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[Gwyvian]

 

The female elf character card mostly imo. Mage just fits the earlier plot well.

 

Weirdly it's doesn't seem to be something that's happened with other Inquisitors. 

 

That is curious and I've wondered at it, too.

 

<- Doesn't look anything like Daenerys either 

 

I think it's just the halla stuff.

 

*sigh of relief* I was beginning to think I was missing out on some huge secret/conspiracy thing by not choosing that look.

 

The symmetry. hes s Mage. People can easily role play why there would be attraction and a connection between the two. Also elves are stereotypically coded as 'ethereal other' so super white hair which is not typical would fit. That's my take on it. My chick was a brown hair green eyed rogue. I didn't like how the white hair looked in the game and the archer is really fun to play. I already had a human Mage that was with Cullen.

 

Hmm. I'm sensing some Tolkien-esque influences regarding the "ethereal other" - not to say it's not nice, I like the look quite a bit, it's just I always sort of imagined that the more human characteristics are representative of the plight of elves in modern Thedas, they've lost just that quality that sets elves apart. Plus my tabletop roleplay sense would go for wild elves, sun elves, moon elves, dark elves and all the variations. I was just curious to see why the mood tends towards this particular elf look. I mean, I always go for complementary as opposed to this kind of symmetry, if we're going for a Solas romance heading in, then I'd choose anything except a mage for a first PT so I can offer a dynamically different perspective.

 

I guess because Daenerys is a fairly popular character at the moment so people tend to use that look?  It's not something I've seen a lot of when it comes to Solavellan, though.

 

I missed a lot   so I probably didn't see a lot of variety that is, in actuality, out there. It just struck me that I kept seeing this theme.

 

Isn't it mostly female Trevelyans that look like Daenerys? I haven't seen elves that looked like her. Not here at least. If mine does, it wasn't intentional haha. I don't think she does, though.

 

I saw the pre-release Daenerys creation and I think it was a Trevelyan look - but I'm seeing it a lot in fan art and described in fanfics.

 

Who cares? People's characters can look like whatever they want, It's not wrong or bad for them to look similar to something else. 

 

No insult was intended to anyone, I was just curious because I saw a pattern and wondered at it.

 

Haha, mine is a mage with white/platinum blonde hair so I'll bite...I picked it partly because of the pretty tarot card, and partly because the hair textures aren't the best.... I wasn't going for Daenerys exactly...but the mysterious/mystical waif trope just seemed to fit.

I'm pleased so many people apparently had the same idea, lots of lovely fan art that looks vaguely like my character doesn't hurt! I can't complain. My canon Amell and Hawke both had black hair, and my Shepard had red, so...I was set on blonde. 

 

Good answer - I'm kind of sad for the same reason, though, some of the best I've seen so far has this particular look and I can't fit my Lavellan in there. 

 

What? You mean the pale skin, silver hair, and pale eyes? 

 

Yeah, that is pretty common. I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't do it to have my characters channel Danaerys. I grew up watching and reading The Last Unicorn, and was enchanted by the Lady Amalthea; a unicorn magically turned into a human woman, who retains her pale white skin, moon-white hair, and lavender eyes.

*snip*

 

Then a few years I fell in love with an animated movie called The Secret of Kells. More specifically, the character Aisling, a pale, white-haired, green-eyed fairy who lives in the forest, befriends a church boy named Brendon, and who inspires him to write the Book of Kells by showing him the wonders of her forest.

*snip*

 

Oooh, yes. I grew up on The Last Unicorn, too, and love it to bits - and the same with The Secret of Kells.   I can relate to that.

[NightSymphony]

My ex-boyfriend loved playing female characters. He finds males boring. *shrugs*  I can't play male characters...but I might try one someday just so I can romance Dorian. I finally made a male mage in DAO to romance Morrigan with...that was kind of fun..flirting with everyone and pissing her off..hehe. I really think that those numbers don't mean anything since a lot of females made male characters to romance Dorian with.

[NightSymphony]

My first Lavellan had pale skin and red hair, my current has the whole pale hair and pale skin thing going on. I wanted the unicorn and the wolf theme.

[Rabbitonfire]

My first Lavellan had pale skin and red hair, my current has the whole pale hair and pale skin thing going on. I wanted the unicorn and the wolf theme.

Better than the Wolf and the Halla. Wolves eat Halla. People tend to forget that.

 

Having a history in Elder Scrolls, you don't want to get killed by a unicorn.

