Ok, I had to make my first post after reading these forums for so long 
I started playing DAI the day it came out. Had a first PT as human female rogue and went on entirely with it till after Mythal's temple, when I discovered that I hadn't used the DA Keep so I was playing the default world state. Still finished that PT.
Then I made a new human female rogue using the correct world state etc and finished that. Romanced Cullen in both.
Now I made a female Lavellan to romance Solas (
) and today I stumbled upon this thread and something clicked in my mind...
I am almost 100% certain that I have seen that quest in my first PT!
I vividly remember this exact quest name and I know it can't be my imagination :/ I also remember that I had the tracker showing correctly for the artifacts. I recall that at first I did not even understand what I was supposed to find because I hadn't paid much attention to Solas when he was talking and hadn't exactly understood what those spheres were. (Sorry Solas!).
Plus I recall the war table quest because it struck me that it had the same name of the actual quest. So I'm sure it was there!!
Sadly I cannot for the love of me remember anything about it :/ This is driving me insane!
That game save was deleted when I started the second one. Obviously in my second one this did not trigger, but I didn't even notice since I didn't remember that quest anyway.
Now I'm on the third PT and I'm about to reach Skyhold.. we will see what happens but I really doubt it will work, plus I have already closed all rifts in the Hinterlands just this morning before finding this thread. >.>
Things that I can remember about that PT are:
- I was quite noob, I think I abandoned the Hinterlands immediately after talking to Dennett and didn't even completely recruit him until later on.. So I'm pretty sure I didn't touch any of the farm rifts.
- I had a default world save (but don't think this makes a difference).
- I never had Solas in my party basically (found him annoying at first :<)
- I don't think I did Measuring the Veil in the early stages of that PT, since Solas is required to be in the party for the elf to show up so I must have come back to do it at a later time...
- this was before any patch.. so maybe some patch that came out after has by mistake removed this quest?
Unfortunately I wasn't romancing him back then so I don't recall if there was any difference in what he says :/
However if you check the wiki and other pages, apparently this is just the name of the quest for collecting the artifacts, and does not have any impact on dialogues or romance.
"All new, Faded for her" has always shown up for me so I don't think they are related. I just think this is a quest with little importance like the other collecting ones (Viv, Blackwall) and that it will only get you approval rises. This would explain why I can't recall anything remotely important about it?
I do wish however this isn't true and that there might be more dialogue between Solas and Lavellan - but I think it was just a designer's choice to give him little romance content compared to others, and doubt something is missing :/
I'll keep following the thread in the hope they fix it soon so we can put our minds at rest! So bummed that this had to happen now that I *am* obsessed with Solas 