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

I agree that based on how Solas reacted to and what he said about the Blight (especially 'the Blight is not something one smugly outsmarts') doesn't position him as someone who'd just then... use the Blight. But the truth of a matter is that we don't even know what the Blight is and what's its relation to everything else. So the answer to the question of whether Solas would use the Blight may be... complicated.

I don't personally think that he would. But IF it turns out that what he actually fights IS the Blight - maybe it requires to do things that will ultimately expose him to its corruption.
Everyone has a spirit. Everyone. You yourself note that the question about mind, morals, and... spirit is one he asks every Inquisitor regardless of race.

Andrastians believe that everybody houses a spirit too. We also literally see dwarven spirits in Deep Roads in DAO. Also - at some point in banter Cole directly calls Cassandra 'Faith' (Solas also asks - is Cass defined by her cheekbones and not her faith?).
Was that also why the Veil was lifted? Or was it a desperate act to try and save the world? I don't think it's the Pride demon that drives Solas - I think it's something that he perceives as a duty or responsibility and that responsibility is simply bigger than any individual, his love for Lavellan or his own integrity. But to do so requires detachment from his feelings and this is where both his potential downfall and his similarities to hardened Leliana start - and pride doesn't drive Leiana as much as loss of faith in not stooping to the level of methods employed by Corypheus or Venatori in a fight for survival.

What was it that Solas said about Leliana on the balcony with human Inky? Ah, right: "Leliana has a brilliant mind, but her faith was damaged. For her, it is all a game of tactics now".

PROJECTION MUCH, SOLAS?

Solas is as complex as any other non-spirit humanoid entities and I think his issue lies more on side of erosion of trust, hope, faith, especially in others (and his own feelings on the matter!) rather than an excess of pride.
I'm not sure I buy this idea. Like, he may still summon all the elves to accomplish something with that (whether it's really him remains uncertain), but I think he abstained from blood magic all this time for specific reasons that have something to do with achieving his goals later on.

I think he mostly doesn't want Lavellan to see the disappearance underneath the mask of Fen'Harel and thus the destruction of who he was as a person - as he stoops below his moral standards and ignores his feelings and how it ultimately breaks him.

I think we're in agreement here, just expressing it different ways. The Dread Wolf is part of Solas, and it's the part that lets him carry out his perceived duty even when other parts of him shy away from what he feels he has to do. They're not separate beings. It's like a law enforcement officer putting on a game face while they're on duty so that they can handle the situations they find themselves in. At home they are a completely different person.

It's Gareth David-Lloyd, yes - same voice actor. He's purposefully making Solas sound tired/injured/stressed in some other way for the teaser.

Also, welcome back, Drosophila.

It's been a while since I posted art...

Anticlimatic Truths by LiliumSnow


MHW Solas by nipuni


entanglement by nipuni


Welcome back by nipuni


elvhen academics by nipuni


Nerin and Solas by nipuni


Avira and Solas by nipuni


Fenharel ma ghilana by nipuni


fen_harel_ma_ghilana_by_skawly


Dread Wolf Falls by LinnSo

Yeah I laughed at that one pretty hard. The paw prints on the feet haha.

Okay, here's a little theory. I recall (vaguely, a LOT of speculation happened since the announcement) some people theorizing that the pattern on Solas's robes is significant, in it that they closely resemble those little reddish elements surrounding the 'sun' at the center of the mural.


I have to admit, that through all this time, I identified those little reddish figures as... spirits. A lot of them, including those well-defined and fairly strong, are reddish (red is not just a color of the Blight ), glowing and basically a hovering torso with a head and barely defined upper arms.


So... what if this isn't really supposed to be a pattern (it isn't even distributed evenly on the robes)? What if those are supposed to be spirits and they are contained within Solas?

After all, he does have this curious banter with spirit!Cole closer to the end of the game:


Given that it's theorized that the image from the announcement is supposed to have a double meaning - and I tentatively agree - one can interpret this in two ways:
1. Solas is boosted by the power of spirits he harvested
2. Solas contains these spirits to protect them from surrounding mayhem

Well, Solas does seem to play a very high-risk game... Alternatively, 'every other alternative was worse' or the like.

On a fun note, I paid for a commission or two (for a good cause because she's trying to move and I'm a sucker for artistic gamer girls who want to chase cross-country dreams.) Behold, my Mythanna Lavellan and a character I once LARPed in my younger years. The artist is destinyapostasy.tumblr.com

Ugh.

I really don't want to have to rely on Morrigan to get things done again. 

Same here really.  Although to be fair, I liked her a great deal more in Inquisition than Origins.  She was less of a condescending know-it-all bitch.  I mean, yeah she was still kind of arrogant but she does have a great deal of knowledge (Solas is like that too) but in Origins she really lacked compassion.

If she's Flemeth's "heir" then we'll likely have to deal with her on some level, especially if the Well is going to be of any importance (and she's the one who drank from it).

And now for some reason I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a friend of mine.  He was bashing on Alistair and cooing over Morrigan and I said that he only liked Morrigan because he could almost see her tits.  My friend simply said, "Yes."  I don't even think he was joking.  *rolls eyes*