The Game Informer Article *Contains Spoilers!!*

The reason is that every DA game was so different. Pulling in lots of different character.

I'm not happy with a Solas centric story, since I don't like him much. But I guess he will be haunting me here too.

I agree with Gervais, that he really should learn how to communicate properly.
If we loose Varric, because Solas didn't bother to tell his plan to someone, he considered a friend, I'm really mad.
If we loose Varric, I'm mad, period. I'm ok with him not being part of the main story, but let him live out his remaining life in peace.

I'm not sure, if I will play the game, as I said. But I hope, we don't have Solas taking centre stage. I don't really care, if he is right or wrong, he is a character, that doesn't interest me a lot. I'm not going all murderhobo on him, though I think, he really should work on his communication skills.

There may be a clue in the mosaic pieces you could acquire in DAI, specifically the Archdemon, where the dragon appears to have 3 heads. Gatsi suggests this as the meaning:
Because what I'm thinking is that this is one Archdemon and the three heads are the reaction to the three lines. Because piercing-line-one is on the same tier as the Tevinter second from left, and the middle head turned away. Piercing-line-two is the same tier as Tevinter fifth from left, and the first head turned away. And the line that misses it, that's the same tier as the big Tevinter, farthest out. And the dragon is looking straight at him. So the ones who did damage, the dragon doesn't care. The one who faked it, the dragon gives him an eyeful.
So I think the dragon illustrated was never an arch-demon but Mythal. The meaning behind it is that although certain gods may have actually done the damage, the dragon knew that the one off to the side, pretending they had nothing to do with it, was really responsible. (Let's face it would the others have moved against Mythal if they didn't think he secretly approved?). If the elven gods do equate to the last two Old Gods then that would also be appropriate. The last god, Lusacan, the God of Shadows, has really been the one controlling things all this time, getting the Magisters to invade the Black City (either pretending to be Dumat or encouraging Dumat that way). Whilst he remained The Watcher. Also his vallaslin show a split between light and dark, reflecting the two aspects to his personality. On the basis of the voice at the end of the 2023 trailer, I did think that was Elgar'nan, so no real surprise there. (I do wonder why they made such a link between Lusacan and Falon'Din though in the codices associated with the astrariums).

As for Ghilan'nain, she is the goddess of mysteries. She was getting up to all sorts of stuff in the Deep Roads that likely none of the other gods knew about, at least at first. It says she had to be bribed into destroying her monsters, which is interesting because clearly the other gods didn't consider themselves capable of destroying them without her consent and perhaps doubted their capacity to destroy her too. Perhaps she was originally a renegade doing her own thing and so they offered her an alliance in order to bring them under a semblance of control by Mythal and Elgar'nan. Thus, when it comes to terms of power, may be she was co-equal with Elgar'nan.

Sorry, I'm not clear on what you mean by that.

If we're not fighting the Evanuris all at once, then we can expect that the most powerful will be the one that we fight last. If elven legend is taken at face value, then that should be Elgar'nan, and yet we're facing him first. We're also facing Ghillain'Nan first, so that also rules out her as the most powerful.

I understand now.  Well one thing we've learned through this series is myth and truth don't always align.  Power is also fluid...one can accrue more...supplanting another.  I think we'll address the bulk of the Evanuris in this game.  I have a speculative alt theory that Ghillain'nan is working on behalf of Andruil who is trapped in the void with the forgotten ones...which could be the big bad for the next game.  Truthfully, I find it hard to believe any of these "deities" are going to work well with one another...which is no doubt to our benefit.  It seems to me any of them should be able to make short work of Thedas so it'll be interesting to see what's stopping Elgar'nan from just stomping Minrathous flat.  At this point it's anyone's guess how this is going to play out

This does looks like the elements are in the second row and not in the specialization.

Do you have a link? Because the link here in the thread is behind a paywall for me and the only free one I found was only about the combat.

The way I remember DAI is that the advisors would literally tell inky what to do next a lot. Yes advisors do that but it felt like inky had no clue what they were doing and didn't have much of a personality either. And Ryder was much worse. I thought both were really uncharismatic boring protagonists. But that's just my opinion of course. So I'm glad to not play inky again as the main character but I'm curious what their role will be, and if we get the option to kill Solas inky should be the one to do it.

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There you go. 

That is kind of wha thappens when one is in charge of a large organization or a field leader in the first place. Someone has to give you intel on what is going on so the leader can make the decisions on what to do one. 

Oh! Thanks guys, I see now. I was so put off by the paywall that I didn't realize clicking on a format would actually allow me to read for free. Very misleading design. Got it now!