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

I think that he was being painfully honest, because he was at a personal crossroads.

I mean, he is generally polite, but if he doesn't think of the people of Thedas as people, subtle insults or provocation mean nothing. Here he's testing the waters, trying to convince himself that this person can't possibly be real, that maybe his own magic is interfering with his perceptions. He has nothing to lose by being honest if they aren't real. If you don't know he's Fen'Harel, he simply comes off as an elf who has faced horrible bigotry his entire life just for being an elf, and having to isolate himself from society for being a hated, self-taught apostate hedge-mage. From that perspective, his observations if not kind or tactful, are more comprehensible - this is what the world taught me to expect, but this is what I've actually learned...fuck. You don't know until later that he's been a literal god the whole time, looking down, evaluating the masses as a mindless, faceless, necessary sacrifice.

His conclusion with a befriended Inquisitor, though, is that unfortunately he's right, they are all real, and the stakes have completely changed - but for whatever reason (probably to do with the superblight that is on the horizon if he fails to act), they can't. Yet. Something has to have changed, or we wouldn't have two choices with him, or all the different art. A befriended/beloved Inquisitor set him on a different path, which has yet to reach its end.

            Cole: I like your horns, The Iron Bull.

            Cole: But they're dragon horns, not bull horns. You could have named yourself The Iron Dragon.

            Iron Bull: Oh, shit. That would have been better.

I don't see any reason to believe the elves were the first sentients on the entire planet, as a whole. I mean, I suppose someone was first, but it could just have easily have been dwarves (more likely actually since they seem to stem from actual bits of planet, which theoretically would have come before anything else) or humans on some other continent outside of Thedosian view.

On a planetary scale, Titans likely predate everyone, though for all we know they in themselves are some kind of physical/spirit hybrid, and thus spirits are the real first people of Thedas. And I make a distinction btwn spirits and elves b/c not all spirits became elves, assuming that's where elves come from in the first place.

Elves were the first great (above ground) civilization on the continent of Thedas. That's all we can say about them in relation to the other races right now.

Isn't there some ancient Tevinter lore we got via one of the astrariums about a boat that traveled stars? I mean... it doesn't *have* to mean spaceship, but its still interesting.

(*puts on tin foil hat and goes off to find that one "ALIENS" meme*)