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

While Dalish clans differ wildly between one another, the above is not the impression one gets when talking with Lanaya in DAO. The way she mentions several times that she wasn't born amongst the Dalish hence she may feel different, are a first clue.

She was basically Zathrian's adoptive daughter and yet she tells us that becoming Zathrian's First was very difficult, as one not born of a clan. Then she tells us that Dalish have old traditions and that most believe they come from Dalish nobility, and that the Keepers of the clan have strongest and purest blood. So she had to work twice as hard and be better at everything compared to other potential candidates, because she was not of 'the old blood'.

So no, it's definitely not just because city elves 'stay being oppressed' (which... I mean, IMO, this is an awful reason to reject someone and doesn't speak well of the Dalish who do this) - or at least not among some of clans we meet. We should remember that the Dalish aren't a monolith and that they live in isolation both from the world and themselves, mostly.

No, the Arlathvens don't bind them all together - realistically, a day (or a few days) meeting every 10 years isn't much. Plus, it's noted in their own internal sources (codice available only to the Dalish HOF) that Arlathvens usually end up with a giant argument among the hahrens, and the Dalish joke that the reason clans go their separate ways is because their elders (responsible for keeping their lore and passing it to new generation) can't stand one another - from this we can easily infer just how much clans differ in their approach to own history and traditions.
We have no clue what contacts of Solas with clans looked like - his opinion about the Dalish as presented to the Dalish Inquisitor is what it is, but not only Solas is at the moment in life where he's distant, cynical and bitter virtually about everyone, his opinion about the Dalish specifically appears to be an aftermath of unknown amounts of time he has tried to contact them and seems to have mostly met rejection.

But in case we actually travel to the one Dalish clan we meet in DAI there is no banter or dialogue suggesting he just enters the camp and starts being rude or critical, or in fact tries to do anything for or against them as Inquisitor decides what to do. He keeps his mouth shut and observes.

The one time we hear him comment about a person from that clan is when we find the records from the Red Crossing and he mentions that Taven (when Solas speaks someone's name - save for Inquisitor, but we know why that is - it's usually an indicator that he recognizes them as people and Taven must have earned Soals's respect for trying to investigate on his own something from Dalish history) would want this to be delivered to his clan.

Also, we cannot forget that he isn't only basing his opinion on personal experience, because we know of at least one of his agents, and that agent hasn't just pretended to be Dalish, but also had complex relations with at least one Dalish clan. Felassan, anyone?

Aaah, that brings me back    My mum used to sing me this when I was going to bed as a kid. I love this song (from the childrens' film Ronja Rövardotter), and Jonna Jinton is awesome!

Makes sense I suppose. Alienage elves can use the term for human wannabes, too. They just differ in who they apply it to.

That one is indeed very funny.


If we're posting videos, I found this one yesterday.

I just realised something when checking information about the Keepers in the Old Dales that came with the High Keeper robes. They are the robes of the high priest of Elgar'nan and yet I nearly always give them to Solas to wear, which he must absolutely hate. No wonder he ditched them after leaving the Inquisition.

That from the Bioware 25 years book?

 by Solas.

Operation Dance Off is a go.

I think it'll be an option, in at least some capacity. I hope it is, anyway.