The Game Informer Article *Contains Spoilers!!*

That detail about the single place setting in Solas's dining room is simultaneously hilarious and very sad. This is what you get for driving all of your Inquisition friends away, you stupid egg.

Dumat! Ancient Ones I beseech you! If you exist! If you every truly existed! Aid me now!

Corypheus I think had the most wasted potential of any of the DA baddies so he is quite down my list of favorites, but I still really enjoyed him and his performance overall. ANd which we got more of the stuff like we got in the Temple of Dumat during the Templar ally timeline. Like Solas I don't even find him entirely unsympathetic. 

Edit: Vid of my Inquisitor for refernce:

Plus I do believe he got more desperate the more his plans failed. Which just speaks to his brilliance to because the man had a fairly full proof, end of the game, type plan, and he still had the forethought to have contingincies if he failed. Probably the one area where Cory actually one ups Solas both in terms of a threat and overall character. 

Solas, I think, is good at thinking quick on his feet when stuff falls apart - instead of losing his head, he swiftly assesses what would be the best solution to the sudden problem and commits to it. After all, he was the one who actively approached Inquisition and helped them, including saving Inky's life in first crucial days and giving them his old base of operations, so his plans to deal with Cory crisis worked out basically without a hitch (or with the hitch being that he... got attached to at least some of these people, lol).

I don't think however we can say that he has no contingencies (he may have to detail what precautions he took to minimize the damage of the ritual tho) - but he also works with a far more complex problem than Cory, who focuses predominantly on becoming a new god.

can't wait to have Gareth David Lloyd whispering to me in my dreams.

Yes. I was watching on of the other You Tubers who got to play test that first section of the game, like the guy in the article, and they were genuinely surprised that Bioware had given them the green light to reveal this as part of the marketing. It was a pretty big deal in their eyes and quite a shock when it happened in game.  So they are hoping it won't spoil the impact for people when they do play it. They have pointed out it does occur really early in the game, so there is plenty more to come. I'm hoping that if we can communicate with him there we finally can ask him questions that he actually has to answer (because he's not going anywhere) and he realises that perhaps keeping everyone of his old allies in the dark, apart from telling them you're all going to die, didn't work out too well for him. That's three times now his plan didn't work as anticipated when running solo; just how wise are you when you can't take a hint.

The other thing that was perhaps less of a surprise but nevertheless the You Tuber was surprised they revealed it, was the identity of the two gods that were released and the fact that they are blighted. That doesn't necessarily mean they created the blight, just that they are now infected with it. As a result, like any blighted creature they spread the blight wherever they go. Not good news. However, considering the general theory it has something to do with killing a titan or titans and Elgar'nan along with Mythal seem to have been responsible for that, chances are the two senior Evauris were responsible indirectly, even if it wasn't their intention to cause it.

Still, referring back to the captive Solas, perhaps he can now finally tell us what he knows about the origins of the blight. Or we can study his murals at our leisure. The article says that his hideout has them everywhere and originally the route there had them on the walls as well. In fact it is said that walking past them is like travelling back in time.

Also, if being at the ritual site gave Rook a permanent connection with the Fade (whether they are a mage or not) I'm guessing that is what also happened to Harding. Neve of course was already a mage. As for Varric, his ultimate fate wasn't revealed. It would be amusing to think he got trapped in the Fade with Solas. Now Varric can talk for eternity and Chuckles will have to listen.

Well it does matter, it's just mission accomplished within the prologue.

I knew I wasn't the only one who felt that. I know BSN folks are divided with one faction being nitpicky about every single little things but still chooses to buy the game. 

How are we so divided though? Some want to crack the egg, some want to redeem him. Some want a fresh new protagonist, some (especially Hanako) want the Inquisitor to be the one. Some want to move on, some want the old stuff back. I always felt being at Bioware would be so nerve-wrecking if they are on hardcore communities like BSNs and Reddit. You can never satisfy everyone. I, for one, mourned the departure of open-world environments but that's just me. It's not a deal breaker for me. I'm rather unimpressed with the possible notion that Solas gets to be treated in this manner too but wouldn't be a bit too early to judge on it when we have only seen a gameplay video and info tidbits.

One thing I have known about this fandom is that they are too quick to jump onto conclusions. 

Agreed. The spoilers struck the right balance between satisfying my thirst for answers/piquing my curiosity, so if anything I'm only more excited to find out more. And my personal pet theory is still looking OK so far! If they keep stow-dripping intriguing details to us like this for the next 4 months waiting for DAV to actually drop is going to be fucking torture 

I was excited for this since i know they take insparation from Final Fantasy X. And this is very near to the skill tree i hoped for.

Unless of course he is one of the only two that are left...

Mind you on this idea I find it REALLY curious that you have the FIRST of the Gods and then the last one to be elevated to godhood in the Elven pantheon being represented here. Wonder if there is thematic signicance to that.