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

it might not mean anything though, the eye seems to be a go to symbol of faith and religion in EA games, the sims medieval had that same symbol (minus the sword) for their religion

they might have drawn inspiration from somewhere but it’s still a fictional religion they can use symbols with no meaning if they want to or even change them to look better aesthetically (like they did with vallaslins) and then re-use them within franchises, anyway, I just mean they seem to have it as a go to symbol not necessarily exclusively tied to the DA world, shouldn’t stop you from putting on the tinfoil hat and have some fun

Lol I just noticed that Solas changed the title of this thread. *snicker*


Sorry, for the interruption, Carry on. 

The "leak" is fake. It is very obviously based on guesswork from all the stuff that's been suggested from the last three games, and looks suspiciously like someone's tabletop roleplaying game notes.

If there are any similarities when the game comes out, it will be because those elements can be easily inferred from existing material. It is unlikely that with a full development cycle that they'd go back to human only, add a "sexuality toggle", or have Solas do any kind of direct attack on Tevinter or the Qunari, rather than have them kill each other while he possibly secures his people and prepares them for the Veil collapse. Solas likes to make other people do his dirty work for him when he can, and usually works behind the scenes. Drawing him out for a final confrontation seems like it would be very challenging, and he'd have to have no other options.

Cool, thanks for answering.

Maybe I'm just being a little bit jumpy on the 'supposed leaks'.
That and I'd always wanted to see the Fen'Harel side of him, through the eyes of a new character who has never known 'Solas'.

If there is one thing I'd like to see though, the choice of getting the IQ meet Solas again to settle the dust.
It'd be pretty interesting to see the reaction of people being so scared just by the mention of his name and here comes the [former] IQ greeting him as a friend/lover. Not just as a passing mention + 2 convo and that's it.

Honestly I'm curious on what he's up to.

I just... linked a codex? In the very comment you've quoted? Where they say, explicitly, that Inquisition took the eye as a symbol of seeking out threats and applying holy judgement?

So, there it is. Not random or simply aesthetic.

I just have to say that I find it unusual that, in a story that we know is so steeped with symbols, metaphors and little hints, you'd think that the symbol for some of the most important institutions on Thedas would be having as little meaning as in Sims or be a generic "symbol for religion in EA"... (as someone who does art professionally I'd argue that such use of a symbol is hardly frivolous or arbitrary even in case of Sims... but that's a tangent for another day and likely a different thread)?

And I'm not saying that we should find triple meanings and 2nd bottoms in everything they do - but DA folks they've proven multiple times that a lot of what they're adding to their games is very deliberate, and this appears to be no exception.

A sign we can find in a Keep we own that once belonged to master manipulator with knowledge and origin beyond understanding of a simple human, whose moniker is, among others, "Bringer Of Nightmares" and who could probably easily control us through dreams? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

Well in some respects DA does contain a healthy dose of lovecraftian/cosmic horror, and I don't just mean all the grotesque demon shapes or ALL THE SICKLY GREEN, but... well.. we've only recently found out that reality as most Thedosians understand it is a lie and there are things there and truths so far beyond their understanding, that it's not crazy to think that they may drive people mad. Nevermind all the Fadeish or Blighted ancient horrors that may or may not subtly steer things in certain directions.

And I don't mean to say that I think we should think of the DA world as 'well, this stuff is Cthulu' or 'this stuff is all like Cthulu', but that we can find parallels or thematic similarities between both mythos. Heck, even easter eggs in this franchise can have an additional layer of meaning >.>' ...But that's why I like it
Oh yeah, Solas's long nap seemed to be hardly vacation for him - more like living in a jungle full of predators and traps. He does tell to IB in banter that he avoided doing extravagant stuff because it attracted demons and avoided some parts of the Fade that could be dangerous for him, like Nightmare's domain. So it's no wonder that he seems tired, but at the same time holds his emotions on a tight leash. For him it was a matter of survival :/ 

That blobby statue first appeared in DA2. It was in the cave with Merrill's demon on Sundermount so it must have something to do with the ancient elves but what exactly is anyone's guess.

Just noticed we're nearly at 300 pages

Weird, my page count says 298. Not that that is far from 300, but I wonder how two pages have gone missing.