[Mims]

I tend to play female characters if I can, although I will make some exceptions. My canon Warden is a male, for instance, just because I love Morrigan's character. I don't dislike Alistair and Zevran, I just never really got too involved with their romances. It was actually Morrigan's friendship path that made my decide to reboot the character over as a male. Which payed off beautifully in Inquisition, because I love her character even more now with Kieran. 

 

Hawke I'm more ambivalent about. I like to link characters if I can. Morrigan/Amell and Solas/Lavellan works really nicely. If Merrill ever becomes important again, than Hawke/Merrill might be a better choice than my current romance of Sebastian.

[Eivuwan]

PC controls feel fine after I re-map the keys to suit my play style. The main issue is the tactical camera. It's hard to get it zoomed out just right sometimes. It's also annoying that you can only select one character at a time. And of course, the lack of tactics suck, but battles are way too easy even on hard difficulty and I heard that nightmare gets easy after you get your specialization.

[OxidantsHappen]

Better than the Wolf and the Halla. Wolves eat Halla. People tend to forget that.

 

 

Or, or, or... Wolves die, decompose, fertilize the grass, Hallas eats the grass. Hallas eating wolves!  Yay optimism.

[chibielf]

My characters always are pale with white hair and silver eyes. Sometimes with dark skin and white hair. Has nothing at all to do with game of thrones. It's just a fantasy otherworldly look I've always enjoyed. I love white hair on characters.

[Tielis]

"Why are we bothering with this heathen nonsense?"

 

... She asks a Dalish Inquisitor. 

 

Cass-romancing Mahanon shoots her one of his irresistible smirks and says, "You're really trying hard to make jokes, aren't you?"

 

Then Cass blushes deep red and mutters an apology under her breath, which causes Mahanon to grin and respond, "I can't hear you..."

 

Cass then makes a disgusted noise and shouts, "Fine!  We'll do the ritual and see if Mythal shows up."

 

And Mahanon chuckles because he knows that's the best he's going to get out of her.  But he'll work on her later.  

 

 

And now I miss playing my dude Lavellan but I can't stand looking at his broken arms.      

[Caddius]

Or, or, or... Wolves die, decompose, fertilize the grass, Hallas eats the grass. Hallas eating wolves!  Yay optimism.

Hallas also eat hallas, though. Both the ones that died in the grass and the ones that the wolves ate, by extension.

...

[NightSymphony]

My first Lavellan had pale skin and red hair, my current has the whole pale hair and pale skin thing going on. I wanted the unicorn and the wolf theme.

Plus..the whole ying and yang thing. Her name is Atisha...which mean peace in Elvhan...so...like the white dove of peace.

[Patchwork]

You know what annoys me about this game second only to the hideous hairstyles?

My girls always have terrible posture.

Ugh. Stand up straight. Sit like a lady. Don't slouch!

 

I know female elf arms aren't as bad as the male ones but in Skyhold she was was forever slouching and it looked like her arms were too heavy for her. It reminds me of the zombie from Wreck It Ralph. 

 

If I'm stuck with a hyper sexualised walk they could have carried it over to cut scene animation 

[OxidantsHappen]

Hallas also eat hallas, though. Both the ones that died in the grass and the ones that the wolves ate, by extension.

...

 

That's just recycling

 

EDIT: Top of the page:

 

 

Source: Dragon Age Official Website - Solas page (website source of this particular screenshot: www.videogamesblogger.com)

[LobselVith8]

With all the Warden-talk around.

How well would your Warden and Quizzy get along? (Ignore question if you play self inserts )

And how would your Warden react to Solas or vice versa? (So the post is at least somewhat on topic!)

 

Edit: You can of course also ignore the questions altogether, that works too 

AND I hope the use of "vice versa" is correct in the second one ^^

 

I imagine my Surana and my Lavellan would get along, for the most part. They were different; I pictured my Surana as the son of a Night Elf who fought during the Orlesian occupation, gained nothing in return for her hard work in helping dislodge the Orlesian forces who occupied the nation for over a century (which seemed to be the case for all the Night Elves in "The Stolen Throne"), and who was stolen from his mother and his family by the templars when his magic manifested, while my Lavellan was a descendant of the nobility who governed the Dales and could trace his line all the way back to Arlathan (although, as a player, I'm still uncertain how that's possible, even though Circle mage Finn was entirely convinced that some of the Dalish had the "purest" blood from Arlathan, since he treated it as a fact and his scrying ritual with Ariane depended on it). I imagine Keeper Deshanna Istimaethoriel was be his mother.

