Dragon Age Video: Who is The Dread Wolf?

I have waited for this. She is amazing.

Could be the Inquisition stopped him already, but Solas escaped and is now trying to do something else. That would explain his plan being past tense and Varric’s mission being present tense. Unlikely but possible.

I think: We see it at the beginning of the game. So it could be that this is a recap of DAI. my guess.

If you check out the Asolution/Corypheus spoiler thread you will find some more of my research there. However:

Okay, so now I'm going to toss out a new theory based on the fact that perhaps Solas' new plan does not involve totally destroying the Veil. Instead, he is going to find some way to circumvent it. He said that when he awoke it was like walking through a world of tranquil. That is interesting because we now know it is possible to reverse tranquility, through the use of spirits to reconnect the tranquil with the Fade. Could this be how he intends "restoring" the elves?

This is why he needs the idol. In the Dread Wolf Take You, the Mortalitasi recounted the ritual conducted by a Tevinter mage using the idol to "direct the course of the Fade against the Antaam", so that every dream, demon or half-interested spirit would unite against them. How the heck the Tevinter mage knew this could be accomplished with the idol is anyone's guess but clearly it must have had some impact on the Fade because of the reaction of Fen'Harel.
"You meddle past your understanding, foolish mortal mages, and in doing so, you threaten all creation."
He then commanded a host of spirits to attack the group doing the ritual. The Mortalitasi also mentioned that the spirit of the Dread Wolf was so great that it shook parts of the Fade "that I had always considered to be neutral, devoid of life". However, the latest video recalls another part of this confrontation. She says that the Tevinter mage using the idol caused the Fade around them to be full of "light and colour, a dizzying array of magic that makes up the world of spirits, and it swirled around the Tevinter mage and his ritual knife as though he were the eye of a hurricane." Doesn't that sound something like the image of Solas holding something aloft at the end of the trailer?

So, how does this fit with the "destruction of your world"?  Well, if it didn't work it could result in the world being flooded with spirits.   The Rite of Tranquility was discovered through a Seeker Ritual not working, because the spirit didn't connect with the mage, so these things can go wrong.   Also, the only person who was permanently restored from tranquility, Pharamond in Asunder, was very fragile emotionally.   Might it not be similarly overwhelming to the restored elves?    Even if totally successful, the result would be a large number of powered up elves, many of whom might well want vengeance against the various civilisations that had oppressed them.    Just the degree of magical power that might be unleashed could be lethal to innocent bystanders, even if they didn't directly intend them harm.   Meanwhile, the Tevinter Magisters would not surrender their control without a fight, nor would the Qun.   The result could be total chaos.  The return of the world of the elves, would mean the end of the current one.

Anyway, for what it's worth, that is my idea for what Varric's words meant when he said that Solas "wanted to destroy the Veil".   He has now come up with a different strategy involving the idol and "we're the only ones who can stop him."

Ugh I forgot to comment on the Ghil video there I was thinking of posting it if it wasn't but yeah... I like her theory it makes some degree of sense but I feel kind of sad by the implications if she is right because I was kind of looking forward to meeting the Evanuris but this indicates that a good deal of them are already dead. Though the whole spirit thing and then maybe this is one of the reasons why Solas is so confident that he could defeat them since there is only two left.

I also theorize after listening to the dialogue a few times and through everything else and I think BioWare might be playing a little fast and loose with definitions. I think that most of this is what they intend to show in the game for the cinematic...but the bit at the end, about the weire the only one who can stop him, sounds like pure marketing. The audio even seems to change for me and then you have that little rif at the end also sounds a little out of place in context of the cutscene.