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[Solas]

PFFFFFFFT

 

Y'all a bunch of goody two-shoes.

 

House Slytherin here, REPRESENT.

 

 

I had a great moment when meeting up with my older sister for my birthday this year (at the Harry Potter studios in London because I R Adult) where we found out we had both been sorted into Slytherin. Booyah. It's our Family House.

 

Didn't appreciate the tour guides there talking smack about my house either 

 

 

My Solas romancing Lavellan is totally House Slytherin as well. She did spend most of the game with a face like a slapped arse afterall   Ahaa, but it's mostly down to her ambition and desire to keep herself alive that makes me imagine she'd be Slytherin. My other Lavellan would be Gryffindor because he's ginger  because he's the recklessly brave sort.

AY a Gryffindor with a very strong Slyth wing thanks!  I'm basically just the assholery of both houses combined minus the good parts   

[Solas]

Solavellan song of the day for me

[Mims]

My Lavellan would definitely be house Slytherin! Represent. 

 

As far as the headcanon regarding why my Lavellan was sent to the conclave: Yara was getting to be too much for Deshanna to handle, and she was strongly considering promoting a new first and either trading Yara off to another clan that needed a mage, or just keeping her on as a second. Yara had just as many enemies as she did friends back in clan Lavellan, and Deshanna was deeply troubled that it didn't seem to bother her. Yara thought she was smarter than those around her and caused problems. She was egotistical and vain. She was an increasingly liability to the clan, causing division and arguments.  

 

So, Yara was sent to the conclave to give Deshanna some distance on the situation, and to see how Yara handled herself in a diplomatically tense situation. Unfortunately, when the explosion happened and Yara seemed to be absorbed by the Inquisition- Deshanna regretted letting her go, feeling that she had unintentionally traded an important clan asset for nothing. 

[CapricornSun]

Regarding why Lavellan was sent to the conclave, in my headcanon when the Keeper planned on sending someone to spy on it, my Tala volunteered. 

 

Her reason? It's pretty silly but one of the clan warriors wanted her hand in marriage and she thought she'd use this whole conclave spying thing as an excuse to delay her answer to him and also saw it as something exciting to do in her life before eventually settling down. (And we all know how well that went...   )

 

Basically I imagine this happening :

 

[Catfishers]

I think my Danan Lavellan would definitely find a comfortable home in Ravenclaw. She values intelligence and wit in both herself and her companions, and is committed to fostering individuality and acceptance in her peers and the world at large. But she's also ambitious, driven, and calculating, and her intelligence can often turn itself to cunning, so there's definitely something of Slytherin in her as well.

 

As for why she was sent to the conclave... she asked to go. Begged, even. She was frustrated by clan life and the way in which the Dalish segregated themselves. She didn't want to hide, she wanted to change things. She wanted to reach out to the city elves and make real alliances, not sit around feeling superior. I figure she saw the conclave as a good way to help her people become more knowledgeable about world politics, as well as a good way to start making beneficial contacts and alliances.

 

Obviously things didn't pan out quite the way she'd expected, but I suppose she did achieve her goal in the end.

[maia0407]

My cannon Lavellan, that I'm playing right now, is curious about the world and other people. She's also open-minded and didn't always agree with her clan's treatment of outsiders. She loves her clan but wanted to see more of the world. As a mage, she also felt like she had the best handle on the issues that would be presented at the conclave. So, she volunteered to go as a spy. She hid the fact that she was a mage by disguising herself as a mercenary (hence the ugly outfit at the beginning of the game).

[Solas]

My Lavellan went because it was her duty. Loathe as she was to leave them, she's ferociously protective of her clan and they are literally THE ONLY THING SHE CARES ABOUT, so like **** was she going to let one of them go off and wander around a bunch of humans discussing their stupid war. Mordin Solus: HAD TO BE ME. 

 

(herds clan lavellan into a nest and swaddles them in blankets in my pocket aggressively)

[Ajna]

My canon Lavellan in my head is kinda like a grown up version of Luna Lovegood, and she's in Ravenclaw, so I guess that's my answer...

