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

I love how we're all joking, but Infinity War has come out in the time frame in which they'd still be able to write in inspiration from it...

I don't think Solas is Thanos, personally, but I could see a similar scenario playing out if you go the "I will kill you" route.

Inquisitor: “You know, I was thinking the exact same thing...but then I thought ‘Nah, the arm is good’.” *points to the arm the Inquisitor just cut off of Solas, ruining his plans*

I do recall that I've been loudly musing about it together with others on BSN Prime, so we definitely talked about it shortly at least once, shortly after Trespasser dropped. I think some Patrick Weekes' tweets have been brought against the idea, but I'm not really sure that they were anything substantial - the one I could find is this rot13 tweet, where on question"Did he do anything to the anchor in the romance end? Seems like he didn’t" he answers "Well, you don't have an arm after that, so he did something".

Which... doesn't really say much other than he did something.

I've been wondering about it till now though, every time I hear him say "The mark will eventually kill you" and that he can do something about it 'for now', and it does sound to me like there's more to that than 'simple' Anchor removal. Besides, even if he did remove it, we can't be sure whether it was complete removal - what if there's some residue left behind that can still affect/poison Inquisitor in some way, or react to whatever the Anchor is now*? What if Anchor can be snatched back, like Inquisitor snatched back the Orb to the Anchor once Corypheus grasp on it slipped?

*Do we think that the Anchor has been neutralized, or ran its course and thus basically shut down (Cole has a dialogue suggesting that something about the Anchor being in late stages, though it's hard to say whether it means its end or it evolving?) or if its something Solas still owns and plans to do something with (I admit that I doubt it, because nowhere it is suggested that he has brought Inquisitor to get the Anchor back, but to prevent their death).

Since when anything about Solas is obvious or cut and dry? Solas (and Weekes) is the master of double or even triple-meaning, hence I think they kept the thing vague by not adding 'if it's not removed' and keep us guessing (it also works well as a safeguard in case plans have changed, as it happens often in gamedev).

And we are talking about the world with magic and the rules of it have been basically tossed out of the window in Trespasser - and it's not like we knew all the rules before. If one person can be in more than two places at a time (as per Flemeth) or split their soul and transfer it to other living beings for safekeeping (like Corypheus) then something affecting a person despite it being removed is very much plausible.

Not even Solas is certain that everyone's gonna die, which is seemingly why he saved Inky and expresses a tentative hope that he is wrong about the whole plan to restore the world of the elves, even if Thedas must die. The truth is we don't really know how Inquisitor is going to feature in Solas's plans, but all that exchange doesn't seem like this is all just to let Inky lead a fruitless pursuit and die with everyone else at a later date.

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Kind of! My Hero is only about 5 years older than my Inquisitor, and Inky was roughly 18 when the Blight ended and Mahariel became known and lauded. That's old enough for Mahariel to be a respected Dalish warrior and hero in the manner of a skilled figure, pride of their People for Lavellan, but too old for them to be a childhood hero (starry-eyed) the way the Emerald Knights were. They're more like contemporaries.

Are you talking about the post that mentions the Charger choice, the fate of Sutherland's Crew, and if you chose Redeem or not for Solas? Or is there some other post you meant to link to, @dawnstone ? Cus those tiles have been in the Keep a while now, they're not really new.

I don't think downtime is related to anything - EA servers had a hiccup, Anthem servers were affected as well. And yea, these are not new tiles.

I can't say I'm sure when do they cement their religiosity, as I don't usually play faithful Inquisitors. I think you may have to be vague about your faith when speaking with Cassandra (can always RP that your Inky is careful?), but you may have to declare Inquisition for faith or pick specific options when people ask you about faith after we reach Skyhold. I can't say for sure if this can be resolved during Here Lies The Abyss.

Yeah, that's what I'm going for. Believe in both by the end of the story.

But I doubt the game is gonna let me actually SHOW that change in her beliefs.