 

My Surana was a rather pragmatic Warden who was willing to cross lines in order to deal with the threat of the darkspawn because he recognized their true threat (encouraging Avernus' research and sparing the Anvil of the Void), while my Lavellan was empathetic (he followed Vir Atish'an - the Way of Peace) and focused on helping the Elvhen. I don't think my atheist Surana would genuinely understand my Lavellan's belief in the Creators, although I think they would find some common ground in a respect for magic. 

 

Differences aside, my Surana would be grateful that Lavellan finally fulfilled his royal boon - autonomy for mages, although this time on a continental scale across the Andrastian kingdoms - and I expect my Surana would probably end up getting the teyrnir of Gwaren from King Alistair because the Crown failed to fulfill the promise to provide the Circle of Ferelden with its independence. I'm sure Alistair would choke on the idea of Morrigan becoming Teyrna, but I also feel like he'd want to make it up to his friend (and I doubt his wife Anora would be opposed, since they got along).

 

As for Solas, I expect they'd clash heads, depending on when the two would meet. I don't think he'd like Solas' comments about the Alienage elves if they met pre-Inquisitor Lavellan, since Surana came from the Denerim Alienage. I also expect he'd have some choice words to say to Solas the moment he opened his mouth about the Maker. They would strongly disagree over the Wardens no matter when they met, however, and I'm sure Solas would be opposed to his pragmatic actions in trying to deal with the darkspawn. They might bond over their mutual disdain for Vivienne and her support for the Chantry controlled Circles, however; she embodies everything that my Surana loathes.

[NightSymphony]

*"The Circle of Life" suddenly starts playing in the background*

[Meer]

My canon characters tend to be a mixture when it comes to gender, sexuality, and appearances, though I won't lie: if they let me play an elf, I will play an elf. *Laughs.* My Halam Mahariel was male, a red-head and quite in love with Zevran. Oddly, I went for the Halla motif with him much more than with Lavellan; though he was a hunter, he had the Ghillanain vallaslin and was something of a gentle wanderer also. Then my Hawkes, one male (Wendell for Fenris), one female (Diana for Sebastian) both kept the black hair/blue-eyed look. My guy!Hawke looked so much like Carver you'd think -they- were the twins, really. My broken-hearted Lavellan, though, I went with a very angular face, black hair, green eyes. Rather than a Halla or even a wolf, I found she's rather bird-like in a way. Perhaps a raven?

Though I'm going off on something of a canon tangent. I was somewhat trying to latch onto the character appearance/motif thread of conversation if at all possible, haha

[Avejajed]

My Lavellan is kind of...well I guess she's got the blonde hair and the silvery eyes but I think she looks more...

I made her a bit tan, because I thought a life lived outdoors and she's gonna be sun kissed and a bit freckled. Her eye color is one of the premade ones, light grey but with colors in the iris, reminded me of the northern lights. And her hair is blonde but I didn't want it white blonde so I made it more...wheat blonde.

So kind of similar, even though I intended to be different.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I'm pleased so many people apparently had the same idea, lots of lovely fan art that looks vaguely like my character doesn't hurt! I can't complain. My canon Amell and Hawke both had black hair, and my Shepard had red, so...I was set on blonde.

 

I love all fanart, but it is nice being able to slot my PC in since I can art about as well as your average cat.  But the only character I've ever had who fit a lot of fanart was my redheaded Amell.  Because crazy redhead mages are awesome.

 

My Hawke is a platinum blonde blood mage, and I have seen maybe one piece of fanart like that.  And my Lavellan basically resembles Belle but with green eyes.  Once I got found out about Solas being Fen'Harel, I couldn't help but laugh at the unintended irony.

 

 

My broken-hearted Lavellan, though, I went with a very angular face, black hair, green eyes. Rather than a Halla or even a wolf, I found she's rather bird-like in a way. Perhaps a raven?

 

Yay!  Another bird Lavellan!  Birds are awesome and intelligent.

[Tielis]

Hmmm... I'm starting to get the sneaking suspicion Fen'Harel/Solas might not be a god in the way Mythal, Elgar'nan, Dirthamen and cie are. I have very few clues that tell me this, but there's a few evidence there:

 

- He has a foci. An artefact said to channel the power of a god. Why would a god need a foci to channel his own power? If it was to channel someone else's power though...

