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[BoscoBread]

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That moment broke my heart more. It was both horror at his plans and the deep meaning behind those two brief statements exchanged between them. It brought me back to Cole's banter about her being real and possibly changing everything, "but it can't".

 

The tragic feels are real.

 

 

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Oh certainly. The tragedy is there but it's that and horror for me.  His affect was all off and what he was saying and how he was saying it...was seriously disturbing.  And that's what makes it sad.

 

 If you respond to him angrily, you actually see him be brought down a peg.  Which is what I've always enjoyed with him.  He cracks a bit and is like - to a romanced inky "WHAT WOULD HAVE ME DO, INQUISITOR? TELL YOU I WAS THE MONSTER FROM YOU MYTHOLGY" and you're like' I WOULD HAVE HAD YOU TRUST ME" and then intense moment and for the first time in that conversation you're actually on equal footing because he KNOWS you're right and you can see that there.  

 

And then the mask goes up and he talks about killing you in this creep matter of fact way.  That's horrific to me.  The way he steels himself like that.  Then with Fellassan...you know he will do whatever he needs to do to get the job done.  So tragi-horror?

[Solas]

bwahahahahaha

[Moondreamer01]

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I don't think there can be a happy ending where Solas and my Lavellan ride off into the Emerald Graves and start a family. I just don't see it. There's too much there. 

 

I see a few possible outcomes. Redemption through death for Solas. Redemption through death of both Solas and Lavellan (she sacrifices herself for him, he sacrifices himself and prevents his plan from happening at last second. And then there's the options of him actually bringing the veil down, but I need more information before I can possibly consider outcomes.

 

There's too much power between the two of them, status, influence, known- I think at absolute BEST we can hope for is that SOMEHOW she can stop him and they can try to make a difference with the elves together, side by side. Best case scenario. Even I'm not convinced we can even dare to hope for that.

 

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I also struggle at finding any kind of happy ending for them. I think the best I could hope, depending on how things go, is that he will agree to live so he can repair his mistakes, in the way mortals do, slowly, carefully, sometimes not seeing the results of your actions until an age has passed -- and not by destroying everything and using that clean slate to start anew.

 

I could see them, years later, two travelers going around elvish communities to reteach them the ancient ways. Going around the Fade to heal spirits and put things to right, one at a time, small gestures that end up making a difference. I think I can see my Ellana becoming a teacher at his side.

 

And then, after they go into their last journeys, their legend grows in time. The hunter who tamed the wolf; the story of the protectors of the new elves...

[DustyTulip]

dis

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Seasons slip by as grains of sand until at last their paths cross once more. She comes upon him one day in the space through the seeing glass, the world between worlds where colors burst to life at the touch of an elf.

 

He observes that time has not been kind. When first they met she had weathered twenty-eight winters. Now her years are more than twoscore and ten - he has been counting all the while. Her hair is shot through with iron-gray on its way to white. Duty has etched deep lines into the hard planes of her face and another break has caused her nose to jut anew. He used to know the map of scars across her skin. Countless foreign battles are now recorded there.

 

But though her limbal rings have faded, her eyes are still like steel, and her back is yet unbent - a small mercy, he thinks, given that he remains unchanged. Vallaslin still mars her expression, brazen and defiant and there. He is put in the mind of an old battleaxe, or an aging Mabari. But for all that and more, the sight of her warms ancient blood that has long run cold. That same proud jaw, that same blazing fury (counting birds against the sun)… still too real to bear.

 

He greets her (vhenan), for what else can he do? Her harsh bark of laughter - bitter, weary - banishes the old endearment from where it hung in the air between them. Time has not dulled the blade of her temper, then.

 

She knows of his secrets, she tells him, and of his plans. He does not ask how she came into this knowledge. Visions born from spectres of memories, or murmurs from the Well perhaps, what does it matter? The lot of elves is better now, she says - of this he is aware. Her dreams reflect her waking hours, and from the Fade he has selfishly peered into them.

 

From the ashes of the Inquisition she forged an elven nation, another homeland gouged out from the face of Thedas with sweat and tears. The campaign was long and bloody, but succeed they did, and for the first time in Ages, in the People hope for the future sprang anew. Her mastery of the Mark's power has grown such that with it she can swallow armies - there are none who dare oppose them, and they have no need for gods. Enasalin.

