assault on the Grey Wardens of Vigil's Keep. The Architect is first encountered by the Warden-Commander at a silverite mine in the Wending Wood, where he captures the party and experimentx on them. He flees the mine after the Warden-Commander break out of their cell and slays a pair of dragons under his thrall. The Architect is encountered again in the Mother's lair, where he offers an alliance with the Warden-Commander: he explains his research has shown him that by exposing the Darkspawn to the blood of a Grey Warden, the Darkspawn are freed from the call of the Old Gods, preventing them from starting a Blight. The Warden-Commander must decide whether to ally with the Architect in their common interest of stopping the Blights, or kill him and his Warden companion Utha. If they ally with him, the Mother will reveal that prior to the events of Origin, The Architect found the Old God Urthemiel and used Grey Warden blood in an experiment deep below the earth; this backfires and Urthemiel was tainted as an Archdemon, setting in motion the beginning of the Fifth Blight. The Mother Voiced by: Dee Dee Rescher The Mother was originally a human woman who was corrupted into a monster called a Broodmother, for the sole purpose of breeding Darkspawn. Unlike a previous Broodmother encountered by the Hero of Ferelden in Origins which was a tainted corruption of a dwarven woman, the Mother's upper body has a more slender build with less grotesque features at first glance. The character artist repurposed the old base mesh of the Broodmother encountered in "Origins" to help create a new and improved version, and she is added into the conversation system so that she could converse with the player character. She has the ability to birth monstrous worm-like Darkspawn called "the Children", grubs which hibernate in cocoons after they have been birthed, only emerging when they sense another living being nearby to attack and devour their unfortunate prey. The Mother is designed with a visual link to her Children with her split face and the extra limbs coming out of her back. Like other awakened Darkspawn known as "Disciples", she is freed from the call of the Old Gods by the Architect. Driven insane by the self-realization of what she had become and the loss of her purpose to find the Old Gods, she mobilizes her forces to