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

Why did you choose it?

My first Lavellan had Ghilan'nain's vallaslin, which ended up being oddly appropriate as both were considered holy figures with a patron goddess (the Chosen of Andruil, the Herald of Andraste) and we see Halla statues located in the grove where Solas breaks up with us.

My male Lavellan used June's, for no reason other than looked the best on him.

If I had to meta-game, Mythal would be the best choice for Lavellan, particularly if you drank from the Well. The Solas romance makes this even more of an interesting choice due to his close ties to Mythal and the implication (from Cole) that he may have once worn her vallaslin as well. Also when Solas compliments the Inquisitor with high-approval, he claims he's not seen wisdom like this since... before cutting himself off, but one assumes Mythal is the most likely person he was going to say.

I picked mine based on aesthetics (Mythal's, small one), given that I started story without really knowing anything about vallaslins or elvhen gods... or anything really, but it wasn't difficult to give in-story reason for it being picked the moment I sat and thought about it for a moment.

I picked Sylaise's purely due to aesthetics. I don't recall knowing whose vallaslin was whose when I made Fentelban. (I had only played humans in previous games.) Anyway, in retrospect it was a good choice for her because she used diplomacy often and always gave people second chances when they were brought before her for trial. So, Fentelban's solution to most problems fits very well with Sylaise's Vir Atish'an, the Way of Peace.

Mine had Mythal's vallaslin putely b/c I thought it looked cool. This was before the chart came out and I knew what god's it was. I just thought it looked appropriate on her face cus it looks like she's peering through branches or leaves and I thought that was appropriate for a rogue/scout. And then I found out it was Mythal, which yay Goddess of Justice. Also, Mythal was an arbiter and a leader and those are both appropriate for an Inquisitor. Then I found out Mythal was Flemeth and was even happier with it. Then the Solas stuff you mentioned.

Ghilly's vallaslin is really appropriate too, though, with that parallel you pointed out.

Great, now I'm sad thinking about Tamlen. And I barely played the Dalish origin. Thanks, vertigomez.

I'm not sure.  The vallaslin have changed a good bit although I think the basics are still there?  And I only played through the dalish origin story in DAO, not the entire game so I don't remember which I chose then.

Looking at the design similarities, my guess is this one is Mythal's in Origins. 

Speaking of June... I did hear theories floating about that June may have been a dwarf. Thoughts?

It seems like forever.

My first post in this thread and I have a question that is a bit lengthy and might be a bit weird.
There is a lot of fan art around with Solas as Dread Wolf with six eyes in total. The only official depictions as three-eyed Dread Wolf are one of his tarot cards and a Trespasser mural, at least as far as I remember (could be wrong, my memory is a sieve). In both cases the art is highly stylized and shows him only in profile. The problem is, I have my doubts that he is actually meant to have three eyes on each side of his head. Given the symbolic nature of the tarot cards and murals it seems to me the artist (in one case Solas himself iirc) wanted to depict a three-eyed wolf and did exactly that, regardless of any realism. The other thing is that the mural in the rotunda shows rather normal looking wolves with two eyes, same as the statues you can find all over Thedas.
So back to my question, is there any explanation for the three-eyed version in the game or books, is the Dread Wolf even mentioned explicitly as three-eyed anywhere, and what it is supposed to mean? The "Third Eye" as esoteric concept seems a bit of a stretch in regard to Solas, though possible, but six eyes on a wolf are even worse, two more and he passes as spider.

That leaves the question where the seventh eye has gone, even in profile they could have added half an eye or something. Possible they removed it for simplicity's sake, but not really a very satisfying answer.


When I was looking up images for the rotunda fresco, I found this:

Makes me wonder if the the whole three-eyes-thing might have something to do with the Black City, or the pair of three eyes just refers to Solas, or both. The last two options would support the six eyes version (which I mostly dislike for aesthetic reasons tbh).