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

Okay, I tried to think about it. The Dalish myth has him as the "friend of the dead", the one who guides the souls from this world into another. This legend has to have some roots. Their Fen'Harel legend was basically true, it's just that the context was quite different. It'd make sense if something like this happened here as well.

Now to what Solas says about him - he started a bloody war to get more worshippers and kill those who opposed him, so Mythal was forced to rally the other "gods" to defeat him; he only gave up when he was "bloodied" in his own temple. So, he was arrongant, vain, stubborn.

Assuming both are true, the question is - how do we make that connection? How did he go from a bloodthirsty warmonger to the "friend of the dead"?

[wild mass guess appears]

So if we replace "death" with "uthenera", he'd basically be the god of uthenera. Did all elves, even the "slave" ones, know how to enter it? Because if they did not, they'd view it as someting otherwordly, like a resurrection would be viewed in our world. Now, if Falon'Din and his priests/followers had monopoly on guiding others through uthenera, he actually had a good way of persuading/blackmailing others to worship him for a promise of access to this ritual. And "guiding someone in uthenera" turning into "guiding the souls of the dead" isn't implausible.

Of course, the above is a wild jump of imagination that assumes that uthenera was there before the Veil among other things. Maybe he was just killing so much that people started calling him the god of the dead, and the "guiding the souls" part was simply propaganda.