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[Lorien19]

Sweet mother of...I would...kill...for a scene with Solas reading to you. A book of poetry. In that soft, deep voice, the lilt of his accent curling around a certain word or letter, the poem's rhythm spoken like it is the beat of his own heart....

...excuse me. *runs to take a cold shower*

You know what would be better than Solas reading poetry?Solas reading poetry...In Elven!*fans self*
We probably wouldn't understand a thing but it's worth it.

[HurricaneGinger]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

 

ZEVRAN

 

IS

 

MY

 

BOO.

 

So is Fenris. XD

 

 

You know what would be better than Solas reading poetry?Solas reading poetry...In Elven!*fans self*
We probably wouldn't understand a thing but it's worth it.

 

[Ajna]

I was obsessed with Fenris, but not Zevran. Also, I don't really care too much about Abelas because I only have eyes for Solas. Lol.

Yeah, it's definitely more a Solas thing for me, rather than an Elven thing.

[Birdy]

After playing a couple times, I first went for Alistar and Cullen then it end with all the male elves.  Oh. The Arishok will always have a special place.

[nightwolf667]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

 

I obsess over Fenris. Gideon Emery voice goddamn. No to Zevran though, I love him. I love having him around, I respec him to pick all the locks if I'm not a rogue, but Origins is a slog for me and I've only finished two playthroughs on it.

 

Well, I actually rotate between him and Isabella. Garrus remains my favorite Biowaremance though, right behind Sky (jk).

[Mims]

I always liked elves, but never cared much for Zevran and Fenris. Zevran just wasn't my type of character. Fenris I could have liked, but I felt his design was a bit too over the top. Going by his description, I was hoping for Fenris to be more of an ugly, disfigured looking elf rather than fairly handsome. If I ever play DA2 again though, I think I'll give his romance at least a play through. 

 

Solas initially I liked just because I suspected that being locked to female elf only meant that there would be some sort of plot. I was assuming babies. I was wrong. 

[NeverlandHunter]

Just looked up Solas's voice actor since everyone keeps bringing him up and let me say that he's not bad looking either.

Not all XD

For a Shem that is.

Elf power!!! Zevran and Tabris forever!!!

[Birdy]

I always liked elves, but never cared much for Zevran and Fenris. Zevran just wasn't my type of character. Fenris I could have liked, but I felt his design was a bit too over the top. Going by his description, I was hoping for Fenris to be more of an ugly, disfigured looking elf rather than fairly handsome. If I ever play DA2 again though, I think I'll give his romance at least a play through. 

 

Solas initially I liked just because I suspected that being locked to female elf only meant that there would be some sort of plot. I was assuming babies. I was wrong. 

Lol. I'm sure a fair share of us headcannon Quizzy being pregnant. 

As for Fenris. Being handsome actually makes sense to me.  He was a "trophy" the was shown off. Having him disfigured kinda showed failure.  **And he could have originally been planned as such they just didn't have the time to develop some things.

[RebbyWriter]

If it weren't for Gideon Emery, I probably wouldn't have even bothered with Fenris (love me some Balthier!).

 

Zev is the one that I always seemed to accidentally romance. Man, woman...don't matter. I just kind of went with it because some of my wardens needed to feel pretty.

 

Also, Abelas. HNNG! The first thing I thought when staring at him though was, "I wonder if I can get that armor for Solas." No shame

[Mims]

Lol. I'm sure a fair share of us headcannon Quizzy being pregnant.  .

 

This is my "break glass in case of emergency head canon" should Solas die.

[Birdy]

This is my "break glass in case of emergency head canon" should Solas die.

Hehe.

[Vylix]

The main quest was also pretty tiny, relatively speaking. The more open world can be fun but it took a little too much away from the story and characters, I think.

Spoiler tagging because long post is long and a lot is not directly about Solas himself but rather the game, stories and characters in general. Basically Solas related content is the last paragraph if anyone is interested in that.

Spoiler

I agree. its suppose to take 20-40 hours to get through the main quest itself, but the game has 200 hours of content from what I've seen for estimates. That means that the main storyline is 10-20 percent of what is there, maybe even less. I get it that Skyrim was their inspiration but I think they're forgetting a few things that Skyrim has with its huge open world that Inquisition does not have, and probably can not do:

- There's more than one big story to complete. The "main story" of skyrim reaaaaaally isn't the main story. Nor really the point of an elder scrolls game. The point is more to go off and be your character, make your own trail and find your own interest within the game But you cant exactly do that with inquisition. You are the Inquisitor. you have duties, responsibilities, places to be and an organization, you're not a freelancer that can go off and do whatever they please.

- Mods. Skyrim is mod compatible and amazing mods are still coming out. As far as I've heard they don't really want mods for Inquisition but there are so many small things that Mods could add for each player.

- Skyrim has way fewer load screens. Its, aside from cities, dungeons and player homes, one giant open world with multiple story lines you can follow. That takes you out of the game less and generally keeps a player more emerged in the world.

