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

Does Capricorn Sun not come around to post art here anymore, because the thread from what I'm seeing could really use that.

I'm sure she'll be here soon with her daily haul. XD

I'm fairly confident nobody here is really against diversity - what most people are confused about is forcing an issue where there really doesn't seem to be one...

Considering that you and I have never agreed on anything (whether it's elves or what people actually posted a few hours ago), I'm fairly certain that you shouldn't be surprised that things aren't any different now.

By "[my] opinion" are you suggesting that the other people who have said Briala is a WoC don't exist? Like the artists who have depicted her as a WoC, and the modders who have made attempts to (in their own words) restore Briala to how she looked in TME, like the "Brown Briala" mod that provides the description: "My attempt and making Briala look closer to how she's described in TME plus how I've imagined her."

Well, when you're talking about the earlier renditions of Solas and Sera, that's not really a matter of dispute. When it comes to Briala, this is the only place I've ever read anyone claim that Briala is meant to be white. Apparently, a myriad of players, artists, and modders read TME and didn't get the impression that Briala is really supposed to be white. I'm sure Faerunner regrets not being here to participate in this discussion since I know she agreed with you about as much as I did, as I know she also commented on Briala being a woman of color.

I am posting to you, I am refuting you. You have made comments. Why would I question people who are not even in the conversation? Now if they did jump on in, then yes I would say the same thing. It is an opinion. Everyone is entitled to them even if they are mistaken. Am I saying yours, since you are the only one in this thread advocating, is possibly mistaken according to my own opinion. Yes. Based SOLELY off your direct quotes from TME in no way, shape or form, does it imply Briala is a PoC. I have refuted, others have refuted, and yet you will not budge on it regardless of how much logical argument is thrown at you. If you could have devised even a margin of the overwhelming evidence in response to your claim, I would have at least acquiesced and said 'alright, I see your argument and perhaps there is room for Briala to be as you say.'. That is not the case, and here is where I leave it.

Also, people Mod because they want things to be a way that is pleasing to them. Of course those that share your view or find it more in tune with their preferences would Mod. Doesn't mean that people who Mod to make Solas more in keeping with his CONCEPT are wrong or that change a companion's sexual preference to suit their Inquisitor are wrong. They are simply doing it so they can enjoy the game more or add something new.

We're really arguing with Lob? Didn't we learn from the last Blanketfort? We ate up like ten pages in an argument about Dalish victimization that ultimately went nowhere. 



You popped your head in at a bad time. Mostly we just talk about Solas' pretty pretty face.

Of course they're a matter of dispute - you're basing your opinion on a few early concept arts DESPITE the fact, that a sheet with a few concept arts for Solas that people base his "younger" look actually contains multitude of skintones and hair colors (white ones as well), including roughly the look he eventually stuck with, and in fact more artworks where he's actually fairly pale.


Talk about selective memory.

... So because a relatively small part of fandom (that you're obviously spending time around and don't go out of your bubble often, it seems) has accepted a headcanon that Briala is darker than how she was actually portrayed in the game means that somehow that argument is valid? And that's despite the author of the book working directly with the game and would likely intervene if she was meant to be darker, considering that Mr. Weekes is well known for making diverse characters, be it in DA or his personal novellas that actually feature a POC elf as a main character - and he actively describes her like that. I don'r recall him doing that to Briala.

All in all, this particular case (because I'm not dismissing all attempts to diversify stories in varieties of manners; in fact I applaud them if they're done skillfully) is irrelevant, just like Briala's skin color is irrelevant to her plight as a distinct-looking, oppressed minority. Anything else just seems like a rampant defense of a headcanon, or a group of fictional people you seem to have strongly associated yourself with.

I don't get it. Why are we arguing? I posted a picture. Briala is clearly brown in it.