I believe so, as far as I could tell. They don't have any sort of language that I know of, but they were more organized than you'd expect. It wasn't like fighting a pack of animals. They could create choke points or destroy means of retreat, real strategy. From what I've read and what I've heard, that means they were getting some form of direction from the archdemon. Whether it was outright control, I couldn't tell you. They scattered the moment it was defeated, though.
It didn't take the field in Ghislain, [ where plenty of darkspawn had. a pause, ] Wardens did. Or others, posing as them.
An Ander officer believes they have been controlling the Darkspawn directly. What that would imply about their relationship to an archdemon, I can't say. Nothing particularly favourable.
I can't disagree. Wardens obviously have a connection to Darkspawn, but the details of that connection and how it may or may not be used... I certainly can't offer any more than speculation there. It's also possible an archdemon might be able to communicate at range, which is certainly a sobering thought.
Maker if I know how, short of petitioning ours again. But perhaps information might be seeded. Tactical, or otherwise. If its transit could be examined —
The trouble, of course, lies in ensuring it cannot travel by more usual method.
I suspect they can't be as much of a monolith as they let on. It may be a matter of finding the right person, individually, to ask.
Of course, it could be the same thing in reverse, [he adds, after a moment.] We're talking about ripples in a consistent medium, but it could also be a matter of a weak link in a chain.
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An Ander officer believes they have been controlling the Darkspawn directly. What that would imply about their relationship to an archdemon, I can't say. Nothing particularly favourable.
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[ look, it's not like he's done it personally. the image is the point: the force of a single throw, altered for each touch upon a surface ]
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[Bone dry, though not exactly combative.]
Still. A decent working theory. Worth investigating to the extent we can.
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The trouble, of course, lies in ensuring it cannot travel by more usual method.
[ wardens are people. people can, like, talk. ]
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Of course, it could be the same thing in reverse, [he adds, after a moment.] We're talking about ripples in a consistent medium, but it could also be a matter of a weak link in a chain.