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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 9, 2016 20:57:53 GMT
Standing all alone there on the balcony (and at the end of Trespasser) was powerful all right but first time it was just too much of a downer. I don't expect a happy ending and was just blown away by the end of DAO, when first run through Alistair sacrificed himself for me as his friend, and the relief at defeating the archdemon was tempered by his loss but I could still feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of a job well done.
I really didn't want to feel as depressed as I did at the end of the DAI main game. A noble sacrifice I could have accepted but just going off without an explanation was something of an anti-climax. I really was going through the motions at the party, whilst really only too anxious to get away from everyone and brood in peace. Like I say above, I was really method acting the whole thing and being abandoned without a proper explanation unfortunately was too close to real life and hit a nerve. Which is why it was better for me to distance myself from the Solas romance and focus on my Dorian romance instead.
Trespasser did allow me to get invested in my girl Lavellan again and I have to admit that final confrontation with Solas was awesome, particularly when she made it clear she was not going to give up on him. Then there was that final twist with him there in her dreams. So now I'm all fired up wanting to see where the romance will ultimately go and it would seem will have to wait years in real time to find out.
Once again my Dorian romance is helping me out because I am filling my time writing fan fiction about him and my male Lavellan post Trespasser, which is easier to do when you have no idea what they have planned for Solas and are simply a friend rather than a romance.
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Post by phoray on Dec 9, 2016 23:55:00 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a nick name for my Lavellan. She's kinda morphed into a... Dalish Blood Mage/abomination hunter of a sort. And since she's intended for Solas, I thought it'd be amusing (to me) for her to have some sort of Dread Wolf related nick name. Leliana is called the Nightengale, for example.
And I'm failing. :/
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 9, 2016 23:57:38 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a nick name for my Lavellan. She's kinda morphed into a... Dalish Blood Mage/abomination hunter of a sort. And since she's intended for Solas, I thought it'd be amusing (to me) for her to have some sort of Dread Wolf related nick name. Leliana is called the Nightengale, for example. And I'm failing. :/ I'd go with Lupine.
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Post by mechalynx on Dec 10, 2016 0:00:34 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a nick name for my Lavellan. She's kinda morphed into a... Dalish Blood Mage/abomination hunter of a sort. And since she's intended for Solas, I thought it'd be amusing (to me) for her to have some sort of Dread Wolf related nick name. Leliana is called the Nightengale, for example. And I'm failing. :/ This might help: Wolf names
I like Tala, especially if you're rolling a red-head. Or, if you're keeping it close to the lore - Fen'an. Or, even more literal - Fen'linaste. Something like "blood soaked wolf".
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 0:04:36 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a nick name for my Lavellan. She's kinda morphed into a... Dalish Blood Mage/abomination hunter of a sort. And since she's intended for Solas, I thought it'd be amusing (to me) for her to have some sort of Dread Wolf related nick name. Leliana is called the Nightengale, for example. And I'm failing. :/ I'd go with Lupine. I'm not sure that has quite the right amount of fear/respect I'm going for. But it did inspire more google searching. ^^
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 10, 2016 0:09:42 GMT
I'm not sure that has quite the right amount of fear/respect I'm going for. But it did inspire more google searching. ^^ Inspiring! I can roll with that!
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 0:25:04 GMT
Dalish Elven options:
Harel Falon (dread friend) But not sure the words go together like that. and it's awkward. The constellation " Silentir," which resembles a dragon in flight, may be related to Mythal. Asha'Banal'ras Woman of Shadow? getting closer to the feeling, but further away from being related to wolves. Too bad there isn't an elven word for hunter on the wiki. Wolf Hunter would be awesome. Assan Din'an Arrow Death, could mean Death's Arrow. Era'harel: Demon Mage Fen'mi : Wolf blade Latin: Venator lupi. - Hunter of the wolf Venator luporum - Hunter of wolves Mix of Dalish elven and LOTR elven Fen'Feredir: Wolf Hunter Edit Add: All of them are not great. Sigh. I've spent an hour on this. I give up for now.
