Alright! Everyone ready for my Solas theory? 
It's evening now and my twig tea supply chain has been set up and I've stopped working and I should stop explaining and get to the point.
So: we've seen a lot of parallels between our world mythology and Thedas (in general and with mythology separately, which is actually kind of interesting, since usually the emphasis of high fantasy is that you are living the mythology, not that you have a distinct mythology on top of the one you're living - but that's another subject). The parallels are mostly evident, if not perfectly clear or even exact (which is not a problem), but at the very least we can see that basic social and religious models are emulated with precision. This leads me to the conclusion that the pieces which are not self-evident parallels must have at least a sketchy counterpart to a degree in order for the structure to work. So, going on that basis, I posit that Solas could be what we consider the classical "hero" of myth: half god and half mortal, with a foot between both worlds.
As I mentioned earlier, I suspect that the Forgotten Ones might have been more akin to a cast down pantheon than gods who are inherently part of the Arlathanian pantheon (which eventually suffers, you'll notice, from the imbalance of not having gods of outright destructive qualities; the "good" gods instead got corrupted, although this by itself is not enough evidence, since all gods in all mythologies do a lot of incredibly selfish and stupid things because they can). This is neither here nor there, except that it casts a new light on Solas having a "foot in the Forgotten Ones' world" as well as a foot in the elven pantheon. Who does this remind me of? King Arthur and co., of course! Who had one foot planted in the religion of the old gods/goddesses, the Isle of Avalon, druids, all that fascinating stuff 
, and even went through the old rituals in order to ascend to power and gain the acceptance of the myriad of clans and folk that generally snarled at one another, and also embraced the new Christian faith as a necessary leap of state (*cough* faith) that from a sociopolitical standpoint represented the pathway to peace... eventually. I know I'm cutting historical corners, but it all makes sense if you squint at it through the lens of "what would have happened if those decisions hadn't been made." Much like in 1000 A.D. when Hungary's first Christian king (St. Stephen) became the Christian king (and had the entire kingdom follow suit, much to everyone's disgruntlement) in order to secure our place in Europe - and we've had terrible, absolutely terrible luck ever since, but at least we're still in Europe. Enough of history, I had a point here: so Solas minds me of a legendary figure who was able to tie the "old world" and the "new world" together without being strung up by either because of his great charisma and cleverness (what the Arthurian legends had in an entire group of people all come down inherently to the seed of the "hero," albeit Arthur sticks out anyway as The Charismatic Leader figure, but I think Solas is more of a classical hero kind of guy).
Second point. What is the purpose of the hero? From a psychological point of view (damn, I really need to start writing a book about this), the hero is the integration of the "old" and "new" ego (FO/EP parallel?), or rather, the painful rebirth known as "adolescence" which entails a lot of really infuriating emotions and intense dramas and all of that, but most importantly, it is the emergence of the individual, you as a person as you fit into society. So for such a young, changing mind, a metaphorical role model of sorts is needed: the hero is someone who a child can relate to, because heroes are just like them (superheroes, anyone?), but they discover that they are also part gods - they do not belong in the pantheon directly, because that's for actual gods, but they have special abilities and strengths that set them apart. Plus, life usually goads them into using those powers. Psychologically speaking, this is a time when the child will start exploring their own "superpowers" and discovering who they really are and what they really want to do - that "something special" that sets them apart and makes them aspire to better themselves and be heroes of their own story.
I could go on, but I shant. I promised a wall of text, but not a book. 
Point being: does this sound familiar? A "mortal" with "superpowers" who does not belong in the pantheon, yet is inherently a part of their pantheon, a number in their ranks despite whatever the other gods might feel? Yes, Fen'Harel ostensibly has the powers of a god, yet he claims that he is not a god, moreover neither are the other members of the pantheon.
Let's get a little nitty-gritty: the members of the pantheon (as "gods") do whatever the hell they please, because they can. That qualifies them as gods, who play out the archetypical best and worst qualities of their people on the grossest scale possible; yet they need not have always been The gods, as I said earlier, so that leaves politics, because that's the only other group of people who have ever had godly powers without being necessarily "gods" according to the classical definition. Pharaohs, anyone? So, it could be that what we see here is more about the subjugation of an entire civilization through the power of birthright, command and presumably magic, like a much, much more advanced Tevinter, where the rulers and aristocrats of that society have the worship of thousands just because of who they are.
If it's truly politics, then that means Solas' foot in both worlds would make his move a sociopolitical one, keeping friendly (if somewhat neutral) terms with both the new aristos and the old gods (?), he could even have been their priest representing the Old Faith in the court of the "pantheon," thereafter scorned and vilified as "barbaric" and "evil" - this seems like just the kind of soup that Fen'Harel would just love to spike with a little discord. In this, Solas would be the hero who has the Arthurian connection between the different factions of the elven empire while having a secret agenda that would raise a true democracy of sorts out of the ashes of the oligarchy he's about to crush like a worthless insect beneath his boot (unlike Arthur, who himself rose to power). It's the Trojan Horse, I tell you.
If it's not politics, then he is more literally a hero, with superpowers, yet lacking the full blush of godly power, which enables him to exist both on "Olympus" and on "Earth" without having that bother him particularly, yet he knows that at least someone is on his trail and sniffed out his plan to release the "humans" from under the ruthless, corrupt thumb of the pantheon, so he has to move fast and make sure that he strikes at both the old powers and the new powers so that the little people can escape.
Point being, Solas could be a hero from several senses of the word, which explains both why he's accepted by both the Forgotten Ones and the elven pantheon (which seems ludicrous - how is that even possible that one doesn't know about the other? Unless he can "slip in under the radar" or act as the spy or whatever, i.e. he's not really like them). He is also, I would say, not literally a wolf in this, but more metaphorically - a devious, intelligent free spirit who can be vicious and yet steers clear of obvious dangers with ease; a hunter, yet also a community-centered individual, albeit one who lives within a strict hierarchy of sorts. Not your classical definition of hero, yet necessity births heroes, not their wishes.
...and now's the time of all of my theory to collapse like a deck of cards because I'm really just talking now... and that never ends with brevity nor sanity.
Retour en haut
Don't worry. It's gone now. From existence. Forever.
*fangirls over ChuChu art*
