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

Call me a cat, but I'm curious.

Thank you for posting the link to the extra Solas dialogue for if he doesn't approve of the Inquisitor. I'd caught some of it on You Tube but I wondered what the alternative options were. Things I notice:

If the Inquisitor killed Abelas and Co, Solas criticises them striking down "some of the few true elves left". So it is pretty clear cut there as to who he considers true elves.

Solas really doesn't have much faith in the Grey Wardens and their expertise with the Blight. When the Warden makes some sarcastic comments about Solas being an expert on that now, his response is "If current wisdom is that you corrupt yourself with darkspawn blood, then any suggestion I offer would have to be better."

I still love his criticism of letting people think you are the Herald of Andraste but I hadn't seen the line before where he outright calls it a lie and that the Inquisitor is keeping the people in ignorance.

It seems such a shame that I never get to hear these things because he likes me because, apart from the true elf one, my Lavellan would so much agree with him. I suppose that is why he approved of me, because right from the outset I kept saying I was not the Herald and was not happy after Adamant when people suggested I should suppress the truth.

What I do notice is that he would approve of the Dalish emphasis on belief in family, just not attributing it the influence of their gods, which you have to admit is rather ironic considering the Evanuris were anything but a big happy family.

The other thing I now think he would approve of was my male Lavellan disbanding the Inquisition in view of his comments about groups of people not willing to surrender power and his low opinion of the Templars, who grew out of the original Inquisition after it was placed under the control of the Chantry.

It is so frustrating that my lovely male Lavellan sees Solas as the enemy now because really they did agree on so much and still would agree about so many things. The one sticking point is Solas' determination to create a fiery chaos, which my lad feels is something of a betrayal of their friendship. What is even more annoying is that Solas totally understands.

See, he says that and then proceeds not to offer any other solution and I am left wanting to smack him again. Solas, always with the rollercoaster of emotions. 

Considering how scathing he is about the Evanuris and their society, I don't see his approval of a belief in family as ironic. Which comment are you referring to though? I don't remember him talking about the Dalish belief in family?

I also wish my high-approval Lavellan got to hear these things, she would  have appreciated hearing his thoughts on the circles and the Maker.

I wanted to take some nice screenshots today, but Solas wasn't very cooperative. I thought I'd share the worst best ones with you, if that's okay.



Fortunately I managed to get a few good pics of him, too, so I didn't waste those few hours completely.



Sorry for an image heavy post! 

Another art to share

Beautiful line art of Lavellan and Solas (I really want to color it)

Source - derp3ter.deviantart.com/art/Tale-of-the-Dread-Wolf-DA-I-Spoilers-626018024

creepy realization D: june was a monster

All this Fenris talk has me wanting to play DA2 and romance him again. Hmm...maybe I will....

okay.. it's terrible to me because it really squicks me out kinda.

so the idea is about dragonsblood right? dragons are unusually resistant to the taint and can stem its spread within their own bodies by growing cysts around blighted flesh. though they cannot do this indefinitely, this is super notable. imo btw this "indefinite" thing refers to high dragons (most common 'powerful' dragon in the setting). great dragons are more powerful and more ancient [see why i mention this in a second].

there's all that hoo-hah about the power in the theirin bloodline. qunari belief is that calenhad theirin drank the blood of a great dragon, gaining strength that made him undefeatable. some of that power was passed on in the bloodline (Flemeth's request of Maric shows the line still has power in the blood). a great dragon's blood, not a high dragon's. is the theirin bloodline therefore resistant to the taint? merril also purified a mirror with blood magic, and didnt avernus extend his life through blood magic? we got blood power against the taint all up in here.

fiona was pregnant with a child of the bloodline. biologically a mother and her fetus's bloodstreams interact in pregnacy don't they? 
consider how warden alistair in inquisition isn't off in search of a cure for the calling the way a romanced surviving HoF is. sure, he doesn't know he's resistant to the corruption, consciously, and any cure the HoF finds she'd surely share with her beloved, and he's occupied/distracted by the Corypheus thing, and he can hear the song like all wardens can at that time, but.. I dunno. she's off trying to cure herself of her taint and he seems .. subconsciously less worried. cause he's resistant.

theirin bloodline in fiona's pregnancy cured her. maric's magic spunk.

Oh stahp it, you


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