"I hope that choice does have consequences for both outcomes (though more for drinking than not-drinking, because resources are a thing and I agree with the devs when they relate how they prefer to make content for choices than not-choices if that makes sense), and I hope these consequences are on a bit larger scale than what we saw in Trespasser and basegame (although those were cool touches). It feels like a pretty major decision. Given the nature of having to write a story across multiple games and having to account for varying worldstates though.. as we’ve seen some of the biggest-feeling choices in the series so far don’t have super-key consequences. Who rules Ferelden? Does Kieran exist or not? Things were different yes but nothing world-shattering came of it. I’m not complaining about that mind, I totally get why it’s difficult, and I was content with the way those choices I made were reflected in my game-world. So as to the scale and scope of the future consequences.. I don’t know. The Well choice felt like a choice on par with the OGB choice in terms of “oh my god wtf”/potential for future impact, for me anyway.
Now as for the specifics of what those consequences might be.. I just mentioned here how I think Flemythal isn’t truly dead and will return as a player in some form in DA4. I feel like, her story isn’t complete like, she has this ominous agenda of her own and she talks of betrayal and the need for vengeance, and I want to see her pursue that. I’ve theorized in other posts that she can’t get the vengeance she wants on the Evanuris (kicking their butts and maybe killing them) for murdering her if they're’re locked away, so maybe she wants Solas to succeed in releasing them for that reason - hell, maybe Solas “I had plans [to deal with them on releasing them]” involved the powerful mother-goddess of vengeance kicking their butts like she wants to do and taking care of them that way. So I mean, if she isn’t dead, there might be consequences again in the form of Well-Inquisitors having to dance to her tune a bit as it suits her whims and plans in DA4. If she passed her godhood to Morrigan like I discussed in that post I linked, maybe it’s Morrigan-Mythal’s tune you’d have to dance to. I don’t think Well-Inquisitors would be bound to Solas as I think he took her power not soul. And in a game that seems to be shaping up to be about opposing Solas, how do you account for the so-far-main Solas-opposition person [Wellquisitor] trying to oppose him while simultaneously being under his control when he wills it? A new protagonist would help with that of course. But I just think Solas is already powerful (see: freezing people to statues with a blink), intelligent and well-equipped (agents, Eluvians) enough as an antagonist as it is.
Say Flemythal truly is dead, and Solas did indeed only take her power not soul, and Morrigan is just Morrigan with no extra sparks or passengers - well hey that’s actually pretty handy from a writing perspective, then we don’t have to account for Inquisitor and Inquisitor-who-is-bound-to-ancient-being in the next game, cause that ancient being is no more.
Now the knowledge the Well imparts, well that’s interesting. Regardless of who possesses it (Quiz or Morrigan), I think it will be a helpful tool in trying to oppose Solas going forward, like trying to decipher the specifics of his plans/activities, a good lot of which I think will be elven and/or magical in nature (lol way to state the obvious MJ). In this regard, I can see Morrigan resurfacing (even if she didn’t drink) - Morrigan has her own agenda, including a desire to preserve magics/ancient mysteries and knowledge and power from the past yes, but I don’t think that desire runs concurrent with Solas’ plans for restoration, since Solas’ plans seem to involve a potential for massive destruction of the modern world. The modern world is the one Morrigan inhabits, and potentially the one she and the people she loves inhabits (potentially Kieran, whom she’s really protective of; potentially romancedWarden as well) - and there’s no place, from the sounds of things (maybe) for non-elves or even non-ancient-elves in Solas’ proposed new world. Morrigan is human (obviously) and she’s about self-preservation. “Power has meaning” but also “survival has meaning”. If you don’t survive to make use of or continue to protect the things you’ve preserved then what’s the point?
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