I see people are up in arms about what I have said there are many reasons this really annoyed me but most of all is the devs utter lies everytime they speak failing to make the game match what they say :
1)Remember the video in which Laidlaw and others mentioned how DAI was "made by PC Gamers for PC Gamers" yeah what we got was a shoddy console port complete with the crappy inferior console UI and completely ganked tactics options for companions compared even to DA2.
2)How many times have those same 2 faced devs gone on videos, in forums, on panels and talked about how they "respect player agency" only for their games to give you no player agency or render what little player agency the do give meaningless.Its not a bloddy choice when you are only given 1 way and that's Bioware's way.
3)They said for this DLC that you would "decide the fate of the Inquisition" when the reality is you don't do that at all no matter which of the fake "choices" you make the Inquisition still exists the only difference is its size when all of the "choices" leads to the exact same outcome its not a bloody choice because their is no alternate outcome !
Sure if they had offered the possibility that The Inquisitor dies I would not have taken it however we were not even given that option at all we were given no option.As others have said Solas is supposed to be this all powerful mage that created the veil itself and he could clearly hold back the progress of the mark with nothing more than a thought so removing it while keeping the hand should have been simple and would have had a cost in that the Inquisitor would have to adapt to not having the power of the mark any longer.