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

Omg! I just tried to look for his band on Spotify but couldn't find it so searched his name and there was Call Of Cthulhu part 1 so clicked on it and my god its like Solas is reading to you! *pants" that voice.... Ugh...... Need to go give my head a wobble. Seriously, what has Solas done to me!? Haha.

It may interest all of you that there's a mod to let you skip the Harvester on the mage path.

Or you can just accept the canon that Varric lied to protect Orsino if Hawke was pro-mage.  The entire 'mage giving into blood magic' thing seemed to be crafted to give Cassandra what she expected in a story.


Back when my Lavellan was a Solasmancer she wore that hat the entire way through Trepasser because I had the headcanon that Solas had given it to her after the Ball.  All her friends want her to use the staff he left behind or anything other than the hat.

Revas likes the hat.


Patrick Weekes wrote Jondum Bau, not Padok.  He's named after John Dombrow, who wrote Padok because apparently they were trolling each other by naming Salarians after each other.

AlleluiaElizabeth Oh my god XD this is one of these times when i love people.
If Solas pulls an Orsino
I don't know what i'll do with myself
Throw my whole room out the windows probably
and then explode lol

I just wrote another perspective on the developer process which the boards decided to eat, possibly because it had the word 'cheese' in it.

Basically, they sometimes have cool things or storylines planned/built which they have to suddenly cut out due to running out of time, or other complications. The cut thing leaves an awkward hole which they don't have time to replace adequately, so they basically end up trimming the edges and plugging the thing as best they can. "It's not great but this is how we ship on time."

I'm gonna say maybe that's what happened with Orsino.

Is that from the Patrick Weekes interview with VGS? I thought I remember him saying something likethat. For some reason my impression was that they actually moved half the story over to the next game. As in Cory was originally supposed to be the 'little' villain in DAI, and I suppose Solas would have been the Big Bad proper.

It's honestly hard to see how they could have made DAI twice as big, though. That's a LOT of game. We could have had to spend twice as much time gathering elfroot. Gods.

What made it worse  with Orsino was that it was the most boring boss fight ever. I couldn't wait for it to end. I was never in any real danger of death, simply dying of boredom. If it was possible to mod the entire fight out of the game on the mage run, the writers should have done that for themselves. I personally do not use mods so I was stuck with it and every run it only seemed worse. Why didn't you blow up the Gallows, Anders, and then we could have been spared that?

Up until that point I had also thought Orsino was the coolest mage ever. The way he so casually "distracted" the Qunari and then that cheeky comment when you mention about dancing in the moonlight naked. Still by the end of DA2 I realised that clearly the moment you like a mage, they were going to ruin them for you. After Awakening I was so looking forward to hooking up with Anders again, and then they Justified him. Merrill changed out of all recognition from DAO to DA2. Then they did that to Orsino. Grrr.

Which is why initially I got so angry and depressed over what happened with Solas. Damn it, I respected him and as the game progressed I was able to start forgiving them for they had done to Orsino, because Solas was so great. Then he did that to my poor Lavellan girl and betrayed the friendship of my Lavellan lad. We didn't save the world together, just for him to go and destroy it. I thought he respected life from the conversations he had with everyone.

However, I have been spending the summer break writing my way through the exploits of my male Lavellan after the disbanding of the Inquisition, in particular his struggles in coming to terms with how all the revelations impacted on his faith in anything. Strangely enough, having had him suffer a real spiritual attack that nearly killed him because he started to despair that anything was worth doing, in the last few days he (I) has found something to believe in again and he understands Solas better now as well. So he has moved from just wanting to hunt Solas down at the end of Trespasser to wanting to help Solas find his true self again.

Now I have a dilemma. They made me make a choice at the end of the game. Will they make me stick to that in the next one? Will my Inquisitor be stuck with the sentiments he felt at the end of Trespasser, even though his outlook has changed? Will this have any real impact on the new PC or will it just flavour the dialogue if they should meet (like with Hawke)? This is only a problem for my male PC. My female Lavellan is committed to saving Solas and always has been. My male Lavellan is my favourite Inquisitor though and I don't want him to be stuck with something he felt in the heat of the moment, when after reflection he feels differently.   Should I just change his entry in the Keep?  

I don't think we have any sure way of knowing how deep the impact that choice at the end of Trespasser will be. I tend to think it won't be hugely significant, even with the existence of the Keep (though I'd love to be wrong). It is a DLC after all, and I imagine most new players will just go with the default world state and not bother with the Keep. If the Trespasser choice has consequences, they would probably be in *addition* to the core stuff that everybody will see regardless of whether they played Trespasser or not. Basically, Bioware won't spend a lot of resources on content that the majority of players won't see. (Which is presumably why either/or characters like Bethany and Carver each get half the content other companions do.)

If you're worried that the impact will be significant, or you won't have a chance to change your Inquisitor's stance, why not change it in the Keep and headcanon the rest?

There have been some recent triple-A games that have done the dual-protagonist thing. I believe at least one Bioware dev (can't remember who) has said/tweeted it was a thing they might consider? Not saying this is in relation to Dragon Age though. Sigh, I wish I had a magic filing system for 'things devs have said that I will want to remember properly later'.

I don't expect to play the Inquisitor again, but damn will I be ecstatic if it happens.

Bonus to that:



... I think it's safe to infer that Thedas is indeed about to hit the metaphorical iceberg o_O

Seriously 10k gold were supposed to be like an impossible amount of money so no one could buy the gold nug in Val Royaux and we could manage this much very early in the game, so...
Probably yes, we could actually buy the whole Thedas atm LOL