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

My Inquisitor wanted to keep the Inquisition running, because she thought she could use it to make the world better. But with the threat of Solas' plan and the presence of his spies, she had no other choice but to disband.

this art is by mosh-da on tumblr ( ->>  link  <--) and it is everything to me???? holy crap

Nice art! Cool idea for sword and board Inquisitors, but my double daggers rogue is still struggling with how to safely fight with only one arm.

Also, I really hope there will be a way to change the Dread Wolf's heart without having to kill him or be killed.

 

Who says mages need to use staves anyway? We know from Origins that wands exist.

Definitely. While the skill will be difficult to learn, we see mages turn thier bodies into unnatural shapes all the time in this setting (shapeshifters) and we know they can turn back into regular bodies. Magic can generate matter out of not-matter and can easily change the form of either the mage or other people (ex. Zinovia). Hell, I wouldn't even put it beyond the realm of possibility that a genuine stone statue could be turned into a genuine artificial human if a mage had the knowledge and right components. They would basically be more advanced golems. It wouldn't be easy (and not within the realm of possibility for modern mages), but I think it would be possible.

But in all seriousness, if you take the petrify spell description as canon in the setting (which specifically says "The caster draws from knowledge of the elements to turn the target into stone"), then we technically see people turn into stone and back again all the time in DAO. Even if the spell is only temporary. So in the strictest sense I think yes, stone can be turned back into flesh.

But I am assuming you are asking more in the context of Solas's petrification of the qunari. In which case a better question would be: "Is it possible to revert the victims of Solas's advanced petrification spell into thier original selves?". In which case I would say "Probably. Depends on the circumstances". Because while I believe (re)turning-stone-into-flesh is possible, I think there would be other factors at play as to whether or not a person would make a full recovery.

For instance, say a stoneified person is indeed turned back into flesh. Well is that person still be alive? I can see a statue like Zinovia potentially becoming a full person again, but for the others? If they are not reached in a short span of time, or thier soul do not remain bound to thier body, then they are probably dead in every sense of the word--even if you do turn them back into flesh. Or possibly reduced to gibbering meat husk with the mind of newborn.
 

I think we have to keep in mind that we don't really know whether petrification by this spell equals petrification by another spell. The result may be similar only on the surface.

For example, we could talk with MOTA pirates or Eleni Zinovia - while the Qunari turned to stone in Trespasser don't appear to do that. That's not to say that they can't be de-petrified, but maybe because they've been affected by Special Evanuris Magic (TM) the only way to de-petrify them is to use Special Evanuris Magic (TM) again.

Anyway, my crackpot hypothesis about what Solas did is that he technically didn't turn them into stone - I think he might have evaporated or severed person's spirit from their body, and all that remains is a physical shell returned to its basic component, more precisely - the stone... or perhaps even the Stone.

The way that he was written was very poor. It's like they're running out of ideas so they decide to make Solas another Corypheus 2.0. That is very lazy if you ask me.

Hands up anyone else who pictured Solas with Bob Ross' afro?

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