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

I don't believe it, but I can see how you might get there. Some of the evidence people put out in support of the theory is kinda silly - the Sera's companion card being similar to Andruil's vallaslin, for instance. Like both incorporate a drawn bow of course they're going to have some vague similarities - but some of the evidence I think hints at Sera, while not being Andruil really, isn't just a normal elf either.

The codex said she apparently picked up archery without really trying. Her greatest fear being the Nothing. Her nightmares. How she explicitly points out that her weird deja vu doesn't effect the Inquisitor, even if they're an elf. I mean, she straight up says "It's not an elfy thing. The Inquisitor isn't doing it." If Lavellan experienced any of these things, the game should've addressed them. It should've also addressed them in the cases of past elven companions, especially ones who don't seem to really care for their heritage like Fenris. Since it didn't, I think this really is something unique to Sera.

Does that make her Andruil? Eeehh, that's still too much of a stretch for me. But I do think something's up with her - more than what's up with elves in general.

@ladyamell - I don't know how they stuff elven-titan drama in the next game. There is so much going on. The Weisshaupt, the Tevinter-Qunari war and Solas. But the fifth game? Who knows.

I'm SURE that Solas recruited Abelas if we took him to the Arbor wilds. To us he says that he told him that Abelas should change the name, but if we translate the words we are left with some blood duty (it's not mine, I have read it somewhere). But as I said wouldn't take all sleeping ancient elves as a threat and kill them on sight. Some of them might even despise Solas fro what he done to their favourite (their owner) god.

I love the lifting, they did to the Deep Roads. I simply hated them in Origin, but Descent has the best gameplay from all the DLC and with Trespasser they have one of most impressive sights and atmosphere in all DAI.
I jumped there too. Then I treed with barrier. Then with this new mark power. I really wanted to see the coffins closer.


ellawyn - Exactly. But I would attribute her strange feelings to the fact that for the most of her live she loved only in cites. She haven't visited ancient elven ruins or been to battlefields (I assume that, because why would she) and now, when she goes on missions with us she experiences new things, that are normal to our Lavellan, because she/he got accustomed to that. Imagine you are pearson who lived their whole life in lowlands and now you had to move to mountains. You fell vertigo whenever you look down, yet no one else does. I think the same is with Sera.
As for the elfy feelings not addressed in previous games, only in DAI they started to develop elves as something different than humans with pointy ears, ancient lost history and isolationist tendencies. Now they really wanted to state that elves are diametrically different from humans in perceiving the world. Why not show this on elf who wants to be human?   
Her tombstone in my language localisation says "the nothingness". In the english is the nothing (I was surprised). But it's THE nothing not just nothing. I can't explain it easily. But she fears what is on the bottom of the abyss, the unknown.
I'm so persistent because, even if I really don't like Sera, her character would lose if she would be confirmed something extraditionary. It would state that you have to be goddess or undeveloped mage to be exceptionally talented. Sera is the best being simple common elf, which struggle with her identity.   

 

Well then have I got good news for you, because those "coffins" in the Deep Roads were actually filled with lyrium, not sleeping elves. A lot of companion comments there explicitly say things like "That's a lot of lyrium" and such. 

Check it: corseque.tumblr.com/post/135486694637

Interesting.  That does make me feel better

P.S. I must do a really bad job of listening to party banter sometimes.

Art post.

Solas by the awesome Paperwick!
Source: paperwick.tumblr.com/post/148825505631/stressing-a-bit-so-tried-something-a-little

Solas or Fen'Harel...
Source: justgaala.tumblr.com/post/148846682731/solas-or-fenharel

Alice in Wonderland AU: Solas as the Mad Hatter.
Source: paranoidfactors.tumblr.com/post/148824540221/mad-hatter-solas-check-out-solas-envisioned-as

Alice in Wonderland AU: Solas as Alice.
Source: paranoidfactors.tumblr.com/post/148821718146/im-not-sorry-check-out-solas-envisioned-as

Solavellan cuddles. (Slightly NSFW because they're nude but nothing really is shown.)
Source: priderising.tumblr.com/post/148824514539/got-destinyapostasy-to-draw-me-some-solavellan

Modern AU Solavellan based on the fic, Between the Lines.
Source: eluviann.tumblr.com/post/148847885510/so-this-is-the-front-and-back-cover-of-the-comic-i

I...kind of want to see Solas as the Cheshire Cat now.

More Art

Male Lavellan smearing blood on Fen'Harel's Mosaic

Source - fox-the-furious.deviantart.com/art/Fen-Harel-627581740

You're Beautiful, Vhenan (I can't tell if that's a Lavellan or not)

Source - luciana-lu.deviantart.com/art/Commission-You-re-beautiful-Vhenan-627732562

Lavellan at The Well of All Souls

Source - katorius.deviantart.com/art/The-Well-of-All-Souls-627371373

Abelas

Source - ajelo.deviantart.com/art/SKETCH-Abelas-627726715

Seeing as the Veil was made with elven magic, that's probably why all those elve's blood sacrifices allowed the magisters to enter the Fade.

I hope that valta makes a return as well. If we're not gonna get an infodump from an elf that was around way back when, I'd settle for getting it from a titan. I just want a primary source who doesn't speak in cryptic for once. Though, the Titan likely would talk cryptically cus of its more alien nature, maybe Valta can interpret. lol

I was thinking about he epilogue of Trespasser today and I now have a real fear that the next game is going to begin 10+ years in the future. Just given the timeframe they reference in the slides, talking about what the characters are doing for years down the road. I hope they retcon that aspect. It would really beggar belief to me that the basement team takes 5 to 10 years to actually find these "people that Solas doesn't know", not to mention it would kinda hurt the urgency and threat level of Solas to take that long to act on this plan to drop the veil. I mean, what's he waiting for? Sozin's Comet?

Getting caught up on the thread again... Back on page 38 people were talking about Titans maybe giving rise to spirits who then turned into elves and turned against the Titans, and someone brought up Forgotten Ones, and I had a sudden thought - what if the Titans are the Forgotten Ones?

Probably they aren't. But... what if they are? No one remembered them until Valta, really. And there's evidence in The Descent that the Shaperate's records were altered long ago. What if some darn elf (or group of elves) had something to do with that?

I've put this theory forward multiple times, but it always gets rejected on the basis that Geldauran, Anaris and Daern'athal are believed to be outcast Evanuris, and are called the Forgotten Ones.

The only thing we really know about them from legend, other than cults for them still exist, and that Geldauran seemed to have been imprisoned for a time in the Arbor Wilds, is that Solas supposedly locked them up at the same time as the Evanuris. We have no idea what they looked like, what their real function was, or how they interacted with the Evanuris... or for that matter, what being "Forgotten" really means in Elvhen culture.

They could have been working for the Titans for all we know, which certainly would have brought them into conflict with the other Evanuris who wanted to conquer them. I definitely think they have ties to the Titans.

I think the whole 'painted boxes' Sera mentions was simply an easter egg with no further implications to the plot. Same with the box in DAO - from the looks of it it never was anything other than a small fetch quest.