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[Sable Rhapsody]

In any case, Solas does not really see you or any mage or any elves of this age as "his people," or even people at all (romance or not - he obviously respects and loves you if romanced, but you're still no better than the "world of Tranquil" he sees in everyone else). His agenda is not what you're taking it for - he's not the mage rights elven glory messiah you want, who'll give you a land of magic for all and freedom to the elven people. On the contrary, he tells you in no uncertain terms at the end that he doesn't care for any lives in the current world, and will eliminate you and every other elf and every other mage in order to bring his vision of what the world should be. Elves, mages, none of that means anything to him - he wants his old world back, not a better version of yours.

 

Or, with high-approval quizzy, he tells you that he has come to see the people in the current world as people, and he's going through with Plan Apocalypse anyway.  Which is arguably worse, since part of him knows what he's doing is terrible.

 

I romanced Solas with my canon quizzy, and though a small part of me would love the "mage rights elven glory messiah" rainbows and sunshine ending, I think that would be a disservice to the character.  It would basically defang him as an antagonist, and that's not what I want.  I've waited for so damn long for BioWare to give us an intelligent, dangerous, intensely personal villain, and I have one in Solas at last

[Mlady]

Or, with high-approval quizzy, he tells you that he has come to see the people in the current world as people, and he's going through with Plan Apocalypse anyway.  Which is arguably worse, since part of him knows what he's doing is terrible.

 

I romanced Solas with my canon quizzy, and though a small part of me would love the "mage rights elven glory messiah" rainbows and sunshine ending, I think that would be a disservice to the character.  It would basically defang him as an antagonist, and that's not what I want.  I've waited for so damn long for BioWare to give us an intelligent, dangerous, intensely personal villain, and I have one in Solas at last

 

I tried both a romance and friendship. The friendship one seems to have more success in redeeming him than the romance. He wants you to stop him. You can tell by his words. He will see you again too. If you romance him, it's good bye, I will never forget you.

[Commander of the Grey]

I tend to look at it this way:

His people are asleep, trapped somewhere and then there are the ancient ones like Abelas who are waiting for their duty to be done so they can sleep for eternity. It isn't necessarily fair that they remain that way. Solas already has the deaths of those who died when the veil was formed, and he also has the lives of those trapped weighing on his shoulders. He'll do anything to bring them back.

We'll do anything to save 'our' people. Those who choose to kill him, will they be dooming the trapped ones to possible death? If so, how is that any better than his own plan?

Lives hang in the balance either way and none of them asked for it. That's the heart of the tragedy to me.

My Lavellan wants to redeem him and hopefully bring down the veil in a less disastrous way. And if Flemythal really wants her revenge, I'm guessing she'll pop back up long enough to see the Evenuris freed so she can smack them into oblivion.

A fight I'd pay double to see.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I tried both a romance and friendship. The friendship one seems to have more success in redeeming him than the romance. He wants you to stop him. You can tell by his words. He will see you again too. If you romance him, it's good bye, I will never forget you.

 

Mechanically, I think they'll suss out the same in the next game.  The goodbye is different, but most of his high-approval dialogue is repeated between friendship vs. romance quizzy, even in the base game.

 

Besides, I'm sick of the whole "friendship and romance are fundamentally different" spiel.  We ran into that problem with Thane and Jack in ME2, where only one path gives them significant character development.

[Mlady]

Mechanically, I think they'll suss out the same in the next game.  The goodbye is different, but most of his high-approval dialogue is repeated between friendship vs. romance quizzy, even in the base game.

 

Besides, I'm sick of the whole "friendship and romance are fundamentally different" spiel.  We ran into that problem with Thane and Jack in ME2, where only one path gives them significant character development.

 

Agreed. I wanted the romance to be just as important as the friendship or more so since it almost changed his mind before he dumps you. The dialogue seemed to lean more to friendship and it felt really hopeless for my Lavellan. He had a warm expression with a friend and with a romance he looked in pain and angry. I get the point of it, but it still felt colder. I hope it does not carry over poorly.

[Sable Rhapsody]

Agreed. I wanted the romance to be just as important as the friendship or more so since it almost changed his mind before he dumps you. The dialogue seemed to lean more to friendship and it felt really hopeless for my Lavellan. He had a warm expression with a friend and with a romance he looked in pain and angry. I get the point of it, but it still felt colder. I hope it does not carry over poorly.

