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

It is, considering Bioware made it very clear they don't agree with you. Since they have the final say, we know who's right when it comes to translating the passages in the book. Me and anyone who agrees with me. Time to get over your butthurt and suck it up, buttercup. 

I can't recall the exact source, but I believe Dalish legend said that Fen'Harel tricked both the Evanuris and the Forgotten Ones into the Fade by telling both of them that he had secured a weapon they could use against the other side. I imagine said weapon was the Blight, but I obviously can't say for sure. Either way, I don't think it was the promise of Solas himself that lured them. While the Evanuris, and apparently the Forgotten Ones, all hated Fen'Harel, that doesn't mean they didn't see the potential of allying with him against the other. The enemy of my enemy, and all that. 

Besides, I don't think Dalish myth is straight up wrong, just... open to interpretation. I mean, what are the main thrusts of it? The Forgotten Ones existed, but we don't know a whole lot about them. That's true. The Evanuris existed, and also ruled over the people and brought them greatness. That's also true - it just leaves out the part where they were tyrants that enslaved the People and used them for their own power. Fen'Harel was once friends with both of them - we know that's true for the Evanuris, at least, since they went around slapping portraits of him in their temples. And Dalish myth says that Fen'Harel somehow tricked the Evanuris into the Fade and then put up the Veil to keep them there - and Trespasser confirmed all of that. The only part of Dalish myth that you could argue is totally false is the "Fen'Harel laughed madly about it for years, and then went on to antagonize the Dalish for kicks." 

But on the whole, Dalish myth has a good track record of being correct, it's just very bad at giving the whole dark and bloody story. It reads less like fairytales that people just made up and more like propaganda that survived the years - it accentuates the Evanuris good points, erases their flaws, and demonizes their enemies, but it generally refrains from making claims that wholly untrue. As such, I think its claim that Fen'Harel was somehow friends to both sets of gods is true, but perhaps simplified and idealized. 

*eyebrow waggle*

Come with me, Vhenan! Forget Crestwood- To the Blanketfort!

It's more that people address the contrast between how she's written and described in TME, and how she appears in Inquisition (sans your standard condescension you reserve for me and everyone who disagrees with you).

Again, you seem to be bringing up that time that Ghost Gal and I had the audacity to not share your opinion on Inquisition, which happened a long time ago.

I haven't seen Blanketfort "drama" in such a long time. I left so long ago that the last drama I remember was the group of posters that decided they didn't like Solas so much anymore and Abelas love and passive aggressive Solas art was the new name of the game.

Good times?