(Sorry if it's been mentioned already)
I was kind of wondering what Solas might have meant by "the people" when he meets with Flemeth. I was watching some videos on youtube of Flemeth and trying to interpret some of the things she was saying. There's a particularly interesting part when you meet her on Sundermount in Dragon Age 2. When Merrill graciously greets Flemeth (aka Ashabellanar) Flemeth replies with "one of the people, I see."
Which could mean that "the people" are elves, dalish or otherwise.
Maybe I'm just looking into it too much.
Yup, "the people" are a general term for elves. Their word Elvhen translates to this.
But I think Solas tends to make the distinction that the modern elves, Dalish and city elf, are NOT his people in that he believes them to be too different from the ancient elves. That's a personal distinction that I think really gives insight and drives a lot of the speculation with how he feels about the ancient pantheons and such. I think he distances himself from them because allowing himself to get too close, to see them all as "real" as he sees the Inquisitor, would cause him to falter in his ultimate plan that I believe has something to do with the ancient elves, I aligning myself quite comfortably with the speculation that he wants to free the old "gods."
I think he is also very disappointed, that he had a grand plan way back when and it all went awry, and given his other apparent identity, everyone despises him for what he thought was a good thing. He thought it would end up well when it happened, and he's just as disappointed in himself that it didn't turn out right. I think it makes sense that Cullen was race gated just given his personality to me, but for Solas the "super story sense" really does force him to be race gated. If he's still immortal, or remembers what it was like to be immortal, and if he's been studying up as well as he seems/was aware while in his sleep, he knows the ancient elves came to lose their immortality by being with shemlens. I don't think he really wants to have kids, exactly, or that just being around and not necessarily breeding with humans didn't also cause the loss of immortality, but the idea might still be a little bit off-putting. Much more importantly though, using a nonelf (or, if we were given the same options as in Origins, using a nonDalish even) would make his apparent identity both more and less of a problem. If he were to ever tell a romance Inquisitor who he really is, and they weren't an elf with Dalish beliefs, they'd either respond with "well I believe in the Maker! What does this all mean then! Are you really a god!" (all being relevant questions even for an elf, really, but the Maker part is what I'd like to emphasize haha Or, for Qunari, the sort of atheistic belief system) and also less in that he would probably still want to hide his identity but if he did come clean doing so to a nonelf who doesn't really care about elven history and religion would be... less significant. They probably wouldn't even believe him at all.
Besides how touching it is to have the option to remove the vallaslin, which is purely elven obviously, there are many, many other things that just seem to require an elf. Even one who is so far from ancient, "true", "his people" elves is more likely to react in a story sense way than any of the other races.
I think he isn't currently as fond of the city elves because they live in such poor conditions, most enslaved, but don't seem to really do anything about it. If he really did imprison the old gods because he disapproved of some of their things, including slavery, this would probably really bother him to still see it going on. Even if that's not what happened, he is clearly very against slavery, given his debates with Iron Bull and Dorian and such. Though I do agree with many earlier posts that he dislikes things from a macroscopic view, groups as a whole, while he is far more compassionate towards individuals, towards the girl who can hope for better things even if she never gets them, to the cook who rebels so slightly in each little baked good. He probably is disappointed as well in the Dalish, for getting history wrong, for branding him as something evil (whether its really their fault or not that over such a long period of time this is how history came to be for them) and thereby putting one of the little barriers up, one of the little challenges, that prevents him from just being open. And most Dalish seem to feel "holier than thou" in regards to the city elves, when they themselves aren't necessarily any better or closer to the ancient elves. I think that that arrogance would bother Solas, even though he himself seems to have his arrogant moments as well. There's also the obvious lack of as powerful magic and such in modern elves. If they lost this over time, of course it can really not be faulted, but I do sometimes wonder if perhaps the people lost or even voluntarily gave something up that Solas cherished in his original age. If maybe during his sleep they did something to make the world worse themselves. After all, if they kept up with the between and didn't let the eluvians break, become unusable, and whatever else Morrigan mentions maybe he wouldn't need that immense power to unlock them, or do whatever he wants to do, and he wouldn't have then made his second mistake of letting the orb go to Corypheus. If he does want to free the old gods, I wonder if they're all imprisoned behind one Eluvian, or in one location, and if so, if that particular one is one of the messed up ones. Or if multiple Eluvians can go to one place. Or if I'm even making sense now.....
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Least I like to think so.
