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

Exactly!  

Everyone was losing their shit over Solas breaking Bianca,  and I'm like, guys...both her namesake and Dagna are still around.  She can be fixed.  Calm down. 

It did make me decide to swap back to my female Lavellan first run because she absolutely believes he is redeemable and in a way Varric proved it. There is still enough of Solas in there, he isn't completely the Dread Wolf, which of course fits with her having tamed him for a time and if he is still haunting her dreams, likely she is still in his. ("I'll never forget you" weren't just empty words).  Also, it makes Varric's foolhardy attempt to talk him down more understandable because he knows what Solas means to her and that she wants to save him.

Meanwhile, for those who are still hoping to romance Varric this time round (assuming they do allow romances outside of the companions), perhaps the death of Bianca will be symbolic in another way, finally freeing him from his doomed love affair with her. (It would give a male dwarf romance to balance out Harding)

I just had an amusing thought. Remember how Bianca threatened what she'd do to us if we didn't keep Varric safe? Imagine what she'd threaten to do to Solas if he'd killed him! If the Titans start to wake up she might have a fighting chance at that as well.

I never had a doubt. If Solas wanted Varric dead, he never would have made it up the steps in the first place.

Edit to add:  He also had the perfect opportunity to take out Rook, and chose not to.  I think he WANTS to stop (or be stopped).  He just doesn't know how. 

Solas will most likely survive. Varric probably not.

Gotta admit - I just don't see Solas constructing all that scaffolding by himself 

But I'm not entirely sure we'll see that many followers actively on his side. He is a lone wolf - and even though we know he has people working for him (even met one in Trespasser), he likely keeps them at a distance, for a variety of reasons I could think of.

Also, I don't think Solas needs any help on magic front - he is an ancient elven god after all, powered by magic bestowed by Mythal and whatever Solas did to strengthen his power (he does mention in Inquisition that using magic is like a muscle).

Even that edited excerpt from the game finds it prudent to mention this:

But eluvians don't have to be active to be pried open. That's how Morrigan and the Qunari got access to at least some of them.

And there's a reason why Dorian in Trespasser says that he now has enough of a sample to construct eluvians of his own (with some hints in epilogue cards suggesting that this indeed happened). And he probably didn't just construct an eluvians - perhaps he's constructed a lockpick for existing ones as well.

Also, we got this info recently:

Long time no see, everyone!

Also ... FINALLY! I'd begun to think we'd never see another DA game!

Made a post on it, breaking this by frames: www.tumblr.com/ellana-lavellan-official/753168261777178624/solas-is-crying-in-the-dav-prologue?source=share

Is there a more specific time frame for release?  All I've seen anywhere is "Fall" which could also mean October/November.

I personally take it as the last straw. Any restripe he felt after fixing Corypheus catastrophe is long gone, he is more alone than ever. He forcibly turned away from any prospect of happines he may have had with Lavellan, isolated himself, killed what's left of Mythal and has been in suicide-mode for the last decade. (imo there so much hints to believe he expects to die in the end, probably even want it).
Previously mentioned exchange with Gamble suggests he was in a rush before ritual, so whether by our efforts or some other forces it wasn't a flawless ride for him, he is forced to act.

Then he is faced by Varric, who tries to reach to him, to Solas no Dread Wolf, begs him to stop. It does burden him. I saw the take, that his first expression is of sadness and pain as he sees Varric for the first time in a decade - older and wearied by time.

His plan fails before him (he shouts no twice, and second time was chilling for me). I'm 99% sure it's the reaction to some wards he placed on the statues to keep gods contained in the Fade. He probably hasn't expected for them to break free this fast though, he turned his back for a second to gaze at Rook.
And, as he sees the are free, it all crashed down. 

I saw this snippet from DAV coverage: " In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the Elven Trickster god of legend Solas wants to tear down the Veil that separates Thedas from the world of demons, restoring his people’s immortality and glory – even at the cost of countless lives. But his ritual goes awry, and his worst fears are realized, as two of his most ancient and powerful adversaries are released. They seek only to finish what they started millennia ago – the complete and utter domination of our world."
I 99% sure that's Andruil and Falondin. He talks only about them in Mythal's temple for a reason.

Poor guy needs a hug so bad.  

LET ME HUG HIM, BIOWARE!