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

I have a weakness for modern with magic university AUs. Give me those academic discussions by Solas and Dorian about their respective disciplines and elvhen history any day.

Haha, it's a little niche but I just read them in my downtime. No pressure. But yes, Solas-Dorian banter is so fantastically witty, snarky, and nerdy.

Gotcha. A post-breakup fic would be interesting, lord knows I've speculated on it a lot but I haven't the writing chops to make up anything substantial.

I haven't played ME:A, what happened to the fandom?

I get you, sad what happened tho I mean of course you should write/do things for yourself, but it's nice to know you're not producing in a void too. I was thinking of getting MEA too after working my way through the trilogy, but it'll have to wait.



Yes. More Abelas content is always a yes.

Ah, good luck with your fics! Novel-length... that's impressive. I hope more people get into them...

I didn't even know there were Solas facebook groups We all slip on that egg sometimes, don't worry. Which reminds me, what option do you prefer choosing in Trespasser? Redeeming him or opposing him?

When I first played it I went for redemption, but I'm rethinking that choice now (both myself and for my Lavellan).

Thank you! I hope so, too.

Indeed there are! A lot of people don't even know about BSN, so of course they made groups for a ton of characters in various fandoms/main pages for franchises on FB, I'm sure they do elsewhere, too. I had to answer questions to get in, things like what other names is Solas known by.   I had a few extra ideas there, hahaha.

Redeem! Because I'm totally willing to let the world burn, hahahahaha - but I plan on having multiple playthroughs with both options because I want to see how both turn out; if, of course, Solas turns up in DA4 (he had better). I mean, I want my canon Lavellan to be willing to walk through fire to be with Solas because she's lost too much, invested too much into being that positive force in his life even while he slowly crushed her world - from her POV, it all has to be worthwhile, especially everything she did to save her beloved in the first place (and the angst between them made her that much more desperate to be together with him and act as the voice of reason and balance as she was able to do before, changing his opinions), so she would make an effort to save him (and the world if possible, but she's wounded enough that she might not care quite so much about that after everything she's been through and everything done to her). I like my PC's complex, hahaha. With my m!Lavellan I also plan to at least try to save him because Elvhen Glo--err, solidarity but he's my Dorianmancer and his view is that the world is full of crap but totally redeemable in a way that Solas might not be (he's dating a Tevinter magister, hahaha, it can't get much more twisted than that in his eyes), so I think if there's no ultimate save option I'd go against him... and I think my qunari characters, both male and female, will both go for opposition. From their POV, Solas is a hypocrite the moment he reveals this insane plan - he goes on about how qunari are bad because of this and that, and then he plans to destroy the entire world and everyone in it to "fix" it? Nah-ah, not convincing.

As I said though, my canon is redeem because...   Elvhen Glory!

Is the title's misspelling intentional?

Ultimately, I guess we'll have to wait and see what DA4 has in store for us regarding Solas, we may not even get a choice in the way we're thinking of it - I rather think we should, just considering that Trespasser set it up so neatly for us, but I would hate to find out that what we chose then and there essentially made the decision for us and we can't change it (but it would be typical of BW to throw us a wrench with "unintended consequences of your choices" - I mean that in the fondest way possible, of course, hahaha). I mean, when faced with the dilemma of total annihilation vs. everyone lives (except maybe Solas) I'm not sure how much leeway we have to begin with, I mean if Solas succeeds it's basically game over for us even if we run off into the proverbial sunset with him, we would have failed our task as Inquisitor (and they would have to design a whole new Thedas basically if the story even continued from that point onward), so I'm theorizing that the choice won't exactly come down to that... i.e. possibly Solas is doomed to fail in DA4 no matter what, the question is whether he's a boss fight or if he helps undo what he set in motion (maaaybe - despite his love for Lavellan, he's still pretty persistent about his plans).

Speaking of unintended consequences, there's also Mythal's ploy to contend with - and her essence stolen by (given to?) the Dread Wolf, it may have just been a power-up, BUT THIS IS FLEMMETH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. Unless she was cool with it and sacrificed herself so Solas could "avenge her" or whatever, I'm pretty sure she put safeguards in place to make sure it's not that easy... or it has a price he might be unwilling to pay. It would be just like her.

Also, there are still so many unanswered questions about the Old Gods, the Elvhen pantheon, the Grey Wardens and why Solas freaked out so much - there's something going on there, something we've tinfoiled plenty about but haven't satisfactorily answered.

So many questions!

I've said this before regarding both Mass Effect and Dragon Age - at some point the devs and writers have to just stop trying to cater to people who might be new to the series.  Trying to continue a character's story or build on the stories told in previous games is going to make new comers feel a little lost anyway and honestly new people should expect that when they're jumping into the middle of a franchise.  Unless its something like Final Fantasy where preceding games have little to no bearing on the current game.

I am always looking for new ones. Always

I've always wanted a game a game like that, hahahaha. But I understand why they wouldn't do it, it's a risky plot. Still, I've always loved DA for being much darker than most fantasy stories I see out there, and you can do a little world burning?

I'll be honest, the first moment I was faced with the choice in Trespasser, I immediately had a brief fantasy play out in my mind that went something like this: Solas fetches the Inquisitor sometime later when he's ready to do the deed, stealing her away from her castle, minions and friends, he takes her to a safe place where he's gathered those he wants to preserve in the new world and everything is washed away in fire and ash until the lands are restored to what they used to be during the days of elvhen rule. She mourns everything and everyone lost, but she is ready to reclaim everything lost by her people. Maybe, just maybe, she might convince Solas to similarly spare the other inhabitants of Thedas, thereby rendering his insane plan a little less terrible... I was seriously considering it for a while there, hahahahaha. I'm terrible, I know.

I remember this. I know they designed it in a way that newcomers could enjoy it as a full experience, but it was always implied that there's a lot of content there that you'll only really appreciate if you're already a DA fan, meaning you've played the previous games - or something along those lines.

Good, goooood. Soon I shall write something, then!

The Half-Life of Element Zero is a really good recent one. It’s so recent it’s still in progress, with fairly regular updates.

I’m in awe of how the writer manages to make such a challenging premise into a grounded, believable story.