At this point, Weekes has yet to write a plotline or character that I disliked. He's caused me a great deal of emotional pain, but in a good way So I think it'll be ok.

[Mlady]

At this point, Weekes has yet to write a plotline or character that I disliked. He's caused me a great deal of emotional pain, but in a good way So I think it'll be ok.

 

The amazing thing about Solas is the only way to ruin his character is to make him do a complete u-turn in personality that takes away from all we saw developed. Both Fen'Harel and Solas do not take away from the legend or change the man. He's still Solas even at the end. When he greets you, it's your friend or lover. Not some changed evil man. That makes the pain real.

 

I will always redeem him as a friend or more, but I will never agree to his plans. I think Weekes is going to really outdo himself with Solas.

[riverbanks]

I tend to look at it this way:

His people are asleep, trapped somewhere and then there are the ancient ones like Abelas who are waiting for their duty to be done so they can sleep for eternity. It isn't necessarily fair that they remain that way. Solas already has the deaths of those who died when the veil was formed, and he also has the lives of those trapped weighing on his shoulders. He'll do anything to bring them back.

We'll do anything to save 'our' people. Those who choose to kill him, will they be dooming the trapped ones to possible death? If so, how is that any better than his own plan?

 

The thing is we don't actually know that there is still anything left of Solas' world to bring back. He wants to tear down the Veil, but even he doesn't know what's left on the other side. We've had evidence in DAO, DA2 and Masked Empire of ancient elvhen that did not survive uthenera after all and are just a pile of decomposed bones and pieces of armor in cursed graves now, so what if that's all left of the world Solas remembers is himself? What if there's nothing trapped beyond the Veil but Solas' own nostalgia?

 

The survavilist logic behind his reasoning can more or less be compared to ours, but he doesn't even know that his plan will accomplish what he wants - for all he knows, tearing down the Veil may just destroy all life in Thedas, without even restoring what's been lost way too long ago to recover. In that respect his mentality is working a lot like Corypheus, trying to restore ye ole ancient times on nostalgia alone, with no actual perspective of success and at the cost of a world that's left them long behind and has evolved too much to be stopped now.

[riverbanks]

Or, with high-approval quizzy, he tells you that he has come to see the people in the current world as people, and he's going through with Plan Apocalypse anyway.  Which is arguably worse, since part of him knows what he's doing is terrible.

 

Maybe if he's romanced. Friendship path only, I had maxed approval with him and he said he respected me, but everyone else is still not people to him. Which, I mean, I don't want to be considered the single one and only life worth respecting in the world. All life is worth respect.

 

I do agree that he does sounds like he wants to be stopped through the high friendship path, though. His last line about wanting you to prove him wrong again left little question of that.

[In Exile]

I've got one quizzy to love and redeem him, and one quizzy to vengefully wield the murder knife. I'm all set!



IMO he's being set up as an antagonist, but when has that ever stopped people from taking a character's side? Particularly if the antagonist happens to be sympathetic.

What helps is that the world he wants to create sounds so very interesting and surreal. In a sense he wants to destroy the world, but unlike the usual evil loon he can offer some argument that the world he's recreating is worth it.

[In Exile]

The thing is we don't actually know that there is still anything left of Solas' world to bring back. He wants to tear down the Veil, but even he doesn't know what's left on the other side. We've had evidence in DAO, DA2 and Masked Empire of ancient elvhen that did not survive uthenera after all and are just a pile of decomposed bones and pieces of armor in cursed graves now, so what if that's all left of the world Solas remembers is himself? What if there's nothing trapped beyond the Veil but Solas' own nostalgia?

The survavilist logic behind his reasoning can more or less be compared to ours, but he doesn't even know that his plan will accomplish what he wants - for all he knows, tearing down the Veil may just destroy all life in Thedas, without even restoring what's been lost way too long ago to recover. In that respect his mentality is working a lot like Corypheus, trying to restore ye ole ancient times on nostalgia alone, with no actual perspective of success and at the cost of a world that's left them long behind and has evolved too much to be stopped now.

He's not trying to save anyone in particular. He blames himself for effectively eradicating his own people. The elves alive today aren't "his" elves. The point of removing the Veil is to restore that old world that he changed. Whether anyone alive currently sees it is besides the point, much like it's besides the point of that old society can be restored (which isn't even what he wants - remember he rebelled to overthrew the social order).

