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

Vhenyan!  It's adorable.

Apparently I wasn't that far from the romance stuff after all

To be honest, given Sandal's prophecy in DA2, I'd be disappointed if the Veil didn't come down.

Yeah, I think I should have sacrificed that halla after all... *huddles down in blankets and cries because she is a failure*

Sorry for being off topic guys!

QuizzyBunny
*hug bunny* You're not a failure! 
Junkfood is helpful, yes?


As for the armor, it does looks odd. (He kind of looks like Turtle!Solas.) Plus, it's Qunari armor which is just wrong. I was just messing around with some things.
edit: I didn't intend to take screenshots of him. The camera panned over to him so I had to.
*shake fist at Solas* stupid sexy egghead.

Art post!

Lovely art of Solas and Lavellan kissing at the rotunda.
Source: deseo-0shi.tumblr.com/post/149082498530

Oh hey, Solavellan hell! Sad artwork of Solas holding a dead Lavellan. (WARNING: Blood content and Lavellan's throat is slit...)
Source: flufs.tumblr.com/post/149090120515/he-holds-my-body-in-his-arms-he-didnt-mean-to-do

Beautiful artwork of Solas and a white wolf sitting under a tree.
Source: renanlavellan.tumblr.com/post/149076980748/fenharel-by-aldric-cheylan
DeviantArt link: aldric-cheylan.deviantart.com/art/Fen-Harel-628780817

Lovely prisma artwork of Solas by umabbas.
Source: umabbas.tumblr.com/post/149067346169/prisma-solas-from-my-older-drawing

Colored version of this sketch of Solas.
Source: pear-glace19.tumblr.com/post/149072608638/finished-colouring-my-drawing-of-solas

Sass Squad: Fenris, Solas, and Zevran.
Source: tyrphi.tumblr.com/post/149090895581/sass-squad

You are all very sweet, and it has made me feel... well, at least slightly less crappy. It just feels so heartbreaking to study so hard and then (probably) fail because the teacher decided to quiz stuff that wasn't in the book or the lectures.

Sad bunny is sad

So I was thinking about those codex entries in the Temple of Mythal, the ones given by veilfire runes that are in ancient elven writing and can only be understood if the Inquisitor drinks from the Well. I think they may end up being important or at least clues to what has happened or what's going to happen, if only because of the way they're hidden. The writers do like to do things like that. And I've seen some of them discussed in the old thread. The one I haven't really seen talked about is this one:

dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Unreadable_Elven_Writing

Here is the text:

"She shook the radiance of the stars, divided them into grains of light, then stored them in a shaft of gold. Andruil, blood and force, save us from the time this weapon is thrown. Your people pray to You. Spare us the moment we become Your sacrifice."

There is a brief image of an elaborate golden spear, glowing with unbearable heat. Then it fades.

Andruil is typically depicted with a bow, not a spear but then the "she" who created the spear may not have been Andruil at all and the one who wrote this may have just been asking Andruil to save them. At any rate, we've already come across a powerful ancient elven artifact (the orb) and I can't help but wonder why the writers specifically put this as a semi-hidden codex.

I like your take on this and it would be interesting if it is referring to another goddess.

Someone else definitely could have made the weapon, most likely Sylaise, who was known for crafting things as well as June did, and for having very hot breath (as a dragon I guess).

Song to Sylaise

Sylaise, whose heat rivals Elgar'nan's light.
Sylaise, whose temples rival Mythal's cities.
Sylaise, whose breath rivals Andruil's spear.
Sylaise, whose skill rivals June's craft.
Sylaise, whose fire cannot be quenched.

We give ourselves gladly to your service.

But the spear is marked to belong to Andruil, and if Sylaise was the envious/jealous type that her Song portrays, I'm not sure she would have made it for her.

I have mixed feelings about it. Also, "nothing is inevitable" seemed to be one of the threads woven into DAI, and I'm pretty sure that could be extended to prophecies.

I did not realize that only Well-drinking Inquisitors got to read those temple murals in English (or a localized language of their choice). Now I feel better about having drunk the Well. It seemed like Morrigan got more out of it than the Inquisitor (based on YouTube videos of various people's playthroughs) so I'm glad that my non-mage Inquisitor has some justification for asserting that the Well would not be wasted on her if she drank instead of Morrigan.

It makes sense. My concerns are mainly that everyone's PC would have magic in the Veil-less world and I'm one of those blasphemers that prefers playing a non-mage.  Also, while the world Solas remembers does really sound interesting, I'm not sure how gripping it would be for the rest of the games in the DA series (however many that may be). They've put so much time and effort into establishing the lore that they have, and so many of the conflicts and moral dilemmas that currently exist in Dragon Age games would be rendered rather toothless by everyone being a mage and living with spirits/demons, I think. I am certain that a Veil-less world could provide new conflicts, but I have trouble imagining what they might be.

I think what would be cool is for us to actually see the pre-Veil world (or at least Solas' memory of it, or another ancient elf's memory of it) in a dream or a Fade-type major quest. So we'd get to experience it a little for a while, but then we'd be back in the familiar world of Thedas that we have come to know and love.