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[Gwyvian]

Well, here's my Lavellan biting her lower lip, probably looking at that thigh and butt action Solas has going on...

 

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This looks shockingly like my little sister. I mean it's eerie. 

[DarthEmpress]

This looks shockingly like my little sister. I mean it's eerie. 

 

I'm scared o_o

 

 

I usually make my characters look like me so having a doppelganger is freaky!

[laurelinvanyar]

"Weird"? Do you remember where you're posting?

 

 

As for statues, why did this not happen?

 

Spoiler

 

 

Ahh...the Dread Corgi....Terror of the Kitchen, Roamer of the Backyard. He-Who-Hunts-With-Fluff. 

You can buy the wolf jaw necklace at: http://store.lizandc...lf-jaw-necklace

It is super fun to wear

[Cee]

Ha, I love it.

 

Replaying DA2 a bit and every time Merrill says "Dread Wolf take you!" in battle, I laugh to myself.

[lynroy]

Ha, I love it.

 

Replaying DA2 a bit and every time Merrill says "Dread Wolf take you!" in battle, I laugh to myself.

Definitely takes on a different meaning after the Solas romance.

[Gwyvian]

I'm scared o_o

 

 

I usually make my characters look like me so having a doppelganger is freaky!

 

Well, supposedly everyone has one.  I've seen identical people halfway across the globe, the only reason I knew it wasn't them was that we were in another country and they spoke a different language - you don't just forget what language someone speaks, so I was sure they were two different people. Still, it's eerie.

[Janic99]

Well, here's my Lavellan biting her lower lip, probably looking at that thigh and butt action Solas has going on...

 

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Ï love her.. wow

[CapricornSun]

Art break.

 

How their love story began.

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Source: http://osatokun.tumb...ove-story-began

 

 

Happier times. 

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Source: http://afterinquisit...ellan-and-solas

 

 

Baking.

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Source: http://lillotte17.tu...volving-cookies

 

 

Solas and Lavellan riding the bog unicorn.

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Source: http://rabidtanuki.t...e-doing-a-quick

 

 

You are Mythal's creature.

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Source: http://otherwolves.t...e-had-this-idea

 

 

Tumblr link version of the Full of Surprises comic.

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Source: http://harellanart.t...f-3-comic-index

 

 

Solas with a flower crown.

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Source: http://littlephoton....-a-flower-crown

 

 

Lovely illustration of Fen'Harel.

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Source: http://guesswhatruru...ns-you-will-see

 

[S.W.]

Ha, I love it.

 

Replaying DA2 a bit and every time Merrill says "Dread Wolf take you!" in battle, I laugh to myself.

 

It also makes replaying the elves vs. wolves quest in Origins really funny. I bet the writers were massively trolling us when they wrote that.

 

Speaking of cross-game trolling, I'm now half-way through ME2 and at the trial scene for Tali's loyalty quest - did they deliberately employ Simon Templeman and Claudia Black and cast them to near-identical characters to Loghain and Morrigan just to giggle at Dragon Age fans? I can't take it seriously. I just think of "LANDSMEET IN SPAAAAACE".

[Elessara]

Ahh...the Dread Corgi....Terror of the Kitchen, Roamer of the Backyard. He-Who-Hunts-With-Fluff. 

You can buy the wolf jaw necklace at: http://store.lizandc...lf-jaw-necklace

It is super fun to wear

 

The Dread Wolf-Corgi?

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/vISAT

[Solas]

Thoughts on fandom's mixed reactions to Solas, and (mostly) my own thoughts on Solas [x]

[NightSymphony]

Just one art to share this morning

 

Solas and a snarling Dread Wolf

http://juliarawrs.de...Harel-542533628

[Janic99]

OMFG I am going crazy: 

http://www.vcpost.co...akkon-works.htm


"In this story-based expansion, playable after the events of Dragon Age: Inquistion, you will embark on a last adventure with your team to confront the one who started it all." 

I think we all know who that is... 

[Elessara]

OMFG I am going crazy: 

http://www.vcpost.co...akkon-works.htm


"In this story-based expansion, playable after the events of Dragon Age: Inquistion, you will embark on a last adventure with your team to confront the one who started it all." 

I think we all know who that is... 

 

 

Unfortunately that's all just speculation right now (as noted in the article).  And to be honest I don't particularly like the phrase "the one who started it all" because we already defeated Corypheus who really was the one who started the whole conflict in Inquisition.  If we take that phrase to mean Solas, he certainly had a role in the events but Corypheus was the driving force behind the corruption of the Wardens, the Red Templars, the Venatori, etc.

