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

Likely because of his relationship with Mythal. And Dread Wolf was noted to be in position lower than the god by the one who made those motes - as someone who guards. 

Or after. Dread Wolf's statues could've been proliferated by his followers (they kinda still are by the Dalish) in places they'd like to be marked as his territory, or his protection, or as means to call on him to come and do something about a specific place.

That doesn't work with Dirthamen's Temple, though. It was sealed when the veil went up. They can't have added the statues after.

It wasn't sealed the same way the Shattered Library was cut off from Thedas - we can even find remains of previous adventurers.

Disagree on the notion the deaths would be on Rook’s shoulders. The person who bears responsibility for whatever happens is Solas. If he didn’t do his ritual, they’d never get freed. Meanwhile if Rook didn’t act, everyone’s dead.

A. We don't yet know what Solas knows, so he may as well be similarly motivated to do what he does now.

B. This is totally what happened when Solas created the Veil. If he didn't act, everyone's dead.

You can just as easily argue that Solas’ plan could have gone just fine, without the two figures being freed. Now we’ll never know. What we do know is that they appear because of Rook’s interference. So any damage or death they cause is partly, if not wholly, Rook’s fault.

I am reasonably hopeful they will address critique Hawke's cameo had in DAI. If not by playing as Inky, then perhaps by giving control over their dialogue options? 
That they had focus group from DA fans is great. Seeing that some of them are solasmancers, I am certain having an interaction between Solas and Lavellan that you only listen to won't be received without feedback.

So he claimed among the several reasons he gave for creating the Veil and trapping the gods. These were: They killed Mythal; he couldn't kill them permanently (coupled with taking on 7 at once might have been beyond him); they would have destroyed the world. The latter is the one where he should have given us more information. How were they going to do this? Was it the Blight? Is it necessary to remove the Veil to "heal" the world of the Blight? Then his reason for wanting to remove the Veil: He wants to restore the world of the elves (the world with the nasty overpowered mages ruling as tyrants but the magic was good); he wants to save the elven people (which ones?). The consequences of removing the Veil? By his own admission we were all going to die. That is what he told the Inquisitor in Trespasser or at the very least it was a strong possibility. He has never really contradicted that impression since. Then right before the end he tells Varric he has taken steps to mitigate the damage. If that was possible, why didn't he tell us that before? Then perhaps we wouldn't have been so determined to stop him.

However, I do think it is meant to mirror what happened with Solas (according to his version of the story) and it was a case that if we didn't act, everyone was dead. That's why originally it was going to be called the Dreadwolf because Rook was going to be the new "Dreadwolf" based on their actions. In the 2020 Behind the Scenes Video Solas said: "They call me the Dreadwolf, what will they call you?" I think those words may occur not long after the final scene in the gameplay trailer.

I mean...is he wrong?  People DO die.  To a being from a time when everyone was immortal, it's an aberration.  

It could be seen as out of character with the person we knew in Inquisition but how much was that him or as he wished to present himself? Since then he has committed to this path, the path of death as he told lover Lavellan, so it would seem he had accepted his death if it achieved his goals. Even normally moral people can become twisted in their morality into agreeing to terrible things because they believe it is justified, for whatever reason. Remember he lost is long time companion "Wisdom" and now is only accompanied by "Purpose", or perhaps more correctly "Obsession". He was utterly convinced of the necessity for what he was attempting and, more importantly, didn't feel the need to explain himself beyond what he revealed in Trespasser. Back then he seemed to think he was "saving his people" even if the current world had to die. That is a very dangerous attitude but to a large extent wholly in character knowing what happened in ancient times. When he thought locking away the gods was the only course open to him, did he even consider how it might impact negatively on the elves and even if he did think there might be deaths as a result, he probably thought they were necessary collateral damage. It was only after he had acted that he discovered how badly his actions had harmed them.

The strange part is that he now how huge Regret at what he had done. Surely, if it was necessary to save the world he needed to accept the results and move on? So, was it really necessary at the time? He thought it was but apparently now he doesn't or he wouldn't be trying to reverse it.   The current people of the world wouldn't be alive but for his actions, so he probably feels he can disregard their deaths.