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

Hey everyone, its been a little while. I'm lucky enough that today I'm going to Supernova, where the Gareth David-Lloyd will be attending. I'm pretty excited for it, gonna get my copy of Inquisition signed . If I hear something interesting, I'll definitely let you all know. He's having a QA today which I'll be sure to attend.

A leftover in-joke from this thread: bsn.boards.net/thread/13334/dragon-retribution-leak-discussion-thread

Thread Dad's waiting for the next big Solas thing to change it again, I think. lol

New art from Nipuni:

There's some lovely Solavellan fanart in the Unofficial Dragon 4ge Day twitter thread I started a couple nights ago, if you are craving pretty things to look at.

Yay! The seven DA fans who started it are hoping it will catch on and be like N7 Day but for DA. 

I think it's more of a well-accepted theory in light of lack of concrete evidence, save for Cole's cryptic comment in Trespasser:

"He did not want a body. But she asked him to come. He left a scar when he burned her off his face."

It's generally assumed that 'her' means Mythal (and that 'burning her off his face' means removing her vallaslin) - especially given Solas's comments about her, as well as evidence in the lyrium mine in Trespasser (containing ancient elvhen statues of Mythal and Fen'Harel) that he was once either her servant, bodyguard, an equivalent of Left Hand/Right Hand or collaborator.

We can't tell for sure... I mean, a portion of Cole's cryptic comments in Trespasser is 99,9% about Solas. They appear to be painting a certain picture, but since we don't know the full context all we can do is guess.

One one hand there's a record in Vir Dirthara in Trespasser that supports the theory that Solas, as an elvhen, was a spirit once - the codex mentions spirits being 'brethren (of the air)' to elves and they are indeed 'those who never manifested outside the Fade '. 

On the other hand - Solas mentions growing up in a small village and getting himself lost in the land of dreams in his youth. Thing is, that even if he did, that's not excluding the above. The reality is that we simply do not really know the process of how elvhen, well... get formed or born or whatevs. Do they just manifest in a fully-formed body? Do spirits get tied to a fetus and then get born and have a childhood similar to ours, save perhaps some sort of awareness that they were spirits once?

I genuinely have no clue ATM and I'm not sure anybody else does. So Feynite's idea about how Solas got born is located in a headcanon and speculation area, but it certainly wasn't pulled out of nowhere.

I think it's very safe to say that ALL elvhen - and probably all elves - have some sort of close connection to spirits. Solas appears to be a special case even among ancient elves though, given that even Evanuris propaganda we can find in Vir Dirthara mentions that Solas "knows much of the People and their spirits" - he appears to be either a learned scholar or somebody with deep affinity to Fade and its denizens... quite likely both.

I mean.. nevermind that it is implied that basically everybody has a spirit, be it elf or human or even dwarves (we see dwarven spirits in DAO). What's possible is that elves and elvhen may be closer to spirits than other races, for whatever reason (probably having something to do with the Veil).

Haha - well it is currently the SALOS thread... So go ahead.

Wow. Two years to do the voice work? I never realized it took so long.