I'm getting a Zachary Quinto vibe from him.
Just me? I think it's the nose...
Looks like his nose is going to be the thing everyone will notice first when it comes to Solas.
Dorian has his stache, IB has his horns, Varric has his chest hair, etc ( not that I have a problem with it I like his nose 
)
Aaaaahhh I have to leave to watch soccer 
Here's hoping Weekes answer won't break my heart when I come back!
I liked Solas with hair he look like Prince Zuko
Haha, I just wrote a weird tweet to Weekes about how we all in the thread are in love with Solas 
hehe
(I love him so much already)
I'm not sure if there's been a flyby here with this pic, so I'll just leave it here... Maynard James Keenan..
This mans voice does...things to me, but yeah...
Me
@PatrickWeekes Uh oh, will we have to deal with unrequited love for Solas like we did with Mordin?
It's totally open to a really evasive answer but I was too afraid to ask it outright >.<
You're a lot classier than me lol! I literally asked "can we tap dat?" 
You know what's painful? All the character interviews are loading.
Except Solas's.
8I
So... if he is a romance (pleaseohplease) what do you all think that would look like? I could see it being a bit similar to the Garrus romance in ME... where you approach him and he's surprised at your interest. it would be nice to have something like that... where it's based on friendship and mutual respect. It could see it being pretty drama-free, since he seems like a low-key type of person. It would be a nice change of pace, anyway.
When i think of zuko this always comes to mind....
This how I can see the relationship of my inquisitor and Solas
I'm not sure if there's been a flyby here with this pic, so I'll just leave it here... Maynard James Keenan..
This mans voice does...things to me, but yeah...
I'm not sure if there's been a flyby here with this pic, so I'll just leave it here... Maynard James Keenan..
This mans voice does...things to me, but yeah...
Haha... someone actually mentioned that in the Cole thread the other day, and I agreed. His new design resembles him even more. Despite not being traditionally attractive, Maynard was my famous-person crush all through high school, so... 
And a million times yes, to the bolded part.
I love it... I go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, come back.... two more pages!!!
So... if he is a romance (pleaseohplease) what do you all think that would look like? I could see it being a bit similar to the Garrus romance in ME... where you approach him and he's surprised at your interest. it would be nice to have something like that... where it's based on friendship and mutual respect. It could see it being pretty drama-free, since he seems like a low-key type of person. It would be a nice change of pace, anyway.
Well if he's a dreamer I would like some kind of narcolepsy joke.
OMG ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY HOW MUCH I REALLY NEED HIM AS A ROMANCE.
But I'd prefer to know now if he's not a LI.
Please don't prelong my heartache Bioware! 
Thank you so much if anyone does this for me. Takes ages to load up other pages especially if there are Gifs or images on them. Thanks again!
Hey guys! First off, CONGRATS! Secondly, can one of you PLEASE copy and paste Solas' interview from the dragonage site? I'm on a shotty connection right now and it's storming big time, and the dragonage.com is trolling me! I am flailing around the house angry because I can't read his interview or see his picture!
[DRAGON AGE]: What can you tell us about Solas?
[PATRICK WEEKES]: He’s pretty straightforward, honestly. Just your average elven apostate who voluntarily joins the Inquisition in the middle of the mage rebellion to lend his expertise with the Fade.
[DA]: “Average,” huh?
[PW]: I like to keep it simple.
[DA]: There’s a lot of ground to cover with Solas, so let’s start with him as an apostate—meaning he practices magic outside the Circle of Magi. Did he escape with the rest of the rebel mages?
[PW]: Actually, he was never in one of the Circles to begin with.
[DA]: Interesting.
[PW]: Thedas is a pretty big place, and unless you go around burninating the peasants, you may never come to the attention of the templars.
[DA]: Without the Circle to provide training, how did he learn to control his power?
[PW]: Solas is largely self-taught; while he can comfortably defend himself, he cares more about exploring the Fade than he does about hurling fireballs.
[DA]: What makes the Fade so interesting?
[PW]: Okay, so, the Fade—bear with me, this gets a little weird—the Fade is the spirit side of the Dragon Age universe. It’s this incredible place full of dreams and memories, imprints left behind by powerful emotions or events in our world. Solas has trained himself to do something a lot like lucid-dreaming. He goes to ancient ruins where the Veil is thin, goes to sleep, and actually experiences the history of places no one else has seen in centuries.
[DA]: Is that sort of vision accurate?
[PW]: Absolutely not. It’s based off people’s memories, right? Ask ten different witnesses at a crime scene to describe what happened, and you’ll get all kinds of conflicting information. Solas knows that everything he sees in the Fade is subjective and imperfect. It’s like a gigantic Wikipedia entry full of “[citation needed]” notes, but still, Solas has found some amazing things.
[DA]: In past games, the Fade has been a dangerous place, full of demons.
