#elandrin

In this ruin we find Arlathan: Part One and Arlathan: Part Two. Both codices are written by Gisharel. Like all related to Dalish knowledge, we know there is little of truth in it, and it’s hard to determine what part belongs to the History and what part is just a romanticised version of the past.  These codices can be summarised as:

Elves were immortal and never-changing. Which is one of the true pieces that the Dalish managed to kept.

As immortals, worshipping and taking decisions would last centuries. 

They would sleep in Uthenera to walk the Fade. [This seems to be false. Elvhenan used Uthenera with another purpose, they did not need to enter Uthenera to walk the Fade, they lived in a state where the world and the Fade were one.]

Arlathan was in the center of the world, a place of knowledge and debate, where the best of the ancient elves would go to trade knowledge, greet old friends, and settle disputes that had gone on for millennia.

The humans came from Par Vollen, and they were creatures that died fast and were brash and warlike. Not like the elves who were unhurried and diplomatic [last part is clearly not  true considering how much the Evanuris fought each other]

The humans  “tainted” the elves that were in more contact with them., becoming ill and ageing.

Arlathan was closed off from humans to avoid that effect.

The Dalish don’t know what happened with Arlathan.

Tevinter was created and with it, the conquer of the lands of Elvhen started.

Tevinter breached Arlathan with magic, demons and dragons and captured each elf that became mortal as a consequence.

Tevinter forced the ground to swallow Arlathan, so it’s now buried deep down.

The elvhen asked to their gods for help, but there was no answer because Fen’Harel had trapped them.

Dead elves claim that Fen’Harel still roams the Fade keeping watch of the gods so they won’t escape, [which seems to be true so far we can interpret Solas’ actions].

The Emerald Knights. There is not much to say about this codex in my opinion. It translates pretty well the sentiment of the Elves of the Dales, during a time before the Second Blight, when they developed an Empire in the lands that Andraste had given to them.

Epitaphs for the Lost. It makes a more detailed description of how the names in the previous codex died.

The Death of Elandrin explains the truth about Red Crossing, the last straw that triggered the Exalted March of the Dales. As Solas has said in the beginning of this region, both sides, human and Dalish, had been quite brutal. A detail worth noting is that Elandrin did not care about the elven gods. It shows now, explicitly, not only through the architecture, that these Dalish were a lot more flexible in their beliefs, even sceptical. We only see one of these Dalish in DA games: Ameridan, who had no problem in asking for help to Ghilan’nain and Andraste at the same time before facing Hakkon.