Think of it this way: someone starts a civil war to end an oppressive regime. The result of it is a nuclear holocaust. Wanting to restore the world to the state it was pre-nukes is not the same as wanting to restore the people or society.

[Commander of the Grey]

The thing is we don't actually know that there is still anything left of Solas' world to bring back. He wants to tear down the Veil, but even he doesn't know what's left on the other side. We've had evidence in DAO, DA2 and Masked Empire of ancient elvhen that did not survive uthenera after all and are just a pile of decomposed bones and pieces of armor in cursed graves now, so what if that's all left of the world Solas remembers is himself? What if there's nothing trapped beyond the Veil but Solas' own nostalgia?

The survavilist logic behind his reasoning can more or less be compared to ours, but he doesn't even know that his plan will accomplish what he wants - for all he knows, tearing down the Veil may just destroy all life in Thedas, without even restoring what's been lost way too long ago to recover. In that respect his mentality is working a lot like Corypheus, trying to restore ye ole ancient times on nostalgia alone, with no actual perspective of success and at the cost of a world that's left them long behind and has evolved too much to be stopped now.

Cole: Stop. You are perfect exactly as you are. But then you turned away. Why?
Solas: I had no choice.
Cole: She feels her face, marked, marred without malice. She didn't know. She thinks it's why you walked away.
Solas: You cannot heal this, Cole. Please, let it go.
Inquisitor: Perhaps Cole can get a better answer from you than I did.
Cole: He hurts, an old pain from before, when everything sang the same. You're real, and it means everyone could be real. It changes everything, but it can't. They sleep, masked in a mirror, hiding, hurting, and to wake them...(gasps) where did it go?
Solas: I apologize, Cole. That is not a pain you can heal.

I think he knows enough to make it worth it. Just like a lot of others are ready to kill him based on...well, not a lot. My point is that he's willing to do what's necessary, even if it kills and doesn't turn out perfect. He's only been awake for a few years. The only real contact he's had with this world is through the Inquisition, so no, he doesn't identify with these people. How many thousands of years did he have to build friendships and bonds with his? These few years are probably mere days to one who has lived for so long.

Should he find a gentler, more peaceful way? Absolutely. I don't agree with him but I understand it. And reading the codex written by Abelas in the Temple of Mythal only makes me that much sadder for the ancient elves.

I have the suspicion that the ones locked away are likely Solas' fellow rebels, who may have had some warning, or those he convinced while he slept. To me he does owe them but maybe it depends on us as individuals. Would I be able to leave people trapped and hurting for eternity to save others I barely know? I'd look for a comprise and failing that...I don't know.

And like his dialogue with Varric:

Solas: How can you be happy surrendering? Knowing that it will all end with you? How can you not fight?

Everything his people were was destroyed by him and now he has the choice to try and bring something of it back, otherwise it will all die with him. Even if it's a slim chance, to him that's better than giving up.

Varric makes hella good arguments in return. Old and new, both too stubborn to find a compromise.

Varric: "We're not our empire. There are tens of thousands of us living up here in the sunlight now and it's not that bad. Life goes on. It's just different than it used to be."

Solas: "And you have no concept of what that difference cost you."

Varric: "Oh, I know what it didn't cost me. I'm still here, even after all those thiags fell."

Solas: "You truly are content to sit in the sun? Never wondering what you could have been? Never fighting back?"

Varric: "You've got it all wrong, Chuckles, this is fighting back."

Solas: "How does passively accepting your fate constitute a fight?"

Varric: "In that story of yours, the fisherman watching the stars, dying alone, you thought he gave up, right?"

Solas: "Yes."

Varric: "But he went on living. He lost everyone but he still got up every morning, he made a life, even if it was alone. That's the world. Everything you build, it tears down. Everything you've got, it takes and it's gone forever. The only choices you get are to lie down and die or keep going. He kept going. That's as close to beating the world as anyone gets."

I love that whole arc of conversation between them because it gives so much insight into how Solas views what he has to do. He can do nothing, let his past be forever lost, and live until that guilt crushes him. Or he can fight back, he can try, which to him is better than doing nothing at all.