[Shari'El]

So I had a Solas dream, which was quite interesting, because it had DAI game mechanics, so it was like watching a scene from the next game.

 

There was a prologue to it, I think the first part of the dream was me assembling a team to storm Solas' stronghold (but it is kind of fuzzy), our spy got a tip on how to aboard a supply ship in order to get to the stronghold, we were preparing ourselves to infiltrate the place when I saw (and it seems I was playing the Inquisitor) an open eluvian, just inviting us to enter. It seemed like a trap, so we advanced cautiously, the rest of the teammates were a bit reluctant to go through a mirror (seeing they weren't acquainted with the Inquisitor for a long time and didn't trust her).

When we emerged on the other side, Solas just stood there, hands behind his back. He knew we wanted to talk and preferred to spare the journey and avoid danger to his recruits.

 

I can't remember the chat too clearly, up until the part in which Solas asks "so what are you going to do now?"

And then several answers appeared, there were 6 options methinks, one of them was "Dreamer", the Inquisitor answered she was going to train herself so she would be able to explore the Fade. Solas made an interesting face.

Another set of dialogue options appeared, "Qun", "Spirits" and more, I picked one out of 6, the Inquisitor said she will look for knowledge on how to help modern Thedas survive the sundering of the Veil.

I think another set of dialogue options appeared afterwards but I can't remember them.

After that Solas looked somewhat satisfied and some text appeared on the upper part of the screen, it was something along the lines of "Solas' mask starts showing cracks, your answers affected him a bit" and some more bla bla and then Solas just walks away, towards one of the stronghold's tower and just lets the Inquisitor roam about.

I was surprised Solas was there at the first place and realized I wanted to capture the scene in video (I do that a lot of time in the PS4, just save entire scenes) so I reloaded a save and changed one of the initial dialogue answers and my Lavellan just raged over Solas for feeling betrayed, "what have you done to me" etc. and stormed off instead of continuing the conversation.

 

So after that I woke up, realized the dream made some amount of sense (unlike most of my dreams) and that basically it translated into the idea that in the installment in the Dragon Age series we'll be able to lower and raise some invisible gauge that will affect the end result of the game. Your decisions, what you say to Solas, like every word of it, affects how he will react to your final plea or what will happen in the end in general.

It's like court approval, just hidden, and if you build enough of it you'll get special dialogue options that could lead to entirely different outcome.

Also, your previous relationship with him carries, a friend or lover of Solas will start with 50 approval, and Inquisitors with low approval will start with -50, just for example.

[TheEggCrusher]

Do I have the only Lavellan that didn't want to go to the conclave, but rather was forced? 

 

She never wanted to be anyone special, even though she had ideals on how the world should be. She much preferred wandering the forest and thinking quietly to herself in the serenity of her small Clan. She never wanted to leave. She felt herself very lucky, and when she was sent to the conclave she dreaded what might happen. Then she became Inquisitor. And fell in love with an ancient elf hellbent on destroying the world. She's fairly sure she has horrible luck. 

[S.W.]

Speaking of Harry Potter, I'm going to their London studios in... two days? Something like that. Hehe.

I probably should decide if I'm a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff by that point :s. Which house suits notoriously indecisive people the best?
 

personality is a hobby of mine. I could tell you my personality type in about a dozen systems, some from personality psych, some adapted from fictional material in fanon, lol. 

 
 

These typing systems fascinate me too. It's always interesting to see just how closely they apply or don't.

 
 

that's it exactly!! there are many flaws in them and a significant percentage of the whole thing is just hot air/bs, but it's still an interesting thought exercise and involves self-reflection considering, does this type fit me or not, why or why not, what parts do and what don't, etc. that's what I get out of it, a self-awareness of my traits and strengths and weaknesses.

