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

It's an ME/DA crossover then kind of....? The title threw me off, it literally says "Element Zero", hahaha. Oh, well, I withdraw my promotion, then.

This made me laugh

I'm not sure it's a question we can answer fully at this point. It's a piece of story that doesn't end on Inquisition, or its epilogue DLC.

Are you able to play the Trespasser DLC on your system? If so you'll understand why people are saying that in the DA4 section. But, as Midnight Tea says, no one really knows the answers to your questions at the moment.

We were just friends my blind first PT and I totally said it. In my first PT, he and Cole were my buds, and Blackwall my LI until his big drama played out. I mean, I said it with some doubt because Viddasalla seemed very confident he was a bad guy.

I also thought I was honestly going to die so swearing to hunt him down seemed a little over optimistic so I went with "I'll show you there's a better way" or whatever.

First play throughs are so great

But... as I recall nobody disapproves a friend telling that they still want to help Solas? That's just something Weekes injected last minute into the game for romance - an unexpected joke, like first-time romancer who picked Solas seeing "Beloved and Precious" achievement popping out the moment Solas dumps Lavellan

Anyhoo - I don't consider snap reactions made in a spur of a moment after big reveal as fully encompassing everyone's feelings on the matter. They are snap reactions after all and I'm sure Inquisitor and companions will keep mulling the issue in their heads and discussing their attitudes for years to come.

Darn, I completely forgot about Cole being our resident shipper on deck.

I'm on PC so I can play Trespasser.  The thing is due to my completionist nature I've been stuck with the same character for 487 hours since launch.  I can't move on to the next area without fully exploring the current one.  As for Solas, I'll guess I'll find out in the next game.

I bet that if he's remained a spirit he has all those Fade-posters and Fade-flyers to encourage his spirit friends to cheer for the ship

It may even be a bit like this:

Even years later, Scuttle in that clip kills me.

Maybe you should stay in Nevarra if you insist on being a Necromancer.

I'm not sure. Your scenario assumes that anyone would be of sound enough mind to make decisions based on their doctrine. And we can't really tell what would happen, or if returning magic to everybody is what would happen. There are things pointing towards that - but some among them also suggest that sudden return of magic may end with most people's minds unable to handle it. 

It'll be probably a bit like Tranquils. Solas has already made a direct comparison - and while this comparison ain't exactly literal; people aren't Tranquils per se - it pointed a direction towards which we should be looking. And we do know that Tranquility may be reversed, but that it comes with its own problems.

Cassandra: Solas, I assume you know it's possible to reverse the Rite of Tranquility.
Solas: I did hear of what you learned, yes.
Cassandra: I know of only one mage thus cured, and... he had no control of his emotions. He was distraught.
Cassandra: Do you think that would have passed? If the Tranquil are cured only to end up thus...
Solas: They would be a danger to themselves and others, yes.
Solas: It is difficult to say. In your Vigil, you were Tranquil for but a moment. They have suffered much longer.
Solas: Such control is like a muscle, atrophying without use. Given time it might be restored, but until then...
Cassandra: That may be a risk we are obligated to undertake.
Solas: They will be grateful... even the ones who do not survive.

If control over emotions and - per Solas's (and Morrigan's in Last Court) suggestion - magic is like a muscle and it atrophies without use, and if that control has diminished considerably in a person who has been cut away from it only for a period of time, how would that control be diminished in people who have been mostly cut from magic for millenia? (and that's not taking into account being raised in culture in which magic is feared)

If the plan is about returning magic to world and everyone, I think Solas's attitude towards it is like in that specific dialogue above - something that may be beneficial in the long run, but a lot of modern people will not survive this transition. And I'm not even sure if these people will die per se, but if the mind gets affected to a point where a person loses control, or forget former life, the difference between that and death is effectively small. People with stronger connection to Fade will perhaps be more resistant to side-effects (mages or elves), but even in their regard it's hard to say what would happen.

...Or would sub-conscious connection that most people have now be enough when a trickle of magic turns into waterfall? I think this is where Solas wants to give Inky a chance to prove him wrong, or perhaps find a way/convince him to allow for return of magic to be more gradual, compared to sudden influx of magic.

I have to admit though... I kinda wonder sometimes if the plan to rip up the Veil has been a done deal since the Conclave, or loss of the Orb? There are some things Solas says suggesting that at best we may be talking about partial restoration/slow degradation of the Veil, instead of its dramatic tearing and Fade flooding the world. So perhaps the plan IS for magic to gradually return after poking smaller holes in the Veil, but how it affects people, or any threat that may come after Fen'Harel is anyone's guess.