[Ramification]

Thoughts on fandom's mixed reactions to Solas, and (mostly) my own thoughts on Solas [x]

I very much agree with your points about shades of gray. I also love Solas's story arch for that reason. Most of my favorite characters in novels are similar to his mix of aspirational strengths and tragic flaws. I'm thinking of characters like Kvothe from Name of the a Wind, Claudia from Interview with a Vampire, Raistlin from Dragonlance, Archer from Age of Innocence, Tyrion from GOT, Ivan from Brothers Karamazov, The Price from The Idiot, Snape from HP, even L from Death Note! I can go on but...

I never love game characters in the same way I adore characters from books. I feel like I can never get close enough to them because of the medium and let's be honest, most game characters are pretty shallow when compared to other mediums. The way I feel about Solas is similar to the stress I felt in my teens when reading about Raistlin. I can't say I even loved the Dragonlance books but I loved him and the way he challenged the reader by appealing to your empathic side. Most people could relate to his vengeful desire to "show them all" and it drew you in. In Solas's case, while most people can't exactly relate to being a God, we can likely relate to once holding power in our hands at a crossroads in life and screwing it up. We live with the consequences of our actions and sometimes they're packed with regrets and a feeling that forgiving oneself is impossible. How many of us out there have hurt others intensionally or unintensionally and would do anything for a chance to correct that? Redemption is such a strong theme because most of us can relate on some level.

Talking about redemption themes makes me want to read The Kite Runner again.

[Janic99]

Unfortunately that's all just speculation right now (as noted in the article).  And to be honest I don't particularly like the phrase "the one who started it all" because we already defeated Corypheus who really was the one who started the whole conflict in Inquisition.  If we take that phrase to mean Solas, he certainly had a role in the events but Corypheus was the driving force behind the corruption of the Wardens, the Red Templars, the Venatori, etc.

Well none of that would've happened if Solas didn't give his orb to cory. 

[Cee]

If that is true, "one who started it all" could refer to someone much older or to an event that happened before all of this.

 

We still don't know who Felassan's master is. And this will almost certainly come up, given questions like what Felassan's vallaslin looked like that Weekes won't answer. If it's Falon'Din or someone else, this master is a potential antagonist for us.

Or who murdered Mythal.

Or who that trial was about in the codex you get at the temple.

The truth about the Wardens/old gods that has Solas so grumpy.

Why/How/When Solas woke up.

 

 

Lots of things.

 

I'm just waiting for something official.

[Abelas Forever!]

I believe that "the one who started it all" means Solas because he started the whole breach thing and most likely sealed the elven gods away. If that DLC is the last one then it makes sense that Solas' story is completed in that. I believe that there is enough time to accomplish that. Actually I'm not sure who else could be the one who started it all.  I think it also makes sense that the Solas situation is solved in that DLC because it seems that there is a possibility to destroy inquisition or save it and the next DA game has a different protagonist.

[Cee]

As Cole says "You didn't do it to be right. You did it to save them".

 

Now, "them" isn't completely clear as it could refer to the gods but the People (elves) can apply if he was saving them from the threat of potentially blighted gods losing it, among other things.

 

Started it all, if real, is vague. The actions of one or more could've started it all in triggering Fen'Harel to act in the first place. He didn't just seal them all away on a whim.

 

I think there are multiple possibilities if this is a real leak. 

[Ulv Elskeren]

This is pages back now, but I want to hug each and every person who suggested Citadel as a must-have DLC.  I never played any of the ME ones, since I was out of the BW loop back then, and had no idea they existed.

 

Completely amaaaaaaazing.   Thematically perfect as 'shore leave' from the heaviness of the main plot- my cheeks actually started to hurt around the 45 minute mark.

 

Anyway!  To keep this from being totally off-topic, my vote is Solas -> Solus.  He and Javik may share a similar crotchety, cane-waving "kids these days" perspective, but that's about it.  Javik's an utterly unapologetic ends-justify-the-means type of guy, while Solas is far more nuanced.  The two Solii, on the other hand, have the same fundamentally gray moral underpinnings, sharp, incisive analytical minds, and (of course) a crushing sense of personal responsibility for actions they took in their youth which they thought were for the best at the time, but turned out making things worse.

 

I just hope the parallels end there.  I wasn't expecting Weekes' little after-party present, so there was a period of horrible, unladylike laugh-sobbing while I had to try to explain to my husband "no, really, I'm ok... it's just goddamn Mordin".

