[ darkspawn. not a particularly fun place to start, but he's the one who brought it up in the first place, anyway. ]

Darkspawn are.. monsters. [ there's just no way around it. ] They live underground, except when a Blight starts. Between Blights, sometimes they come aboveground for-- for raids, killing and kidnapping, that sort of thing. The only point to their existence seems to be to destroy everything. [ an uncertain pause. ] My people don't really have any kind of origin or explanation story for them, but I know the Chantry believes they were created when the Maker's holy city was corrupted. [ he'd cautiously agree with that, now, given corypheus. ]