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

It's kinda cool that Lavellan is basically wielding Fen'harel's power in the entire game, especially from a romance perspective.

Anyway, I've been thinking for it for a while but keep forgetting about bringing it here - what do we think about how did birth, parenthood and descendance looked for ancient elves?

On some level it must've looked like what we're familiar with - we know there were parents and children and likely some forms of succession/inheritance, even though elvhen longevity/immortality must've made these things different on some level.

And how much the biological component mattered, especially that we know that there's something magical rather than biological in the way elves work and pass their, er... genes? memes??? given what happens when there's an elf-human/dwarf union.

So far it seems that either elves must be familiar with a way it biologically works or the process looks at least somewhat similar, given that Mythal's mosaic portrays her with a pregnant belly - but how much is this symbolic and how much the process looks like it at all times? Are there different ways elves could become parents or name someone succesor/inheritor/child?

Mhm, that's one side of it. Another is that after he takes it back, we know who he'll be thinking about every time he looks at it...

Even if the Inquisitor doesn't appear in 4, s/he'll nonetheless be there judging and reminding and pressuring Solas to give up every step of the way.




Been a while since i last checked out Aimo's stuff on Deviantart. Always thought her drawings had a unique sensitivity to them, and she used to be obsessed about Bioware games. Her early drawings for DAO from before the game even came out always get me right in the mood to start it up again. In fact, those were how I first learned about it, pointing me to a youtube demo.

The Anchor alone isn't powerful enough to work on a large scale, the way the orb it came from was. Remember? Hence the need for extra mages or templars to close the Breach. It's just the key. His first step after Trespasser is probably going to be hunting down and acquiring extraordinary sources of magical energy. Elven artifacts, buried Old Gods, mage acolytes, etc.

Unless he took care of that in the interim while waiting for the right time to get the Anchor from you. In which case yeah, he can do it whenever it suits his plans.

Sure he is. But nowhere near powerful enough to rip the sky to shreds all by his lonesome. Neither was Flemeth. At lest not until the Veil actually is ripped away and he potentially gets access to whatever advantages the ancient elves gained from the world being utterly infused with magic.

Either the Veil's creation took a big chunk out of them, or the Elven God-mages weren't actually quite that powerful. His ability to wage a real war against them and certainty that he can kill or trap them again if he has to makes me inclined to believe the latter.

I hadn't seen this one before, it's lovely. Aimo is terrific. I've still got one of the KOTOR booklets that she printed up from wayyyyyy back in the day (Wiki tells me it came out in 2003, and I remember her on the boards there). She's very talented and I'm happy to see that she still loves BW.

Solas speaks positively of Briala in DAI, which is pretty surprising.

I mean, he killed Felassan for choosing her over the mission, so I would have expected some resentment towards her.

Not to mention that Briala took the eluvian network before he could. That should sting, too, but he's not upset. Or if he is, he isn't showing it.

To be fair, he does have strong reason both to feel and remain detached from current people and conflicts beyond his overall mission, given that they're both so pointless compared to what he thinks of as natural, and he intends to overturn the game table anyway, rendering the current world order as others understand it mostly moot.

On some level I also think he enjoys being able to take a back seat and engage intellectually without each and every one of his actions having a world of repercussions. The way he talks about the war and his youthful rage and righteousness, aside from the danger of Coryphewhatshisface actually achieving godhood, the day-to-day of the game must be the lowest the stakes have been for him for thousands of years.

I imagine it's no accident that he seems more animated and emotionally engaged in Trespasser. The vacation is over, and everything is on him again. If/when he returns in 4, it wouldn't surprise me for him to be a bit more ruthless and vindictive than we're used to, akin to his old resolve to fight to save his people, come what may. 

Briala didn’t know anything and didn’t act with any intention to thwart Solas, unlike Felassan. And Solas doesn’t strike me as a person who’d be resentful towards a person who accidentally thwarted him - even Corypheus, who was the biggest threat to his plans so far, wasn’t stopped just because Solas wanted personal revenge (Cory was resented, clearly, but for what he was and stood for and Solas appears angry at himself for not predicting that Cory is effectively immortal - and since the guy has a penchant for collecting things to be guilty about, I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the end, he blamed himself for losing Felassan’s loyalty).

I mean, that’s a bit like saying that Solas should be resentful of befriended/romanced Inquisitor or any person that made him catch positive feelings or serious doubts about his plan. Not only it’s not going to happen - the dude went out of his way to save Inquisitor and willingly offered an opportunity to potentially thwart him. He may want to detach himself from his feelings and wishes, but question remains how much he is able to hold his feelings and wishes on the leash before everything explodes, be it literally or whatnot I personally think it’s a question that is responsible for keeping a lot of us on the edge of a seat till this day

People often talk about how hard this romance is for Lavellan, but Solas must've been a nerve wreck through the whole thing.

I imagine him being overwhelmed by feelings of guilt over hiding the truth, anxiety from the fact that it can't last, the idea of her death and so on.

Strangely enough he is a lot more talkative when he doesn't like you. There are other occasions he reveals more information to an inquisitor with a low approval rating. Good thing there are these videos on youtube, or I would have missed so much dialogue because I never managed to antagonize him for long. (Or any other companion for that matter. I'm simply too nice. )