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[laurelinvanyar]

Well, that's better than IRL .... when I sing, people glare at me and tell me to stop.  Sometimes threats are made.

I can relate to Andraste. whenever I sing, the earth is rent in fire and blood and entire empires are willing to surrender to make it stop. 

[drosophila]

I wonder if Solas can sing. He's so good at everything else. 

[laurelinvanyar]

With his luck, he'd sing a particular tune that awakens a horde of magical spiders. Truck-sized CARNIVOROUS magical spiders. 

 

But then, his VA does have a lovely singing voice. 

[NightSymphony]

I wonder if Solas can sing. He's so good at everything else. 

I imagine that he can sing. Gareth David-Lloyd has such an awesome singing voice so Solas must too.

[drosophila]

With his luck, he'd sing a particular tune that awakens a horde of magical spiders. Truck-sized CARNIVOROUS magical spiders. 

 

But then, his VA does have a lovely singing voice. 

 

He does?! We need Dread Wolf's Song DLC!

 

He probably sings ancient elven lullabies to Lavellan. Sigh...

[midnight tea]

I like her! You put in all those little details that make a character real, like that she's ambidextrous or even the contents of hre pouch. I knew it you headcanon more than you let on here And I have a weakness for feisty redheads. Lavellan's more of feisty ginger though... I'm going through a ginger phase.

 

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Keep working on that comic. I'd be a fan. 

 

Yeah, that's my problem - I'm so detail-oriented (detail-obsessed, some may say) every story, setting or character I work on (even if it's 'only' a RPG character), becomes this elaaaaaborate thing I keep putting stuff in.... It's one of reasons why my webcomicc and other artsy projects plans take so long >.>'''

 

And your character is definitely a feisty ginger She looks like she can kick all kinds of asses

 

 

I imagine that he can sing. David Gareth-Lloyd has such an awesome singing voice so Solas must too.

 

Well duh - even when Solas speaks, he does so in a very melodic way. More than others at least. I bet it's an ancient elfy thing, also related to this whole magic=singing stuff in Thedas. Wouldn't be surprised it was one of reasons a VA with good singing voice was picked in the first place.

[NightSymphony]

He does?! We need Dread Wolf's Song DLC!

 

He probably sings ancient elven lullabies to Lavellan. Sigh...

My favorite Gareth David-Lloyd song from his band Blue Gillespie

http://bluegillespie...rack/the-fergal

[Barnzi88]

I wonder if Solas can sing. He's so good at everything else. 

Imagine if in the Solas DLC, he sang to himself a soft, solemn poem from Arlathan times. Not really sure why, but I guess that's what head-canon is for.

Or maybe, now and then, Lavellan would recite a poem Solas told her one day, and she'd hum it whenever she would think of him. And it'd be interesting if that poem had certain clues to locations on where to find him, not that Solas would dare give away anything that he's planning to do.

[drosophila]

My favorite Gareth David-Lloyd song from his band Blue Gillespie

http://bluegillespie...rack/the-fergal

 

I like Hydraslide. Their songs are good, they remind me a bit of HIM. I used to listen to HIM a lot as a teenager. 

 

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[Bayonet Hipshot]

From Reddit:

 

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Insights and subsequent questions and speculations:

 

(1) Pertaining to a relevant excerpt from The Calling: Maric (quoting the Chant to Fiona): "'Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew.'" (...irrelevant text...) Maric: "It's where Andraste goes to speak to the Maker for the first time. It's where she convinces him to forgive mankind. It was supposed to be this beautiful temple deep under the earth surrounded by emerald waters." We just found a beautiful "temple" deep under the earth surrounded by sapphire waters. Titans shape the world. The Maker could be the Chant's misunderstanding of a Titan. In which case, how the heck did Andraste find it? Maybe if she were (possessed by) Mythal she'd know about it. But why go there, and how?

 

(2) Valta says she'll be just fine and can defend herself down there. Reminds me of Sandal's mysterious self-defense abilities. Sandal may be Titan-touched like her, perhaps a runaway from a Sha-Brytol thaig or temple. Shall we call them "Shapers"? Also see this excerpt from the ancient elven script the OP references, "Their workers scurry, witless, soulless." If all ancient Titan-dwarves were like Sandal, evil power-hungry elves might depersonalize them that way to rationalize killing them and taking some sort of power from the Titans.

