The Game Informer Article *Contains Spoilers!!*

Didn't one if the devs say Inquisition was only half the story?  Now we're getting the second half, only with someone new, for some reason. 

I'd say that - whatever happens with Solas plans - the name VeilGUARD suggests that the Veil will have to survive, at least for a time being.

year it looks like it. But it doesn't make sense. With the marketing before, i have hoped for more.

Come on.
I'm gonna make a thief lord of fortune named Lord of Bling, squat Solas house and make him regret all of his life choice every chance I get.
I have high hopes.

This seems less likely now. Unless the dragons are their split soul, in which they will be off looking for them in the Deep Roads. Might give us a bit of breathing space.

Yes, the article only said they were blighted creatures, so like all blighted creatures they spread the blight wherever they go but they may not be the actual source. Also, I think Solas was likely the one who contained it, not the Evanuris.

Yes, you would think that would have been something he could have revealed about his "plans" for them. Also, why it was becoming urgent (in elf terms). Also, why didn't he say as much to Varric? Ah well, what's done is done.

No, it's Minrathous. It's built on a island surrounded by sea, so lots of harbour space.

To be fair to Solas it was possible for a mage (elf?) Lavellan to sense that the Crossroads was deteriorating when we went there with Morrigan and I did wonder after our conversation in Trespasser if other things, like his prison seals, were failing too. He still could have told us that though.

He used it to create his blade and start the ritual. No idea how he managed to cleanse the blade but we know that is possible from Merrill and her eluvian.

No, that was a completely different artifact. The red lyrium idol featured in the last story in Tevinter Nights and was said to be necessary for his ritual.

Deteriorating Crossroads =/= deteriorating ancient prison

Unless confirmed, I don't think we should assume that all things are intrinsically linked, or that they're both deteriorating for the exact same reasons.

That was David Gaider after he handed over lead writer to Patrick Weekes and basically said: "Good luck buddy, you're going to need it." So long as they tell the rest of the story in this game, I can understand if they decided to make a few adjustments along the way.

I can hear the screams already. 

Both were created using elven magic and some parts of it had been badly damaged by the creation of the Veil. Didn't Mike Gamble say something about the elves used lyrium to create their structures? Perhaps its efficacy only lasts so long, millennia long, but finite none the less. That's probably why he wants to drop the Veil because he needs to recharge the magic sustaining the structures. It isn't such a daft idea that if one bit of elven magic is failing, likely the other bits created with the same sort of elven magic are too.

Don’t see where it is said he’s a good guy. He is still someone who was committing atrocities. Every villain is the hero of their own story and all that.