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

happens mid-story

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Ingame T_T (every time she turns, profile is...bad)

It sucks, but Varric knew better than to go hand to hand with the Dread Wolf. There was only one way that could have ended.

The response is to blame the murder victim? He was just trying to get the dagger, not actually to kill Solas. It wasn't even a self defense kill.

in the game itself, if one talks with Fade!Varric and picks an option "Solas killed you" Varric himself says that Solas didn't mean it. He's had all the chance in the world to turn Varric to stone or explode him earlier; he didn't do it - he only destroyed Bianca. He stabbed Varric only during the chaotic scramble where both sides fought for what they thought was the highest stakes.

Personally, I think he could easily repel Varric with a non-lethal magical blast or force field.

And really, this is the same guy who spared the Inquisitor in Trespasser even if the latter vowed to stop him.

This seemed rather OOC.

As we saw in his memories, he has no problem killing people who are loyal to him advance his cause though he is VERY regretful afterwards. Varric was in his way and wasn't going to back down. So, Solas felt he needed to kill him something that he was remorseful in doing so.

this morning i was cackling as I thought it took an entire gang of women ((and possibly nonbinary protags)) working together to finally get to [Fix Him]™ 🤣 and THAT ENDING IS CANON pretty much since solavellan is the default world state, I'm having way too much fun mentally shitposting to myself and it's only been 10 hours

Yea, that's why I wasn't really that bothered with the name change - it's quite ironic (and I like irony) and still related to Solas, as Veil is his creation and he struggles with its creation, only in the end to become (willing or unwilling) the one who sustains it.

You can actually obtain the transmog version - in blue, reddish and white color, from "Regrets of the Dread Wolf' quest. It's called "Watcher's robe" (description: "The cloth of this robe is thick as a blanket, yet soft as silk, and makes far less noise than it should"). On one hand Mythal's fragment has been stuck watching the events of the world unfold; hence she's 'the Watcher' - on the other I'm not sure there's more to the robe than being ancient elvhen? With that said, it wouldn't be wholly unusual for some higher servant of Mythal to wear similar clothes as her god, and perhaps the servant was enslaved by other Evanuris once Mythal was killed.
I'm pretty sure they went through a zillion versions over the last 10 years of development, but I'm quite glad that didn't go with that one. Tranquility, as we know, may be reverted, but how would even do that on an entity like Solas, stuck in the Fade and effectively invisible to spirits? Not sure THAT Tranquility can be undone, or whether it even makes a narrative sense.

And the ending we get is one that I find interesting from the standpoint of "he may actually show up in some form later on", because regardless of how he ends up there, he ends up bound to the Veil and in the regret prison, and this sort of narrative 'evening out' - as far as worldstates go - is usually applied to characters they may want to retain and use in some way (but whether they do, remains to be seen).
No, it's not the same place - we don't really know where the prison is Fade-geography-wise, and whether it even matters to ponder where exactly it is, but regret prison is a new prison that Solas created to hold the two remaining gods, as their old prison (the Black City) was failing to contain them. This is why there was always a faint sense of urgency in Solas' actions one could sense in Inquisition and Trespasser - the gods were about to escape, which is why he built a new place and the ritual was largely about transferring them. He still clearly had plans to remove the Veil, but since they involved the transfer of gods whose life-force is directly tied to the Veil, those plans must've been more complex.

With that said - while the prison was failing to contain the gods, it's still containing most of the blight, and so I assume that the Black City itself will play a role sometime in the future, if more Dragon Age happens.

I'm not sure if people who use the word Void mean the same things, but the Void appears to definitely be connected to the blight somehow (in what way, hard to tell), since entering it made Andruil discover the blight (or at least that's the assumption Bellara and Davrin make). I'm unsure Solas has created the Void itself - we know he led to the creation of the blight, but the Void may as well be something older. We know now for sure there are certainly older things than the blight, elves and likely the spirits that became elves.