This is in three parts, beginning in the house you wake up in: http://dragonage.wik...nt_Observations
In the first mission, where you meet Varric and Solas. Solas greets you and -
Varric: He means, "I kept that mark from killing you while you slept."
And the Fade Haven dream gives some more details.
Oh, that. Yes, I know about that. I thought you were talking about something else not immediately obvious.
Still, when Cassandra and the Inquisitor catch up with Leliana and Chancellor Roderick, I didn't notice that when the mark started to consume her again, Solas took a slight step forward and concentrated a little, then her mark stopped growing.
I don't know if he kept it from growing during the next three days she was out of commision. Adan's notes and conversation indicate that he was the one who was looking after you and "patching you up" while you slept. Solas only commented that your hand was "thrumming with unknown magic" while you slept. If Solas did keep your mark from spreading after sealing the Breach, he kept it secret.
My PCs can never let their friends or beloveds indulge in revenge, not Garrus, Sera, Solas...nope. They're all hippies I guess. Friends don't let friends execute people in a moment of passion. Revenge is what got Solas and Thedas in this whole mess. Allowing Solas to murder those mages doesn't seem like a step on the path to his redemption.
I'm disappointed the choice about Solas and the mages isn't in the Keep. It should make a difference in the future.
I don't agree with this. Imagine if our companions kept us from getting revenge on someone who grievously wronged us and/or our loved ones,just because they decided it was in our best interest not to let us "execute people in a moment of passion."
Imagine if Alistair kept Cousland from killing Vaughan Howe out of revenge for their family, because we need him as an ally and we shouldn't let a little thing like our slaughtered family consume us. Imagine if Riordan invoked the Rite of Conscription and forced the Warden to "spare" Loghain by recruiting him into the Grey Wardens, even if, say, a City Elf desperately wants to publicly execute him as an example for enslaving their family. Imagine if your companions fixed Orzammar's succession behind your back to let Bhelen rule Orzammar even if you're a Dwarf Noble who wants to get even him getting you set up/framed, exiled, and left to die in the Deep Roads.
It's not for me to pass judgment on whether characters are rightfully angry or just "indulging in revenge," because I'm not in their shoes, and I sure as sugar wouldn't like them doing it to me if they were in my shoes.
With that said, in my first playthrough I did try to stop Solas from killing the mages, partly because the glint in his eye frightened me, but also because, at the end of the day, the mages didn't know any better. They did what they did out of pure ignorance, not malice. Certainly, most of Thedas (most of us before we played Inquisition) doesn't realize that spirits are sapient beings that are naturally inclined toward peaceful semi-existence driven mad when summoned and bound against their will. Certainly, they summoned the spirit to protect them from bandits; if they'd known doing so would cause it to go berserk and attack them, they never would have done it.
That said, I only tentatively clicked the "stop Solas from killing mages" fully intending to reload if the plea came across as too moralistic or self-righteous. If she had given some patronizing speech about how he should just get over the mages kidnapping, imprisoning, torturing, and killing his oldest friend, I would have reloaded in a heartbeat. However, I like how there doesn't need to be some impassioned speech or sabotage (like Hawke physically withholding the Dalish mirror instrument to Merrill); you just gently say his name, and that's enough to bring him back to himself.
I feel bad, but... they were just idiots. Just ignorant mages who didn't know better. That's worth a lot of reprimands, but not getting executed, in my book.
Sorry to interrupt what's being discussed at the moment, but I'm doing another Solavellan playthrough (disaster mage, gonna make all the wrong choices!), and I found it absolutely hilarious that the first thing Solas talks about when you ask him about the Fade is what it'd be like if the Veil wasn't there. And when you're talking about spirits you can say:
Inquisitor: Is there a way to change that? To coexist without such open hostility? (Or something to that effect, I can't remember right now)
AND SOLAS SAYS: Not in the world we know today, but it matters that you thought to ask.
NNNNNNNNGH! I'M ENCOURAGING HIM!
Let's be honest, he would have done this no matter what.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that though. I honestly thought the world he described sounded wondrous, and I can understand now why he misses it and wants it back. Why pretend to hate a world you can also see the beauty in, just because you think that slapping down his hopes and dreams will make him want to abandon it?
In fact, it seems to me that showing appreciation and encouragement of the world Solas remembers makes him more appreciative and open to sparing this world. He fundamentally believes this world is too cut off from the Fade to absorb any of its good qualities or appreciate its beauty, and that all the problems between the Fade and physical world come from the physical world literally demonizing it. Being one of those Inquisitors who constantly slaps down his love of the Fade and spirits likely confirms his feelings that the gap between the Fade and physical world is too wide and he has to tear it down, but showing appreciation shows him that the gap is not as wide as he thought, and that people in this world can connect with and appreciate the Fade despite being cut off from it by the Veil, and he's more likely to see value in this world and want to spare it.
Retour en haut
Or was that me xDDD
). Whether or not someone has the right to prevent another from committing revenge (in whatever form it may take), isn't really the question here. At least not for me. It is that I am playing a PC who has the "choice" to say something to Solas, that may or may not stop him from taking revenge.
