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

I'm fascinated by Solas' pride and how it blinds him. And I agree with most of your points but the knowledge that he did whatever he did to Flemythal is something we players know, not our Inquisitors. The Inquisitors can maybe guess that something bad has happened to Mythal based on Solas' last, unfinished fresco, but it could also have been a depiction of the defeat of Corypheus' blighted dragon. After Trespasser they might clue in that the giant wolf in that fresco is not them but the Dread Wolf, but they still might not make the intuitive leap that the fallen dragon is Flemythal.

From what we saw in the DAI post-credits scene with Solas and Flemythal, I feel that she willingly let him take what he wants. Knowing her she has something up her sleeve and I'm not sure whether she is playing Solas or whether Solas is playing her. But I feel like it's probably Flemythal playing Solas. She has been active for centuries in the world he created, while he slept and could only observe conflicting reflections of the world through the Fade. He may be overlooking things because of this and because of his pride/sense that he's the only person who can fix things. Anyway, I think Flemythal has been playing a long game that is nearing its goals now and Solas taking whatever he took from her was just another move in her game. We know that she has survived apparent death before, plus Solas himself tells us that the first of his people are hard to kill.

My Lavellan (in my head) is not standing idly by waiting for Solas to have his way with things. Yet, because he showed time and time again that he is a compassionate person who does not, ultimately, wish to harm people if he can avoid it, she'd be actively seeking out a compromise that allows the Veil to be lowered slowly and with less catastrophic effects. If there is no way of doing that then she'd try to help him see reason or find out if there is some greater good  to be achieved by removing the Veil. (Like ending the Blight once and for all, though if that's the case it seems like it would have been something Solas should have mentioned to us in Trespasser.) And if that fails, and there is no stopping him other than by killing him, she would do that. But killing him would be a very last resort sort of thing. So, for me, I'll be really disappointed if there is no path to redemption for him in future DA games.

You're both in my head. Stahp.

I'm trying not to even think about it. There are so many potential routes DA4 can take, I'm actually trying my darnedest to avoid thinking too much about its details, PC included - yea, I speculate like crazy and I am certainly rooting for some things (dual protag, being able to redeem Solas without it turning into a disaster and imminent ugly sob-fest, etc), but try not to build an image of DA4 in my head, just in case the series takes a different direction.

It's not like I have massive problems adapting, but I try not to think too much about any upcoming titles either way. I did this for Andromeda and I do this for Anthem - although I naturally will be way more engaged with DA, given that digging into world of Dragon Age has been one of my fav pasttimes for a while now and it's hard not to be curious about what awaits us next.
Well, the writers certainly have feedback for their little experiment with Hawke now and can expand from here... Although, IMO, with Inquisitor's intentionally vaguer tones which allows for more nuanced characterization, I can't see them doing them justice without giving us at least some control. But hey - I'm not a DA writer. Maybe they know how to figure this out. 

Hmm, have I multiplied and was unaware? This is what I think as well.

I want to see them give us both options they gave us at the end of Trespasser. If they don't and my Quizzy isn't there to see it happen in some capacity  I will be more than just a little disappointed.

While I try not to get my hopes up about any particular story issue, there is one thing I am greatly looking forward to.

That egghead in glorious 4k.

I actually upgraded for Andromeda, so I'm all set. 

tfw
you're thematically regearin ur blog to slant back towards DA4 away from mea (rip...)


back into Solasmode and elf hell I guess

Not sure how they "hook wink" us - I think it's fairly apparent, at least from story that is available to us, that no matter what Solas thought of Mythal, he still fought against the institution of Evanuris. That's actually not so controversial. We have multiple characters who stand against institutions, even if they're not fully against them and have friends and allies there - Cassandra and Seekers or the Chantry. Or Leliana and Chantry. You can't forget that decision to form Inquisition made Cass and Leli to be named heretics and they'd remain so if Inquisition didn't turn out to be the one solution to existing problems. Same with Dorian - he's extremely critical of Tevinter and technically goes against its interests once he joins Inquisition, but he does so because he cares about the Imperium and he's fighting for what thinks is best for it (even if it means things have to change drastically).

And we have some hints that Mythal actually secretly supported Fen'Harel's rebellion - the Well did know the secret greeting known only to those the Dread Wolf trusted.
Solas has explicitly told us that he's formed the Veil because the Evanuris murdered Mythal.

Besides, just look at the post-epilogue scene - it's one of the moments where Solas is most emotional, near the edge of crying and the only time we see him readily seeking a hug from anyone (Lavellan usually has to stop him from running away first, lol). Mythal herself also sounds incredibly gentle and mournful. This is not a behavior of someone whose friendship was a ruse, even if that friendship in itself was complicated.

Contradictory in one way? Things being complicated? Friends being on other sides of the barricade? Isn't it sort of what happened with Solas and Inquisitor? Then why couldn't it have happened with Solas and Evanuris? In my opinion, it's possible Mythal wasn't his only friend among Elvhen gods. They all may have been comrades in an earlier war Solas has mentioned and he's trusted them... until it was too late. Hence his trust issues and prattling about how betrayal of an ally is always worse. Maybe it's even the reason why he seemed to have began openly opposing Evanuris only after finding out something they've been doing in the mine he's hastily buried or why he's formed the Veil when they finally went too far. He may have refused to believe that people the people he's once called friends will kill one of them out of lust for power. Either way, there's obviously more to the story that we yet see.

Some of us have never left Solavellan hell...heh.

kids I return to you from distant stars where I journeyed along the edge of light.. for a time, there was peace in my heart.

not anymore though I'm back to thinking about my Inquisitor and therefore feeling sad and anguished gee thanks biower

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