What in the FRELL is going to happen next?((Trespasser spoilers))

Didn't you listen to Solas? The Evanuris weren't gods, just extremely powerful mages.

That said, I get what you're saying. Fen'Harel is arguably the most powerful being to yet appear in the Dragon Age series. He can kill with a thought. If we're to successfully oppose him, then we're going to need some pretty potent magical protection.

Plus he clearly took Mythal's power. So, for argument's sake, he's as close to a god that exists in the world, so that's how I'm going to regard him. Cold blooded knife-ear SOB.....:::trails off into curses in three languages::::

I can't....not for a while. I just spent the same time as watching all of Babylon 5-a epic story BTW, as playing a game,and then another 80-100 hours playing the first two. I'm taking a week off from games to clear some crap on my DVR, then it's time to either do ME 1-3, or just 2 and 3, before Andromeda comes out.

I honestly wonder at how Fen'Harel is going to be defeated. Assuming the next protagonist is from Tevinter, that still leaves how anyone can stop Fen'Harel when he possesses the power to turn someone into stone. I suppose the redemption angle that the Inquisitor can pursue would make a lot of sense when you consider that there doesn't seem to be a logical way to actually kill him (a small force of Qunari warriors were all defeated by Fen'Harel, so it's not as if he has a problem dispatching a number of enemies all at once).

I think we're more likely to imprison him than kill him, as he did with the Evunaris. Or what the Wardens did to Corypheus. Hell, he says practicing blood magic would interfere with his Fade-walking... so I wonder if the trade-off for defeating Solas would be some kind of mass blood sacrifice?

Alternatively, he may sacrifice his own life if we convince him he's in the wrong.

Or perhaps it'll be a Cole situation, and the result will depend on whether he considers himself more of a god or a man.

Ohhhh I really like this idea. In the Twitter thread a few pages back I was also floating the idea of having a new PC for most of the game but also controlling your inquisitor to make major decisions for a smaller part of the game -- maybe 10-20% or thereabouts. You could even play your protagonists against each other -- for example my inquisitor would probably opt for the mass blood sacrifice to kill Solas whereas I could play my new protagonist as trying to redeem him to avoid the sacrifice. Or vice versa! That could create a really interesting RP tension for the game.

I also suspect it'll wind up with Solas being de-powered in the end, very likely with Morrigan taking on her mother's power.

But I suspect there'll be a catch. Maybe we stop Solas during some critical juncture in his plans, and the Evanuris are set free.

I also kinda want to see Solas partially succeed. I think it'd be interesting to have a (contained) region on Thedas where the real world and the Fade have all blended back together.

Do you think we'll see Sandal again...? I kinda hope we do, but from the way the Devs were talking it doesn't sound likely.

Merge the Fade with the entire world? Seems unlikely as there's still plenty of it we haven't explored in-game yet. But a contained region? I can see that.

Btw, is it still unclear what did Solas do with Mythal/Flemeth in the epilogue ?

I don't think we've seen the last of Morrigan. Not only can she potentially drink from the Well but if Kieran is an OGB then he refers to her as "the Inheritor" who awaits the next age. Flemeth also referred to the Inquisitor as the "Herald of Change". So it would seem the plan by Flemeth was to get Solas to restore the world to what it should be, deal with the Evanuris and then Morrigan to take over control, having inherited the power that Flemeth sent through the eluvian before Solas arrived.

Well, if there's a range limit, or if he doesn't have any anti-stealth measures, you could just kill him with a crossbow. (Fuck help you if the first shot misses, of course.) But that's more something that would work in a tabletop game than something the devs would actually do in a video game.

You might already know this, (I know there's others on this thread who do) but last time the final boss in a Bioware RPG had a petrification ability, the PC was still alive after being hit with it despite having no vital functions, and the spell could be reversed with no ill effect. I assume that neither is true here, but that is just an assumption, and one that might be wrong. If it is, that might be related to how we beat it. (Though it wasn't last time; Heurodis sacrificed her petrification ability for control of a powerful artifact that she'd hoped would grant her world domination. It hardly seems like Solas needs more power, though. Although maybe he loses the ability due to something related to bringing down the Veil?)