 

The other main problem from what I can see is that Origins is the game that started Dragon Age. Origins had fairly poor graphics, combat got a little boring unless you were on really difficult levels but even then you could just take a bunch of mages, have a tank pull aggro and murder your tank in a storm of the century combo to roflstomp everything. But Origins did have an awesome storyline and extremely in depth characters with hours of party banter that was highly amusing. see: "and what guidance do you find in those swaying hips?" or Literally anything Zevran would say.

I think part of the problem is because they're drawing away from the story and more towards the open world, the very root of Dragon Age (the storytelling) is being forgotten to a degree. Its still there, sure, but it's no longer as much the main focus. Personally I was here for the story, And I was disappointed. It didn't feel properly resolved and it didn't feel like I got to know all the characters very well. The end of the game left me with a rotten feeling in my stomach and pushed me away from wanting to replay. It took 5 or 6 character attempts before I found one i liked enough to get past Haven with, and another 4 or 5 before I found one I like enough to finish the game a second time with. I feel like there wasn't a solid conclusion, and I feel like this is the first Dragon Age game where my protagonist doesn't have a proper ending.

Sure I've clocked in like 120 hours so far in the past couple weeks, but if we compare that with Skyrim that's not even 1/10th the amount of time I've gotten out of it so far. I still have storylines to finish, I still have mods I want to try, I own the DLC and I haven't even gotten to the DLC storylines yet! I still have BOOKS to collect! (books are to skyrim what pokemon are to well.. pokemon for me)

 

It just seems like they were so close to having a game that was as good if not better than origins but they pulled a bit too far away from the story and characters that originally drew players to the series. They damn well could have had a game that was better than origins but the most important aspect for achieving that is the story and they just simply fell flat there. Well the story and the mods, I loved playing with the DAO mods on later characters.

 

As for Solas himself, he feels like a DLC character of sorts. It, to me, feels like he was thrown in the game for no other reason than to be a plot piece and was then forgotten about until he was needed again. sure it was probably to avoid spoilers to his character but I feel like they could have dropped more on us than they did. Would it really have been too devastating to give us a few more hints about the truth in exchange for better development of his character, and a better understanding of him? Personally I don't think so. There were points where there was information we should have been able to pick up about him, yet we didn't. When he's in the fade with us, despite that the Dalish don't know elven as well as they'd like, we should have picked up enough from the conversation with the fear demon to say "hey. wait a second. He's saying this to Solas and i can pick out ___ ____ and ___ from it, all of which seems extremely fishy, I should confront him about it, or maybe have Leliana look into it". I also find it extremely strange that Leliana didn't do much checking in on Solas. If he is part of the Inner Circle I'd think Leliana would at least do a basic background check on the guy, y'know. go to where he's from, meet some people talk to them about him ect ect. If our spymaster didn't even do that (which is all that was needed to find out his town does not exist any longer) then I think there is a bit of a problem, particularly because of how good she is suppose to be at her job.

[Miss This or That]

Okay, but imagine Solas in Abelas' armor.   I need fanart of that.
 
Also, to whoever posted Dream Within a Dream in here, I love you. It's perfect. Now I'm picturing GDL reading that in Solas's voice.
 



Allaaaaan! So that's where you were.
 
I remember the good old days when the Solas thread was full of hope and wonderful stories. Now it's full of hope and tears.

'tis was me. It fits them soo~ well and I love Poe's poems!

[BubbleDncr]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

 

My first game I totally was romancing Zevran, but then Alistair happened. I love me my Alistair, but after having later completed both romances, I do this Zevran had the better written one.

 

In DA2, the second my Hawke saw Fenris, she was like, "I need that." But she was a flirt, and Anders just got so passionate, next thing she knew he had moved in and Fenris was out of her reach. Having now done both their romances, again, I think Fenris is the better one.

 

My experience has been Zevran and Fenris are the sweeter romances, but less important to the plot. But apparently the Bioware gods heard my concerns and gave me a heartbreaking elf romance that is important to the plot! Why did I ask for this?!?!?! It hurts so much....

[TheComfyCat]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

 

Zevran is pretty much my favorite character ever. I love him. And I've noticed at least one person from the old Zevran thread here, so I know I'm not alone (my old user name was senorfuzzylips, from back in the Zevran thread days). I liked Anders better than Fenris in DA2. Anders is just so obsessed with Hawke.. he definitely has a Hawke shrine somewhere. I enjoyed all the obsession/ angst/ drama that came with Anders, but he never really came close to Zev.

 

Solas is now tied for my favorite Bioware character.

[Sylvanfeather]

Alistair always for Origins. I wanted to like Zevran but my Warden, I think was too sweet for him.