 

She beseeches him to alter his course, that she might stay her hand. He cannot. He is bound to his cause as she is to hers. His very existence threatens their hard-won peace - the wolf at heaven’s door. She bares her blade. Fen’Harel’s Tooth, he recalls (that greatest of ironies), even as his staff thrums to life. This is preordained, written in stars by some cruel power. It always has been. Alas. So long as the music plays, we dance.

 

He once told her to harden her heart. A foolish thing to say, he realizes now. She has always been hard.

 

Wolf and wolfhound clash in their final reckoning.

 

Even burdened by the weight of years she bests him. His last words are not for her but for the goal he will never realize, for the People he has failed. Ir abelas. 

 

In the end, his greatest fear never comes to pass, for she kneels at his side until at long last the life drains out of him.

 

Are you secretly Patrick Weekes' apprentice? Because             yet so beautiful!

[Solas]

wahahah! if you like that there's one other in the same style

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After Corypheus, Lavellan dreams.

 

The Inquisitor held back the sky and withstood the wrath of heaven, and now at night the Beyond fills with dreams that hound her sleep.

 

Here she sees ten thousand crystal spires shattering as deep magicks from before the time of man stream out of the world; there the husk of a high dragon crumbles and is lost as dust to the winds. A white-gold hart with flashing hooves and a dozen proud tines streaks west across the Silent Plains, a fell wolf snapping at its heels, only for it to turn and gore him. Shrouded in half-light, a cowled figure slumbers alone in a sacred grove, where in another world a fey forest-lord and his mortal beloved lie entwined under the blackberry vines.

 

She dreams that she’s the Keeper’s courser, chasing He Who Hunts Alone all across the Fade before catching him by the tail and dragging from his chest a howl so bitter that even the stars flee in fear. She dreams of Pride, crowned with an animal skull and lounging balefully on a throne of elven bones. And she dreams that in an ancient nemeton she stands defiantly before a wolf-god. He bids her - lay her marked hand in his jaws, that he might demonstrate his fidelity - instead she proclaims him harellan and tears off his ear for her prize.

 

Now a great hulking beast stalks the gloaming, pelt dark as pitch, myriad eyes blazing like hot coals; it lunges and takes off her hand at the wolf-joint, but even as she moves to cleave its foul head in twain it claws out its own blackened heart. At the last, all the world echoes with the clamor of its torment, and somewhere in the distance Compassion weeps.

[Moondreamer01]

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Oh certainly. The tragedy is there but it's that and horror for me.  His affect was all off and what he was saying and how he was saying it...was seriously disturbing.  And that's what makes it sad.

 

 If you respond to him angrily, you actually see him be brought down a peg.  Which is what I've always enjoyed with him.  He cracks a bit and is like - to a romanced inky "WHAT WOULD HAVE ME DO, INQUISITOR? TELL YOU I WAS THE MONSTER FROM YOU MYTHOLGY" and you're like' I WOULD HAVE HAD YOU TRUST ME" and then intense moment and for the first time in that conversation you're actually on equal footing because he KNOWS you're right and you can see that there.  

 

And then the mask goes up and he talks about killing you in this creep matter of fact way.  That's horrific to me.  The way he steels himself like that.  Then with Fellassan...you know he will do whatever he needs to do to get the job done.  So tragi-horror?

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I think the horror is exactly what Patrick Weekes want us to feel. When Solas said that to my Quizzie, she was horrified. So was I. It brought back home that Solas is standing on the edge of a precipice and it would take very little for him to fall,to truly become the monster the dalish portray him as. He's so close to cracking and it's scary because the man is brilliant and getting all that intelligence bent on destruction is terrifying.

[Moondreamer01]

wahahah! if you like that there's one other in the same style

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After Corypheus, Lavellan dreams.

 

The Inquisitor held back the sky and withstood the wrath of heaven, and now at night the Beyond fills with dreams that hound her sleep.

 

Here she sees ten thousand crystal spires shattering as deep magicks from before the time of man stream out of the world; there the husk of a high dragon crumbles and is lost as dust to the winds. A white-gold hart with flashing hooves and a dozen proud tines streaks west across the Silent Plains, a fell wolf snapping at its heels, only for it to turn and gore him. Shrouded in half-light, a cowled figure slumbers alone in a sacred grove, where in another world a fey forest-lord and his mortal beloved lie entwined under the blackberry vines.

