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The PC can speak to Morrigan while in the Temple.

Morrigan: Yes?

1 - Dialogue options:

  • Special (right after entering the temple): I s Corypheus truly immortal? [2]
  • Investigate (after discussing the Well with Morrigan): About using the well…[3]
  • Investigate (in the first chamber): Where are we in the temple? [4]
  • Investigate (In the Hall of Shrines): Where are we in the temple? [5]
  • Investigate (In the Ancient Crypts): Where are we in the temple? [6]
  • Investigate (after starting the first ritual): Tell me about this ritual. [7]
  • Investigate (after reaching the next ritual): What are these rituals? [8]
  • Investigate: Tell me about Mythal. [9]
  • Investigate: Who are these temple elves? [10]
  • General: That’s all. [11]

2 - Special: Is Corypheus truly immortal? PC: Are you certain Corypheus is using the power of the Blight to make himself immortal? Morrigan: Perhaps you forget: I was in Ferelden during the Fifth Blight. I have seen a true Archdemons’s rage. How Corypheus gained the power to send his soul into blighted bodies… That is the real question.

Dialogue options:

  • Special: Will answering it help us? [12]
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12 - Special: Will answering it help us? PC: Will answering that question let us destroy Corypheus for good? Morrigan: I would suggest first dealing with the Well. If Corypheus obtains it, any chance of success could be lost. [back to 1]

3 - Investigate: About using the well… PC: I want to discuss the Well again. Morrigan: (Sighs.) I see. An opportunity to use the Well may not even arise. I understand this. All I meant to suggest is that, if it does, I be the one to do so. I am willing to accept the consequences.

13 - Dialogue options:

  • Investigate: Is the Well that valuable? [14]
  • Investigate: Why do you want this power? [15]
  • Special (if Morrigan has Kieran): What about your son? [16]
  • General: I’m worried about you. [17]
  • General: Any consequences? [18]
  • General: Don’t be overconfident. [19]

14 - Investigate: Is the Well that valuable? PC: You would pay the price for this, and you don’t yet know what it does? Morrigan: We know Corypheus seeks the Well, and believes it valuable. We also know it to be guarded jealously, the last remnant of a culture thought dead and gone. So yes, I would take my chances—if you permit it. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Dialogue options:

  • Special: And if I say no? [20]
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20 - Special: And if I say no? PC: What if I don’t permit it? What then? Morrigan: What would you propose? Leave it be? Allow another to find and take it, someone worse perhaps then Corypheus? PC: You’re better than Corypheus? Morrigan: I am. Have I proven myself so unworthy of trust? The discussion may be moot. We cannot know. I only ask you to consider. [back to 13] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 15 - Investigate: Why do you want this power? PC: You said you want to preserve old powers. To what end? What will you do with them? Morrigan: There is a struggle to control the world’s future path. Can you not see it? History haunts us, Inquisitor. It seeks to resurface. Corypheus is but the first to arise. For all the evil that was, there is also good. I will fight for it. I must. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Dialogue options:

  • General: What if this power is evil? [21]
  • General: You? The champion of good? [22]
  • General: I don’t believe you. [23]

21 - General: What if this power is evil? PC: How do you know the Well of Sorrows isn’t a source of evil? After all, Corypheus seeks it. Morrigan: A fair point. We cannot know for sure. [back to 13]ㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 22 - General: You? The champion of good PC: I’m having trouble picturing you as the champion of all that is good in ancient magic. Morrigan: You would not be the first, I assure you. [back to 13] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 23 - General: I don’t believe you. PC: You’re not telling me the whole truth. Morrigan: Then you are looking for something I cannot provide. [back to 13]ㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 16 - Special: What about your son? PC: What if something happens to you? What about your son? Morrigan: Kieran is… a strong lad. He will thrive, with or without me. PC: Are you sure of that? Morrigan: I am sure of precious little these days. [back to 1] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 17 - General: I’m worried about you. PC: I don’t want you to be so eager for this unknown power you ignore its dangers, Morrigan. [24] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 18 - General: Any consequences? PC: How can you not care what the consequences are? Even Corypheus seems to. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 19 - General: Don’t be overconfident. PC: You seem awfully certain of yourself. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 24 - Scene continues. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Morrigan: I am not some child grasping after a toy. I understand the risk of what I seek. Let us turn out attention to hunting our enemies, shall we? Discussion of the Well can wait. [back to 1]

4 - Investigate (in the first chamber): Where are we in the temple? PC: Do you know what this part of the temple was used for? Morrigan: The room we stand in is a vestibule, not the temple proper. To those who knew it, perhaps this ritual was little more than a polite knock at the gate. These customs must have been as familiar to ancient elves as bowing to a queen is to you or I.

Dialogue options:

  • Special: You? Bow? [25]
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25 - Special: You? Bow? PC: I fond it difficult to picture you curtsying to anyone. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Vivienne (if in party): Why our dear empress tolerated that is one of the mysteries of our age. Morrigan: Why, Madame Vivienne, I expected sweeter barbs from a tongue as subtle as yours! Does this place unnerve you so? Or is it I? Vivienne: You unnerve me as would a cockroach crossing the floor, making me think new accommodations might be required. Morrigan: (Chuckles.) Much better. [back to 1] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Morrigan (Vivienne not in party): Have we become so familar you can predict my manner and customs now? Nothing is lost by indulging the occasional civilized conduct… particularly when unexpected. [back to 1]

5 - Investigate (In the Hall of Shrines): Where are we in the temple? PC: Do you know what this part of the temple was used for? Morrigan: It may have served as a chamber of reflection, perhaps to contemplate the righteousness of one’s cause. More importantly, I suspect none were permitted beyond this area without a priest. Ancient texts claim Mythal passed judgement in the flesh, but ‘twas surely the priests who proclaimed rulings here.

