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

I have to agree with your point but disagree with your analysis here. Josephine doesn't pretend to not be Antivan or ruthlessly cunning. We can see her be the latter, though not liking to do it, and it's clear her being an odd one out compared to other Antivans is genuine. Her whole character is genuine to a fault which fits your overall analysis in another way. She hides her true self instead to serving the Inquisition and her family above her own self, hiding her true self behind the facades of heir and ambassador. It's a neat little opposite but the same, which also fits other parts of her like her being a main character but opposed to killing.

Ah..Sammies are famous for their adorable smiles. I would 100% approve of this.

'Companion' on his tarot card, though it's hard to say whether some spirit doesn't assume and reflects his alter-ego, thus also a spiritual companion as well as his fursona.

Not really. I'm using the word because it amuses me to call Evanuris/ancient elvhen animal representations 'fursonas'. I mean, it kinda fits, doesn't it? They can literally shapeshift to animal forms, or have furry "Fade avatars" of their choice 

Anyway - even the fact that there's a white wolf on Solas's romance card and depictions of both white and black wolf sitting around Fen'Harel's shrine:
...suggest that this is hardly a fixed issue, as to how exactly his fursona looks like. Clearly, this is about duality of Solas's nature (his 'dark, pragmatic Fen'Harel' side and 'Solas the Fade Nerd' side) and his deep internal conflict. The symbolism here isn't anything particularly subtle.

I've only recently elaborated on that point in my other post on the thread - you can reread it, if you're interested.

Nobody said that it isn't going too happen I think a lot of people expect some sort of fight with epic wolf, regardless of their views on Solas.

You know, I still remember how excited Mike Laidlaw was (when he was still in BW) when he's found this fanart - so much that, IRC, he's publicly asked the artist whether they can use it as some sort of internal reference:


That's not to say that this is exactly how things in DA will look like, especially that Mike is not DA's Creative Director or in BW anymore... but I suspect that the current DA team probably won't stray veeeeeery far from vision for DA4 they've had when Mike was still there.

Yyyyyup. I wouldn't say that this confirms anything, but at the very least it confirms the identity of the figure at the front (in case pose itself doesn't) and suggests the final showdown between Fen'Harel and Inky. I mean, I don't think they'd give us a new PC and they won't have a hand too - though that'd be kinda hilarious

Knowing what we know now, I think Solas was trying to offer a theory that would seem plausible but still vague enough that he didn't give too much about himself away.  Also, at this time our characters don't know that there's any connection between red lyrium and the blight.  We get an idea later on when Corypheus attacks Haven that somehow Corypheus is using red lyrium but I don't think there's any actual confirmation until we talk with Bianca.  Solas probably knows but as I said he can't really come out and say that without a lot of questions about how he knows.

What I find interesting is that red lyrium wasn't a thing until Hawke brought the idol up from the Deep Roads (I had to stop myself from typing Underdark lol).  What I also find interesting is that unlike blue lyrium, red lyrium can be grown from pretty much any living creature although I imagine it's the Blight that enables it to do that.

I generally agree that he's tried to keep things vague or make it seem more like 'oh, I'm just guessing *hard wink*' though it's still interesting that he "loudly muses" whether magic may have corrupted the lyrium, given that lyrium is pretty much literally magic.
He later call lyrium 'the source of all magic, save that which mages bring themselves'. So red lyrium is... er... an excess of magic? 

Perhaps what he means by this is that there's some sort of imbalance - that the blast of magic that ripped the Temple Of Sacred Ashes had enough force to shake up some sort of delicate internal structure that has left it wide open to either corruption or a positive feedback loop of doom.

Or perhaps it's a fact that large quantities of lyrium got exposed from underground? I don't really recall any significant deposits of normal lyrium anywhere close to the surface and the one dwarves mine and bring on the top has either already been processed or extracted, and thus separated, from its vein.

Perhaps this is also why Solas was in such a panic and haste to bury that ancient lyrium mine from Trespasser? Perhaps exposure of large quantities of lyrium, still attached to its source, could result with Titans (and whatever else is buried with them) waking up and potentially breaking their binds? But Evanuris got too greedy and wanted to mine more lyrium, thus exposing more of it to air/Fade, and thought less and less of risks that come with it?

Anyhoo, I've always found the lack of lyrium and continuous escalation of events (and past increasingly coming to haunt the present) as a sort of confirmation that things are coming to a head, and not just necessarily in strictly narrative sense. I still maintain that Solas acts as if he's running out of time before *something* happens, which is why he seemed to have hastened his awakening (despite waking from Uthenera still weak) and gave Corypheus the orb.

I'm not entirely sure they would - after all, look what happened to Sha-Brytol. They have literally lived inside a Titan (potentially ever since their ancestors have discovered it, which must've been a very long time ago) and revered it as some sort of divinity, yet the Titan didn't care about them. It only really cared about Valta, who herself had a strong Stone sense and was established as a character with strong will and solid moral backbone. She has also managed to reach its heart close enough to establish a connection.

That doesn't mean that those living in Primeval thaig weren't elves (or distinction between races may not have mattered as much at the time?), I just don't think that 'they couldn't be dwarves, otherwise Titans would reach to them' can establish that.

Maybe that was because they injected the lyrium and Valta didn’t? Maybe the titans don’t approve of it. I wouldnt if it was my ‘blood’. lol

And I didn’t mean that elves lived there, just that they were trapped when Solas separated the fade. They were starving and had to eat lyrium to survive, or so the codex implies. Ancient elven miners perhaps, bringing lyrium to the surface?

Perhaps the Scaled Ones? 

I don’t think that’s likely either. I was just thinking of other races we know lived underground.