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Post by midnight tea on Dec 10, 2016 1:00:05 GMT
Uh... since my main PC is buried under protective foil and dust from renovations for way longer than expected and I'm cut from both work or my usual sources of enterntainment, I've had to search for something to do on a derelict laptop I'm sitting on now... which ended up with me relplaying The Last Court. Ostensibly to find any interesting clues (plus, familiarize myself more with the style of Bioware's guest/senior writer). ....And boy, there seem to be a lot of those. Or at the very least, it's written in a way that is... suggestive, but could totally be a whole flock of red herrings. Ultimately it's hard to say which one is a legit clue and which one is just the writer messing with us, or just my overactive imagination. But hey, it's not like there's a trove of new material to over-analyze, so I might as well throw some loose thoughts here and see what bounces back. cult of masked andraste - ... how much you want to bet that "Masked Andraste" is basically a remnant of cult of Andruil? The bow is ostensibly an elven weapon and at least according to lore there was time when Andruil obscured her features. The fact that there are "moonlit Mysteries of Masked Andraste" while Andruil declares herself "Sister Of The Moon" also seems to be an indicator of a rather huge irony going on here Some may question how come an Andrastian cult could unknowingly worship an elvhen goddess, but more or less conscious syncretism is a thing that happened and keeps happening - and we actually saw it being actively done in Jaws Of Hakkon, when it was revealed that Ameridan has married old elvhen beliefs with a newly-emerging cult of Andraste What interests me though is whether this says anything whatsoever about relationship of Andruil to Tirashan, though the fact that the cult exists on the border of forest in question appears to be a dead giveaway. This doesn't seem like a mere coincidence. the applewoods - I keep wondering if there's any significance in referring to Tirashan as "Applewoods". Immediately, I have two things springing in my mind when I hear "Applewoods": one is entirely outside of DA universe and refers to "Avalon" which basically translates to "isle of Apple Trees" and is a legendary location from Arthurian legends, steeped into Celtic mythology it derives from and is considered as 'otherworld' or 'land of the dead'. Another association is an in-story one and is very much a stretch: what I'm talking about is codex entry from DA2: Picked Apples Of Arlathan that I mentioned somewhere else. There's no direct relationship - if there is, it only appears to be symbolic: a jar of well-preserved apples may imply well-preserved piece of Elvenhan. That the chosen fruit is an apple may or may not implied where it was preserved... wheelng crows - the succesful result for that particular card is a pure writer troll moment, since it's quite obvious that the bizarre visions that the protagonist is implied to ignore carry way more significance than 'yellow moon' or 'fork at the road': fire with a heart of ice, a broken sun, man with green fingernails. I have been staring at those descriptions for a while and the more I did the more it was obvious that those were some first-class CLUES... to what however, I can't tell at all. From the description it'd seem that those are things we're yet to see (there was no NPC or character I recall, that had a big deal made out of green nail polish they use, lol), though I do wonder whether some of things described weren't at least implied or mentioned alerady. With that said, they can mean a lot of things, from highly metaphoric to highly literal (... or both?). Ironically, I think 'the broken sun' may be the most literal thing of them all. As for 'fire with a heart of ice'... welp, it may be some sort of phenomenon or it can be a person who is either very passionate or seems very passionate (destructive?), but in reality is cold and ruthless. It may be someone that we're yet to be introduced to, but I can't help to think about Geldauran's icy tomb in Jaws Of Hakkon and whether that ICE, ICE BABY! was supposed to tell us something crucial about the character.... Well... that's it for now.