[PW]: Yes. Most people in Thedas think of the Fade as demon-land… and Solas believes this is part of the problem. If you go into a realm that by its very nature reflects the thoughts and fears of living people, and if all you’re ever taught in the Chantry is that the Fade is this terrible place that wants to kill or possess you, then when you get there, of course it’s like that.
[DA]: Solas doesn’t fear the Fade?
[PW]: I’d say he respects it. It’s still dangerous, but because Solas found the Fade on his own, he went in without preconceptions, letting him explore the area and befriend spirits without the black-and-white mentality that holds back mages trained in the Circle. While everyone else guards themselves, assuming everything in the Fade is a threat, Solas will find a brilliant unimaginable light, smile delightedly, and move in for a closer look.
[DA]: Does that extensive knowledge aid him in combat?
[PW]: On the battlefield, Solas’s expertise with the Fade lets him manipulate magic in ways that would never occur to most mages.
Off the battlefield, when Solas sees a giant hole open up in the sky with demons pouring out of it, he knows that he can help where Circle mages cannot. As a result, although there is no guarantee they won’t locked him up as just another apostate, Solas comes voluntarily to the Inquisition.
[DA]: Did you find his character challenging to write?
[PW]: Writing Solas had its moments, yes. I personally love characters who are intelligent, characters who don’t necessarily break the universe they’re in, but who make players reexamine their own assumptions and look at that world in a new way. It’ll be interesting to see who thinks he’s fascinating and who thinks he’s out of his ever-Fade-loving mind.
[DA]: One would assume that opinions vary among his fellow companions as well.
[PW]: Absolutely. Vivienne is as loyal a Circle mage as you’ll find, so having this scruffy little hedge mage pop in and say, “You’re all close-minded, you should be making friends with spirits,” causes her to get icily disdainful as only Vivienne can. Solas and the Iron Bull also spar over Qunari beliefs, as Solas believes in freedom of thought more than anything else, and the Qunari tend to be pretty rigid there. On the other hand, Solas and Cole get along rather wonderfully.
[DA]: Because Cole is a spirit?
[PW]: Yes; Cole is trying to figure out what that means, and Solas can answer a lot of Cole’s questions. The two of them have fascinating talks about what it means to be a spirit, usually with the rest of the party watching the two with these narrow-eyed “What the what?” looks.
[DA]: In addition to dealing with the world’s perception of mages, he’s also elven. How does he deal with that much adversity?
[PW]: Honestly, Solas hates people who look at him and just see an elf. He considers that kind of attitude part of the black-and-white dichotomy that has led to so much tragedy in theDragon Age world. Templars versus mages, demons versus spirits, elves versus humans… it’s more complicated than that. Come to think of it, “It’s more complicated than that,” may actually be Solas’s battle cry.
Yea Solas @ilikesocks has a neat suggestion. mind cooy and pasting the interview in the op and putting it under spoiler tags. Sorry if it's too much to ask 
PROFILE
Solas has spent his life as an apostate, living in the wilderness well away from the civilized world and those who would shackle him for what he is. He mastered his magic without the help of tutors, spending years exploring the spirit realm of the Fade and coming to an understanding of its denizens that few others could claim. He would be happiest left alone to sleep in ancient ruins, searching for memories and knowledge that has been lost for ages, but the Breach in the sky threatens all worlds.
At a time when other mages flee into hiding, Solas has put his freedom at risk by emerging from the shadows to assist those who would combat the chaos. He will not stand idly by when his knowledge of the arcane could mean the difference between salvation and utter destruction.
I think they actually took down his interview. I can see it on one of my computers that already had it loaded but not the other
Sooo.
I won't lie: I never really formulated much of an opinion on Solas before, mostly because I barely knew anything about him. "Dreamer", yeah; "bald elf non-Circle mage", yeah. Other than that, nothing. So I didn't really ever think about him. One time, a friend and I were discussing the DA:I companions at a bar, and we could only remember eight of them. I had to grab a napkin and write them down before realizing that we'd left out Solas. My bad.
But this interview? Awesome. Especially the bolded stuff. Solas' approach to history and memory is wonderful; it's, uh, very familiar to me as a graduate student in history. This is probably a bit of a reach, but I don't care: he's a posthistoricist academic, right down to the scungy clothes and low-maintenance (lack of) hair. Hell, I know some people in the department who might be dead ringers for him. I think it'll be great to have somebody like that around - both for the positives (he can see ALL THE SHADES OF GRAY) and negatives (he might mistake darkness for noon). Not a character type you see in video games too often.
Now I'm officially excited about every single companion in this game. I'll be useless for months. Thanks,LaidlawDarrahGaiderCheeKristjansonKirbyWeekesObama.
I agree with every part of this except the Obama. And I'll forgive that.
I had absolutely no impression of Solas other than as Mr. Hotpants, but had he been 'the Dalish elf' with an ethnocentric grudge match I probably wasn't going to care about him at all. As it is, hearing this and him as part of team 'respectful differences' has slingshot him towards the front of the pack for me. For similar reasons as Eirene's fangasm.
I actually think someone put the interview too early. maybe for us? xD hahahah
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