Solas: Marry, Kill, Both

Both is good...

Or neither?

LIKE LAMBS TO A SLAUGHTER!

I am more ambivalent.Not sure what I want to do with Solas yet.

With respect to Solas, I think there’s a very sharp divide between killing one to save many, and killing one to potentially save many.

The first is a very easy choice, but it only exists in the world of hypothetical trolleys. Usually the info is nowhere that complete. Even killing a proven murderer may not save people’s lives, because it helps reinforce a norm that killing is within the range of acceptable things to do. In countries that treat killing as so deviant that even the state can’t do it, murder rates are lower.

Generally, killing paves the way for more killing. Any civilization that claims we need human sacrifice to keep the sun turning... is probably just trying to maintain their grip on empire. And yes, I realize the irony of bringing this up in the context of an RPG. The whole genre is predicated on the idea that human sacrifice (of the villains, at minimum) is necessary and will always be necessary. If there was a way to get that same fix of tactics and positioning in a peaceful game, believe me, I’d be all over that.

And of course, in a game world, we’ll have full information about what each choice leads to, eventually. I really doubt that killing Solas will result in positive change (the Fade has a habit of resurrecting spirits, and a spirit as infamous as the Dread Wolf would almost certainly come back Worse), but if it does, then my opinion on the ethics might shift. However, my PCs would still make choices based on past info, not future data that only I know.



All that said, he’s really not my type. So I guess I’d marry him to all those Lavellans he keeps gawping at.

kill

Another option would be having him to go through the joining to become a warden.

Neither if possible.

Marry. Duh

All jokes aside, it's hard to choose for me before I know all about his motivation. I genuinely think he is not the main threat. it's really not that simple and i'm loving it.

Like Loghain. When I played DAO for the first time (8 years ago, cough) killing him was not a choice for me at all- it was a given. he was the bad guy, betrayed my hero, because of him Duncan (the good guy TM) was killed and yada yada.
Now I look differently on his situation, it's not black and white anymore.

Whatever the case may be, I am sure either killing or letting him go won't be an easy choice for us, playing DA4. I think there will be revelations for both parties: those, who started the game with the intention of saving him, and those who just wanted to scramble the Egg.

I've always wanted a wolf rug without feeling bad about having to kill an actual wolf for it.

I voted for Both. My Inquisitors are pretty evenly split between Kill/Redeem, so I’ll probably try out both options in different PT’s. Even if the Inquisitor ends up having nothing to say about the fate of Solas, it is highly unlikely that all of my new PC’s will lean the same way.

I never understood popularity with "making Solas tranquil". Seems unnecessarily cruel to me.

Just kill him, if you don't see the appeal in redemption.

And that's if whatever he did to make himself immortal (or at least stop himself from aging at all since the days of Arlathan) doesn't come with immunity to it in the first place.