 

(3) Templars gain their abilities from titan blood. It lets them block magic. Cole says in dialogue it feels like they're calling to something that gets in the way of the magic. Valta says her abilities aren't magic. I think Templars wield a crude version of Shaper powers. And I think Titan powers are somehow in opposition to magic. Maybe Titans give the world definition through a world-spanning anti-magic field? Keep it from being like the Fade? That could be what the Veil is - the Titan-maintained anti-magic field that stabilizes reality. Cullen says that Templars could close the breach by strengthening the Veil.

 

(4) The Sha-Brytol resemble golems. Bonded into their suits, infused with Lyrium. Empty armor suits found next to a pool of Lyrium. (Source: “Sha-Brytol” codex entry, not yet in wiki.) This seems to parallel Caridin's golems, but more refined. Probably work by the same mechanism - dwarf thoughts/minds can apparently be sort of uploaded to Lyrium. I wonder if Caridin rediscovered that art on his own, or knew something about the Sha-Brytol.

 

(5) See codex entry on the Gangue. It describes the Legion of the Dead as responsible for protecting the encircling stone from an inherent corruption. Three insights here. First, that corruption is likely the Blight. Second, the encircling stone is likely a Titan. Third, though this is a long shot, I have a hunch that the special mention of “fully adorned” doesn’t refer to just donning a full suit of Legion armor, but rather to being bonded into Sha-Brytol armor. I suspect the Legion is somehow descended from the practices and responsibilities of the Sha-Brytol. The funeral upon joining would be reasonable if you were about to undergo that suit-bonding process. Otherwise it just seems random and unnecessarily sacrificial.

 

(6) Wild speculation: I wonder if Thedas undergoes a natural cycle wherein the surface is sterilized and later repopulated from underground, with Titans serving as arks. Maybe some sort of astronomical disaster, or a cycle mediated by the Titans themselves. Maybe they produce the Blight at some point in their life cycle to erase the surface, then repopulate it with the life they contain (create?) in their voids. The way Solas tells the Warden ally "One does not smugly outwit a Blight" makes me think it's something beyond even the ancient Elves, and which predated them. Maybe they tried to kill off the Titans to interrupt the cycle and prevent their number from coming up. Maybe the Promisers want to restore that long-overdue cycle.

 

(7) If the Sha-Brytol and the Shapers (Valta) are the "Pure", then what's their relationship to the Profane?

 

What do you all think ?

[midnight tea]

From Reddit:

 

Spoiler

Insights and subsequent questions and speculations:

 

(1) Pertaining to a relevant excerpt from The Calling: Maric (quoting the Chant to Fiona): "'Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew.'" (...irrelevant text...) Maric: "It's where Andraste goes to speak to the Maker for the first time. It's where she convinces him to forgive mankind. It was supposed to be this beautiful temple deep under the earth surrounded by emerald waters." We just found a beautiful "temple" deep under the earth surrounded by sapphire waters. Titans shape the world. The Maker could be the Chant's misunderstanding of a Titan. In which case, how the heck did Andraste find it? Maybe if she were (possessed by) Mythal she'd know about it. But why go there, and how?

 

Emerald ain't sapphire  The first quote suggests more direct relation to the Fade. 

 

IMO, I wonder if the Mythal has more connection to waters like these - she supposedly "walked out of the sea of the Earth's tears" to calm Elgar'nan. Then there's her Well Of Sorrows, which apparently isn't just a pool of normal water. Not only we see that (after the Well is consumed) more water and a watery figure emerges from the empty pool, Solas' painting does suggest that the Well draws its power from deep beneath the ground!

 

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[Bayonet Hipshot]

Emerald ain't sapphire  The first quote suggests more direct relation to the Fade. 

 

IMO, I wonder if the Mythal has more connection to waters like these - she supposedly "walked out of the sea of the Earth's tears" to calm Elgar'nan. Then there's her Well Of Sorrows, which apparently isn't just a pool of normal water. Not only we see that (after the Well is consumed) more water and a watery figure emerges from the empty pool, Solas' painting does suggest that the Well draws its power from deep beneath the ground!

