The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

Don't worry guys, I know who/what Solas really is as I've beaten the game with my mage, Natasha Trevelyan and my Warrior, Sophie Trevelyan. Natasha romanced Blackwall and Sophie married Cullen. It would have been the other way around but I didn't think it would be quite realistic for Cullen to entirely discard his Templar-Chantry anti-mage ways and thus he was better off with a mundane human warrior wife.

So, Sofie Lavellan is currently romancing Solas. I did "Into the Abyss" yesterday and am due to go into the Dales to do that part of the story and to rescue Solas' friend. Looking forward to seeing what, if any differences there are with him as a lover. So far they've kissed in the Fade but that's about as far as things have gotten.

Do you guys drink from the Well of Sorrows whilst playing as a Lavellan mage or leave it to Morrigan? In my Trevelyan files I left it to Morrigan, but this is different. Sofie is an elf and this could be huge for her elven heritage while Morrigan is a human and a selfish, not-inclined-to-share-one at that.

Hah ... uh, I don't have any eggs, tomatoes, or dynamite to throw.  What about nerf balls and comfy pillows?

I also think Thedas without a Veil sounds interesting and it's not so much his goal I'm opposed to but his method of achieving it.  If there was a way to remove the Veil without the massive amount of chaos and death Solas anticipates I'd be for it.  All I can really think of is to maybe gradually weaken the Veil over a long period of time until it eventually doesn't exist anymore, allowing time for the Fade and the physical world to slowly re-integrate.  But Solas doesn't seem to think that's possible OR he has some time constraints we're (obviously) not privy to.  Also, Solas says that a lot of people (or maybe even everyone) will die when he does what he's planning to do.  There won't exactly be much of a "Thedas" left afterwards.  It would be much more interesting to see how people adjust in their beliefs and how society evolves without the Veil.  That won't really happen if most/all people are dead.

I'm the opposite. My Lavellan chose to let Morrigan drink b/c too much was riding on her own shoulders for her free will to potentially be compromised. And I love the ability to poke at Morrigan about her now being forced to listen to her mother too much to pass it up. lol

Found another GMV

Whilst this sounds good in theory, surely that is what we were shown in the dark future of Hushed Whispers. There, if Solas is with you, he definitely confirms that the Waking World and the Fade have merged as a result of the Breach gradually widening. It hadn't resulted in instant annihilation for everyone but it certainly wasn't a good place to be. Maybe that was because Corypheus had recruited his demon army before it occurred and other benign spirits had been altered by being pulled through, so that is why everywhere outside of Redcliffe Castle was apparently rampant with demons, but it didn't bode well for a non-Veil reality.

So I'm not sure that a gradual transition would be any better than an instant one and possibly worse in the long run, which is why Solas had opted for the tear down option originally.

Except that the Breach was a violent explosion that fractured the Veil, creating rifts that forcefully pulled spirits into the physical world.  Also, the future of In Hushed Whispers was only a year or so ahead.  Not at all what I was talking about, which was a gradual thinning of the Veil over a long period of time.  I'm not saying it's the best solution, just trying to maybe think of a less destructive one than basically killing everyone.

If Solas could only "restore" elvhenan by sacrificing Lavellan would he do it? Is that what he is doing now? Or does he think the inquisitor will survive?

I don't think he's trying to sacrifice Lavellan specifically.  It seems to be more like he expects her to die as a result of what he's going to do because he expects most people will die, so it's not like he's targetting HER.  And he also expects the same thing will happen to any inquisitor, Lavellan or otherwise.

Edit to add:  Also, would Solas sacrifice Lavellan to restore the elves (if that's all it took)?  Probably.  And he'd likely hate himself for it but he seems to be a "good of the many outweigh the good of the few" type of person.

Edit #2:  I know I said Solas seems to be a "good of the many" type person, which (his current plans notwithstanding) as far as putting one person's life over several, is true enough I believe.  So he wouldn't put Lavellan's life over the lives of all elves.

I wonder if the presence of the Veil is also affecting his immortality? It was said that the Veil made Elves lose the immortality due to cutting of their connection to the Fade and I would imagine something similar is happening to him.

I'm sure he knows of other ways to be "immortal" such as
1. Merging his spirit with a person ala Flemeth-Mythal
2. Possessing willing hosts like what Flemeth supposedly does
3. Using a dragon as a horcrux like Corypheus did, which he probably got from the ancient Elves
4. The Zathrian method by binding a spirit

Perhaps he just chooses not to do some of those methods and probably want to be as much of "himself" as possible as all of those methods require another person/ being.

Then there's the question of, "What will he become?" Is this more a moral quandary, seeing him do something that essentially goes against the will of pretty much the whole of Thedas, or will he physically change into something monstrous when the Veil is removed or during/because of the process? Perhaps a bit of both, the physical reflecting how he feels about his actions?

Heads up everyone, soon it will almost be soon to be nearly soon.

::stares at the wall, sighs:::

Those are some bright eggs.