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 10, 2016 1:09:24 GMT
Uh... since my main PC is buried under protective foil and dust from renovations for way longer than expected and I'm cut from both work or my usual sources of enterntainment, I've had to search for something to do on a derelict laptop I'm sitting on now... which ended up with me relplaying The Last Court. Ostensibly to find any interesting clues (plus, familiarize myself more with the style of Bioware's guest/senior writer). And boy, there seem to be a lot of those. Or at the very least, it's written in a way that is... suggestive, but could totally be a whole flock of red herrings. Ultimately i's hard to say which one is a legit clue and which one is just the writer messing with us or just my overactive imagination. But hey, it's not like there's a trove of new material to over-analyze, so I might as well throw some loose thoughts here and see what bounces back. cult of masked andraste - ... how much you want to bet that "Masked Andraste" is basically a remnant of cult of Andruil? The bow is ostensibly an elven weapon and at least according to lore there was time when Andruil obscured her features. The fact that there are "moonlit Mysteries of Masked Andraste" while Andruil declares herself "Sister Of The Moon" also seems to be an indicator of a rather huge irony going on here Some may question how come an Andrastian cult could unknowingly worship an elvhen goddess, but more or less conscious syncretism is a thing that happened and keeps happening - and we actually saw it being actively done in Jaws Of Hakkon, when it was revealed that Ameridan has married old elvhen beliefs with a newly-emerging cult of Andraste What interests me though is whether this says anything whatsoever about relationship of Andruil to Tirashan, though the fact that the cult exists basically on the border of that forest appears to be a dead giveaway. This doesn't seem like a mere coincidence. the applewoods - I keep wondering if there's any significance in referring to Tirashan as "Applewoods". Immediatly I have two things springing in my mind when I hear "Applewoods". One is entirely outside of DA universe and refers to "Avalon" which basically translates to "isle of Apple Trees" and is a legendary location from Arthurian legends, steeped into Celtic mythology it derives from and is considered as 'otherworld' or 'land of the dead'. Another association is an in-story one and is very much a stretch: what I'm talking about is codex entry from DA2: Picked Apples from Arlathan that I mentioned somewhere else. There's no direct relationship - if there is, it only appears to be symbolic: a jar of well-preserved apples may imply well-preserved piece of Elvenhan. That the chosen fruit is an apple may or may not implied where it was preserved... wheelng crows - the succesful result for that particular card is a pure writer troll moment, since it's quite obvious that the bizarre visions that the protagonist is implied to ignore carry way more significance than 'yellow moon' or 'fork at the road': fire with a heart of ice, a broken sun, man with green fingernails. I have been staring at those descriptions for a while and the more I did the more it was obvious that those were some first-class CLUES... to what however, I can't tell at all. From the description it'd seem that those are things we're yet to see (there was no NPC or character I recall, that had a big deal made out of green nail polish, lol), though I do wonder whether some of them weren't at least implied. With that said, they can mean a lot of things, either highly metaphoric to highly literal. Ironically I thin 'the broken sun' may be the most literal of them all. As for 'fire with a heart of ice'... welp, it may some sort of phenomenon or it can be a person who is either very passionate or seems very passionate, but in reality cold and ruthless. It may be someone that we're yet to be introduced to, but I can;t help to think about Geldauran's icy tomb in Jaws Of Hakkon and whether that ICE, ICE BABY was supposed to tell us something crucial about the character.... Well... that's it for now.
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 1:25:33 GMT
^^^^ Totally off topic, but do you think Bioware got tired of Sandal and Bodahn? or do you think that codex in DAI means we'll see them in Tevinter? They are like, the best. I miss them and their awesome.
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 10, 2016 1:38:24 GMT
^^^^ Totally off topic, but do you think Bioware got tired of Sandal and Bodahn? or do you think that codex in DAI means we'll see them in Tevinter? They are like, the best. I miss them and their awesome. Uhhh, maybe not. They did, after all, throw us a Sandal bone with Trespasser. It'd be nice to see what happens to the little savant, in my humble opinion.
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 1:45:14 GMT
^^^^ Totally off topic, but do you think Bioware got tired of Sandal and Bodahn? or do you think that codex in DAI means we'll see them in Tevinter? They are like, the best. I miss them and their awesome. Uhhh, maybe not. They did, after all, throw us a Sandal bone with Trespasser. It'd be nice to see what happens to the little savant, in my humble opinion. I've always been tickled. Loved how Sandal has another mass killing. Then positively beamed when I found the codex. Surely that's one cameo that doesn't grow old. Sandal is like...the mascot of Dragon Age. Although some folks may say that's Varric.
