Wooo I haven't been here for a week and you've had so much interesting discussion!
I agree that DAO elves had the same body model as humans, but scaled down. However, I must disagree if anyone says the same about their facial features.
Would you really tell me "That totally is a human face if you take away the tattoos and pointed ears"?
I have no opinion, really, because I haven't played Origins yet. But they do seem to lean more towards the usual high cheekbones - narrow face - kinda pretty "elfy" look than the human face.
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Zaerath: I find that the CC in DAI really lets you build an elf's face how you like, and I am grateful for that. I'm not keen on the big-eyed look that was introduced in DA2. My Lavellan is more like a DAO elf, in that her face looks somewhat like a human's with pointed ears. I noticed that the DAI NPC elves largely did not have the giant eyes (Solas being a case in point) and I'm good with that. The body, of course, is a completely different story. I don't use mods so I had the default very slender female elf body like the ones from DA2. I like the range of variability we were able to create in our characters' faces, but I think I would have preferred a somewhat more filled-out body for my Lavellan. (Solas' body mesh was awesome, though, and Sera's wasn't bad, though I would have preferred slightly thicker arms).
I know quite a few people wish the vanilla DAI would have allowed us to modify bodies as well as faces so that we could have chubby elves or petite Qunari (among other things). I think that would be cool if it didn't gobble up too many development resources in terms of skin compatibility, etc. I think there's enough distinctive features of each race that, even if height and weight were highly variable on slider scales, you'd still be able to tell if a protagonist is an elf or a human or a dwarf or a Qunari. What do you all think?
oh yeah, The Sims vibes all around 
I had a grand time making my Zae and I like seeing all the other Lavellans going around the internet. I like that in DAI they've been given that cute "elven" nose-bridge. I didn't know about it when I was making my Lavellan but next time I'll definitely use it.
Well, Solas is really not the best example of "usual" elves (at least not modern. Abelas also doesn't have big eyes). Sera has pretty big eyes, I'd say. But Gatt doesn't. Are there any other elves with cutscenes? So yeah, freedom of choice and character creation, yay!
Oh my, Inqui's elf body is strange. Female's arms are thin like noodles and male's shoulders are almost narrower than their hips. But I like them anyway. Androgynous body types *sighs happily*
I agree with you on the "change the body" issue. There would be too many problems like texture stretching and armour clipping. It would be nice to be able to customise body as well, of course, but it's probably too much work.
Art post.
(I think this deserves to be out of the spoiler tags. )
Source: http://lavellanlove....o-new-followers
Oh man, that, alongside the blanketfort, should be our token image in response to somebody joining the thread
Can we add it to the first post?
French toasts. Beautiful modern AU Solavellan art by nipuni! (Look at the little face that Lavellan drew on the egg. )
idk about the egg, I can only focus on dat booty 
prim and proper people in sweatpants do something to me
Awesome WIP of Solas' age progression from a boy to the man we have now. (GIF)
gosh this is gorgeous! hope this will get finished soon and that the artist will post the images separately as well. Especially the angsty middle ones
Redemption Ark! YESSSS! (lol, the S.S. Zuko. xD)
S.S.ZUKO 
I think it's a very fitting name because Zuko's redemption ark is one of the best (if not the best) redemptions that modern media has seen. On days I visit Team Optimism's ship I hope Solas gets redemption ark at least half as good as our favourite angsty Fire Prince's. Or won't get villainised enough to require one in the first place, you know. A girl can hope
Okay... this is not meant to sound angry, but I'm curious. Am I the only person in the whole fandom who doesn't believe Solas intends to let all modern elves burn with the current world? Am I the only person who doesn't think he's going to all this trouble (and this is a LOT of trouble for him) to restore all of Thedas to the pre-Veil worldstate just to restore a few dozen sleeping elves to power (instead of just taking them to the Crossroads or something)? Is there something Solas said in Trespasser that supports this view that I simply didn't see?
I got the strong impression that when Solas says "the elves lost everything to the Veil, even themselves" (their magic, their immortality, their conscious connection to the Fade--which involves minor empathic and telepathic abilities a la Cole--their magic-fueled wonders, etc) and that he intends to tear down the Veil to restore the elves, what he meant was he intends to restore all modern elves' connection to the Fade so their magic, immortality, etc. will be restored, and they'll be effective "ancient elves" again.