 

She dreams that she’s the Keeper’s courser, chasing He Who Hunts Alone all across the Fade before catching him by the tail and dragging from his chest a howl so bitter that even the stars flee in fear. She dreams of Pride, crowned with an animal skull and lounging balefully on a throne of elven bones. And she dreams that in an ancient nemeton she stands defiantly before a wolf-god. He bids her - lay her marked hand in his jaws, that he might demonstrate his fidelity - instead she proclaims him harellan and tears off his ear for her prize.

 

Now a great hulking beast stalks the gloaming, pelt dark as pitch, myriad eyes blazing like hot coals; it lunges and takes off her hand at the wolf-joint, but even as she moves to cleave its foul head in twain it claws out its own blackened heart. At the last, all the world echoes with the clamor of its torment, and somewhere in the distance Compassion weeps.

That was beautiful.

[BoscoBread]

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I don't think there can be a happy ending where Solas and my Lavellan ride off into the Emerald Graves and start a family. I just don't see it. There's too much there. 

 

I see a few possible outcomes. Redemption through death for Solas. Redemption through death of both Solas and Lavellan (she sacrifices herself for him, he sacrifices himself and prevents his plan from happening at last second. And then there's the options of him actually bringing the veil down, but I need more information before I can possibly consider outcomes.

 

There's too much power between the two of them, status, influence, known- I think at absolute BEST we can hope for is that SOMEHOW she can stop him and they can try to make a difference with the elves together, side by side. Best case scenario. Even I'm not convinced we can even dare to hope for that.

 

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THIS.  Death isn't bad. And according to the greatest movie ever "The Mummy" it's only the beginning!!!  

 

But no - i feel for the egg. He has had aeons of pain and power.  I think he will forever struggle with his guilt. i think it will consume him and i don't think he'll be able to sit still. that's just who is.  i truly think death would be a peace.  and he could die redeemed and remembered well.  OR if he is a spirit he returns to the fade.  ET goes home   maybe lavellan could go with him.  but regardless, i think next game solas' story is done.

 

also...im a bit convinced the next game may be the last in this iteration of dragon age. EVERYTHING from origins has been leading up to this point and it will end. it has to.  i doubt the franchise will stop, but i think if there is a da5 it'll be a different time and a soft reboot with new major issues etc.  thoughts on this?

[Solas]

That was beautiful.

thanks very much!! =) that one's called The Beast in the Gloaming.

[AutumnOracle]

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THIS.  Death isn't bad. And according to the greatest movie ever "The Mummy" it's only the beginning!!!  

 

But no - i feel for the egg. He has had aeons of pain and power.  I think he will forever struggle with his guilt. i think it will consume him and i don't think he'll be able to sit still. that's just who is.  i truly think death would be a peace.  and he could die redeemed and remembered well.  OR if he is a spirit he returns to the fade.  ET goes home   maybe lavellan could go with him.  but regardless, i think next game solas' story is done.

 

also...im a bit convinced the next game may be the last in this iteration of dragon age. EVERYTHING from origins has been leading up to this point and it will end. it has to.  i doubt the franchise will stop, but i think if there is a da5 it'll be a different time and a soft reboot with new major issues etc.  thoughts on this?

 

I've said it before and it still holds true.  I absolutely believe that there are bigger badder things than Solas in the world.  And they have said they have a five game plan.  (Possibly six since DA2 was added last minute), but lets assume five.  If they handle Solas at the end that doesn't leave a lot of unveiling for something that's bigger and badder.  I sincerely feel like he'll get dealt with mid-game.  But that's my opinion based on how I felt they've played Solas up and played up the other issues that are happening in the DA world.  There is just too much unresolved **** for Solas to be the BIG BADDY of the next one.  

 

And I still believe that Inky & he can both survive. I won't be surprised if death is an option...because a lot of people are calling for it/assuming it.  However with everything Bioware they make sure to do their best to give multiple options.  The theme of DA:I is redeem.  Or can be redeem if you want it to.  So I absolutely see them giving us a redeem option. 

 

*I didn't think anything was Trespasser spoily*

[Cee]

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Oh certainly. The tragedy is there but it's that and horror for me.  His affect was all off and what he was saying and how he was saying it...was seriously disturbing.  And that's what makes it sad.

 

 If you respond to him angrily, you actually see him be brought down a peg.  Which is what I've always enjoyed with him.  He cracks a bit and is like - to a romanced inky "WHAT WOULD HAVE ME DO, INQUISITOR? TELL YOU I WAS THE MONSTER FROM YOU MYTHOLGY" and you're like' I WOULD HAVE HAD YOU TRUST ME" and then intense moment and for the first time in that conversation you're actually on equal footing because he KNOWS you're right and you can see that there.  

