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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age lore is full of unanswered questions. With every game, movie, comic, codex, or short story that comes out, we get the answers to ten questions, but in exchange, we get a hundred new questions. It's pretty maddening, but that's what some people love about the franchise.
Sandal Feddic is one of those mysteries. He's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a dwarven character who appears in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, but not 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Inquisition. The players love to theorize about the mystery surrounding him. In this article, we're explaining everything you need to know about him and why he's so mysterious.
Sandal's Early Life And Adoption
Sandal is a half-dwarf Aeuducan boy - so, he's a royal bastard, like Alistair - who the public knew about, but he mysteriously went missing. The exact identity of his parents is unknown, as is much of his early life. What we do know is that, at some point, he was left alone in the Deep Roads.
Sandal was found there by a dwarven merchant named Bodahn Feddic. At the time, Sandal was age 5, and it was unclear how long he had been down there. Since Sandal didn't look like he'd been infected by the Blight, Bodahn took the child to safety and raised him as his own. A circle mage once told Bodahn that Sandal was a savant.
Sandal In Dragon Age: Origins And Dragon Age 2
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Dragon Age players meet Sandal in the very first game. Bodahn Feddic, Sandal's adoptive father, offers to follow the Warden to their campsites and provide his wares to them. If the Warden agrees, Bodahn brings Sandal along. Sandal has a gift for enchanting weapons and armor with runes. He speaks in very basic sentences or just says the word 'enchantment' repeatedly. He just seems like a silly character until the very end of the game. During the player's trek through Fort Drakon, Sandal's met standing alone in a room full of dead, bloodied darkspawn. You can ask him what happened, but all he says is 'enchantment.'
The situation is much the same in Dragon Age 2. Bodahn is your own personal shopper and Sandal does enchanting for you. However, there are a few more unusual encounters with him. Bodahn mentions that they were at the Kirkwall mage tower for a time, but left because Sandal was afraid that they'd want to keep him around indefinitely due to his unique enchanting abilities. At the end of the game, you find Sandal in a room fulled of destroyed enemies, much like in Fort Drakon. You also learn that Bodahn and Sandal were offered a position at the Orlesian Court by Empress Celene herself, and that they'll be going there after the events of the game.
What's Strange About Sandal?
There are unusual things about Sandal hidden all over Dragon Age lore.
In the second World of Thedas book that was published, it details how the walls in the room where Bodahn found Sandal were covered in glittering gold and gemstones, making up murals that depicted heroic tales of Paragons, elves, dwarves, dragons, and some creatures Bodahn didn't even recognize.
Depending on who you are, the rooms full of dead people may seem a wee bit suspicious. Some people just attribute it to Sandal's ability to make runes. Others insist that a mere rune couldn't have caused such chaos. Sandal himself confirms both theories. On some occasions, he explains away the deaths by happily saying "enchantment!" But there's at least one occasion - wherein an ogre is frozen in ice and standing next to him - where he openly tells the player that it was caused by "not enchantment!"
Bodahn also mentions offhandedly during conversation that he thinks Sandal's limited capacity for conversation and other common tasks is because he's "lyrium-addled" (a condition that affects people who have been around raw lyrium for extended periods of time). However, he can't confirm that theory since he doesn't know how long Sandal was in the Deep Roads.
Finally, there are several ways that Sandal is inexplicably connected to Dragon Age: Inquisition, even though he doesn't actually appear in that game. First, during Dragon Age 2, he mentions that an "old lady" visits him at night, which many fans suspect is Flemeth. Then, there's a chance that you may overhear Sandal saying something especially ominous to Bodahn in your house:
- Sandal: One day the magic will come back. All of it. Everyone will be just like they were. The shadows will part, and the skies will open wide.
- Bodahn: Huh. What's this?
- Sandal: When he rises, everyone will see.
- Bodahn: By the ancestors, what's gotten into you, my boy?
- Sandal: Enchantment?
- Bodahn: Hmph. That's more like it.
With the context of Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser, it seems like Sandal is prophesying 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Solas' plans for the Veil and the world. How could he know something like that? Solas never mentions Sandal. In addition, a journal of Sandal's can be found inside the Shattered Library. It doesn't say much; it's just the word 'enchantment' written over and over again on different dates with different punctuation. But the Shattered Library was once a normal library that existed in the world of the ancient elves which was 'shattered' when the Veil was created. It exists beyond the Eluvians, in a place that is not really the Fade nor the physical world. So how did Sandal's journal get there?
The Answer(s) To The Mystery About Sandal
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So, after summing up the mystery of Sandal, you're probably hoping for a conclusion. Unfortunately, we don't have one to provide. We won't have one until 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the fourth game comes out, if even then. The fan theories about him are truly incredible, though. There are dozens of🅘 ex🌺cellent and unique explanations.
One of the most common theories is that he's the first dwarf to be able to do magic. All dwarves we know of are cut off from the Fade and can't perform magic due to years of their ancestors mining lyrium and being exposed to it. This is especially believable since Sandal is a half-dwarf, so some fans suspect it might mean he could use magic.
However, this theory was mostly popular before the release of Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Descent. In that DLC, we learn a lot of history about the dwarven race and about a species known as Titans who used to watch over the dwarves. At the end, a dwarf named Valta reconnects to a Titan and becomes "pure" - she seems to be able to control some kind of magical energy, but it's unclear.
As a result, a new popular theory is that Sandal is another "pure" dwarf. This could connect a loꦜt of the loose ends about him.
For example, it might explain why and how he survived in the Deep Roads as a child. Since we see Valta controlling some kind of magic, that could be how Sandal was able to kill so many opponents and freeze an ogre in place. Plus, if he was pure, it would make sense that he has a talent for working with lyrium 🐲to make runes.
It even might help to explain his connection to Dragon Age: Inquisition and Solas! The Titans were in a long and bloody war with the ancient elves until the Evanuris locked them away underground. We don't know exactly what the surviving Titans know, how they know it, or whether they support or oppose Solas, but it does provide a link between Sandal and Solas where there seemed at first to be no connection.
At the end of the day, all we can do is wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) for the fourth Dragon Age game to see if any of our predictions come true. For all we know, Sandal started off as a gag character and the writers intend ℱto keep him that way. Or perhaps they just like using h﷽im to give us shivers every once-in-a-while.