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

Hello I did the sequel of my last drawing, Thread of fate
Because I hate myself this much lol


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No lol I mean if you come in and out of the other places you hear the giggle. She giggles each time the section loads. Only after you give the person the box.

And yeah we never see the person. We just hand over the box and then when the cutscene ends you hear the child giggle. The box is also a Red Jenny quest.

I just played DAO you see lol I beat it in 2 days with an OP Warrior so it's fresh in my head. I am on a super powerful computer and was shocked at all the graphic errors I'm getting though. Blood that is flickering red boxes , Loghain's head ended up on his shoulders when I gave him a gift (don't ask lol) and my game crashes in the Lothering Chantry

Yeah, the possibility that Titans are Forgotten Ones is small and there is little evidence to support it in the lore, I agree.

Something else I have often wondered (tinfoil hats!) is whether the first humans were actually elf-dwarf crosses - possibly in response to the Veil having been erected and early signs of it not being a great thing for ancient elves. Or maybe it happened earlier and was an attempt by some mad scientist elf like Ghilan'nain to take advantage of the strengths of both races - similar to the apparent attempt to breed dragon-people who have now developed into the Qunari.

I kind of feel that the fact that elves don't pass on elven traits if they have children with anyone other than another elf may be a hint of this possibility, and also of their spirit origins. Humans have magical abilities like elves, but they also seem a little more solid/earthy, like dwarves. The magical elven genetics, remnants of their spirit/mutable origins, get overridden by the more solid and permanent Titan/stone/dwarf traits. Or something along those lines.

Many fans seem to think that humans arrived in Thedas before the Veil was erected, but I think the lore we have been given is ambiguous. We really don't have a clue about when Solas actually did erect it, other than that it must have been more than 3790 years ago, because -2850 Ancient is when elves first started noticing the quickening. That was only 250 years after the first reports of humanity arriving in Thedas - and Thedosian scholars apparently debate this, asking where humans are supposed to have come from and why they would have left that place of origin. Why indeed? Maybe they have been in Thedas ever since they arose (or were engineered) as a species.

Edited: date was noted incorrectly...

BABY SERA.     (4:40 mark) 

It actually didn't take me too long to find a save game.  I rarely delete saves.  I think I had over 1200 saves in Skyrim before finally clearing some out.  Did I also mention I'm a little OCD about saving games?  But only a little!

At any rate ... yes!  Child's giggle.  Could be boy or girl though.  Hard to tell, sounds like a young child.  And you only hear it when you give the box and when you transition out of the warehouse or World of Thedas but nowhere else.  I tested Genitivi's place, Wade's Emporium and the tavern also.

Also, wow loading up DAO kinda took me back.  I have to admit I really do appreciate the faster paced combat in DA2 and DAI.

Wait, so that means they had Sera planned since the beginning? That's... suspicious. Especially when one-shot companions like Merrill were clearly not planned on from the get-go.


Hmm. I wonder if Sera's... rather harsh reception has changed any of their plans. 

I kept picturing some punk brat like Puck or Loki. This wise and very bald hobo-like elf was not at all what I was expecting but the elves did warn of him:

"The pages of this book-memory?-warn of a terrible danger, a wolf with slavering black jaws and pits for eyes. The Evanuris-the elven gods-stand in a ring around it, as if preventing it from attacking.

"Beware the forms of Fen'Harel! The Dread Wolf comes in humble guises, a wanderer who knows much of the People and their spirits. He will offer advice that seems fair, but turns slowly to poison. Remember the price of treason, and keep in your heart the mercy of your gods."

I get you, that is a little awkward. I wish they would get a blog to communicate with fans. Their posts would be findable for one and they would be able to answer only questions they want to answer without an entitled angry mob breathing down their neck.

I think I understand why they prefer reddit but I don't see anything all that great about twitter. Just have to make do I guess 

Art post.

Solas kissing Lavellan.
Source: solavellangarbage.tumblr.com/post/148858784585/my-week-has-been-remarkable-shitty-and-today-it

Lavellan just interpreted veilfire into a dance for Solas. (NSFW because she's topless.)
Source: oddmoy.tumblr.com/post/148833755243/commission-for-smuttine-her-lavellan-ilyana

Solavellan Victorian AU: Lavellan is accused of murdering the Divine, gets arrested by Cass and Cullen, then meets Doctor Solas.
Source: solavellangarbage.tumblr.com/post/148631555950/shoehorned-in-a-way-to-make-this-au-make-more

Solavellan Victorian AU: Solas still paints. (Slightly NSFW because Lavellan is nude.)
Source: solavellangarbage.tumblr.com/post/148679066115/in-the-victorian-au-solas-still-paintsmore

Anon asked the artist for pics of Lavellan wearing lingerie from the Singquisition AU. Solas is not pleased.
Source: solavellangarbage.tumblr.com/post/148714060905/will-we-be-able-to-see-the-picks-of-lenneth

Cullen making moves on Solas?
Source: livinginthedas.tumblr.com/post/148852557645/dumps-sketch-and-runs-away-forgive-me-father-for

Gorgeous watercolor art of Solas
Source: mageswade.tumblr.com/post/148851520293

A blushing Solas.
Source: destinyapostasy.tumblr.com/post/148868538812/remember-when-i-used-to-draw-blushing-solas-all

Bald Solas and Concept!Solas.
Source: tyrphi.tumblr.com/post/148854822556/smoosh

Dread Wolf Take You.
Source: tfwshems.tumblr.com/post/148858606164/woooo

Sure. You can skip meeting Leliana in Origins and never see her until Inquisition, but that doesn't stop her from being important - to a lesser extent, this is true of Cullen and Merrill as well. The only major difference I see is that Leliana/Cullen/Merrill being important characters after their initial appearance was obviously unplanned

But at the same time, nothing about Inquisition seems to deeply effect Sera, and you can't drastically alter her course by, like, making her Divine or sending her to the Wardens. Like, looking at the epilogue slides here, she always ends up with the Red Jennies - we can presume that's where she stays if we don't recruit her. So if the writers decide to continue her story, dealing with a world state where she wasn't recruited would be as simple as ignoring it entirely. Nothing in Inquisition changes her story to the point where that's impossible.

She's fun and I enjoy her for what she is but I can also understand why she was poorly received.  My own issues with her stem from both the friendship and romance arcs.  If you remove your vallaslin she's quite cruel about it.  I don't think she particularly intends to be but instead of being a concerned and comforting friend she laughs at you/the dalish instead.  This kind of stands out as she's one of the only four people (that I know of - Josephine, Sera, Cassandra, Cole) who mention it at all and one of the only two you can actually talk to about it (Josephine, Sera).  Then with the romance after the Temple of Mythal she has no intention of giving up her own beliefs to be with you but fully expects you to give up all of your beliefs to be with her.  The selfishness there is kind of mindboggling (to me).

She does provide a very strong example of what Solas likely fears all of the modern elves will become.  He does say she's the farthest from what she *should* be.