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Post by morir_a_solas on Dec 10, 2016 2:49:42 GMT
Standing all alone there on the balcony (and at the end of Trespasser) was powerful all right but first time it was just too much of a downer. I don't expect a happy ending and was just blown away by the end of DAO, when first run through Alistair sacrificed himself for me as his friend, and the relief at defeating the archdemon was tempered by his loss but I could still feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of a job well done. I really didn't want to feel as depressed as I did at the end of the DAI main game. A noble sacrifice I could have accepted but just going off without an explanation was something of an anti-climax. I really was going through the motions at the party, whilst really only too anxious to get away from everyone and brood in peace. Like I say above, I was really method acting the whole thing and being abandoned without a proper explanation unfortunately was too close to real life and hit a nerve. Which is why it was better for me to distance myself from the Solas romance and focus on my Dorian romance instead. Trespasser did allow me to get invested in my girl Lavellan again and I have to admit that final confrontation with Solas was awesome, particularly when she made it clear she was not going to give up on him. Then there was that final twist with him there in her dreams. So now I'm all fired up wanting to see where the romance will ultimately go and it would seem will have to wait years in real time to find out. Once again my Dorian romance is helping me out because I am filling my time writing fan fiction about him and my male Lavellan post Trespasser, which is easier to do when you have no idea what they have planned for Solas and are simply a friend rather than a romance. It makes sense and I guess it depends on everyone's individual experience and how you see it, I didn't find standing on the balcony alone depressing, to me it felt empowering (probably why it wouldn't not quite the same for me if a LI was there) I romanced in my first playthrough and self insert not long after a break up, so for me Crestwood was brutal but the balcony scene was like a fresh start! Lavellan is standing there realizing she just saved the world, that she did the impossible against all odds! She's stronger than she probably even knew herself and nothing can stop her now! Everything else seems so small in comparison He showing up in her dreams though... we have an expression for that "he won't do the laundry but he won't lend the bucket" (ok I guess it doesn't translate too well but you get the idea) anyway it was really exciting to see the romance may continue I think it's safe to say we'll all be running back here after DA4 comes out and all our Lavellans get their happy endings -team optimism, ok?
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 10, 2016 3:02:54 GMT
Uhhh, maybe not. They did, after all, throw us a Sandal bone with Trespasser. It'd be nice to see what happens to the little savant, in my humble opinion. I've always been tickled. Loved how Sandal has another mass killing. Then positively beamed when I found the codex. Surely that's one cameo that doesn't grow old. Sandal is like...the mascot of Dragon Age. Although some folks may say that's Varric. We should definitely get to see him slaughtering baddies in some future chapter. He should be tied to the Titan story somehow and have an appearance with Flemeth. But I'm probably more okay with returning characters than some other folks are. Maybe. Perhaps.
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 3:12:02 GMT
I've always been tickled. Loved how Sandal has another mass killing. Then positively beamed when I found the codex. Surely that's one cameo that doesn't grow old. Sandal is like...the mascot of Dragon Age. Although some folks may say that's Varric. We should definitely get to see him slaughtering baddies in some future chapter. He should be tied to the Titan story somehow and have an appearance with Flemeth. But I'm probably more okay with returning characters than some other folks are. Maybe. Perhaps. I like cameos a lot, but I don't like some of the laziness in them. In DAI, Leliana is introduced as your spy master. Then the next time you talk to her, she's trying to kill one of her underlings. Or is it that she's having a religious crisis in front of a complete stranger? Then you can interrogate her to find out about her. Compare that to Josephine where Jose is being so much... Jose. The same care they they took with introducing a new character they did not take with (re)introducing Leliana. Whereas Warden Alistair was amazing in DA2 and DAI, King Alistair was okay in DA2, and meh in DAI. Some people are like "Give me new faces!" but heck, we as PCs are the king and empress makers, and we will rub shoulders with them. At least with Solas returning in the new game... he's been out of our protaganist influence for a while, so he shouldn't be too OOC, right?
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 10, 2016 3:20:10 GMT
We should definitely get to see him slaughtering baddies in some future chapter. He should be tied to the Titan story somehow and have an appearance with Flemeth. But I'm probably more okay with returning characters than some other folks are. Maybe. Perhaps. I like cameos a lot, but I don't like some of the laziness in them. In DAI, Leliana is introduced as your spy master. Then the next time you talk to her, she's trying to kill one of her underlings. Or is it that she's having a religious crisis in front of a complete stranger? Then you can interrogate her to find out about her. Compare that to Josephine where Jose is being so much... Jose. The same care they they took with introducing a new character they did not take with (re)introducing Leliana. Whereas Warden Alistair was amazing in DA2 and DAI, King Alistair was okay in DA2, and meh in DAI. Some people are like "Give me new faces!" but heck, we as PCs are the king and empress makers, and we will rub shoulders with them. At least with Solas returning in the new game... he's been out of our protaganist influence for a while, so he shouldn't be too OOC, right? If they do a Teagan to Solas, people will probably send tons of cupcakes to Bioware. But I don't think that will happen.
