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When you meet Dorian in the Chantry he says that magic that can control time would be "fascinating if true and almost certainly dangerous". It is hard to tell if it is something he already knew was possible or he is genuinely doubting it at this point.

When you actually meet him in the future he is surprised to discover you are alive and obviously wasn't expecting to see you. He is then excited at the prospect that Dorian might be able to reverse the procedure and return us to our present, so cancelling out the events of the last year. In an alternative dialogue branch the PC can say they are glad he understood what Dorian just said because they don't. Then he says: "You would think such understanding would stop me making such terrible mistakes. You would be wrong." Which is curious because at this point we aren't aware he has made any terrible mistakes but presumably he is alluding to the fact that he didn't take the time magic seriously, or alternatively he didn't think to try and prevent you from going to Redcliff Castle. Clearly he has always been of the opinion that he knew everything there was to know about magic and then discovered he was wrong. In the third dialogue option branch he tells you to remember the future as it may help you prevent it. This suggests he doesn't think the future is fixed but can be altered. In all cases he says that the dark future world is an "abomination" and "it must never come to pass". Clearly, whatever he or Mythal were planning, they hadn't foreseen that.

Then later on in Redcliff Castle he says that the Veil is shattered and there is no boundary now between the world and the Fade, so there is no doubt that is what we are experiencing, a world without the Veil.   It is not a fiery chaos that he later predicts but an altogether darker version of chaos.   However, it does show that people are able to survive the transition provided they are protected from the rampaging demons and other horrors that are unleashed. 

However, on our return he definitely questions whether we really experienced time travel and suggest it could have been an illusion or a trick of the Fade. It does seem as though it is something new to him and that is why he wants to be certain.

True. It's probably something that would seriously motivate Inkys to succeed.

I wonder though... is Solas haunted by some sort of vision or experience *from a potential future*, similar to his counterpart? We know prophecies are a thing in this universe. And what happened to Inky and Dorian has proven that it's possible to travel into the future.

I wasn't suggesting it was. Solas in the present says the things he does because he hasn't experienced that future. So if he doesn't believe time travel is possible, he is naturally going to come up with some other explanation. If he comes to accept that what you say is true, he is going to have to revise his ideas about anything Tevinter does, the ancient elves got there first, because clearly in the case of time manipulation they didn't. So that at least should give him pause for thought.   Still I do wonder if he does truly accept there is magic he knows nothing about, which could impact on his future plans.   

Solas in the future is able to take in the fact that you are there and thus clearly time travel is possible. Also if you managed it one way, then theoretically it also should be possible to go back again. The bit I found more thought provoking was the fact that he says that being able to understand what Dorian is talking about with regard to time travel would indicate he has a level of understanding of magic and then says: "You would think such understanding would stop me making such terrible mistakes. You would be wrong." At the time I had more important things to worry about than question this statement but it does sound odd when you look back on it because he is suggesting that he has made "terrible mistakes" but at this point to you he is just a humble apostate who has a rather in depth knowledge of the Fade. He had never intimated before about having made "terrible mistakes" prior to meeting you. So in hindsight was he just referring to not taking Dorian's talk of time travel in the Chantry seriously or was he referring to something else entirely, for example giving his orb to Corypheus or what he did to reality in ancient times?  He could be talking about his decision to give Corypheus his orb because after all the nightmare world they are currently in was the result of his past decision and clearly he did not intend for it to result in the "abomination" he is currently living.

I am starting to think you, and others, may be right about that. However, if that golden lighting isn't magical, and it seems wrong to be ordinary torches, then it would seem to be showing Antiva City in flames and, as I've suggested previously, in that case the reason the castle isn't affected is because some sort of magical protections have been activated. However, they can't be ancient elven magical protections because Antiva City was destroyed in the 4th Blight. Whilst it is said they rebuilt it, they couldn't replicate the elven magic, although I suppose the merchant princes could have paid Tevinter mages to provide something. Still, if it is a city on fire, that figure in the foreground on the roof seems awfully chilled about it.

The problem is that whilst we do have a lot of concept art for Tevinter architecture for comparison, there is very little outside of the comics for Antiva and they are not going be entirely accurate.

I am guessing that the royalty of Antiva has hired/bribed/"persuaded" all the mages they can get to erect a magical barrier to save themselves from the imminent Qunari invasion. The barrier is limited to only the Royal Palace and they are abandoning the rest of the country to save themselves.

They could just as easily be the ones behind the barrier.

I must admit I'm with Hanako on this one. I can't see the merchant princes or the Crows organising something that only protects the royal palace, if that is what it is, and leaves the rest of them in the lurch. However, if it had magical defenses built into it that can be activated from within, then it is possible the monarch did this without reference to anyone else.

The other odd thing for me is that if the castle was rebuilt after the 4th Blight then it is nothing like it was described in the Last Flight. In fact it looks out of place with the other architecture and would do even without the magical field around it.

Anyone else see lady insanitys video yet?



I thought the visual similarities with Fenris' sarcophagus tattoo maker device, and with the vallaslin murals were of particular interest.

Also theres a bigger version of the mural picture going around where you can see a little more of the upside down figures and a city beneath the city.