 

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The Well of Sorrows is a magical well. Anything magical requires a power source. So a series of Lyrium veins is a very likely explanation. That or Fen'Harel is bad at drawing, which he isn't.

 

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The actual question is this: Are those just average Lyrium veins or are they connected to a Titan or is it from the remains of a Titan killed long ago ?

 

I am also rather surprised by the fact that Titans seem to have no problems with other creatures mining and consuming its blood. That is...worrying...

[midnight tea]

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The Well of Sorrows is a magical well. Anything magical requires a power source. So a series of Lyrium veins is a very likely explanation. That or Fen'Harel is bad at drawing, which he isn't.

 

The actual question is this: Are those just average Lyrium veins or are they connected to a Titan or is it from the remains of a Titan killed long ago ?

 

I am also rather surprised by the fact that Titans seem to have no problems with other creatures mining and consuming its blood. That is...worrying...

 

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I don't think "average" lyrium veins can 'feed' entire civilization, as well as ginormous tree. There's something else going on here... But then it seems that any lyrium vein is connected to some sort of Titan.

 

As  for Titan not minding... well, maybe for it, creatures like Sha-Brytol are either too small of a concern, or they at least have a useful role, in all heir zealotry or mindlessness, as they keep everyone else away.

 

Still, the Titan appears to be in some sort of stasis or sleep phase. The Breach caused it to 'stir', after all - hence the earthquakes... Not sure I want to know what it would do if it fully woke up   ....Was the Titan waking up what consumed Arlathan?

 

Anyway... the suggestion that Thedas may be going through the natural cycle of death and rebirth from those speculation is something I wouldn't dismiss too quickly.

 

Is it possible, that something went wrong with previous cycle, and it created the Blight? ... Or is it that elves (?) constantly prolonging their civilization, and therefore the cycle, caused at least one of Titans to become corrupted out of sheer strain? Do the Titans willingly work with elves or their gods? Were they enslaved, or maybe imprisoned and used as a power source? One of the old elven texts found in ToM does suggest that some elves were preparing to hunt "pillars of the earth" and that they will 'make the earth bloom with their passing' - in light of what we saw in Descent, I wouldn't be surprised that they indeed tried to 'hunt' a Titan to rejuvenate an ailing world... Question is - did they succeed? And was the price for it a fall of their civilization?

[AslinnMoonbreeze]

I think I am going to make a female Solas cosplay, as well as my Lavellan. I really want to make the Keeper's Robe for Lavellan, as well as Tyrdda's Staff.

I also want to re-enact the break up scene with myself, but have Solas (me) reply when asked why he's breaking up with Lavellan (also me) by saying, "because we gotta make that DLC money somehow", and he dances away flipping the bird while Lavellan is crying on the ground. Because I think that's actually what they meant with that entire scene. 

I have recently been tweeting at Dragon Age, Patrick Weekes and David Gaider (I never really used twitter before hand) and Patrick has liked two of the tweets so far. First was a screen shot of when Solas promises to make things clear if you both live which I tweet as 'The biggest lie in the history of lies" and asked where the "sweet overpriced" DLC was. Second was a picture I found of Solas and someone on tumblr saying how bad they fucked up, and I said "Tfw you finish your first playthrough of DAI and you romanced Solas" along with the Elven phrase "Ir abelas ma vhenan" lol. My last tweet is a picture of Solas photoshopped into The Simpsons newpaper that was about Homer that says, "Local man ruins everything" informing them the point I was trying to make is that Solas has ruined my life and I need closure. I hope they find my humour and wit so amazing they makes the DLC/Expansion. That was my plan anyway.

[Renmiri1]

That name would be awesome for the crafting materials. Spicy Dinosaur Bone sounds like the name of a sushi roll.

 

It isn't true though

 

Dragon does use the "fire" symbol so would also mean hot or spicy but dinosaur is a completely different symbol

[tsunamitigerdragon]

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[laurelinvanyar]

Why would you eat dinosaurs????

 

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[Renmiri1]

He does?! We need Dread Wolf's Song DLC!

 

He probably sings ancient elven lullabies to Lavellan. Sigh...