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Post by phoray on Dec 10, 2016 3:27:54 GMT
At least with Solas returning in the new game... he's been out of our protaganist influence for a while, so he shouldn't be too OOC, right? If they do a Teagan to Solas, people will probably send tons of cupcakes to Bioware. But I don't think that will happen. *imagines them doing a teagan to Solas" That's pretty bad. *imagines them doing a Corypheus to Solas* *cries*
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Post by spiritofsolace on Dec 10, 2016 3:39:26 GMT
If they do a Teagan to Solas, people will probably send tons of cupcakes to Bioware. But I don't think that will happen. *imagines them doing a teagan to Solas" That's pretty bad. *imagines them doing a Corypheus to Solas* *cries* Man they would never hear the end of it if they did that. I do wonder how, should they get a new pc, they are going to handle Solas in the next game. That is my biggest fear for DA4. Since you know, he does look like a generic bad guy if stripped of the nuances that a new character likely wouldn't be able to see or care about.
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Post by ellawyn on Dec 10, 2016 5:57:54 GMT
I've always been tickled. Loved how Sandal has another mass killing. Then positively beamed when I found the codex. Surely that's one cameo that doesn't grow old. Sandal is like...the mascot of Dragon Age. Although some folks may say that's Varric. We should definitely get to see him slaughtering baddies in some future chapter. He should be tied to the Titan story somehow and have an appearance with Flemeth. But I'm probably more okay with returning characters than some other folks are. Maybe. Perhaps. I'm usually fine with small cameos, even if they're poorly done. They're just so insignificant that it doesn't seem worth getting worked up about. So Alistair or Zevran or whoever was OOC in their cameo. It lasts five minutes at most. I'm more than willing to just brush it aside. "Cameos" like Leliana's piss me off, though, since they're so much bigger and so much more important to the story. I've said it before, but I really wish they had just replaced Leliana with a new character entirely. There was really no point to making her the same Leliana from Origins, other than reminding people that Origins existed. But since she's such a different person with such a different story, it's immensely jarring for me. *imagines them doing a teagan to Solas" That's pretty bad. *imagines them doing a Corypheus to Solas* *cries* Man they would never hear the end of it if they did that. I do wonder how, should they get a new pc, they are going to handle Solas in the next game. That is my biggest fear for DA4. Since you know, he does look like a generic bad guy if stripped of the nuances that a new character likely wouldn't be able to see or care about. I've said it before, but they could very easily make Solas a nuanced antagonist rather than a black-and-white villain, even with a newcomer's perspective. Sure, Solas' goals sound like standard evil villainy, and so an outsider might see him as just that if that was all the information they had. But there's a set-up where Solas can still pursue his goals and yet still have some moral ambiguity without acting OOC - have him free slaves, shelter mages, fight the Qun, just generally act on the values he displayed in-game. He can still try to tear down the Veil while he's doing all these things, but if he's sincerely helping people and defending the downtrodden, it'll be harder for even a new player to say "Well he's trying to destroy the world, obviously he's pure evil." It'd give an interesting twist to our attempts to stop and oppose him as well - sure he's trying to tear down the Veil and destroy life as we know it, and that's bad. But he's also giving safe harbor to escaped slaves and fending off Qunari forces and just genuinely trying to better society. How do you even fight a guy like that? You obviously can't let him continue as he is, but you're gonna look like a huge asshole if you try and stop him. And hey, maybe Solas is counting on that to a degree - that the Inquisition's damned if they do, and damned if they don't. Not to mention it'd make anyone he does liberate genuinely grateful and loyal to him, so the writers wouldn't have to fall back on that tired cliche of the villain building his army through lies and fear (Like they did with Corypheus ). Trespasser even already had him do this, to an extent - he was sincerely trying to save people from the Qunari plot, just as the Inquisition was. It might've aligned somewhat with his plans - obviously he wants the Crossroads secure - but he was at least partially doing it because he thought it was the morally right thing to do. If they carry that into future games, they could easily make Solas a more complex, grey villain and still keep his motives. You wouldn't need to play Inquisition and grasp the full nuance of his character to see him as more morally complex than Corypheus. He's the sort of villain who can easily moonlight as a hero.
