#corypheus

2. The Old Gods are all female

Now this issue stems from the whole let's make the Old Gods into high dragons part. If they had confirmed that the Old Gods were great dragons they could have side stepped the whole "all high dragons are female" lore by saying that it doesn't apply to great dragons. Instead we get to hear the most contrived reasons for why Elgar'nan calls Lusacan by male pronouns. You could also think that hmm maybe the pronouns are supposed to refer to the soul of the Evanuris inside the dragon, yeah, except they fucked up that part too. Prior to DAV the only Old God confirmed to be female was Razikale and Toth and Andoral were left ambiguous, the rest were male. This meant that if we were to assign Razikale, Toth, and Andoral to Ghil, Sylaise, and Andruil they would match. Now what did they do in DAV:

For some insane reason they keep referring to Toth with male pronouns when they've decided that the Old Gods are high dragons and all high dragons are female and there are no references anywhere to Toth's gender before this. Now, no matter how you assign the Old Gods to the Evanuris you're left with a situation where one Old God and one Elven god are both referred to as a "he" even though the elf and lizard are both female. And you can't even blame this with in game lore of "ooh the 'vints were dumb and couldn't figure out dragon anatomy" when they've been shown to have advanced understanding of dragon anatomy and the grey wardens literally have access to their corpses. The lady of the forest from Origins also refers to Urthemiel as a "he", so it's not a 'vint thing.

And then there's also this blast from the past:

Ben Gelinas was in charge of the World of Thedas books, so Bioware could've changed the gender of the Old Gods for those books too if they had wanted to, unless the gender of the Old Gods was supposed to be some kind of secret and gotcha trick.

3. Disconnecting the dragons from the "sun"

DAV is a game that can't handle a metaphor to save its life which is why we get to hear Elgar'nan going on about the literal sun and night when in the past lore it was implied that the sun was a dragon/dragons in general.

Here we see a bunch of elves imprisoning a dragon with what looks like to be lyrium. (Also you're telling me that there were murals like these in the middle of Minrathous for the past few thousand years while everyone was wondering why the Old Gods are underground, like really.)

Here's what old codex entries said about the sun and elves:

Codex entry: Elgar'nan: God of Vengeance & Codex entry: Mythal: the Great Protector

In both cases the sun is trapped in what sounds like a prison made out of lyrium. The Old God prisons were right next to Titans or huge lyrium deposits based on WoT books, as there was a prison near the Heidrun Thaig where the DAI Titan is, and Note: Ancient Warden Logbook, which says that the wardens broke into what looked like a Thaig when they were trying to dig up an old god.

4. The Old God prison in the western approach

In DAI if you go to the western approach and the mine there you can find the above mentioned note that mentions that there's an Old God prison right under your feet:

Solas also comments: "Someone was digging for things that should have been left undisturbed."

In Asunder Cole comments how he can hear the calling and iirc he was close to the western approach in the following passage:

"And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way-it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn. The dark creatures, the lurkers, they listened to it. He didn't know how he knew that, but he could feel them out there, craning their necks, raising taloned hands towards that call." Asunder, ch: 9

But in general there's nowhere said that the prison is empty and pretty much all other blights have started far away from Orlais. So given the fact that this prison still seems to be functional and the archdemon there is referred to as a he it would make sense that this is where Lusacan is imprisoned, right? Now where did Elgar'nan awaken Lusacan? Arlathan forest, on the other side of the freaking map.

5. Erasure of the "dragons used to rule the skies" lore

This is something that is probably only familiar to those who have read the early comics, but Yavana, one of Flemeth's daughters says the following:

"The blood of dragons is the blood of the world." -Yavana, the silent grove Your heart beats with the old blood, as well. Where do you think it comes from? It sings of a time when dragons ruled the skies. A time before the veil, before the mysteries were forgotten. Can you hear it? -Yavana, the silent grove

Yet this whole aspect of the lore seems to have been completely removed from both the game and the art book. In the art book iirc there's one picture with unicorns and dragons flying in the skies but otherwise nothing.

As was shown in the part where Elgar'nan imprisoned the sun he might have been the one responsible for fighting against dragons. The Chant of Light also features the following:

"Until, at last, some of the firstborn said: "Our Father has abandoned us for these lesser things. We have power over heaven. Let us rule over earth as well And become greater gods than our Father."

The firstborn are the elves and the earth is most likely the Titans so, who is the Father here? Elgar'nan's father is said to be the sun, which might be the dragons. The implication here is that they first defeated the dragons and then the Titans. Yet again, this potential war and dragons ruling the skies are not referred to anywhere. Great dragon blood in the comics was said to grant dreamer abilities.

6. Tying the Evanuris's immortality to the dragons is dumb

So, the Evanuris are invulnerable to death as the dragons give them the body hopping ability and the lyrium murder knife is only needed to get past their protective spells. Well, guess who is not limited by such trivialities? Corypheus. Our dear ancient magister didn't need his pet dragon to body hop, instead he nerfed his body hopping ability by binding the red lyrium dragon. Rook's tactic of first killing Ghil's dragon and then stabbing her who knows how long later with the dagger wouldn't have worked on Cory as he would have recovered from having to reabsorb his power from his dragon and then he would have simply body hopped to the nearest blighted being if he was stabbed to death. Thus the Evanuris have worse immortality than Corypheus does, since they can't body hop without the dragons.

As stated in DAI about Cory's abilities:

Kill it, and his ability to jump to other bodies is disrupted for a time. He can be killed. -Inquisitor Kill the dragon, and his ability to leap into other bodies is disrupted. He can be slain. -Morrigan

And straight from the horse's mouth:

In short Cory is king and the Evanuris are a bunch of losers and the blight likes to play favorites.