"That's also covered in Varric's book, when you get the chance to look it up. Or it might find its way here somehow." Korrin smiles and shakes her head. "I'm used to it by now, so it doesn't bother me. If anything, this keeps me sharp for the next time people are dragged through rifts, because that doesn't seem to stop happening.

Corypheus is an ancient darkspawn magister; once a human, once having served the Old Gods of Tevinter. That whole Chantry spiel about how Tevinter magisters physically entered the Fade and triggered the First Blight? He was one of those. Somehow, despite his massive amount of taint, he's survived all this time...even survived death. Hawke and Varric and their crew killed him, and he came back. No one knows how, and that's partly what has people so freaked out. This once-mortal mage has access to magic that's beyond pretty much everyone else."