True, Solas doesn't see modern elves as "his people," but in Trespasser I thought he made it clear that he only feels that way because them being cut off from the Fade makes them closer to Tranquil in his eyes. Tranquility happens when one is cut off from the Fade. Before the Veil, all elves were intrinsically tied to the Fade. When the Veil went up, most elves were mostly cut off from the Fade, which stripped them of their magic, immortality, etc. I got the impression that his plan is like a "Mass Reverse Tranquility" Plan--remove the Veil, restore all modern elves into ancient elves (which would make them "his people" again), and restore the modern world into "their world" so they'll have somewhere to go. Not "kill all modern elves so we can repopulate the world with ancient elves."
I just... don't get it. It seems literally everyone in the BSN, including everyone here in the Solas Thread, has walked away from Trespasser with "Solas' plan is to destroy all modern races, including all modern elves, just to help a few sleeping ancient elves," and I'm just the only person who didn't get the memo.
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I'm with you here.
I've never seen Solas as a "bad guy" while I was playing until I ventured into the fandom/tumblr/BSN. I mean, it just doesn't make sense that he'll kill everyone just to leave a handful of ancient Elvhen to wander around Thedas.
The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that, maybe, what Solas meant was that not the tearing down the Veil but the chaos that'll follow will kill a lot of people. Because we've seen how they (and especially humans) react to anything out of ordinary and/or Fade-related. Most of the mages will likely be killed buy angry mobs/Templars/Chantry, people will panic, cults, radical groups and various opportunists will spring up like mushrooms after the rain. Chantry will certainly throw a fit or descend into panic or call another Exalted March. Tevinter's economy will likely collapse with the mass exodus of elven slaves. Etc., etc.
About the elves. It seems to me that Solas doesn't think they will massively die. It looks like he's trying to safeguard them as much as possible. Freeing the slaves, having agents everywhere, amassing off-screen political power... Doesn't look like just a means to an end. I don't think he does it only to tear down the Veil because why the hell would he need all of that? He could seal the freaking Evanuris AND separate the Fade all in one fell swoop all by himself but now he for some reason needs spies and politics to tear down the Veil that has been weakened with time and magic abuse? It actually looks like he's building a foundation for the future Elven kingdom/country/whatever where the "tranquil" modern elves can more safely transition into Elvhen/"his People", where elvhen culture can be restored, history remembered and the People protected from future abuse.
Like Inqui said to Valta when talking about the Titans and earthquakes: "Depending on your perspective, change can be violent"
I think Solas really does not know the extent of the damage Thedas will suffer. He can only try to save as many elves as he can but he knows there will be losses. So he probably just tells Inqui the worst-case scenario because Inquisition proved itself to be a mostly-neutral (or at least not openly pro-elf) power so Solas can't risk letting Inqui too close.
Don't know how well I expressed my thought but I think dawnstone did it really well:
I don't believe that even Solas honestly knows exactly what will happen.
As catastrophic as his creation of the Veil was, having it sit on the world for 3,500 years and then ripping it off, well, it seems logical that doing so would create upheaval that is just as terrible, and just as world-changing.
If the world seems as if it is full of Tranquil right now, as he suggests, and it is now known that Tranquil once reconnected to the Fade become immensely emotionally unstable - imagine if that happened to millions of people all at the same time, with no warning, no training to defend their minds, little knowledge of what is happening to them. There wouldn't need to be fire from the sky, or storms of demons descending, the world would, as he says, burn in chaos, those who manage to survive would have to cope with new feelings, magic, being able to connect with the Fade directly, reality working differently.
It may well be that the modern elves will be restored to their powers and immortality, but how many will die in the process? Will the Dwarves also be restored to their relationship with the Titans? Will humans be affected the same or differently from the elves, and in what way? Whatever happens the anti-magic Qunari are not going to like it. We just don't know how bad it will be for everyone, and just what sort of damage pulling back the Veil permanently would cause. It would effectively create another world though, with different rules that anyone surviving in it would have to learn.
The Breach was messy, it was destructive, because it destabilized the entire Veil without any way to easily re-stabilize it, until the Inquisitor gathered enough power. While the Veil exists, there will always be a chance that something similar could happen again, and there is even the possibility that it will shatter on its own, eventually, due to entropy, because it is a construct and not the natural state of the world. Again this is conjecture - there is a great deal that we don't know about the nature of the Veil, its original purposes, Solas' plans, and the Fade itself.
It's not that I want him to be right, or believe that he wants to kill millions of people, it's that Solas is warning the Inquisitor about a worst-case scenario (as we all know, he is grim and fatalistic), if he isn't stopped or given another solution. He has never been one to pretty up an unpleasant truth (or what he believes to be the truth).
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