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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 1:02:40 GMT
I dunno, but what if SALOS succeeds!?!? lol What's the joke? Why is he called SALOS?
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Jan 9, 2018 1:04:38 GMT
If you bring Solas to Redcliff and talk to him in the bad future, there are quite a few parallels going on, and he seems particularly excited about the time travel idea... Dorian: "The spell Alexius cast displaced us in time. We just got here, so to speak." Solas: "Can you I reverse the process? You I could return and obviate the events of the last year last thousand years. It may not be too late."
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Jan 9, 2018 1:11:22 GMT
Ah...good times.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 1:15:22 GMT
Can you please be more specific? I cannot read every post in the entire topic to find it.
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Jan 9, 2018 1:17:52 GMT
Can you please be more specific? I cannot read every post in the entire topic to find it. "after giant meteroic balls of fire killed off pretty much the entire army of the Tevinters and the Qunari the giant figure is revealed to be Solas but is called and calls himself Salos
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 1:22:08 GMT
Can you please be more specific? I cannot read every post in the entire topic to find it. "after giant meteroic balls of fire killed off pretty much the entire army of the Tevinters and the Qunari the giant figure is revealed to be Solas but is called and calls himself Salos
" Pfff... Doesn't matter what he calls himself. Sera will have his breeches. And then nobody will take a guy seriously who is raining fireballs onto the field in his small clothes even if there are lots of fireballs.
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Post by Hrungr on Jan 9, 2018 6:42:06 GMT
I think it'd be interesting if Solas partially succeeded. Say he starts bringing down the Veil, but through the actions of the protagonist, they're able to contain it to a region the size of small country. Then it becomes a place you can go to and explore it all it's Fade-y glory, but also leave. It could effectively become a nation of its own.
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 9, 2018 6:57:28 GMT
I think it'd be interesting if Solas partially succeeded. Say he starts bringing down the Veil, but through the actions of the protagonist, they're able to contain it to a region the size of small country. Then it becomes a place you can go to and explore it all it's Fade-y glory, but also leave. It could effectively become a nation of it's own. Like a reverse Spellplague.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jan 9, 2018 8:37:16 GMT
My crackpot theory right now is that Solas needs the Veil gone to go back in time. It fits too perfectly and we already know that time travel is possible when the Veil is weakened (or gone). That would certainly explain why this world "has to die". Your ideas has reminded me of something. Probably not many will get this reference. In Star Trek Voyager there was an episode called the Year of Hell with the main villain called Annorax. He had created a time warp weapon which had accidentally destroyed his species' Empire, but he had kept control of that weapon and he kept reshaping the galaxy in the attempt to bring back what was lost. These modifications were causing him to wipe out entire planets and populations, each time reshaping history. His main argument being that if he changed history than those species would never have existed thus it was not murder. Many worlds 'had to die' too for the sake of restoring his own history. If anything along these lines happens I honestly think I will abandon the franchise altogether. I HATED the time travel aspect of Hushed Whispers. It was poorly explained and pretty much justified by "it's time magic, go with it". Dragon Age is not Dr Who. One of the good aspects of the setting was that magic had limits to what it could do. Originally breaking into the Black City was the ultimate length to which magic had been taken with dire consequences because of the way it tampered with reality: "Violently were they cast down for no mortal may walk bodily in the realm of dreams." Then we discover that there was a time when there was no Veil and we have walked bodily in the realm of dreams with no harm whatsoever. We have travelled forwards and backwards in time, whilst Alexius managed to change time in just one small section of Thedas whilst the rest of us remained unaffected. Finally Solas reveals that he was the person who created the Veil and changed reality, yet no one remembers this world changing event (except perhaps in a few Avvar folktales). It has gone from a magical world but grounded in reality to something where anything goes if the writers say it does. I thought the overpowered magic of D&D was what they were trying to get away from but after the revelations of DAI and its DLC there is really no turning back.
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Post by Fredward on Jan 9, 2018 12:15:44 GMT
My theory is that Solas needs to destroy the world/existence not just because he wants to then recreate it or level the boundaries for the kind of beings the elves originally were but because the Blight is more than just the darkspawn, that they're just one vector the Blight spreads itself but that ultimately it's more fundamental and it requires a hard reset to get rid of it.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jan 9, 2018 12:20:03 GMT
I want Solas to succeed in bringing down the veil, but then fail in everything else.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 12:20:25 GMT
My theory is that Solas needs to destroy the world/existence not just because he wants to then recreate it or level the boundaries for the kind of beings the elves originally were but because the Blight is more than just the darkspawn, that they're just one vector the Blight spreads itself but that ultimately it's more fundamental and it requires a hard reset to get rid of it. Yeah, well Solas can't be allowed to do such a thing. His world is gone. He needs to accept this before he kills another world with his foolish actions.
