Is the caretaker Cole?

[ChrillBill]

I am wondering if the caretaker is supposed to be the spirit from Inquisition who manifested themselves as Cole? Similar voice and also the hat, looks a bit like the one Cole wore...

[DaisyRay]

I don't think it is because the caretaker seems to know a lot about the elven gods. That would be cool though, I keep hoping we'll see Cole and Iron Bull somewhere.

[skullymex]

I got the impression that they're much older than that, I think that's confirmed in codex entries too

[Quacksalber]

Cole was male, The Caretaker sounds more like a female voice. Also, Cole could be a human at the end of DAI, though that wouldn't be the only time DA retconnned stuff. I think the Caretaker is a spirit that has been in that place since ancient times.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Vale:

I hope not. I killed that demon.

Wouldn't that just have sent him back to the Fade?

[DaisyRay]

Originally posted by Vale:

I hope not. I killed that demon.

:O

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by DaisyRay:

I don't think it is because the caretaker seems to know a lot about the elven gods. That would be cool though, I keep hoping we'll see Cole and Iron Bull somewhere.

True... Almost like they were there. I miss Iron Bull too!

Originally posted by skullymex:

I got the impression that they're much older than that, I think that's confirmed in codex entries too

Oh I might have missed that.

Originally posted by EH!:

Cole was male, The Caretaker sounds more like a female voice. Also, Cole could be a human at the end of DAI, though that wouldn't be the only time DA retconnned stuff. I think the Caretaker is a spirit that has been in that place since ancient times.

Female? No way.. To me it has always sounded like a male voice.

Now I must listen more closely.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Vale:

Originally posted by EH!:

Wouldn't that just have sent him back to the Fade?

I don't think so. If you kill a demon in the fade it's gone forever after all, is it not?

I didn't know you could kill Cole in the Fade. AFAIK, or at least according to Solas' personal quest in DAI, killing a spirit in spirit form in the real world makes it disappear, though it may manifest in some form again in the fade at a later stage. Killing a possessed person sends the spirit back to the fade, Cole is a different case again, as he's supposed to be a spirit that manifested in physical form - I assume those are harder to kill.

[ChrillBill]

I must also have missed how you could kill Cole in DA:I ? I know you could ask him to leave, and even make him leave if you made decisions he didn't agree with. But kill?

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by ChrillBill:

I must also have missed how you could kill Cole in DA:I ? I know you could ask him to leave, and even make him leave if you made decisions he didn't agree with. But kill?

I don't remember that either. Unfortunately it's really easy to lose him unintentionally, as his personal quest is bugged.

[Dwolffx]

I suspect it to be Falon'din, a part of Dirthamen spirit when it was shatterd, just like Mythal and her younger fragment? anyone else thought this?

[Zebedee]

Lighthouse is very old, isn't it? My head canon is that the caretaker is linked to whatever it was pre-Solas. "A place of learning" (codex entry calling it that) would hint at a link to Dirthamen perhaps, as Dwolffx suggests?

[Dwolffx]

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Lighthouse is very old, isn't it? My head canon is that the caretaker is linked to whatever it was pre-Solas. "A place of learning" (codex entry calling it that) would hint at a link to Dirthamen perhaps, as Dwolffx suggests?

YES

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by Dwolffx:

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Lighthouse is very old, isn't it? My head canon is that the caretaker is linked to whatever it was pre-Solas. "A place of learning" (codex entry calling it that) would hint at a link to Dirthamen perhaps, as Dwolffx suggests?

YES

It's also quite interesting that the Caretaker seems to know so much about fragmented spirits, enough to recognise Mythal/Morrigan. The owls around the last memory before that visit is surely not coincidence either. Does seem to point to something going on. At least enough to speculate around.)

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Originally posted by ChrillBill:

I am wondering if the caretaker is supposed to be the spirit from Inquisition who manifested themselves as Cole? Similar voice and also the hat, looks a bit like the one Cole wore...

Not gonna lie this isn't as out there as people thinking Manfred is Sandal's spirit in a Skeleton.

[Symnoptik]

Nothing from Inquisition mattered except for if you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Solas or not. So it's probably not Cole.