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

More random questions!

There have been discussions about only Lavellan being able to romance Solas. I think the general consensus for those that are okay with that, is it being due to a vague background connection, yada, yada, elf-y stuff.

Well, my questions are this:

If the Inquisitor was an elf, but not a Dalish, do you think she would be able to woo Solas like Lavellan did?
(This question only works for people who are accepting of Solas only being open to Lavellan.)

And

If your Lavellan wasn't the Inquisitor, would Solas still have fallen in love with her? Say she was a companion instead of the leader. Certain aspects about their relationship would change and Lavellan might not have the same opportunities as the Inquisitor. Solas's initial interest in Lavellan was his mark, too, and (my speculation) her ability to use his power for order and good.

Solas is rich! 200,000 gold rich. Holding out on us, tsk tsk.

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How many of you found the way into the vault in his hidden armory in Trespasser? I had seen the glowing chalice through the grate but not realized you could actually break in.  

Solas is rich! 200,000 gold rich. Holding out on us, tsk tsk.

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How many of you found the way into the vault in his hidden armory in Trespasser? I had seen the glowing chalice through the grate but not realized you could actually break in.  

Well, and it's not like Solas didn't travel with my Lavellan for a year and witness her picking locks left, right, and centre. Still, she did not do the Spoils of Desecration quest and she did do the rituals at Mythal's Temple, so I think she probably wouldn't steal from the forgotten mountain ruins where Fen'Harel seems to have had a stronghold.
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She did complete the puzzles to get the "You're Fen'Harel" ending 'cause she's clever so she might have already figured out who Solas was by the time she found the vault, anyway. So yeah, not touching it. Also I just checked - just after fighting Ataashi, Faolchu Ban had over 113,000 gold. ^-^

I think I did once maybe?  But some of my characters had over 500k, even after buying pretty much everything for Skyhold and most of the schematics I could find (before the Golden Nug).  There was a thing with the Descent DLC where the merchant there would pay a lot more money than anyone else for vendor trash.  I had not actually realised this, I simply thought the DLC was giving a lot of gold for some reason.  Then they fixed it and I was like, "Oh, that was a bug.  Darn it."

I've never used mods for my DA games! Too worried about messing things up. I used to mod skins for The Sims, though, many moons ago.

I've never used mods for my DA games! Too worried about messing things up. I used to mod skins for The Sims, though, many moons ago.

I've only used mods in DAO ... and was severely disappointed with most of them.  The item mods were fine, the "story" mods were the terrible ones.  DA2 didn't seem worth the effort to mod and in the beginning DAI was difficult so I just never bothered.

And most of the time, yeah I'm too concerned it'll mess up my games/saves.

I can't play without mods, honestly. I need my clothing/texture and hair mods, and various other mods that make crafting supplies less painful to collect. I also have the one that lets you run crying to Cullen after Solas, but I've never been able to use it comfortably; my Lavellan's heart belongs to Solas and no one else.

I would say that one of my DA wishes (aside from a good resolution for Solavellan) is for Bioware to open their games up to modding. It has really increased the replayability of Skyrim, so I don't understand Bioware's (or perhaps it's EA's) opposition to it.

If it's a technical limitation and not due to management decision, and the devs are actually open to mods, that's good news. Still, I won't get too ambitious, if we even get the Black Emporium early, that would be an improvement from DAI.

so before this I hadn't thought about this particular choice too hard when it came to my Inquisitor, I mean I had a fair inkling of what she would be inclined to do, but I also kind of had this vague unconscious notion that if I thought about it there would be a way to make things 'fit'. with the next DA game so far off, when Trespasser was released I didn't feel a pressing urge to make my 'final decisions' about choices I wasn't sure about from DA:I, to shore up my canon in preparation, etc. I think with the ME:A dlc announcement my brain is shifting back into DA gear.

hence -

I replayed Trespasser for the first time in ages today, with my canonquiz (a Solasmancer), and played the final conversation out a bunch of times with the different options and responses.. (here's me, the player, who thinks Solas is flawed but enjoys him as a character, and me the fluffernut, that just wants all my OCs and the friends/people they care about to be happy). and I'm like :D8: because no matter how I play it out with her, no matter what angles I try to look at it from, no matter what olympic-level gymnastics twisting I try, I don't think there's a way I can make Try To Redeem Solas fit her character. there's no way I can see, no way of twisting or cutting down or stretching or reframing, to justify it within the parameters of her traits and views. I think I've concluded that not only would it be an OOC move for her, it would be completely antithetical to who she is - like irreconcilable? its a square peg in a round hole, even with her character development arc. consequently I am cursing myself and like, deeply regretting my character-building choices DA4 is going to be a painful feelsfest regardless but especially so cuz of this for me. :sob: :sob:

time to make a new, different secondary Solasmancer so I can comfort myself with the alternate universe series of events in a subsequent playthrough.. :poop: