Broodmother
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| Affiliation: | Darkspawn | ||
| Rank: | Boss and Elite boss | ||
| Skills: | Gas Ranged Spit Scream Sweep | ||
| Locations: | Dead Trenches Kal'Hirol - Lower Reaches The Nest | ||
| Appearances: | Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening | ||
A broodmother is a giant, immobile ghoul capable of spawning darkspawn in a manner somewhat resembling an insect queen.[1]
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Background 
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Dragon Age: Origins revealed that broodmothers are created by subjecting females of the humanoid races to the darkspawn taint, possibly by being force-fed darkspawn tissue, though depending on how you take Hespith's poem, the point could be made that they "inject" the taint in different ways. If not killed outright because of the effects, the female then starts to mutate, develops cannibalistic urges and begins to feed on other sapient prisoners. She devours massive amounts of flesh and grows into a broodmother.
The race of the broodmother directly influences which kind of darkspawn she will give birth to. An elven broodmother will spawn shrieks, a dwarven broodmother genlocks, a human broodmother hurlocks, and a kossith broodmother ogres. Each broodmother is capable of spawning thousands of darkspawn.
Involvement Edit
Dragon Age: Origins Edit
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Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Edit
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Several broodmothers are killed by the Warden-Commander at the end of Last of the Legion in Kal'Hirol during Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.
The Warden later confronts the Mother, an intelligent talking broodmother. Abilities Edit
They seem immobile.
Strategy Edit
- See Broodmother (strategy) for details on fighting the broodmother in A Paragon of Her Kind
- See The Mother (strategy) for details on fighting The Mother in Depths of Depravity
Trivia Edit
- The Broodmother may have been inspired by the horror movie "Slither", in which women undergo a similiar transformation (swelling up) and breed more Slithers (Blood worms). It may also be insired by the "MOTHER" boss found on "Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil" which looks and moves very similarly to a Broodmother.
- There also seems to be a resemblance to the Spider Queen Centeol from the first Baldur's Gate RPG. The player character has to fight Centeol in the second Cloakwood Forest, and she very much looks like a Broodmother.
- The Broodmother's design completely mirrors Clotho a boss from the God of War series in terms of appearance, both are giant immovable monsters and the fact that the brood mother is associated with spawning monsters also reflects Clotho's powers to create new life as she is one of the sisters of fate.
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References Edit
- ↑ Gaider, David. "What do darkspawn eat?". BioWare Social Network. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
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