332:. The Darkspawn's overall visual design was simplified with a focus on angular elements, and their color palettes de-saturated "almost to the point of being black and white". Darkspawn armor is kept very primitive in aesthetic, almost to the point of not being well protected, since the Darkspawn's main concerns revolve around the Blight and the infection of the Taint as opposed to self-preservation. Hawco noted that this has the effect of reducing the perceived threat level for lower-ranked units like hurlocks, who are originally derived from humans; to balance this, the brutish ogre and the
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476:, Cecilia Trenter formed the view that it is "designed to motivate the player" by creating a "dystopian historical consciousness" which combines and blurs the lines between a "dark past, a threatened present and an uncertain future" which is variously depicted throughout the intro; the historical consciousness works on different levels in order to create an identity. The virtual identity in this instance, the player character as the Grey Warden, is "dealing with a biographical forthcoming catastrophe" that forces them to join the Order to fight the Darkspawn.
1044:: First day, they come and catch everyone./ Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat./ Third day, the men are all gnawed on again./ Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate./ Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn./ Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams./ Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew./ Eighth day, we hated as she is violated./ Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin./ Now she does feast, as she's become the beast.
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161:, where it becomes tainted due to their imperfect nature as mortal humans and transforms into "The Black City"; the mages themselves are tainted in the process and turn into the first Darkspawn. Cast out by the Maker back into the mortal realm, the Darkspawn cannot stand the light of the day and burrow deep beneath the earth to get away from it. Gaider would then frame it as a story akin to the real world Christian
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Darkspawn and the Archdemon. The Taint within the blood will kill some recruits, while survivors will become Grey Wardens. The survivor of the ritual, the player character, later became one of the few surviving members of the Order after a disastrous battle against the Darkspawn at the fortress of Ostagar wiped out most of the Grey Wardens in Ferelden.
251:"You only ever know how to design your game when itâs done. Thatâs just the reality. Weâre fortunate on Dragon Age to have the freedom to correct or finesse designs according to what weâve learned in the past. At the end of the day, Concept Art is about telling the story of the game and we felt that the original design of the Darkspawn wasnât doing the story justice."
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corrupted spiders, and so on. Subsequent sequels in various media have further explored series lore about the
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519:"The argument underpinning this article is that the act of playing as a hero who slays pregnant and birthing monstersâreferred to here as âBroodmothersââ functions as a re-enactment of the violence directed at womenâs bodies within our heteropatriarchal societies. This virtual symbolic violence therefore reinforces misogynistic hegemonic ideologies."
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The Blight would later spread throughout the land as civil war erupts between noble factions, while the surviving Grey
Wardens work to gather allies to stand against the Darkspawn hordes and their leader. An incursion into the Deep Roads in search of the dwarven artifact the Anvil of The Void led the
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used to rule the world of Thedas, and humanity used to worship a pantheon of draconic beings known as the Old Gods. The Maker, the deity worshipped by the
Chantry which is positioned as the dominant human religion in modern times, is said to have trapped the Old Gods deep beneath the earth where they
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The Deep Roads setting, which is featured in all main series games and are mostly populated with
Darkspawn enemies, has also been criticized. Heather Alexandra said while it is "thematically cogent in many ways" and "helps illustrate the size of the darkspawn horde", they considered the Deep Roads a
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Darkspawn's role in combat was also considered, with the original design too easily blending into the background. As the Darkspawn are capable of appearing in almost any environment, the designers chose a high contrast color scheme to make sure individual units were readable; the skin is pale as
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Darkspawn would incessantly search for the Old Gods who are slumbering deep underground. The Darkspawn would invade the subterranean network of dwarven kingdoms known as the Deep Roads, and displace the dwarves from most of their cities. When an Old God is found the Darkspawn
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have more or less defined the "generic" style in the fantasy genre. Goldman noted that he was not in a decision making role for the previous game's art department, and believed that being generic is not "the most inspirational direction" for a team to follow. Matt Rhodes, who worked on concept art
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which is presented as an alternate history retelling of the game's events and is non-canon. Rob Bartel, lead designer of the DLC, believed that putting the player into the role of a
