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

I'm well aware of this but you are missing the point. Shartan had already been erased from history at the behest of the Chantry for political reasons. One reference in the Chant they left in because it referred to the Liberator and without the Canticle of Shartan people would not necessarily connect it with the elven hero. Then the Canticle of Shartan is restored after some 800 years (This was originally the intension of Divine Justinia which is why Leliana still goes through with it, plus her own sympathies for the elves). So finally justice is done to Shartan, regardless of what the later elves did, but almost immediately the human scholars undermine his very existence, so the faithful can just dismiss his contribution to the success of Andraste as something the elves made up. I don't actually recall an instance of that occurring with a Catholic saint.   Normally it is the other way around and someone who has been worshiped as a saint for 800 years is suddenly erased from the calendar of saints because their existence can't be proven, for example Saint Christopher.

Shartan did exist. The spirit in the Gauntlet remembers him and its words about his dream for his people is consistent with what Gisharel said in DAO in the text about the Long Walk. Interestingly that is not the codex quoted in WoT about the Long Walk.

I can accept that World of Thedas is written from an in world perspective, so what I am doing is presenting the argument that I might give in world to one of those human scholars, although I acknowledge that linking him with Solas might not be the best move given current circumstances. Still the eluvians are known about thanks to the Inquisition. Apparently Morrigan and the Qun managed to get into the network and use them without Solas, so why not Shartan? That is the most logical explanation for how Shartan could have been credited with starting the revolt in so many cities at virtually the same time. Not many elves calling themselves Shartan as some sort of title but one elf using the eluvians.

Mind you, I suppose it could be a case of their overlords asking Shartan to reveal himself and the elves doing an "I'm Spartacus" type of response. Still when he turned up in Minrathous and tried to rescue Andraste, it would have been pretty clear who Shartan was.

I guess if there is one thing to look forward to, it's that our wolf boy is looking positively scrumptious.

The concern is over the official website. 

The world needs a New Hero.

It's not absolute confirmation, but....well.

What I don't get is, if they aren't involving the Inquisitor in any way, why is Charter (and everyone else, for that matter) still reporting to them? It makes no sense.

Incidentally I think that concept art of the Dread Wolf is awesome but shouldn't his wolf be black? Oh, wait, that is the romanced version.

I think it is safe to say that Fen'Harel is fully powered up now.  Sounds to me like he is not happy with the new PC.  Don't give much for their chances.    May be that is when the Inquisitor intervenes.

Yeah, that modelling ... not sure how I feel about it.  The mouth is too full but it's still noticeably Solas.  Also, that particular model makes him look ... younger? ... to me.

I can't remember off hand. I thought it was mentioned in that presentation on Trespasser and also possibly on Twitter and then repeated here but since I don't have a Twitter account I can't check this.

For me I don't need the Inquisitor to be the PC to have a satisfying resolution (in any direction) to the Solas-Inquisitor (romanced Lavellan and others) story. I don't think having the Inquisitor as the PC is a necessary prerequisite for that to happen.

So little has been said on the next DA game but I'm pretty sure if they'd officially announced that the Inquisitor would not be the main character it would have been all over this thread at least.  However, as much as I'd like to have the Inquisitor to be the one dealing with Solas, I'm fairly sure the next game will have a new protagonist. 

Regardless, Weekes has said (on some Twitter thread or other) that he wants to give the Solas-Lavellan romance some kind of closure.  Now, whether or not he'll be allowed to is another thing.