 

DAII I was over the moon to find out we could romance Anders. I'm glad that I choose to romance him in the first PT because it made for an intense experience not know what was going to happen. Him blowing up the chantry gave me a minor heart attack and made me really sad for his character. But it was a good thing, because it made me look again at all the characters. Then it turned into all Fenris, all the time.

 

Gideon Emery has the best voice... Even with all his angst, Fenris emoted all the things I want to see in a character. As much as I really, really like Solas, I'm not sure yet if I could place him ahead of that white-haired warrior.

[nightwolf667]

In all honesty, I'm a sucker for the voice actors. I wouldn't go for Fenris if it wasn't for Gideon Emery, but that's because I get a serious JRPG vibe from him and I'm not really into characters that have that much drama going for them. He makes it work though and manages to give me chills while doing it. Man behind the throne indeed.

[Onecrazymonkey1]

I'll admit I have a little elven thing going on but it's not concrete because I mostly have a thing for personality, knowledge and hot voices. So while I obsessed over Fenris (voice thing) I didn't feel that way towards Zevran (I warmed up to him later though). Alistair always won my heart in Origins.

I would fall for Solas unconditionally though, our personalities would just jive and dat voice, dat jaw, dem cheeks unffff! Abelas has another great voice, rockin bod and great armor.

I do think the elven thing is like a little perk for me though, I think it's the cute pointy ears sometimes. God I'm kind of greatful elves don't exist, they'd probably flee at the sight of me lolz.

 

[Kisari]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

Thing is I usually *love* elves. Elezen and Elvaan in FFXIV and FFXI just... woof.

I never cared for Zevran or Fenris for some reason though... definitely <3Merrill<3 but Solas and Abelas are the only elf men I've obsessed over in Thedas. Not really sure why maybe I just have a thing for ancient elves.

[Sarquindi]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?

 

 

I romanced Zevran with 99% of my Origins characters.    I only romanced Fenris once.  I liked the character design for Fenris, but his views on Mages just put me off.  Solas is the first romance option that I have actually cared deeply for.  He has become my favorite character in the series.  Man, are my characters cursed.  I fell in love with an assassin that tried to kill me, a mage that blew up a chantry and killed innocents in the process, and now Solas... GAH!  I have bad luck with romance options in this game.

[RebbyWriter]

Just looked up Solas's voice actor since everyone keeps bringing him up and let me say that he's not bad looking either.

Not all XD

For a Shem that is.

Elf power!!! Zevran and Tabris forever!!!

 

TRUUUU! Gareth David Lloyd is a cutie.

 

[vertigomez]

So curious, All us peoples obsessed with Solas and Abelas.  Who obsessed over Zeveran and Fenis too?
 

Meeeeeee!

Zevran is the only LI in Origins who notices when you're feeling blue, and tries to make you laugh when you're feeling sad. And Fenris is the tsun-tsun porcupine man of my soouull. I don't know how or why I always fall for the elves. I'm probably in the minority here because I love Sera, too. And I totally would have romanced Merrill if Carver crushing on her wasn't so damn adorable.

"I thought you might be cheered up by some naughty poetry. You simply look so... unhappy/grim. Such an unflattering expression for such a lovely/handsome face." Just the soft way he says it after making you laugh with his awkward sex poetry... awww, it was sweet.

Sorry, Solas thread! I got distracted by the Zevran feels.

[Cosmia]

I know I'm a couple pages late, but mmm Abelas is fine in that armor. I just have a thing for elven men's thighs. Dem curves. Sigh I'm shameless, I know. The day Bioware stops giving us elven men to romance will be a very very sad day indeed. 

 

...

 

Now I want Abelas for LI in DA4.

Those curved thighs. I definitely noticed them in the cutscenes. It made me want to work out... 

[lapsi4ka]

I love this thread! 'Tis so full of nerdy speculation and theorycrafting And so much Solas love

 

Spoiler

In codex of Astrariums it is stated that those are preandrastian artefacts, which were made by an ancient Tevinter cult. This cult was aiming to destroy Magisters and give power to somniari, who ruled sometime before. Later astraruims were destroyed by the andrastian cults as they were believed to strengthen the Fade. Why? It is believed that astrariums are strengthening the Fade. And if they are destroyed then the Fade will be broken and the end of the world will happen  If someone can make a screenshot of that codex entry ('tis is in History, number 15), that would be appreciated as I don't have myself text in English. sadly.  

 

So...what? Are they were confused with the artifacts that Solas activates?

 

If we ever have a DLS WOLF Hunt, I will grab Solas, Cole and go with them to Rivain. There are Dalish and plenty of hedge mages, who communicate with spirits and even let them to posses their bodies. Seems perfect place to start all over as a family Objections won't be accepted!

[CENIC]

Okay, but imagine Solas in Abelas' armor. I need fanart of that.

Also, Abelas. HNNG! The first thing I thought when staring at him though was, "I wonder if I can get that armor for Solas." No shame

I wonder if the DAI modding initiative can make this happen...?