Dialogue options:

  • Special: Why all the rituals? [26]
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26 - Special: Why all the rituals? PC: Why did the ancient elves insist on so many rites? Morrigan: We may safely assume one did not petition high priests for Mythal’s justice by strolling up and knocking. I see no more insufferable ceremony here than in a chantry. [back to 1]

6 - Investigate (In the Ancient Crypts): Where are we in the temple? PC: Do you know what this part of the temple was used for? Morrigan: ‘Tis difficult to say. Corypheus’s people clearly accessed some manner of tunnel. This place seems less of a temple and more… a complex, or a fortress. Like Skyhold. PC: But with more ambushes. Morrigan: You can always rectify that upon return, Inquisitor. [back to 1]

7 - Investigate: Tell me about this ritual. PC: This altar… what kind of ritual is this meant to be? Morrigan: I believe it represents a petition, a declaration of will to the priests who resided here. Some ancient elven ceremonies were said to take decades to complete. Hopefully this is not such a one.

Dialogue options:

  • Special: Decades? [27]
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27 - Special: Decades? PC: What sort of ceremony takes decades? Morrigan: Strange, is it not? So much time and effort. Perhaps that is what lead to the wistful Dalish legends of the lost elven immortality. My research uncovered many strange claims about elven ruins. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Dialogue options:

  • Special: Tell me some. [28]
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28 - Special: Tell me some. PC: Such as? Morrigan: Some insisted gods sent fantastic beasts to prophesize in their temples. Others said they whispered wisdom to those who slept there a year and a day without pause. The latter may hold some truth. Ancient elves were said to be gifted wanderers of the Fade. [back to 1]

8 - Investigate: What are these rituals? PC: More rituals? What are they for, do you know? Morrigan: I believe they signify an intent to lay one’s self bare, to champion a cause without pity, regret, or shame. Mythal’s cult was not fond of vacillation. One approached them with nothing less than complete confidence.

Dialogue options:

  • Special: What happened to the unsure? [29]
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29 - Special: What happened to the unsure? PC: What happened to those who were less sure of themselves? Morrigan: Legend… does not say. Perhaps this place has a more gruesome history than we know. [back to 1]

9 - Investigate: Tell me about Mythal. PC: You said this Mythal was worshipped as a goddess. Morrigan: So one assumes. What is a god but a being of immense power? The dread Old Gods were nothing more than dragons, after all. They rise as Archdemons, and they die. Perhaps Mythal was a powerful elf, a ruler among her kind. History often plays storyteller with facts.

Solas (if in party): You admit lack of knowledge, and yet dismiss her so readily? Morrigan: I do not dismiss her. I question her supposed divinity. One need not be a god to have value.

Morrigan: Truthfully, I am uncertain Mythal was even a single entity. The accounts are… varied.

Dialogue options: ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ

  • Special: What accounts? [30]
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30 - Special: What accounts? PC: There are varied accounts of Mythal? Morrigan: In most stories, Mythal rights wrongs while exercising motherly kindness. “Ley fly your voice to Mythal, deliverer of justice, protector of sun and earth alike.” Others paint her as dark, vengeful. Pray to Mythal, and she would smite your enemies, leaving them in agony. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Solas (if in party): More Dalish tales, I assume? ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Dialogue options: ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ

  • Special: You know more, Solas? [31]
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31 - Special: You know more, Solas? PC: If you know more about this, Solas, speak. Solas: The oldest accounts say Mythal was both of these, and neither. She was the mother, protective and fierce. That is all I will say. This is not a place to stir up old stories. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Morrigan: Whatever the truth, all accounts of Mythal end the same: exiled to the Beyond with her brethren. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Dialogue options:

  • Special: “Exiled to the Beyond?”
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32 - Special: “Exiled to the Beyond?” PC: What do you mean, “exiled”? Morrigan: Tricked by the Dread Wolf, as all the elven gods were said to be, trapped in a land beyond the Fade. Many Dalish believe this is why the elves fell from grace and their gods did not save them. Or perhaps they were simply rulers slain by Tevinter. Who can say? [back to 1]

10 - Investigate: Who are these temple elves? PC: You’ve seen the elves here. They seem… odd. Morrigan: Indeed. Two things are possible. One, this a group of Dalish separated from their brethren. Cultists. Fanatic in their desire to keep humans away. Two, these are elves descended from the ancients, having resided here since before the fall of Arlathan. The second appears unlikely, but if true, the implications are astounding.

Dialogue options:

  • History: It would be unheard of. [33]
  • Special: Could it be true? [34]
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33 - History: It would be unheard of. PC: If they keep records, it could change everything we thought we knew about history. Morrigan: ‘Tis thrilling, no? To discover an era thought lost forever has possibly thrived in the shadows. We may, however, find these elves reluctant to part with their long-kept secrets. [back to 1] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ 34 - Special: Could it be true? PC: Is that even possible? How? Morrigan: With magic, anything is possible. Whatever the truth, the guardians successfully kept the temple a secret. They must kill all who enter, even the Dalish. A more sensible questions might be “why.” [back to 1]

11 - General: That’s all. PC: Let’s Continue. Morrigan: As you wish.

Conversation ends.