Razikale

At some point in 9:52 Dragon, Razikale was awoken and freed by her Evanuris master, Ghilan'nain, which, alongside the awakening of Lusacan, led to the outbreak of the Sixth Blight.

Background

As the Tevinter Dragon of Mystery, Razikale was worshiped by the Tevinter Imperium of old like her siblings and is an enormous draconic figure of immense power. The current Circle Tower in Minrathous was once a Temple dedicated to this Old God.^[2] There was also a temple called Razikale's Reach in the Frostback Basin. In ancient Tevinter, it was thought that the waters of Lake Calenhad carried the blessing of the Dragon of Mystery,^[3] and the constellation Eluvia was associated with her.

Razikale is likely the Old God that the Planasene people were said to start worshipping to resist the Neromenians' attacks in Threnodies 6.^[4]

Like the other Old Gods, Razikale endorsed the ancient Tevinter Magisters' attempt to reach the Golden City and spoke to the High Priest of Razikale, who used the alias "The Augur of Mystery", and told them to join in the endeavour.^[5]

During the War against the Elder One, it was widely believed that the red lyrium dragon was the next archdemon, though this was disproved later on when no darkspawn horde was seen massing alongside the Venatori and the Red Templars under Corypheus. Thus, by the time, only Razikale and Lusacan have yet to be awoken as an archdemon as all the other Old Gods have been awakened, corrupted and eventually defeated in the previous five Blights.

Involvement

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Known priests and priestesses

• Livia - high priestess of Razikale; high queen of Tevinter and birth mother of Darinius^[6]

Related Texts

There are a number of ancient Tevinter writings dedicated to Razikale inscribed on the ruins of her temple and other structures in the Frostback Basin. The writings are not included in the Codex.

Tevinter Inscription

To She Who Winds the Skein of Wisdom, we dedicate this citadel.

Dragon of Mystery, bestow upon your faithful servants your ineffable truth.

Grant us eyes to pierce the darkness and souls to bear the wounds of your labyrinth.

Tevinter Inscription

Silence has fallen.

Those who call out to her in dreams hear nothing.

Our letters to the capital go unanswered. No supplies have been sent, and our messengers do not return from the north.

We are alone.

Razikale, O Shadow Which Obscures the Path Ahead, deliver your faithful, save us from the silence which devours.

Tevinter Carving in Razikale's Reach

Dragon of Mystery, return to us, we beg you.

Your servants falter.

The paths ahead are lost in darkness, and those who walk them find only ruin.

Those who should guide us instead wage war upon each other, vying for a throne that does not exist.

The blood of the sacrifices that seeps into the stone here shall be the only truth we reveal in the end.

Tevinter Carving in the Old Drains

If the Imperium has fallen, we shall build it anew.

This citadel shall be a new Minrathous, and we who serve the Twisted Path shall be its Magisterium.

Praise be to Razikale—may our raised voices reach her and bring her back to us at last.

Barely Legible Tevinter Writing

Run if you can. Madness has filled the silence. Do not return to this place.

Codex entries

Codex entry: Constellation: Eluvia

Codex entry: The Grey Wardens

Codex entry: Lake Calenhad

Codex entry: The Lost City of Barindur

Codex entry: Mouth of Echoes

Codex entry: Razikale's Reach

Codex entry: Neve's Case Notes: Lusacan and Razikale

Note texts

Tevinter Carving (The Old Drains)

Tevinter Carving (Razikale's Reach)

Tevinter Inscription

Trivia

• Xenon the Antiquarian once owned a candle holder made out of the severed hand of a first acolyte of Razikale. In the Blessed Age, he sold it to an ancestor of Josephine Montilyet. It's uncertain whether the Montilyets still have it in their possession.^[7]

See also

Scepter of Razikale

Gallery

Temple to Razikale in the Frostback Basin

Idol depicting worshippers of Razikale engaged in a religious ceremony.^[8]

References