan's dialogue that by Flemeth's cynicism of men is not solely from the human women that further warped that shard of Retribution. We can also infer from the shard in the crossroads that she has long gotten over whatever love she had for the Evanuris as a whole.
At no point does Mythal from the crossroads refer to herself and Elgar'nan as anything more than someone she simply ruled beside and not even so directly. By the wording here she almost indicates love did exist but for "them" not for "him."
Veilguard did much more to show Mythal loved Solas in Crossroad!Mythal's dialogue and in the cultivated ("like a tree twisting to catch the sun") memories in the Lighthouse murals. And in the previous games, all we have is guesswork and codices that are unreliable religious stories that the elven keepers passed along their clans like a long game of telephone. Those stories change between clans — Bellara points that out, too.
Elgar'nan's dialogue with Solas is clipped, irritated, and sounds closer to two brothers bickering. Just two guys trying to get under the other's skin so not much can be inferred in regard to Mythal except that she is a sore topic for both of them. Enough so that both of them use her as a way to dig at the other.
We can almost gather from it that Solas's sore spot was that Mythal was apparently two-faced and complained to both about the other, and Elgar'nan's was that she was trying to control him and saw him and his "brutish ego" as monstrous. But that's it. Nothing about this screams that Mythal and Elgar'nan were lovers.
Personally, I lean into that they were since I lately have been drawing parallels between the Seladarine (D&D) and the Evanuris, as they were probably the original inspiration considering DAO was very likely supposed to be the original BG3 when it was in conceptual stages before WotC pulled the plug on BioWare (guessing)... and the discussion came from people who also think Elgar'nan and Mythal were a thing. I am also very sure a lot of us just assume they were a thing by default but it's interesting that it's never officially addressed in canon.
It's quite possible that the devs just assumed it was a no-brainer and just didn't think it would ever be a question.
Elgar'nan is the God of Vengeance because his Love is Tyrannical, possessive and focused on prevention of harm. His wrath is consuming and swift, brutal and merciless. Nothing will harm what he cherishes because he will personally make sure of it.
Mythal
Spirit of Retribution (warped Benevolence)
Goddess of Love
Patron of Motherhood and Justice
Mythal warped into retribution following the pain of betrayal by her "husband." The part of her that became Flemeth warped further, touched by human women who felt similar pain. The part of her in the crossroads warped further from pain of abandonment and avoidance.
Falon'Din and Fen'Harel have the second parts of their names capitalized.
Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain do not.
I don't think this is a mistake.
Falon and Din are both their own words fully. Same thing with Fen and Harel.
Both Elgar and Ghilan are their own words fully, but nain is not. In fact, of the official canon words, nain doesn't even appear at all (yet) outside of Ghilan'nain; neither by itself nor within another word.
Nan could be a suffix if combined like vheNAN and may mean "centre" (apparently, according to Trick Weekes outside of canon sources)
However, I propose that because "nan" in Elgar'nan is not capitalized, it is not a full word by itself in Elgar'nan's name, but shortened. Possibly because the Evanuris only have 2/3 syllables in their "god names."
There is a bow in Inquisition which calls Elgar'nan "Sun's Death." And one of the words for death is "Dinan."
