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

His feet must get so cold in Emprise du Lion. And so burnt in the deserts.

Eyyy, do you think Solas and Mythal used to bang?

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Fuck, we already talked about that too.

I'd say he *has* to have high blood pressure at the very least. 

I think we have. We have at least speculated on what kind of spirit he might have been before he was potentially summoned and possibly tattoed by Mythal. I think the viewpoints were mostly: he longs to be seen as wise so there's a good chance he was Wisdom before being corrupted to Pride, but he could also have been Faith, since he clearly still feels some love and loyalty to Mythal. 

We have been saved from the horrendous fate of being doomed to discussion of Solas feet. 

Find him and drag him back to my Lavellan so she can give him a stern talking-to and show him all the stuff she's researched in the intervening years and convince him that he needs to try harder to not kill most of the world while trying to return it to its former state of commingled Fade and physical worlds, I hope.

I guess those symbols on the t-shirt are a clue of sorts, wavy lines indicating the fade, The sun being the father of Elgar'nan, the moon was fashioned by Mythal so those two are going to be heavy in some form or fashion in the next game.

The four dots are presumably four orbs.

The jawbone represents Solas's burden and past misdeeds, it's black so maybe he caused the dreadwolf aspect to be blighted?

Path of righteousness: Whilst I would agree that at times Solas comes across as self-righteous, when speaking to Lavellan in Trespasser he doesn't say he is on the path of righteousness but the "dinan'shiral", a journey of death and he does not want her to see what he will become in achieving his aim. I really don't get the sense that he thinks he is on a righteous journey but that the end justifies the means. He admits that he is sacrificing all the modern world even though they don't deserve such a fate but his People are more important. Surely, Solas would not be so hypocritical as to think he is on a righteous path?

Eternal commitment: Okay, he says to Flemeth/Mythal that whilst he deserves punishment for his past failures, "the People need me", but that seems more along the lines of him thinking only he can fix things, not some commitment to the elves, certainly not the modern elves since it is questionable whether he even sees them as part of "the People". So, does this refer to some compulsion (geas) that was placed on him?

If you drink from the Well, he admonishes you with "everything you do whether you know it or not, you will do for her". I've often wondered if he was speaking from personal experience there. Also, absorbing Mythal would not alter his motivation because he is already bound to her will.

PW also said something about Solas backing out of telling Lavellan his secret and, possibly, even abandoning his quest for her sake, because it would alter him in some profound way. I think it was in a tweet posted on the old boards but it's probably either archived or already mentioned somewhere in these 400 pages. I wonder if it also links to Rasaan's determination to discover his true name. Is it possible that would free him? She maintained Solas was the name he took as a self-styled martyr, which would fit with the "penance", although I would like to know where Rasaan got her information from.

Incidentally, I assume the word "martyr" was intended to suggest self-sacrifice for a cause rather than its original meaning in Greek of "witness".

The ancient elves seemed to use language in a similar way to the Qun, so an individual's name reflects their role in life. Abelas had changed his name at least twice: He changed it on entering Mythal's service and then again to reflect his grief and role as a mourner on her death. Solas also said he hoped he would find a new name on leaving the Temple. This is why I wondered if the practice of the Qun reflected their origins in ancient elves, although that would mean it was a custom of the Kossith, or whether it simply reflected the culture that Koslun came from, who may not necessarily have been a Kossith but influenced a group of them to adopt his philosophy. This is why I feel that Rasaan may actually know something about the importance of names to the ancient elves.

On the subject of Solas as a penitent. Does he feel he needs to do penance for how raising the Veil impacted so disastrously on the elves or for the fact that Mythal died on his watch? You see, whilst the Veil did take "everything" from the elves, he maintained that it was necessary or the Evanuris would have destroyed the world, so the elves would have died anyway. Thus, even if he could have foreseen the outcome, did he have any choice? On the other hand, if the prime motivation was vengeance, then he should feel guilty about the outcome. The "eternal commitment" to the elves would support this theory.

I do wonder though if he feels be bears some responsibility for Mythal's murder. I've suggested before that the placing of his statue on her left might indicated a role of spymaster, in which case perhaps he either failed to notice the plot developing against her, or, like Briala and Celene, he anticipated that Mythal was walking into a deadly situation and failed to warn her for reasons of his own.

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new Solas statuette from Dark Horse 






Solas' 'my fursona' mural on the base