[nikki-tikki]

If that is true, "one who started it all" could refer to someone much older or to an event that happened before all of this.

 

We still don't know who Felassan's master is. And this will almost certainly come up, given questions like what Felassan's vallaslin looked like that Weekes won't answer. If it's Falon'Din or someone else, this master is a potential antagonist for us.

Or who murdered Mythal.

Or who that trial was about in the codex you get at the temple.

The truth about the Wardens/old gods that has Solas so grumpy.

Why/How/When Solas woke up.

 

 

Lots of things.

 

I'm just waiting for something official.

 

 

I believe that "the one who started it all" means Solas because he started the whole breach thing and most likely sealed the elven gods away. If that DLC is the last one then it makes sense that Solas' story is completed in that. I believe that there is enough time to accomplish that. Actually I'm not sure who else could be the one who started it all.  I think it also makes sense that the Solas situation is solved in that DLC because it seems that there is a possibility to destroy inquisition or save it and the next DA game has a different protagonist.

 

 

It's gunna be Solas, but at the same time I'm really hoping its Dirthamen/Falon'Din. I've waited long enough. My body is ready. 

 

[Abelas Forever!]

It's gunna be Solas, but at the same time I'm really hoping its Dirthamen/Falon'Din. I've waited long enough. My body is ready. 

Maybe Solas will free all those elven gods and we'll see them.

[Gervaise]

Did anyone else feel there was a terrible poignancy when talking with Ameridan?     I chose the response "It takes everything from you".    For any Lavellan that sort of rings true but in the case of one who is romancing Solas it really is heart breaking the similarities, whether you go there with Solas (what would have been going through his mind at that point?) or after he has left.     My girl still hasn't recovered from the loss; I don't think she ever will.    Unless of course we do get a DLC where all is made clear to her and we reach some sort of conclusion/understanding.    

[dawnstone]

Maybe Solas will free all those elven gods and we'll see them.

Maybe whoever got left in the Fade, will accidentally trip the lock on a mysterious eluvian and accidentally free them...goddammit Hawke...

[S.W.]

This is pages back now, but I want to hug each and every person who suggested Citadel as a must-have DLC.  I never played any of the ME ones, since I was out of the BW loop back then, and had no idea they existed.

 

Completely amaaaaaaazing.   Thematically perfect as 'shore leave' from the heaviness of the main plot- my cheeks actually started to hurt around the 45 minute mark.

 

Anyway!  To keep this from being totally off-topic, my vote is Solas -> Solus.  He and Javik may share a similar crotchety, cane-waving "kids these days" perspective, but that's about it.  Javik's an utterly unapologetic ends-justify-the-means type of guy, while Solas is far more nuanced.  The two Solii, on the other hand, have the same fundamentally gray moral underpinnings, sharp, incisive analytical minds, and (of course) a crushing sense of personal responsibility for actions they took in their youth which they thought were for the best at the time, but turned out making things worse.

 

I just hope the parallels end there.  I wasn't expecting Weekes' little after-party present, so there was a period of horrible, unladylike laugh-sobbing while I had to try to explain to my husband "no, really, I'm ok... it's just goddamn Mordin".

 

Having now met Mordin (yet to start ME3 so can't speak for Javik), I definitely agree. They both take the same character archetype - they're both technical experts in their respective fields, i.e. massive nerds - and spin it in a similar way, by being genuinely compassionate people who take ethics very seriously. They both respectively have ethical demons from their past they struggle to deal with - Mordin with the genophage, Solas with whatever screw-up he managed in order to destroy elven society, although they deal with them in completely different ways. I usually expect the scientist/historian/academic types to be either nasty or cold - neither of which you could say of the two Solii. Got very similar vibes from meeting them both.

 

Of course they're completely different at the same time. Mordin is probably my favourite new companion from ME2, actually - he manages to both be incredibly light-hearted half the time (Gilbert & Sullivan, anyone?), as well as having a great deal of complexity underneath that - his loyalty quest is one of the most interesting, as you see him try and account for his guilt despite his (seemingly) unrepentant justification of his actions. Solas is nothing like that, of course - much more serious on the surface (although his humour occasionally breaks through that), and his character is probably heading in a much darker direction overall, I reckon. And whilst Solas regrets what happens, I don't think he's apologetic about his long term goals, or what he does at all.

 

(also, I apologise in advance for all the ME-related posts I'll be making in the near-future... I kind of accidentally fell in love with the game and I can't risk venturing into the ME forums lest I be bombarded by accidental spoilers everywhere.)