Darkspawn unit, and showing the capture of the human nation of Ferelden's capital city and fall from the Darkspawn's
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Tevinter magisters who attempted to invade the Golden City, only to be damned and cast down back into the mortal realm. Upon the mages' return to the world, they became the first Darkspawn, the source of evil that hangs over much of the series. The ending moments of the
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Broodmothers are an example of female bodies being frequently intruded on as a horror trope and how "fertility, particularly through rape, is used to strike fear into the heart of the player through the threat of the gruesome and grotesque treatment of the body" by using "a personal
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Grey Wardens into an encounter with a survivor of an ill-fated dwarven expedition named Hespith, who explains how the Darkspawn procreate and what the Darkpawn do to the victims they choose to take captive. Prior to the final battle against the Darkspawn in Ferelden's capital city of Denerim,
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on the Kingdom of Ferelden is imminent. The Grey Warden Duncan sets out to seek new recruits, where he will initiate them into the Order via a ritual called the Joining. The recruits would imbibe from a chalice a special preparation containing Darkspawn blood, which puts each initiate into a
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and Flemeth. Carolyn Jong noted that other characters in the games frequently referred to the Darkspawn as "evil, soulless creatures", which in her view renders them as "voiceless objects", and are therefore subject to âfinalizing secondhand definitionsâ. Jong noted that in
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remain dormant. The rulers of a powerful nation called the Tevinter Imperium eventually decide to open a gateway into a heavenly realm out of hubris, and usurp the rule of the gods. The mages would then step out into the "Golden City", analogous to the real-world concept of
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since the Taint is supposed to lead to brain decay, which results in a reduction of the victim's intelligence and sophistication. Rhodes acknowledged the divisive reception towards the redesign of the Darkspawn as a learning experience for the design team.
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emissary are depicted as large and intimidating, who tower over the player's party and are supported by a large army of hurlocks swarming in from all directions, the intention being to present them as a significant threat and a challenge for players.
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an indicator of the Taint disease, and the armor is darkened. This assisted animators with telegraphing the attacks and movements of Darkspawn units, and players could spot them from the environment with little difficulty.
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onwards to match the developers' original vision of a race of diseased, twisted beings derived from the various sentient races of Thedas. The Darkspawn are generally considered to be the most notable monsters of the
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staff member Tom Senior acknowledged that the Darkspawn are good fantasy villains, but expressed a preference for "grey-area antagonists" who work against player characters for their own relatable reasons, such as
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figure who punishes all for the sins of the few, though he believes that the series lore secures apparent hope into mortal hands, as Chantry doctrine also encourages human action to win back the Maker's favor.
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The Broodmother has received particular attention due to her reproductive role within Darkspawn society. Sarah Stang explored the concept of "monstrous-feminine" video game characters in a paper published by
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narrative advocated by the Chantry, which blames mortal hubris for antagonizing the Maker and irresponsible use of magic for the creation of the Darkspawn. Moosa suggests that the Maker is a
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threat of the obscene against female bodies to both cower and fascinate the player". Hart said Hespithâs poem about the origins of the Broodmothers is one of the most disturbing moments in
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franchise from its inception until 2015. Neither the Darkspawn nor the Grey Wardens existed in his first draft of the world setting. Gaider elaborated in a 2017 post uploaded on
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expansion pack reveal that following the demise of the Archdemon, the remaining Darkspawn hordes on the surface are depicted as devolving into opposing factions rallying around
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book as an "abominable" mash-up of twisted metal, chains and organic mass, literally signifying their corruption. According to Matt Goldman, who served as the art director for
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prophesied to King Maric Theirin of Ferelden that a Blight will come to Ferelden. An apparently sapient Darkspawn emissary, the Architect, makes his first appearance in
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as its main antagonist. Unbeknownst to Hawke, Corypheus escaped his prison in the Vimmark Mountains by possessing one of his Grey Warden jailors, and later appears in
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that a decision was made to portray the Darkspawn "like a complete and cohesive group" with the new art direction, as opposed to their more "hodgepodge appearance" in
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