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[wintersdreaming]

Wait. Hear me out.

 

The more I discuss the stories here and replay the games, the more the ancient elven gods remind me of the Sidhe. They were more powerful than mortals but they weren't gods. They didn't create the world, but helped shape and influence it until being relegated to their own realms. You have two main 'courts' with the main remembered pantheon taking the place of the Summer Court and the Forgotten ones as the Winter Court.

 

Am I seeing it because I want to see it, or is it there? 

 

Then there's Solas, who makes me think of Pan. Think about it, Pan sort of fades in and out of the different sets of Gods. He's considered part of the older versions of the Greek pantheon, but he merged into many other religions. In some of the oldest Celtic and Norse legends of the Wild Hunt, Pan leads it. He was considered a dangerously unpredictable god, representing mainly the wild and untamable parts of nature. He represented uncontrollable change. (plus a contempt for stupid humans wandering around his world/forest) His name is where we get the world 'panic.'

 

It just screams Fen'Harel to me.

[Gervaise]

I think that the writers have probably been influenced by various myths and legends of the world, including using their names.   Morrigan is after all one of the war witches of the Tuatha de Dannan, also of Celtic/Irish legend.   The story path may not exactly follow that of the Sidhe and Fen'Harel seems to have been made a more sympathetic character than we originally were told and the Dalish believed.    Their idea of Fen'Harel seems a mixture of Pan and Loki but if Solas is anything to go by, the Dread Wolf is more compassionate than either of them.    We shall have to see whether that remains true when we next see him.