The chantry and the circle are related, yes. The Southern Chantry was little more than a cult at first, until Kordillus Drakon formalized it into a religion, his victories in the war against the second Blight gave him legitimacy.
Probably getting ahead of myself. So a blight is something that happens when Darkspawn corrupt one of the Old Gods. Darkspawn are tainted, bloodthirsty creatures, their touch corrupts and sickens everything from people to the lands. They typically dwell underground, because their soul purpose is to seek out these long buried Gods and because they have a hive mind that's what they do. They rarely come to the surface, though small raids or minor invasions have been known to happen. You see them though, from time to time, but droves of them are present when a blight is about to happen, that means they have found an Old God and have corrupted it into an Archdemon to lead them.
Archdemons take the form of a dragon once corrupted, they are intelligent and they are purely evil.
As you can imagine, having success in battle during a Blight does win people towards one's cause and religious beliefs...wouldn't you agree? Thus the chantry was born and when the chantry was born it took the southern Circle of Magi and transformed it from a school of learning into an effective mage prison overseen by the ever watchful Templars. Marvelous, isn't it?
So what exactly are your First Men and the Old Gods of the Children of the Forest...almost familiar terms, it makes me a bit homesick.
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The chantry and the circle are related, yes. The Southern Chantry was little more than a cult at first, until Kordillus Drakon formalized it into a religion, his victories in the war against the second Blight gave him legitimacy.
Probably getting ahead of myself. So a blight is something that happens when Darkspawn corrupt one of the Old Gods. Darkspawn are tainted, bloodthirsty creatures, their touch corrupts and sickens everything from people to the lands. They typically dwell underground, because their soul purpose is to seek out these long buried Gods and because they have a hive mind that's what they do. They rarely come to the surface, though small raids or minor invasions have been known to happen. You see them though, from time to time, but droves of them are present when a blight is about to happen, that means they have found an Old God and have corrupted it into an Archdemon to lead them.
Archdemons take the form of a dragon once corrupted, they are intelligent and they are purely evil.
As you can imagine, having success in battle during a Blight does win people towards one's cause and religious beliefs...wouldn't you agree? Thus the chantry was born and when the chantry was born it took the southern Circle of Magi and transformed it from a school of learning into an effective mage prison overseen by the ever watchful Templars. Marvelous, isn't it?
So what exactly are your First Men and the Old Gods of the Children of the Forest...almost familiar terms, it makes me a bit homesick.