I think Trespasser is one of Bioware’s finest works. Great kudos to them on all fronts. Especially the ending of it. And the beginning with all of the crew showing up. And I can’t forget the credits.
AND TEVINTER! *hysterical screaming*
There was much fist-pumping and shouts about how theory-crafters got it right on some points.
I never expected the writers, much less Solas, to just give us straight-up answers. While we sort of had some idea that this might be what he was trying to do, they went in a much darker direction with it than I ever expected. Which is cool. I still like Solas. I understand where he’s coming from. It’s a crime on a monstrous scale, but I understand why. It’s like Loghain, but with pointy ears and Tranquil-dehumanization rather than Orlesian hate and Warden paranoia. I’m definitely getting the fallen hero vibe. The codex entries and murals about the old wolf’s rebellion were chillingly fun to read.
‘I sent an agent to collect it, but he failed’ raises all kinds of questions. I still don’t think Solas killed Felassan. That’s not his MO. If he was perfectly content to let this Qunari woman live if she just gave up, he wouldn’t one-shot one of his servants in a fit of rage before he could even finish speaking. That’s the action of a megalomaniac god, rather than Solas.
Mythal is a badass.
I’m guessing the war that won them their status as gods was the war against the Titans. I didn’t spot that Titan mural, my thanks to whoever shared it a few pages back. They killed the Titans, mined them for lyrium, used the lyrium to achieve higher heights of magic. And apparently the Evanuris started to use the Titans for something else, something that was so insanely dangerous that Solas was willing to let the world burn than let it happen. My guess is, red lyrium and the Blight. Seeking further power, they were willing to be corrupted and corrupt their followers. So he stopped it from happening.
My big question is, was Solas ever part of the Pantheon? Did he launch a slave rebellion and earn the respect of Mythal, accepted into the Pantheon? But he and the rest of the Evanuris turned against each other after their murder of Mythal? His statues and likeness are all over the place in elven ruins, Arlathan and Dalish.
I’m growing fonder of the idea that the Evanuris are the Old Gods, even if they’re not the literal dragons. I know Solas says locked beyond the Veil/Fade, but the Black City is equidistant from every part of the Fade (except when you enter it physically). I can see it as being set above the Fade on a cosmic level, and the Evanuris desperately trying to get out. The Red Lyrium Codex entry mentions being sundered.
The Titans falling silent and the Evanuris being banished and the reduction in Dreamers all makes sense now. Operation Veil-Strike took it all down. The Sun is definitely important. Mythal denying it to people, somehow connected to the Titan…Bah. We’ll have to dig into that one.
This also explains why Solas is so happy to be in the Fade physically. That’s the closest thing he’s gotten to his normal life in thousands of years. (Cole’s happiness at seeing that his own state of affairs was once something that happened naturally was adorable, by the way.)
Now, I was rather tired and on a sugar high, but did anyone else notice the door to the Darvaraad?
Namely, in addition to all of the protection and what-not, six crossed swords? The sign of the Executors? Am I going crazy, was that a thing, or am I hallucinating?
The one thing I desperately wanted to pursue was his response to, “Well, wouldn’t that have released the Evanuris? How would you have dealt with that?”
“I had plans.”
No, REALLY, Solas?
And those are my disorganized initial thoughts.
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