- He (as far as we can tell) went into uthenera the way ancient elves would. He was powerful enough not to need substance, but woke up so weak he couldn't use his own foci.

- On the other hand, Mythal even as a wisp is quite powerful. Powerful enough to transform her own human vessel into a dragon at will (no one else, apart from Morrigan if she drinks from th well, can do so).

- We have found temples to other gods across Thedas, and yet apart from that small shrine to Fen'Harel (which doesn't seem that old), there are no hint that Fen'Harel was ever worshipped. On the other hand, we have he wolf statues, the wolf serving as some sort of protector to the elf. That same statue is in the temple of another god, Mythal, which everyone finds strange.

 

Now, I might be tally wrong there, but here's what I think. Solas isn't a god. He never was (although he IS an ancient elvhen, and a quite powerful one at that). One of the themes of DA;I seem to be how history distorts the truth and will make demi-gods of ordinary people. The Herald is the perfect example of that. So, I think he didn't lie. He was born in that small village and spent his youth exploring the fade. Possibly, there he caught the eye of one of the deities (quite possibly Mythal), the same way Gilal'nain is said to have, and brought into the inner circle. I like the idea that he might have become the protector of the pantheon. In short, he wasn't that dissimilar to Abelas. He was given the foci to help him in his task. But at one point, something changed and from protector he became their betrayer. Maybe that was due to Mythal's murder or Andruil's madness or a combination of things. Then he went to sleep. History became blurred in time and he was remembered as a god himself while he never was.

 

Anyway, I might be totally wrong there, but I think it would fit.

 

Yeah, I agree with you.  I think he was a "late addition" to the pantheon, or he was raised up to it like Ghilan'nain.

 

I tend to think of him as Mythal's lieutenant or spymaster or jailer (warden would be a better word without the DA connotation).  Though that does put another spin on the Grey Wardens, doesn't it?

[Seregwen]

Bioware Devs make me write fanfic, force me to download video editing software, and learn how to make gifs...

 

 

 

(It's my first gif yall! Everything is about to get really sad over here!)

[Meer]

<snip>

Yay!  Another bird Lavellan!  Birds are awesome and intelligent.

Aren't they? I adore bird motifs for characters, especially when it fits well. There's always that period of time at the beginning of the game where you're trying to figure out what the character is like, but this sort of swooped down onto my Lavellan quickly. Swooping, in a good way of course.   The imagery of the wolf (Solas, of course) with a raven resonates with me too, since these animals have a fascinating relationship in the wild.

[Seregwen]

Aren't they? I adore bird motifs for characters, especially when it fits well. There's always that period of time at the beginning of the game where you're trying to figure out what the character is like, but this sort of swooped down onto my Lavellan quickly. Swooping, in a good way of course.   The imagery of the wolf (Solas, of course) with a raven resonates with me too, since these animals have a fascinating relationship in the wild.

Welcome to the bird club!

[electricfish]

My canon heroes have pretty much been green eyed redheads. I like the imagery that comes with having such bold colors. If my hero got painted in an action pose, I imagine that whoever created it would exaggerate the eyes and have their hair in a wild mess behind them in motion.

 

Like with Hawke performing a final blow against the Arishok. She'd be leaping toward him with a fierce snarl and her hair - broken from its tie - kind of fanned around her like fire. Blood would be spilling from her abdomen from an impaling that should have been fatal. Passion. White haired Fenris would be behind her, barely held back from rushing to save her.

 

My Warden has the Archdemon kill, her sword above her about to stab the thing in the eyes and her hair would be more represented as a halo. The sun that brings the dawn. Zevran would be back to back, holding off the darkspawn that rush to save their master and kill from behind. Equal, but not at the forefront.

 

Lavellan is the wolf. Protective, somewhat insular, passionate to family. She is fire with green and gold. Bright and keen eyed with her bow fully drawn, or maybe a staff stuck in the ground like a line in the sand and her free hand with balls of fire at the tips or green from the Anchor. Behind her is all the fear, hope and worry of the people, and a blue-eyed lover who has both a hand supporting her back and one shadowing his face.

 

_{I'm not weird.}

[HurricaneGinger]

Better than the Wolf and the Halla. Wolves eat Halla. People tend to forget that.

 

My wolf-god can devour me any time. 

 

 

The card representing my Lavellan is the stag since she's a mage, but I say she's a hart. Strong, fierce when she needs to be, and has endured a great many hardships.