And we also don't know if, or how many times, this ritual has been used either, but it seems unlikely to me the fifth blight was the first attempt. At least preserved in some capacity, though we're not sure really what that means yet, though we know it requires a Grey Warden. But we also know that there is at least one way to "kill" the archdmeon, while preserving the Old God also. We know that taint, and thus the archdemon, cannot be removed, unless the archdemon is "killed" by a Grey Warden. The taint is effectively another prison, and probably a much worse one.
We know only Darkspawn can apparently free the Old God, but in doing so they taint him. We know Grey Wardens know where these prisons are. And frankly lazy writing or storytelling if that's the case. A Dragon, even a really powerful old one, is just not a sufficient answer for me as it's just way too simple. But defining exactly what an Old GOD actually is would need to be answered before we could say for sure really. I would go so far as to say Dumat as Dumat the archdemon is dead and gone forever, but I would not go so far as to say Dumat as the Old God is dead. I'm pretty sure we don't really know nearly enough of the whole story here to really guess, but here's a few things to consider.
Not even the Wardens would be able to stand up to that. What's more, even if they did capture Dumat, he would just order every darkspawn on the planet to drop what they were doing and come free him. They knew that they could kill him, because they had done it before, and now they could make it stick. There simply isn't any possible benefit to containing Dumat. Yes, the Wardens will sometimes spare exceptional darkswpawn in exceptional circumstances, but those were all cases where that individual was worth more alive than dead. But, more than that, there isn't any reason for them to have kept him alive. We do know that they killed him at least once before they figured out that his soul can transfer to other darkspawn bodies, so they would have at least one archdemon corpse to make the first Wardens with. It doesn't seem very likely that Dumat is alive.
Dumat was in fact killed twice remember, it was killed by a non-warden first.I still think that Dumat is either killed for good, or the warden's fearing the might of it, opted for another solution- i dunno how to put it in words really. That's audacious and holds little merit in my opinion XD. Confined it possibly, under some magical (blood magic) bond so powerful. But, Dumat not being killed is nothing new, and personally I think the Warden's didn't kill it, but somehow trapped it. Well, Gaider did mention that the blood of an archdemon is not necessary, that although it's usually used, they can also use darkspawn blood. because from what i understand when an archdemon is killed his essence ( soul maybe ) passe into the nearest darkspawn but what of his former ( now dead ) body ? does it disappear ? ( what i think happen is that the first time they "killed" him his "soul" passed as normal and the blight continued on but the proto warden took his first ( corrupted high dragon ) body and thus performed the true joinning on themslve and when they cought him the second time they did killed him for good ! what do you think do you agree/disagree or do you have another theory/opinion ? ( i welcome all argument but only if they are done in respect of your fellow poster ! BULLY KEEP OUT ! ) DragonInquisitor ( talk) 17:15, (UTC) I must confess that i became a bit obsess with that and after following a refresher course in dragon age lore i've come to the conclusion that i must disagree with that. Some time ago i've read in another post ( i dont remember which ) that some peoples theorized that dumat ( the first old god to rise as an archdemon ) had not truly been killed, they said that since the grey warden of then had not been "true" grey warden ( since they did'nt have a drop of blood from a previous archdemon to make the "real" joinning that mean that they had not truly killed him. Do not continue it unless it really needs a response. It is considered archived - the discussion is over. Note: This topic has been unedited for 3001 days.