 

Yes, exactly. That self-awareness has been helpful for growth over the past years. I feel better about myself with that reflection after growing up the way I am. When you're a squishy empath who just wants peace and everyone to be happy, people really love to take advantage of that or not take you seriously and then turn around and call you too sensitive. That was a cycle. Now, in my life, I understand myself a lot more and embrace what makes me 'me' and know more about the flaws too.

 
 

Oooo....I took the quiz and it says I'm an INFP, The Mediator.

Ah damn, I missed the personality type conversation when I was asleep . I find personality typing fascinating, really, I've played with a few different systems. Many of them are quite flawed, inaccurate, paint a varying picture - a lot of my results vary with mood and time. For instance, when I first took an MBTI test in class at sixteen, I scored a strong INFP. As I've got older, my F/T scores have become less pronounced, to the point that I more regularly score INTP now on tests.

Technically this doesn't make sense since if you look into type functions, INTP & INFP have completely different primary & tertiary functions. I reckon I have a really strong secondary Ne though and maybe I just became introverted through lack of confidence as I grew up? I was always really confident and extroverted before I began school. It's probably just an inaccuracy of the system, really - the way I look at my values, and determine what's right or wrong, has changed a lot. Perhaps that's partially a result of personality tests - I've come to change how I look at the world from being more self-aware of it.

This whole further complicated by the presence of actual diagnosable mental health stuff - I have asperger's, and the older I've got, and the more aware I've become of how differently I act in social situations, the less I want to do it. I'm also good with empathy but absolutely terrible when it comes to using it - I can understand how people feel, but suck at knowing how to reassure them, and am totally out of my elements in most emotional contexts despite feeling strongly most of the time? It's annoying.

So yeah. I'm Beth, INTP-T 5w4 Ravenpuff, very neuro-divergent, or something like that.

I assumed most people in this thread would score INFP. It's nice to see variety and the like though

[Qun00]

Unless the Inquisitor gets to tag along with the new hero like Hawke did in DAI, the resolution to the romance should be pretty hand wavy.

Solas will say "There is someone I need to see" and ride into the sunset.

[Solas]

ISTP here.

[S.W.]

Getting back on topic, on the subject of Lavellan...

I actually planned my Lavellan based on what would make most sense to send to the conclave. Which in large part explains her character, as well as how diplomatic she is in conversation. She:
- Has had a lot of experience dealing and negotiating with humans before
- Has represented her clan at elven diplomatic events before, and is trusted as a representative
- Has a fair amount of knowledge on the templar/mage conflict, as well as being quite knowledgeable of magic herself (what a nerd).
- Is subtle
- Actually pretty good at sneaky/stealthy things - she was taught to hunt before he magic manifested (I think it was relatively late?), and like most trained fighters, she can walk around without making a sound, without being seen or heard. If anyone pays the slightest bit of attention in a crowd, her dalishness - her stature, her confidence, her tattoos - stand out, but it's the best you're gonna get.
- Won't start a clan war (probably).

My Lavellan loves her clan deeply but gets regularly frustrated with how stressful the running of it is. She's a lot like Aveline, in that she's a really competent, badass mother-hen type. I headcanon that the last clan meet (I can never remember the word for it,it begins with 'a'?) wasn't too long ago, and the mage-templar war had either began or was close to exploding at that point. There, she was hand-picked amongst a few other dalish elves from clans who held an interest in human affairs as candidates for good spies and negotiators if their presence was needed. Likely some of those other spies died at the conclave. So she goes out of duty, reluctantly, worried about what her clan will come to, but privately relieved at being tasked to something different than usual.

[CadenceSpark]

Do I have the only Lavellan that didn't want to go to the conclave, but rather was forced? 

 

She never wanted to be anyone special, even though she had ideals on how the world should be. She much preferred wandering the forest and thinking quietly to herself in the serenity of her small Clan. She never wanted to leave. She felt herself very lucky, and when she was sent to the conclave she dreaded what might happen. Then she became Inquisitor. And fell in love with an ancient elf hellbent on destroying the world. She's fairly sure she has horrible luck. 

 

Oh my Lavellan definitely put up a fuss about it.  She was like the opposite of the Little Mermaid: "Don't want to be part of that world!"