 

And then the mask goes up and he talks about killing you in this creep matter of fact way.  That's horrific to me.  The way he steels himself like that.  Then with Fellassan...you know he will do whatever he needs to do to get the job done.  So tragi-horror?

 

 

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I do love that that option exists. He simply has no response for her. But that wasn't my Lavellan, so I chose the "yes, ironically", which still has her demand the truth and say she loved him and implies he should've trusted her, but she pleads to his caring. He still steps back and blinks a lot and has his eyes down like he can barely look at her. It's sadder but the effect is similar.

 

Though overall, yeah, a sense of tragi-horror.

 

 

 

[AutumnOracle]

Also the thread today feels like it needs some of this.

 

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[Illyria]

Another. Varric and Bianca have made their choices. They know what's involved. They remain, they clearly care. Bianca made a mistake, but it's a mistake.

 

 

Neither do I. Or Ameridan, really.

 

People we know for four minutes don't really click like that for me, generally. Abelas looks particularly....alien? feline? Like some sort of ghostly creature? He's like a shimmery gray-white and has yellow eyes and dark circles.

 

I still think that he wears that hood to hide his head.  Because he secretly has a prune head.

 

 

 

THIS.  Death isn't bad. And according to the greatest movie ever "The Mummy" it's only the beginning!!! 

 

[Sable Rhapsody]

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also...im a bit convinced the next game may be the last in this iteration of dragon age. EVERYTHING from origins has been leading up to this point and it will end. it has to. i doubt the franchise will stop, but i think if there is a da5 it'll be a different time and a soft reboot with new major issues etc. thoughts on this?

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It does feel rather like things are coming to a head, doesn't it? All the gambits are piling up: Mythal, Solas, the Wardens, the qunari...not to mention the hubbub that Dorian's raising in Tevinter. I think you're right: the reckoning Flemeth talked about is coming, and with it the end of the Dragon Age.

[Cee]

We have years ahead of us. Surely it will ebb and flow.

 

Also the thread today feels like it needs some of this.

 

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[Cee]

I still think that he wears that hood to hide his head.  Because he secretly has a prune head.

Maybe Abelas is Quirrell.

[NeverlandHunter]

 

Art break again. 

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Source: http://anotheramazed...il-elves-across

 

 

XD Holy crap I can't breathe!

 

Found this...

 

 

I can totally see this happening.

 

The question then is this :- Do you think Merrill will join up with Solas ? Or no ?

XD Now I'm literally dying

 

Of course she would.

I completely disagree. Merrill has grown so much since her time with her clan. She has a new family now-- a family with a dwarf, humans, and an elf, mages and non-mages alike. I would be so disappointed with her if she gave up her family, and possibly a love interest, for Solas's plan.

My Quizzy kept her vallaslin. For her it's warpaint, so there's no need to get rid of it. It's also a nice "Eff you Solas!" in hindsight. 

 

I also chose the American voice for her. I think someone thought they were almost the only one to use it? Well, I did, too. 

My Lavellan kept her vallaslin too, mostly because storywise I thought it fit her character. She never believed in the elven gods and she was proud that she was a Dalish. However, if she knew that the elven gods were real, kind of a bunch of egotistical a**holes, and actually walking around she would of had them removed.

 

That got me thinking...

 

What if in the next DA, Solas will suffer the same fate and we will no longer be able to recognize him? Or just some little detail will change and destroy his glorious face? 

 

They wouldn't dare!

But I think since he's such an important character they wouldn't do anything too drastic...I hope.

I kind of do what lots of others do. American voices for dwarves and qunari. Brit for humans and elves. I like Sumalee Montano's voice work but she's a bit...husky for elves, IMO. Not in a bad way but Lavellans are  a bit slight for the depth I think.

Yeah, I go with the starter voices too. I tried to do a Qunari with Alix Wilton Regan's voice because I wanted to roleplay a more thoughtful and introverted Qunari but it just sounded way too high for her.

[BoscoBread]

I've said it before and it still holds true.  I absolutely believe that there are bigger badder things than Solas in the world.  And they have said they have a five game plan.  (Possibly six since DA2 was added last minute), but lets assume five.  If they handle Solas at the end that doesn't leave a lot of unveiling for something that's bigger and badder.  I sincerely feel like he'll get dealt with mid-game.  But that's my opinion based on how I felt they've played Solas up and played up the other issues that are happening in the DA world.  There is just too much unresolved **** for Solas to be the BIG BADDY of the next one.  