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Post by Auirel on Dec 10, 2016 7:14:00 GMT
Man they would never hear the end of it if they did that. I do wonder how, should they get a new pc, they are going to handle Solas in the next game. That is my biggest fear for DA4. Since you know, he does look like a generic bad guy if stripped of the nuances that a new character likely wouldn't be able to see or care about. I've said it before, but they could very easily make Solas a nuanced antagonist rather than a black-and-white villain, even with a newcomer's perspective. Sure, Solas' goals sound like standard evil villainy, and so an outsider might see him as just that if that was all the information they had. But there's a set-up where Solas can still pursue his goals and yet still have some moral ambiguity without acting OOC - have him free slaves, shelter mages, fight the Qun, just generally act on the values he displayed in-game. He can still try to tear down the Veil while he's doing all these things, but if he's sincerely helping people and defending the downtrodden, it'll be harder for even a new player to say "Well he's trying to destroy the world, obviously he's pure evil." It'd give an interesting twist to our attempts to stop and oppose him as well - sure he's trying to tear down the Veil and destroy life as we know it, and that's bad. But he's also giving safe harbor to escaped slaves and fending off Qunari forces and just genuinely trying to better society. How do you even fight a guy like that? You obviously can't let him continue as he is, but you're gonna look like a huge asshole if you try and stop him. And hey, maybe Solas is counting on that to a degree - that the Inquisition's damned if they do, and damned if they don't. Not to mention it'd make anyone he does liberate genuinely grateful and loyal to him, so the writers wouldn't have to fall back on that tired cliche of the villain building his army through lies and fear (Like they did with Corypheus ). Trespasser even already had him do this, to an extent - he was sincerely trying to save people from the Qunari plot, just as the Inquisition was. It might've aligned somewhat with his plans - obviously he wants the Crossroads secure - but he was at least partially doing it because he thought it was the morally right thing to do. If they carry that into future games, they could easily make Solas a more complex, grey villain and still keep his motives. You wouldn't need to play Inquisition and grasp the full nuance of his character to see him as more morally complex than Corypheus. He's the sort of villain who can easily moonlight as a hero. ^^^This just so much. I can easily see situations were both the protagonist's party and Solas' agents briefly end up working together against slavers or against the Qun at some points. Would make for some really interesting choices for the player. Do you deny free help because you don't want to help Solas at all, or do you accept help from his agents because saving the lives of slaves are more important? The argument that could be made against him is that it won't matter if Solas helps slaves escape Tevinter or stop the Qun because almost everyone will die anyway. I'd be really curious in asking his agents about that. Solas might not have told them that if he succeeds most of them will die, he's withheld information in his previous rebellion from his followers (Your gods are as mortal as you or I, yet apparently "the first of my people do not die so easily"). That sort of moral ambiguity would make Solas a great villian, and it might make even some of his haters like him more. I'm also waiting for one of the more fanatical of Solas' agents telling Lavellan or elven protagonist that he/she's abandoned her people by opposing Solas. That is probably going to happen. I'm calling it now. And I want to see that agent verbally demolished by either one of them. Or better yet just have Solas do it...
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Post by Sifr on Dec 10, 2016 7:20:46 GMT
I'm trying to come up with a nick name for my Lavellan. She's kinda morphed into a... Dalish Blood Mage/abomination hunter of a sort. And since she's intended for Solas, I thought it'd be amusing (to me) for her to have some sort of Dread Wolf related nick name. Leliana is called the Nightengale, for example. And I'm failing. :/ How about Fen'annar? ("Wolf Year" or "Year of the Wolf") It would rather fitting if the Dalish used that sort of term as their equivalent to "Dog Days", which is considered either an omen of misfortune or a bad sign to be born under. The term in our world originally befitted the hottest days of the year, which the Dalish would equally not enjoy, because unseasonably warm years can make hunting more difficult, as well as make it more difficult for the clan to travel. It becoming then a nickname for Dalish who are considered unlucky or dangerous to be around, would fit the description of your Lavellan.
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