[Shari'El]

That's a really tough question. It's not a great comparison and there are many reasons why it's off, but Moses was said to lead his people out of Egypt to save them from slavery or whatever but at great cost (deaths of all firstborn children - children are innocent. etc). I don't think Moses was dumb the way Solas sometimes is, and of course Moses was following a god, but yeah. That's who his story sometimes reminds me of the most I think.

 

To add, Solas doesn't seem to think he's going to survive his quest to save the People and restore the world of the elves. Moses couldn't enter the Promised Land because instead of speaking to the rock to bring forth water like God told him to, he struck it which implied it was his work not God's. In this way he was punished for pride in some interpretations of the story.

 

There was no great cost when it came to the Hebrews, Moses asked Pharaoh to release his people several times, every time he refused he struck the residents with another thing.

 

1. Water turned to blood

2. Frogs, lots of frogs, invading the houses of the Egyptians. 

3. Lice.

4. Bugs and rodents.

5. Disease that kills their animals.

6. Boils (skin disease).

7. Large hail that ruins crops and kills people and animals.

8. Locust.

9. Darkness on all of Egypt for 3 days.

10. Eldest boy of each Egyptian family dies, this was the straw that broke the Camel's back since it killed the child of Pharaoh.

 

Pharaoh was an idiot for not releasing the Hebrews, he didn't care until his son died. It wasn't Moses' fault, he just followed god.

[Solas]

There was no great cost when it came to the Hebrews, Moses asked Pharaoh to release his people several times, every time he refused he struck the residents with another thing.

 

1. Water turned to blood

2. Frogs, lots of frogs, invading the houses of the Egyptians. 

3. Lice.

4. Bugs and rodents.

5. Disease that kills their animals.

6. Boils (skin disease).

7. Large hail that ruins crops and kills people and animals.

8. Locust.

9. Darkness on all of Egypt for 3 days.

10. Eldest boy of each Egyptian family dies, this was the straw that broke the Camel's back since it killed the child of Pharaoh.

 

Pharaoh was an idiot for not releasing the Hebrews, he didn't care until his son died. It wasn't Moses' fault, he just followed god.

I know the story, and I did say that it's not a great comparison and that there are many ways in which it is off. When I said "at great cost" I was referring to the firstborn in each Egyptian family. That's not a cost to the Hebrews, no, but it remains that a bunch of Egyptian children died. In the same way it's not a direct cost to the elves if a bunch of humans, dwarves and Qunari die in order for their world to be restored.

 

I mentioned the things about it that reminded me of Solas' situation and not the rest as it doesn't match and was therefore irrelevant to the post. I never suggested anything to do with the 10 curses was Moses' fault and I acknowledged that Moses was following a god.

[Qun00]

Do I have the only Lavellan that didn't want to go to the conclave, but rather was forced?

She never wanted to be anyone special, even though she had ideals on how the world should be. She much preferred wandering the forest and thinking quietly to herself in the serenity of her small Clan. She never wanted to leave. She felt herself very lucky, and when she was sent to the conclave she dreaded what might happen. Then she became Inquisitor. And fell in love with an ancient elf hellbent on destroying the world. She's fairly sure she has horrible luck.

Unless your Lavellan had a crystal ball, she had no idea that going to the Conclave meant becoming someone special.

It was a simple spying task.

Now, if you just mean not wanting to be Inquisitor/Herald in a general sense, one can't shake a tree without dropping 20 players who've said that before.

[Shari'El]

I know the story, and I did say that it's not a great comparison and that there are many ways in which it is off. When I said "at great cost" I was referring to the firstborn in each Egyptian family. That's not a cost to the Hebrews, no, but it remains that a bunch of Egyptian children died.

 

I mentioned the things about it that reminded me of Solas' situation and not the rest as it doesn't match and was irrelevant to the post. I never suggested anything was Moses' fault.

 

Heh I see.

You didn't specify who had the pay the cost, so I thought your meant the Herbews.

