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

After a very thorough game explanation, Cardbuttons says we have reached Solas at the end of DA4, and defeated him in battle. It is now time for judgement.

- Judgement 1: If "Stop Solas" was chosen in DA3 - Condemn Solas for his crimes, his mistakes, and expect him to take responsibility for his actions. Due to his erratic behavior, his manipulation of everyone around him, and his genuine attempt to destroy Modern Thedas and its denizens the Inquisitor PC decides (perhaps regretfully) that he and he presented too much of a danger to the lives of all those living in the world and thus has no place in the world to come. With the power at his disposal, there was also no guarantee that if left alive he would not attempt to try and finish the process he already started, robbing the world of what little time it had to prepare for the return of the Fade. For now, the people of Thedas still had a chance to prepare for the Veil's eventual destruction, but to preserve that chance Solas would have to die. Putting him out of his miserable cycle of self destruction and making sure his greatest fear would not come true were small comforts to the deed that needed to be done. "At least he would not have to die alone". Whatever the Inquisitor's relationship with him, they would at least be there in the end.



- Judgement 2: If "Redeem Solas" was chosen in DA3 - Defeated and thus humbled, Solas now can now be reasoned with, especially if he had a positive relationship with the Inquisitor PC. There was little anyone could do to change the fact that the Veil could not be returned to its original status and even if Solas could intervene, it remained doubtful that there was anything either PC could do to ever convince him to fix what he had done and condemn the remainder of "his" people to a life of imprisonment and death. Perhaps then, there was another way ... one in which both sides "COULD" get potentially what they wanted. The deal is, Solas lets the Veil to continue its increased burn across the whole of Thedas and he would be allowed to live, only if he agreed to return to a state of uthenera until a time just before the Veil’s collapse. This would allow him to see his people awakened safely and prepare for the imminent subsequent return of the Evanuris (though in all reality he will still be shunned for his destruction of their world after both tasks were complete). If the Elvhen Empire collapsed so quickly in part due to the abruptness of the Veils creation and not simply the separation of from the Fade on its own, those additional years would give the people of Modern Thedas the time they would need to prepare for the return of the Fade. What would be created is a Thedas that is neither ancient, nor modern and just like its people would be made up of bits of both, creating something entirely new from the old. Regardless of Save or Stop is chosen, once the decision is made both Parties (with Solas in tow if he is saved) leave this no longer frozen world of the Fade to warn their own world of the changes soon to come. Changes that they would have no choice but to prepare for.



- Judgement 2.1: Additional Option for Solas LIs - Look, I'll admit I really like Solas as a character, so much so that the events between him and the Inquisitor are one of the major factors as to why I wrote this little project ... but the thing is I don't think he deserves a "happy" end (at least not without great sacrifice to achieve it). He is a criminal, responsible for the deaths and destruction of thousands, his own world, and would have repeated those mistakes again if given the chance. As such, as a rule of thumb, there is almost nothing he can do personally at this point to earn "happiness" for himself and within the restrictions of this it has been decided his happiest endings should only be achieved only by how much a Lavellan PC is willing to sacrifice of themselves for him to gain them. Solas' greatest fear is, after all, dying alone. There are two routes to this LI end: 1) (if you did not become an Abomination) Levallan returns to a state of uthenera with Solas and lives out the remainder of their mortal life alongside him in the world the two of them helped create. While they may have their life extended by the return of the Fade, I personally don't believe a Modern Elf directly transitioned into that veil-less environment can ever truly regain their immortality (they don't get seem to regain it while physically within the Fade, so hence my assumption). The price of course is a Levallan PC would have to sacrifice their current life in Modern Thedas (all their friends, family and world) to live out their life with him (and everything that entails, including a family). And 2) (Abomination with Razikal) - You are now an "Immortal" (timeless being) and therefore will outlive your life in the South regardless of your intentions and are now perfectly capable of standing alongside Solas for an eternity, once he regains his immortality after the Fade returns. However, the penalty is rather obvious to all. Your body and time are not simply yours alone, they now are jointly shared by another ... one who you owe your allegiance. The contract with Razikale must be fulfilled and your eternal counterpart first and foremost demands "her" final sibling's freedom. In essence, to have the chance to living an eternity with Solas the Lavellan PC has given up half of themselves and therefore cannot be with him all the time. Either way (1 or 2) if a Lavellan PC decides to "stay" with Solas, Scout Harding returns to the South to inform them of the fall of the Veil and if applicable takes up the mantle of Inquisitor in the Inquisitor PC's stead.

Written by BSN prime member Cardbutton as part of a massive amazing thread found here until BSN Prime implodes: forum.bioware.com/topic/571581-take-3-dumb-ideas-refined-for-a-dual-pc-storyline-for-da4/page-1

 

Unfortunately it didn't tag Solas correctly  
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