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

It could still create complications after the other gods are defeated. Perhaps Solas will sacrifice himself to achieve that but if he survives, what then? He was transferring the gods to a different prison before their escape, ready so he could drop the Veil. Assuming the Veil is still intact at the end of the conflict and the gods are either dead or imprisoned again in his new location for them, will he still intend carrying out his original plan? Or will he finally admit that he was wrong and we should try to build a new world from the ruins of the war without the additional injection of magic? If the latter, will we let bygones be bygones and let him help us build that future, or will we consider him too dangerous to leave free (assuming he is able to leave the Fade at some point)? Plenty still to consider when it comes to Solas.

Gotta say... if the title is any indicator, I do find it hilarious that ultimately we may have to band with Solas... to guard the Veil 

I did notice the new wolf statue.  Very interesting. 

I feel all of this.  There are many things I'm excited for in this game.  Rook isn't one of them. 



Perhaps they'll grow on me.

I don't think Inquisitor ever meant "then we'll find someone he doesn't know" as some sort of secret weapon. In fact I don't they meant this about a singular agent. They simply meant new people whose patterns and behaviors are unfamiliar to Solas.

And they did. All across different books and comics we see Inquisition working with new people, and many of those people actually help them track Solas. It's the same with Varric and Harding - they're not finding Solas through old Inquisition people; in fact the last comic is there specifically to introduce new ones (Neve, Irelin and her Veil Jumpers, etc).

And, ultimately... well, we see Rook being that one (recruited) person, who was at the right time and place to stop Solas' ritual.

I honestly don't know what kind of role they have prepared for Inquisitor and how significant their role will be in Veilguard, but I'm not sure the devs would be talking about how weird it would be to NOT bring Inquisitor back, nor we'd be designing them alongside our new Rook if they were to show up for 5 minutes and disappear.

I mean, they could   Let's not fool ourselves. But I think they're holding any information on what extent they'll be involved under wraps specifically for that to be a surprise. Kinda like they surprised everyone with presence of Morrigan in the last trailer.

Just popping in to say hello and honestly insanely stunned and stoked the og “blanket fort” thread is still alive. And happy to see some old familiar names from the 2015 - 2016 era. Honestly what chaos and fun.

Anyways excited for the new game!

I believe they have already confirmed the inquisitor VA's are returning.   All 4 of them. 

Oooh!  I missed that then.  That's awesome!

I didn't say they were doing this just in comics. I was mostly replying to this bit right here:


So why couldn't we have done that in game?

I also don't like comics, they're just not my cup of tea.

Yeah I agree, for purposes of brevity for awhile now I have been thinking that the 'sequel to Dragon Age Inquisiton/ Dragon Age 4' ended up being all the marketing for what would become the Veilguard leading up to us finally stopping the ritual in the beginning of the game. Based on the way Darrah has been talking in a few things I think we've partially had a mix and matching of a few things but essentially we were going to do one game, get to the ritual, Elven gods get free, next game. So when they had to have not just one but two reboots technically I think they decided to drop the first part of that plot and, as John Epler describes it, start the next game as if it were the end of a game...because effectively it is. 

Plus Solas makes a lot better morally grey frenemy type figure then he ever would have as a straight villain so I am beyond excited for that. 

The story has moved on. I remember how everyone thought we would be spending DAV trying to stop Solas and that at the end something would go wrong and the next PC would have to pick up the pieces. I thought at the time that would suck, particularly as I'd be in my dotage before I got to play it. So, actually I'm okay with the fact that they missed out the ten years running around after Solas and skipped to the end game so we can play the important bit before we're pushing up daises. All I do want is to be able to have a pithy come back to Solas when he starts blaming Rook for events because they interrupted his ritual.

Rook: From what I've been told you've had 10 years to explain to your old allies and friends why they shouldn't interfere mid ritual, so it is all down to you, you secretive bastard.

According to the game play trailer he didn't even bother telling Varric when he was standing right there.

Solas: I'll deal with you in a minute, Varric, but this is a highly sensitive operation which involves dealing with the problem of the evil gods, so don't distract me or interfere or they might escape.

Instead it was the usual rhetoric of he's got it covered in vague terms so Varric should just shut up.   To give Neve her due I think she did warn that interrupting the ritual might be dangerous, from a simple mage perspective on these things, so I won't be chewing her out if she says she told me so.

As a side note I still don't understand why he didn't shut down the eluvian network before he undertook the final part of his ritual.   So, perhaps he left it open for a reason.   Also, the ring structure in Minrathous seemed to be connected to it in some way.   That is how we knew when we were there that he had begun his ritual (plus the demons running around the place even though the Veil had not yet fallen).  Presumably that is why Solas went to Minrathous in the first place, to make sure it was set up correctly.    Perhaps the ring structure was a giant city wide prevention of invasion by demons mechanism and drawing power from it was what allowed the demons through.