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

nothing irrefutable springs to mind, and I'm not sure I have a binary opinion one way or the other, but I offer the following points for consideration:

- most of the statues and murals of him we see in the game were made by post-Fall of Arlathan elves who we now know believe/d some erroneous things about the Creators and Fen'Harel, or by followers of Fen'Harel in his pre-Veil activities, who would be invested in the idea of their leader as a powerful figure and their rebellion propaganda ('another story written in desperation to give me more credit than I ever deserved'), i.e. iconography. There's one possibly-drawn by the man himself-mural of relevance (beyond the obvious wolf iconography in the skyhold rotuda that he does) and its the Check Out My Awesome Fursona one from Trespasser. the scrap of writing from the qunari agent describes it as an excavated mural, believed to be a self-portrait by Fen'Harel. emphasis on the believed, and that this is the opinions of the qunari who came across it [?] The question of course is, is he literally able to transform into the creature? or is it symbolic and represents abstract concepts to him of the way he's seen by his enemies and his followers, of the mantle he's taken on and the role he thinks he has to play, and his burden (both pre-Veil and now)? elsewhere you can see him in murals wearing the skin of a wolf like a cloak. that imagery always spoke to me of the mantle and burden ideas. course, why not both?
- the rare art of shapeshifting survives in corners of Thedas even today. it wouldn't be far-fetched that he's able to shapeshift. shapeshifting as a magical skill is known among some of the Dalish, Mahariel can tell Morrigan some Keepers are able to do it. or morrigan tells mahariel that. whatever. anyway they preserved that ancient skill magicness from somewhere (ancient elven magic)
- I have a pet theory that all the Evanuris were able to or regularly transformed into dragons, and were shapeshifters in general.