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

I was super disappointed there wasn'the even a nod to the Dalish Cheerleader armor from DA:O.

It would be great to see Solar in something a little more...fitting to his station without going full Glitterati. As long as it's not brown or covered with dead animals, I'll be happy. I think we got the whole wolf thing, okay BioWare?

Do you guys have Solas playlists? Share a song from it and why it's on your list



Most of the songs on my playlist have a certain mood and this song fits it, plus the line:

Would sure make it easier for a lot of us to find him. Not even the magicks of ancient Elvenhan can hide plaidweave. lol

What was Solas' dig at Dorian? "I'm sorry, but I cannot hear you over your outfit!"

Especially in Tevinter's tropical climate, I'd imagine. lol


Well, if Vivienne and Dorian didn't have reason enough to help save the world (and punch him in the face) before...

I just heard a theory, that I really thought was awesome.

It is that Solas will succeed in removing the veil no-matter what, and then the next games are about creating balance in the world.

Now I so want this! I'm not into the "destroy the world stuff", but imagine that you were placed with the responsibility of creating a world that would survive the removal of the veil. And honestly after seeing the crossroads, i would love to see Thedas recreated.

Solas does predict that the world will fall due to the chaos, not that he will directly harm them in any way. And we all know that Solas's predictions are shit (sorry love, but they are).

song sharing time! I found this one while walking and shuffling radio songs on the way to uni, so naturally it took a while for my brain to load the lyrics. But then I did hear them.. and they were stupidly fitting, for my Lavellan at least.

(sorry I couldn't find a youtube link)


Funny thing is I was days fresh from finishing Trespasser

This one never fails to send me into Solavellan hellspiral.

This is one of the tidbits that came up in my perusal of the thread: does a spell end when the one who cast it dies?  If so, will the Veil catastrophically disappear if Solas is killed?

I admit to a certain amount of glee at the idea of people who want to kill him so badly making the removal of the Veil worse in doing so.

As for music, all BioWare games are musicals in my head. Typically one character ends up with the most "big numbers" and Solas was the winner this game, unsurprisingly. I already posted the Lavellan/Solas duet (Sweet Hell) earlier. This one I imagine him singing just after the Fade Tongue scene knowing Dorian can hear him.

Lyrics:

I'd laugh quite hard if it happened. 

Like "yaaas, we killed the bastard! But wait - what is happening?" and then there's this terrible realization when they put 2+2 together

Though IMO it's probably not that simple.... even if hilarious in such potential scenario. I mean, I'm fairly sure Solas is, in one way or another, a 'component' in the Veil, since he's its creator and it's very likely - based on what we know - that it was the creation of the Veil that has drained him so badly that he fell unconscious for millenia and awoke weakened just a year before Inquisition. So it has at least partial basis on his power, nevermind that he's the only one - or one of few - who knows how the damn thing works. It's also probably the reason why he tells Mythal that even though he should pay the price he can't do it because people need him. Question remains whether they 'need' him in a sense that he wants to dismantle it, or he has to continue living in order to maintain the Veil.

He is doing it so he can rebuilt the world. Things like the Vir'dathara, stabilizing the crossroads, restore elvhen immortality and magic. Spirits will roam freely again and everything that was used to create Arlathan will be restored. I don't think it has anything to do with awaking old "friends". And lets face it, whatever he has planned for the Evanuris, it isn't going to be pretty.

A couple of questions here. You know when we ask him if he is like Mythal and he says no, was there a degree of equivocation there? Whilst he has always been Solas/Dread Wolf what did he absorb at the end of DAI? That would suggest he is now more than the Solas of the time before the Veil.



This may have been asked previously but do you think this staff, Freedom's Promise, has anything to do with Fen'Harel? We have heard very little about Aldanon the Wise outside of the item pack for DA2 of which the staff was part. However, even the title given to Aldanon would suggest a person of whom Solas would approve. Also he would agree with the sentiments expressed by Aldanon after Calenhad stabbed him in the back (metaphorically speaking) and enlisted the help of the Circle with its Templars.

“A civilization cannot be civil if it condones the slavery of another. And that is what this Circle is! But by accident of birth, those mages would be free to live, love, and die as they choose. The Circles will break—if it be one year, a decade, a century, or beyond. Tyrants always fall, and the downtrodden always strive for freedom!”

The writers quoted a claim that Aldanon did not believe in the Maker, which may have been true but it is possible that in fact what he did not believe in was the Maker promoted by the Chantry. The Canticle of Shartan makes it clear that Andraste and Shartan united in the struggle for freedom, not spreading the word of the Maker and when advising Calenhad where to go for more help Aldanon sent him to the Ash Warriors. They believed in fighting for a just cause and were devoted to the Maker but did not acknowledge either the Chantry or the Chant of Light.

Having done a bit of research on the matter it would appear that up until Calenhad whilst the Circle was present in Ferelden it did not hold any political power, otherwise Aldanon could not have acted as freely as he did, seeing as he was a mysterious hedge mage from the Frostback Mountains. His dream was clearly to have a kingdom where freedom reigned and not the Chantry, which is why he was so incensed at Calenhad's actions. After that the Chantry grew in power across Ferelden and free mages were gradually hunted down with the approval of the king. I wonder if that is also how it came about that Calenhad's more dubious powers were whitewashed by the Chantry histories and instead they attributed his invincibility to a suit of magical armour crafted for him by the Circle.