 

And I still believe that Inky & he can both survive. I won't be surprised if death is an option...because a lot of people are calling for it/assuming it.  However with everything Bioware they make sure to do their best to give multiple options.  The theme of DA:I is redeem.  Or can be redeem if you want it to.  So I absolutely see them giving us a redeem option. 

 

*I didn't think anything was Trespasser spoily*

Oh that's correct - but redemption and death are not mutually exclusive.  Noble sacrifice is a trope for a reason.  In that moment, he is redeemed. And remembered not as a monster from myth but as a good man.  His whole thing is about "being more than you story". 

 

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Is blackwall not redeemed if you let him join up with the wardens -- something he truly would be honored to do? he dies.  that is confirmed.  i would hold that he is redeemed

 

I don't think anything is certain - my opinion was based merely on what I've seen in other stories and what I (mega 72 font captilized I) enjoy seeing.  i do not like death for nothing but it is not necessarily bad.  and in some cases is the best thing for the character.(that statement is general we don't know WHERE solas is going for it to be the best).  

 

But yeah, there are obviously bigger and badder bads out there.  My thoughts on the franchise were speculative.  But a story has to have an end though.  It's just good writing.  You have to have it going somewhere. If you don't, you get a heaping mess of incoherent garbage(IM LOOK ING AT YOU ASS CREED).

[Avejajed]

I think Merrill absolutely would.

 

She's just the right kind of naive and stubborn. A non-romanced Merrill, anyway. I have no idea what a romanced Merrill was like. The non-romanced one irritated me to no end.

[BoscoBread]

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It does feel rather like things are coming to a head, doesn't it? All the gambits are piling up: Mythal, Solas, the Wardens, the qunari...not to mention the hubbub that Dorian's raising in Tevinter. I think you're right: the reckoning Flemeth talked about is coming, and with it the end of the Dragon Age.

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yeah. they are cleaning up A LOT of loose ends.  beheaded lealiana is a lyirum ghost(that is now my canon because bizarre).  they are answering more questions than asking and point people in a very specific direction.  I CAN FEEL IT. THE END IS COMING!

 

[NeverlandHunter]

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Oh certainly. The tragedy is there but it's that and horror for me.  His affect was all off and what he was saying and how he was saying it...was seriously disturbing.  And that's what makes it sad.

 

 If you respond to him angrily, you actually see him be brought down a peg.  Which is what I've always enjoyed with him.  He cracks a bit and is like - to a romanced inky "WHAT WOULD HAVE ME DO, INQUISITOR? TELL YOU I WAS THE MONSTER FROM YOU MYTHOLGY" and you're like' I WOULD HAVE HAD YOU TRUST ME" and then intense moment and for the first time in that conversation you're actually on equal footing because he KNOWS you're right and you can see that there.  

 

And then the mask goes up and he talks about killing you in this creep matter of fact way.  That's horrific to me.  The way he steels himself like that.  Then with Fellassan...you know he will do whatever he needs to do to get the job done.  So tragi-horror?

I love that option for all the reasons you pointed out

 

Also your comment about the mask reminds me of one of the after breakup scene comments.

 

Lavellan: You really don't let anyone see under that polite mask you wear, do you?

Solas: You saw more than most.

 

My favorite of the three options, it breaks my heart 

[AutumnOracle]

Oh that's correct - but redemption and death are not mutually exclusive.  Noble sacrifice is a trope for a reason.  In that moment, he is redeemed. And remembered not as a monster from myth but as a good man.  His whole thing is about "being more than you story". 

 

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Is blackwall not redeemed if you let him join up with the wardens -- something he truly would be honored to do? he dies.  that is confirmed.  i would hold that he is redeemed

 

I don't think anything is certain - my opinion was based merely on what I've seen in other stories and what I (mega 72 font captilized I) enjoy seeing.  i do not like death for nothing but it is not necessarily bad.  and in some cases is the best thing for the character.(that statement is general we don't know WHERE solas is going for it to be the best).  

 

But yeah, there are obviously bigger and badder bads out there.  My thoughts on the franchise were speculative.  But a story has to have an end though.  It's just good writing.  You have to have it going somewhere. If you don't, you get a heaping mess of incoherent garbage(IM LOOK ING AT YOU ASS CREED).

