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

“What was meant to happen?”
Inquisitor: What would have happened if Corypheus had died and you’d recovered the orb?
Solas: I would have entered the Fade, using the mark you now bear. Then I would have torn down the Veil. As this world burned in the raw chaos, I would have restored the world of my time… the world of the elves.

His look pinned her. "I have no choice. What I am doing will save this world, and those like you--the elves who still remain--may even find it better, when it is done.

Charter considered lying, but then she thought of Tessa, with her quick smile and strong hands. "There are those I care for who would not."

He smiled sadly. "I know that feeling well."

He's agreeing in this conversation that people other than elves might not like the world when he's done whatever he's doing. He's agreeing that humans might not find it better. This doesn't mean they'll all be dead. It means they won't like things. There could be a million reasons why they wouldn't like things after he's finished. Three I can think of off the top of my head are:

1) If elves are a lot more powerful because they're all magic, humans might not like having lost their dominance.
2) If he still plans to bring the Veil down, humans might not like having spirits floating around freely.
3) At least Genitivi and Divine Victoria already know that a fundamental belief of Andrastianism - the the Maker made the Veil - is wrong. How can their religion be the one true religion if they got something so basic wrong? Humans already don't like that.

But with his focus on recovering the red lyrium idol, do we know for sure that he plans to save the world by tearing down the Veil, or is he perhaps thinking of doing something to clear out the Blight once and for all? Maybe both things? Maybe neither?

Anyway, I think it's possible that BioWare's canon is that the Inquisitor befriended Solas, and therefore the Solas we see in Tevinter Nights is the softer, gentler person who sees modern people as people, rather than the hard asshole who does not. There is some craziness in Tevinter Nights, like "Fen'Harel cultists" taking suicide pills and stuff. Then in Deception, Gaius, an agent of Fen'Harel, was masquerading as a Magister and doing something which Nunzio de Filippes already confirmed Solas would not be happy with if he knew. I don't think Solas has absolute control over all these factions that are helping him, and I think Half Up Front sets us up for thinking the worst of him, but The Dread Wolf Take You shows us he's still not evil incarnate. Funnily enough, John Epler who wrote Half Up Front is open about disliking Solas, while Patrick Weekes, who wrote The Dread Wolf Take You, is open about liking his their sad elf. I think they're having some fun with it and with us fans, since they're good friends irl. And I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that Solas has continued to soften in the months or years since he left the Inquisitor in Trespasser.

Guess so. Though with everything else he said and what we know about the characters involved, I know I'm right. Otherwise either Bioware would have written him differently or suddenly the master wordsmith is completely imbecilic in expressing himself. 

Solas seems to be very much an "ends justify the means" person, so like other things I see him as willing to ignore that so long as it helps his goals. Just like how he has tolerated his radical forces despite wanting the last few years of this world to be peaceful.
Also I really hope the Blight wasn't caused by the Evanuris, since I don't want everything to be "because ancient Elves". 

He sees this world as a perversion of his world, so restoring his world is saving this world in his mind.

Please, my friend...