I just wanted to mention this itty bit of information.
SPOILER
People have been discussing who Solas's "people" are.
After the Orlesian Ball if you have made curtain decisions regarding Briala, you can have a possible conversation with Solas, where Levellan apoligizes for Briala's fate, the conversation then goes on to Solas explaining how he doesn't feel he has anything in common with the elves, and that they aren't "his people"
if you ask him who his people are, he sways the conversation and sais it isn't important.
therefore my theory is when he is refering to saving "his people" to simply put it I think he is refering to the elven "gods"
What he says, in fact, "I don't consider myself to have much in common with the elves." The question then comes down to who it is he's really referring to in that instance. Abelas makes specific differentiation between elves and the elvhan, for instance. "Yes, like me," Solas assures him there are other elvhan in the world.
Honestly, city elves ARE very removed from what their ancestors were. They barely recall their heritage, most of them adapting so much to human culture and customs they're only marked as elven by their physical differences from their human counterparts. I wouldn't imagine Solas would feel any real affinity for them, no. He probably only barely understands them.
And he seems actually ANGRY at the Dalish. I think it's because the Dalish keep "getting it wrong", that they're fumbling along trying to understand but not. Which wouldn't be so bad a thing, more child-like misunderstanding than anything else. But it doesn't seem to stop them from insisting they do know, that they're the only ones who know. As if they're superior, somehow. They come off as arrogant and egotistical, and I think it offends him, with his notions of respect for freedom and expression.
Lavellan catches him off-guard precisely because she is so much different than what he'd thought of the Dalish, far from superior-notioned, not so arrogant, and well ready to listen to something new, to incorporate new ideas and new concepts. Even of her own heritage. It's her curiosity that heightens his own, in fact. As he says, "If the Dalish could make someone like you, maybe I've been wrong about them all this time."
But really. There IS someone else who refers to "the people", remember. Back in DA2, when Hawke returns the token to Mythal's altar on Sundermount and Flemeth appears ... she makes it a point to address Merrill. In fact, she gives advice to two specific characters aside from Hawke, and both of them were elves. Merrill and Fenris, that is. But to Merrill, Flemeth says, "One of the people, I see. So young and bright. Do you know who I am, beyond that title?"
Merrill replies, "I know only a little."
Flemeth tells her, then, "Then stand. The people bend their knee too quickly."
I find it telling that both Flemeth and Solas use the term "the people", both of them with far-reaching agendas, and all of it hidden out of sight. They're working together, largely. So whatever "the people" Flemeth refers to is most likely the same "the people" that Solas speaks of during that final dramatic scene. And Flemeth directly said Merrill was "one of the people" ...
Okay, loads of deep thinking hurts my head after a while. So here's my Lavellan, all fluffy-like:
Retour en haut
I still have a long way to go before I get there.
Perhaps he is just misdirecting us. But it's weird.
Doesn't he say something like that when you flirt with him? 