Search Blue Gillespie on youtube

 

https://www.facebook.com/bluegillespie

[Renmiri1]

Why would you eat dinosaurs????

 

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They taste like chicken

[Sable Rhapsody]

They taste like chicken

 
According to the Animorphs, T-rex tastes like swordfish.  Random childhood book tidbit that I still remember 

Rule #1 in Thedas: singing causes weird **** to happen.

Like in during the march to Skyhold! It causes silly faces and voice desync

Maybe my Lavellan should take a hint from Spamalot and just run around yelling, "NO MORE BLOODY SINGING!"

[Renmiri1]

 
According to the Animorphs, T-rex tastes like swordfish.  Random childhood book tidbit that I still remember 

 

According to recent science, birds come from dinosaurs..

[Sable Rhapsody]

According to recent science, birds come from dinosaurs..

I know, I know, just let me have my childhood goofball timetravel dino-morphs

[laurelinvanyar]

 

Like in during the march to Skyhold! It causes silly faces and voice desync

Maybe my Lavellan should take a hint from Spamalot and just run around yelling, "NO MORE BLOODY SINGING!"

I want some peasant to yell at Andraste "Listen, strange voices talking in your head is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical fade ceremony. you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some fade spirit talks to you."

 

...Let's not go to skyhold. Tis a silly place. 

[Garnet]

(Not actual spoilers. Just sillyness.)

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Solas: One day, vhenan, all this will be yours!
Lavellan: What, the curtains?
Solas: No! Not the curtains, lass. All that you can see! Stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, vhenan!
Lavellan: But Fen'harel
Solas: Solas! I'm Solas.
Lavellan: But Solas, I don't want any of that!
Solas: Listen, lass. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the gods said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up! An' that's what your gonna get, vhenan -- the strongest castle in these lands!
Lavellan: But I don't want any of that -- I'd rather--
Solas: Rather what?!
Lavellan: I'd rather... just...[music]...sing!
Solas: Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here.
I guess that would be Lavellan inheriting Solas' lands after wolf hunt?  Sorry. I just watched this movie and haven't slept yet.

Here's a screenshot to distract from my foolishness. 

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[CapricornSun]

Art post.

 

Solas and Lavellan sitting under a tree.

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Source: http://osatokun.tumb...asy-9-thank-you

 

 

WIP of EnaShepard's/sihaofskyhold's Coria Lavellan and Solas by chenria.

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Source: http://chenria.tumbl...lds-picture-3-i

 

 

May the Dread Wolf take me.

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Source: http://mono-no-ke.tu...-the-dread-wolf

 

 

 

 

For DAI Romance Week: Solas

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Source: http://harellanart.t...-were-alone-but

 

 

Lavellan and Fen'Harel. Colored version of this artwork.

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Source: http://kitteria.tumb...94183/i-am-weak

 

 

Solas and Lavellan looking unimpressed (or something. xD)

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Source: http://41.media.tumb...13m3ho1_500.png

 

 

Another draw your OTP meme.

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Source: http://meiru-chan.tu...ke-this-someone

 

 

Original:

 

 

Sketches of Solas and Trevelyan.

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Source: http://swimmingtrunk...ition-right-now

 

 

 

Solas.

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Source: http://virginiageorg...ines-day-coming

 

 

Suited Solas.

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Source: http://agent-jaselin...00/suited-solas

 

 

"You should have seen me when I was younger. Hot-blooded and cocky, always ready to fight."

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Source: http://meiru-chan.tu...n-i-was-younger

 

 

Fen'Harel doodle.

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Source: http://trash-art-alt...utes-of-doodlin

 

 

And colored version.

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Source: http://trash-art-alt...7/what-is-color

 

 

Doki Doki Skyhold Gakuen AU.

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Source: http://kimikoyukiart...e-vivienne-is-a

 

According to the post, Vivienne is a senpai alongside Solas, with Viv as the president of the debate club;

Solas is a nerd who is part of the library staff and the only one who dares talk back to her;

and Lavellan is the student council president who likes Solas.

 

 

 

 

And lastly, Beauty and the Beast crossover.

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Source: http://missrainbow-u...st/114240883119