Darkness: of it were they conceived; to it they were born; and as an instrument of it were they forever fated. They, the Darkspawn, are blighted for the actions of men. How is this the actions of a just god?
Cormack frowned. His sister's love of the elven slaves was rubbing off on him... sweet little one. He looked at the Darkspawn, so eager before the lava flow to blindly leap in at his meer whim. No martyrs here, just tools.
Three hundred, that was how many lava golems he had made so far; They also looked to him as happy willing children, waiting to please their father. Had they not done it already when they became one with molten rock flesh and bone, lyrium pumping veins, and the agony of the tortured flesh of the sacrifice to mold them as one?
He moved over to the masses of the anxious unchanged, and looked at them with love and pity, "I know not what to do with you," he sighed, "Send you into the deep roads to dwell in shadow and nightmare. How can this be fair? Created to be hated, feared, and to kill, and be killed for the actions of others? Why exist?"
Cormack shook his head, "There is a grater mercy, and place for you 'I' have to offer. ALL OF YOU! BECOME AS YOUR BROTHERS!"
They marched into the lava, and into legend. The Darkspawn horde were about to become symbols of stability and safety, the Sentinels of Thedas.
If they walked upon the earth they would burn it to ash, so they traveled the Deep Roads, rising through the earth as they had as the blighted, but this time to save the world of man, not savage it.
As their human master watched and his eyes glowed gold to meld them into the molten stones on which he would build his peace, the five thousand strode into the Lava; they would keep the peace upon this world for eight hundred years, and burn as the light of hope to all Thedas.
"Rise," he whispered, and the lava bubbled as one by one the five thousand climbed from the pit; massive, molten rock and lyrium glowing from their frames, the Sentinels filled the vast room. Cormack nodded, and as one, they moved out of the chamber, headed toward the defenses of the roads to the Tevinter Imperium
