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

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the only one that you can't skip is kissing him in the dream in Haven.  I don't remember any flirt option before that one affecting the romance.  If you don't flirt with him there you can't start the romance.

This is soooo my kind of humor!     

I've romanced him at least twice when I was still playing Inquisition and I know that I didn't pick the flirt option every time.  Flirts won't affect things as much as doing too many things he is really against; Cole.  Don't be mean to Cole. 

Hopefully someone who's had the romance fail can chime in.  My advice ain't so hot in that respect since I've never mucked it up. 

From felassan thread : they exist as long as you remember them. If the memories are strong enough, a slain spirit can be reborn. Worshipped evanuris would gain effective immortality in some way

Typing from mobile so i suggest you to check the amazing posts of drosophila & others there for more details on the theory

No biggie, we are all Solasmance-enablers here I imagine!

To continue this discussion, death to spirits isn't the same as death to mortals.  IF elves are spirits who took physical form then perhaps their energy can return to the Fade when they die but because they took mortal form they need help (?) ... or a guide.  I'm also remembering during Solas's personal quest where the Spirit of Wisdom asks Solas to guide it into death, almost like she needed help.

There's also the possibility as was suggested above that maybe Falon'Din and his priests were the ones who helped elves into uthenara and watched over them whilst they slept.  If I recall correctly not all elves were able to absorb energy directly from the Fade in order to keep their bodies alive and thus their bodies wasted away.  Maybe Falon'Din and his priests knew the secret to this and were the primary ones to teach the technique?

Lol

I shall answer with screen shots.

On the subject of Falon'Din, I think there are clues in the Song to Falon'Din in the Temple of Mythal:

The People swore their lives to Falon'Din
Who mastered the dark that lies.
Whose shadows hunger
Whose faithful sing
Whose wings of death surround him thick as night.
Lethanavir, master scryer, be our guide,
Through shapeless worlds and airless skies.

There is also the advice being given for exploring the Fade given in the memory in the Library, where it says you have to allow 10 years for practice and the next hundred for searching. It also says that using what others have learned will ease your journey. It also says that those who have never manifested outside the Fade will find it easier to find its stillest roots, but it is a rare compulsion that overtakes "our brethren of the air".

It is this quote that seems to suggest most explicitly that there is a relationship between the elves and the spirits of the Fade. I think Falon'Din was someone who had mastered travelling the Fade and so acted as a guide for others who wished to explore it. As people above have suggested, the Dalish actually teach that to enter Uthenera was a skill of Ancient Times, so before the Veil, where because people were ageless, they instead entered Uthenera where they could learn information to benefit those back in the Waking World. As with all the Creators, I think that originally Falon'Din was a benign guide and he worked with his brother Dirthamen to assist those who wanted to explore the Fade. One helped people on the Veil side, the other on the Waking side. Then as with the other Creators, when they became Evanuris they gradually became more corrupt and their actions became more sinister. The Dalish also believe the the older members of the community would go into Uthenera to make way for younger ones. It is easy to see how something that was originally a voluntary action, might have become forced by the twin brothers. Also that to preserve secrets and to maintain their hold on knowledge gained from the Fade, Falon'Din might have started to kill elves in Uthenera. Finally, obviously sometimes elves would die from violence and Falon'Din may well have guided their spirits when they entered the Fade. This would add to his followers, so obviously if he arranged the death of people outside the Fade, that would get him more followers within it.

So the mosaic depicts him as his followers perceive him rather than as Solas recounts his history, which was likely towards the end of his reign, shortly before Mythal's death. Obviously the mosaics were produced likely many thousands of years before this.

As for choosing Vallaslin, my female Lavellan was originally going to take Sylaise because she is meant to promote the Vir'Atishan (Way of Peace) but I wasn't sure about the vallaslin over the eye and eventually opted for Ghilan'nain. My male Lavellan was a protector of his clan, so naturally he took the vallaslin of Mythal but only beneath the eyes. (I have my own head cannon reason for the meaning behind this). He was quite gratified to learn from Solas that Mythal did indeed care for her people and protected them, even if he was slightly let down by meeting Flemeth and discovering that all his prayers to Mythal had gone unheeded. Even so, she did tell him he did the People proud and that gave him a great deal of satisfaction, particularly coming as it did after the rejection by Abelas. To his mind the endorsement of his goddess trumps the rejection of her priest.  Nevertheless he is rather relieved he didn't drink from the Well and thinks of Mythal more now as a sort of ultra-Keeper rather than a god, someone to try and emulate rather than worship.  He assumes she died in the protection of her people but he would appreciate having confirmation of that fact. 

I originally picked the Mythal vallaslin because it looks like a tree and my Lavellan is a very elfy elf (frolicking with the trees). Now knowing what we know, I feel like it's very fitting in the story. If I had known what the vallaslin mean and who they stand for, I would have picked Ghilan'nain for my Atisha Lavellan because of her white hair (like a Halla).