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Post by arvaarad on Jan 9, 2018 14:04:21 GMT
My theory is that Solas needs to destroy the world/existence not just because he wants to then recreate it or level the boundaries for the kind of beings the elves originally were but because the Blight is more than just the darkspawn, that they're just one vector the Blight spreads itself but that ultimately it's more fundamental and it requires a hard reset to get rid of it. Yeah, well Solas can't be allowed to do such a thing. His world is gone. He needs to accept this before he kills another world with his foolish actions. Ok, say he does that. What exactly is going to happen to the world when all the archdemons are dead? Between Blights, darkspawn are enough of a menace that the dwarves are almost completely wiped out. And that’s when most of those darkspawn are distracted by searching for the next old god. In his mind, he’s killing a world that’s already terminal, in the hope of recovering at least some life out of its death. There are repeated nods throughout elven history to Norse mythology, where apocalypses are a necessary step so the world can be reborn. Then Jaws of Hakkon went in and underlined that rebirth angle even harder.
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Post by coldsteelblue on Jan 10, 2018 0:57:12 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this? Seems like a pretty big easter egg.
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Post by Catilina on Jan 10, 2018 0:59:28 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this?
Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Perhaps, you didn't click on Sandal.
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Jan 10, 2018 1:16:53 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this? Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Since we're speaking of prophecies, we can't forget "The Tiniest Cave" "Pulling back the curtain. Let the light in. Let it burn." "He'll remake the world to suit his desires. His chosen to reign." Sounds rather familiar, no?
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Post by arvaarad on Jan 10, 2018 4:54:19 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this? Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Since we're speaking of prophecies, we can't forget "The Tiniest Cave" "Pulling back the curtain. Let the light in. Let it burn." "He'll remake the world to suit his desires. His chosen to reign." Sounds rather familiar, no? Worth mentioning that we thought Sandal’s prophecy referred to Corypheus at first. Though he’s certainly the most likely option, Solas isn’t necessarily the subject of the tiniest cave prophecy. There’s still the Formless One to account for, for example. Assuming Solas isn’t himself the Formless One, of course. There’s been a suspicious amount of buildup for that whole storyline, with the Forbidden Ones getting more and more prominent with each passing game.
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Post by Hrungr on Jan 10, 2018 6:43:21 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this?
Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Perhaps, you didn't click on Sandal. ... or click on him enough. I think that scene has something like a 1 in 100 chance of triggering.
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Post by coldsteelblue on Jan 10, 2018 11:14:40 GMT
Ok, why don't I remember this?
Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Perhaps, you didn't click on Sandal. All the time, I've completed each DA game multiple times...maybe I'm just having a moment. Ok, why don't I remember this? Seems like a pretty big easter egg. Since we're speaking of prophecies, we can't forget "The Tiniest Cave" "Pulling back the curtain. Let the light in. Let it burn." "He'll remake the world to suit his desires. His chosen to reign." Sounds rather familiar, no? Yup I remember that one, could be about either Solas or Cory Perhaps, you didn't click on Sandal. ... or click on him enough. I think that scene has something like a 1 in 100 chance of triggering. Quite possibly, I just honestly cannot remember that one, ah well, at least the internet is here to help.
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jan 10, 2018 23:30:05 GMT
It seems they're going for a synthesis ending for DA but with more set-up. So yes. This is what it feels like to me. I'm kind of cringing because I think a setting where everyone has magic is boring and the fact that not everyone in Thedas is capable of magic is something that endears me to the setting and sets it apart. But if they've had this in mind all along, I'm sure they're going somewhere with it... Of course, Solas could be a red herring. Maybe I just don't consume enough fantasy, but the current setup of DA, where magical ability is granted to a rare few, seems far more common to me. I would be way more interested in a setting where magic is something that anyone can have/learn, and how such a society might differ from the stock fantasy worlds with which I am familiar.
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Post by MediocreOgre on Jan 13, 2018 1:57:36 GMT
This is what it feels like to me. I'm kind of cringing because I think a setting where everyone has magic is boring and the fact that not everyone in Thedas is capable of magic is something that endears me to the setting and sets it apart. But if they've had this in mind all along, I'm sure they're going somewhere with it... Of course, Solas could be a red herring. Maybe I just don't consume enough fantasy, but the current setup of DA, where magical ability is granted to a rare few, seems far more common to me. I would be way more interested in a setting where magic is something that anyone can have/learn, and how such a society might differ from the stock fantasy worlds with which I am familiar. There are a decent number of fantasy games like elder scrolls, d&d spin offs and unique settings with d&d style rules (pillars of eternity) where magic is like intellegence or drawing. Practice makes perfect but some people/races are inherently better. Magic in blizzard products tends to be like that I believe too... but I have not played their games since they made strategy games. So if your interested I personally think the elder scrolls setting does the best in the lore setting up that type of world that I have seen but in any elder scrolls game lately you kind of have to do way too much homework and extra curricular lore reading to figure out what that setting is like because the games actively avoid lore based world building lately. Harry Potter rules, which is dragon age, seem to be more prevalent in YA fiction or fictional settings where magic is allegorical and kind of picked up in popularity it seemed like to me after HP and in fictional lit where they wanted to use magic as an allegory for social stigma. But even in the other type of universal magical aptitude the topic of magic is used allegorically too. especially in the elder scrolls. Magic is depicted as elf-y (effeminate) and manly men like the nords don’t use it because of fragile nord self image or something something god of elves’ boyfriend is the source of magic. Or something.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 13, 2018 2:50:53 GMT
In the WoT it's said that magic exists naturally, but only few can manipulate it freely.
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