Sorry ^^;

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Speaking of Harry Potter, I'm going to their London studios in... two days? Something like that. Hehe.

I probably should decide if I'm a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff by that point :s. Which house suits notoriously indecisive people the best?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ah damn, I missed the personality type conversation when I was asleep . I find personality typing fascinating, really, I've played with a few different systems. Many of them are quite flawed, inaccurate, paint a varying picture - a lot of my results vary with mood and time. For instance, when I first took an MBTI test in class at sixteen, I scored a strong INFP. As I've got older, my F/T scores have become less pronounced, to the point that I more regularly score INTP now on tests.

Technically this doesn't make sense since if you look into type functions, INTP & INFP have completely different primary & tertiary functions. I reckon I have a really strong secondary Ne though and maybe I just became introverted through lack of confidence as I grew up? I was always really confident and extroverted before I began school. It's probably just an inaccuracy of the system, really - the way I look at my values, and determine what's right or wrong, has changed a lot. Perhaps that's partially a result of personality tests - I've come to change how I look at the world from being more self-aware of it.

This whole further complicated by the presence of actual diagnosable mental health stuff - I have asperger's, and the older I've got, and the more aware I've become of how differently I act in social situations, the less I want to do it. I'm also good with empathy but absolutely terrible when it comes to using it - I can understand how people feel, but suck at knowing how to reassure them, and am totally out of my elements in most emotional contexts despite feeling strongly most of the time? It's annoying.

So yeah. I'm Beth, INTP-T 5w4 Ravenpuff, very neuro-divergent, or something like that.

I assumed most people in this thread would score INFP. It's nice to see variety and the like though

Just recently took this test again and I am INTP, as well. Though, I've usually always scored such whenever I've taken the test.

 

Regarding Lavellan attendance canons, mine simply agreed to go when the Keeper asked her. She's used to being a forward scout, sometimes moving several days ahead of her clan and being on her own in that time. She considered the mission to the conclave like one big scouting mission, though admittedly it would take longer and there'd be boats involved. She's never been away from home quite as long as traveling and observing the conclave will take, but they're all reasonably certain she'll be fine.

 

When the clan's not on the move, she acts as a guard, either of the perimeter or of fellow hunters in the wilds. Its her job to assess threats and outsiders. She buys into the whole attitude the Keeper has of being more open to outsiders and less isolationist. And the keeper thought her people assessment skills would really come in handy when evaluating the mood and events of the conclave. My Lavellan was loathe to leave her family, but embraced her duty, the challenge, and the chance to explore the world more.

[Solas]

Heh I see.

You didn't specify who had the pay the cost, so I thought your meant the Herbews.

Sorry ^^;

na na the egyptians sorry for not specifying.

 

no problem

[Lilaih]

Dalish clan gathering is called Arlathvhen. Merrill and Fenris actually talked about this during Mark of the Assassin and next one was going to be held soon in Halamshiral.

[Qun00]

Dalish clan gathering is called Arlathvhen. Merril and Fenris actually talked about this during Mark of the Assassin and next one was going to be held soon in Halamshiral.

Shame that they didn't wait a little longer. It probably took place before DAI could shake the very pillars of Dalish culture.

The next one, though? That's gonna be interesting.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Dalish clan gathering is called Arlathvhen. Merrill and Fenris actually talked about this during Mark of the Assassin and next one was going to be held soon in Halamshiral.

I hope an emergency Arlathvhen is held in the next game (cus Dread Wolf, the end is nigh!) and we get to attend somehow. I want to see one.

[Solas]

I was just about to say I hope to god we get an 'emergency' arlathvhen or some **** cause so many elves look like they're gonna be hit with the stupid moron stick that BW loves to hit them with lmfao I'm so worried we'll have to kill them in droves in da4

like the slaughter of 3 whole clans is not enough wahahaha

 

we get it biower the elves are morons loads of people in the fandom hate them and everyone in thedas hates them its cool

 

(i love u bioware i am not angry  )