 

Oh I absolutely see death as redemption.  Anders asked for it...I gave it to him, I didn't see him truly living beyond the moment(I did not romance him).  Blackwall asked and I gave him a chance to work on redemption while living(because he struggled to continue doing good and wasn't really done himself, just resigned).  I do not regret that decision after this DLC. I see Solas in a similar way.  Death will be a redemption option but so will living.  And I think the devs will give us both.  If that's the case I will pick life for him no matter what.    

[roselavellan]

Just replayed the romance ending of Trespasser.  These feels get more painful, not less, with time 

 

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Why do I have the horrible feeling that neither of them are going to survive Solas's stupid-ass plan?

 

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It does feel that way, doesn't it? I sometimes wonder if the best we can hope for is that they "live" happily ever after as lovers in the Fade.

 

 

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I think the horror is exactly what Patrick Weekes want us to feel. When Solas said that to my Quizzie, she was horrified. So was I. It brought back home that Solas is standing on the edge of a precipice and it would take very little for him to fall,to truly become the monster the dalish portray him as. He's so close to cracking and it's scary because the man is brilliant and getting all that intelligence bent on destruction is terrifying.

 

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One of the things that worry me about the next game is what will happen to Solas as a character. I mean, as romanced Inquisitors or those with high approval, we have an opportunity to redeem him. But then the others won't, and some might not even want to. So would that mean that Solas might actually become evil in some canons? That would be awful to me, possibly even worse than death, to be honest. I might be overly optimistic, but I hope that would never come to pass, that Weekes would find some way to redeem him at the end, even if Inquisitor won't/can't.

 

 

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also...im a bit convinced the next game may be the last in this iteration of dragon age. EVERYTHING from origins has been leading up to this point and it will end. it has to.  i doubt the franchise will stop, but i think if there is a da5 it'll be a different time and a soft reboot with new major issues etc.  thoughts on this?

 

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Well, DA4 will deal with the Qunari/Tevinter war, right? I think the problem of the Evanuris will need a full game to resolve, unless they don't intend to deal with that, which would surprise me.

[Oswin]

Headcanon times guys. What do you think will happen the next time Lavellan and Solas meet? What do they talk about? What's the context? What happens then?

 

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I like to think that, in her bid to figure out what comes next in Solas' plan, Ellana gets herself in more trouble than she can take on herself. Since her friends all have their own things, she's down to traveling mostly alone and when she happens upon a group of Qunari/slaver/pick your poison, the fight isn't going in her favor. But, Solas has her watched, supposedly so he can know her plans but really because he also think she's being reckless. When he learn from his agent that she's in trouble, he goes in a towering rage. Next thing Ellana knows, the dread wolf is tearing down her enemies to rescue her from harm. There's some cuddling; she tries to get him to talk or even just stay longer. He gets convinced to spend the night after she says she doesn't want to be alone anymore. "This doesn't change anything, vhenan." "I know." Then, when she wakes in the morning, he's gone again.

 

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She finds Solas alone, looking wistfully out across the lands. She takes a step closer.

"Solas..."

"Vhenan.."

He turns to her, a look of great pain across his face. She smiles kindly back, her one good arm hidden behind her back.

Then suddenly, she brings forth a large roll of paper and clears her throat.

 

 

"HERE ARE 10,000 REASONS MODERN DAY THEDAS DOESN'T SUCK. NUMBER ONE..."

 

..Several hours later..

"Vhenan, pls"

"NUMBER 8045.."

"VHENAN STAHP. I WON'T GO FORTH WITH THE PLAN."

 

Lavellan flings Solas over her shoulder and victoriously marches off into the sunset with him.

 

The end.

[Uirebhiril]

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However this ends, it won't be with a "only your love will save me" plot. I sincerely hope if there's redemption, it comes from his realisation that however flawed the people in Thedas are now, they deserve to live and not be sacrificed on the alter of his past mistakes.

 

 

Still getting caught up today, but I agree.

 

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I don't want Solas to give up and be redeemed just because his lover might ask him to. I want him to come to whatever realization he needs to for himself, based on whatever he's experienced through the course of DAI. Even with an assquisitor, Solas still developed friendships with Cassandra and Varric, and still got to know others on top of that. He can't look at the world and not see what he will destroy. Really, he probably already does, and that's where some of his pain comes from regardless of love and friendship. He needs to make the choice for himself because he wants to, and not just because he happens to love someone. This is why Thom's redemption worked for me in the end, and I hope for no less with Solas.