His greatest fear is dying alone; alone without his people and his culture. He could try to make a life and find happiness but either way he will never truly be free. Either way he fails. Either way there is more bloodshed. He knows this. Fighting for what he knows wins out in this, instead of accepting what is 'unnatural' and wasn't supposed to be.

It's heartbreaking either way. Or he could stop being so stubborn and just ask Quiz for help. lol *shakes him*

[dragondreamer]

Maybe if he's romanced. Friendship path only, I had maxed approval with him and he said he respected me, but everyone else is still not people to him. Which, I mean, I don't want to be considered the single one and only life worth respecting in the world. All life is worth respect.

 

I do agree that he does sounds like he wants to be stopped through the high friendship path, though. His last line about wanting you to prove him wrong again left little question of that.

 

I finished a friendship-only path last night (male Lavellan), and Solas does say he sees other people as people now because of the Inquisitor.  It's the same line he gave my romanced Lavellan.  Perhaps it needs something other than approval?

[riverbanks]

I finished a friendship-only path last night (male Lavellan), and Solas does say he sees other people as people now because of the Inquisitor.  It's the same line he gave my romanced Lavellan.  Perhaps it needs something other than approval?

 

I had max approval, finished his quest, got the four codices about him... beats me, then.

[llandwynwyn]

People have been clamoring for a 'join the dark side' since forever, so I don't understand why some players find the option that odd.

That said, the choice presented is not really that, more like 'let me stay by your side'.

[Ryzaki]

People have been clamoring for a 'join the dark side' since forever, so I don't understand why some players find the option that odd.

That said, the choice presented is not really that, more like 'let me stay by your side'.

 

Because join the dark side usually doesn't entail letting yourself die. It's evil not stupid evil.

[Abyss108]

Whilst I didn't pick this in my main game, I am planning on playing an Elf who chooses this at some point. It's gonna be one that he hates too.

 

She's gonna hate humans for what they did in the past, and hate Solas for being compassionate towards them. She's gonna accidently get her clan killed in the war table so she doesn't have anyone she cares about, and wants to help Solas wipe out the other races who destroyed her people after she decides that it's too late to help them. If her people are going to die, she's going to make sure everyone who wronged them will too! She is a very very angry Elf!

 

She is terrible, and I am going to have so much fun playing as her!   I have no issue with playing characters who don't support my own views!

 

One thing I could never do is play an Elf that romanced him and went along with his plan... I'd always feel like they followed him for "tru wuv" rather than any actual reason of their own... I'd never be able to respect her for that, even though I feel like it says something terrible about me. My character would murder the entire world, but it's the fact that she did it for her love that would raise an issue with me...   I have terrible priorities...

[rowrow]

I had max approval, finished his quest, got the four codices about him... beats me, then.

 

I wonder if it changes depending on whether you choose to let him kill the mages or not in his personal quest?

[dragondreamer]

I wonder if it changes depending on whether you choose to let him kill the mages or not in his personal quest?

 

I've been wondering about this...  I've never let him kill the mages.  But I think a lot of people do (especially on the romance path in my observation), and I'd be surprised if romancers in particular hadn't noticed a difference.  Unless the romance path overrides that decision.

[rowrow]

I've been wondering about this...  I've never let him kill the mages.  But I think a lot of people do (especially on the romance path in my observation), and I'd be surprised if romancers in particular hadn't noticed a difference.  Unless the romance path overrides that decision.

 

I don't let him kill the mages either. But I did romance him, and there's a post-breakup banter where Cole says something like (voicing Solas' thoughts about the Inquisitor) "You're real, so everyone else could be real too." Story-wise, that would seem to support what you're saying.

 

Wow, I'm really curious now. Love to hear from others on this - whether the decision to let him kill the mages or not changes his dialogue in Trespasser.

[almasy87]

A little late to the thread, but here we go. Just finished Trespasser yesterday.

 

I don't think it's "**** all y'all if you aren't elves" at ALL. It's about the Fade and magic.

 

I see a lot of Solas hate now, which I can understand. He did just say his wants will cause the destruction of our world. But the thing that keeps with me is Solas saying how he feels like he is walking in a world of Tranquil. That is a WEIGHTY statement considering how many of us play mages and view Tranquility as the horrific act as it is. Mages cut off from the Fade and who they, without emotions. No magic. An empty shell. 

 

Without the intrinsic ties to the Fade, Solas sees this in EVERYONE. With as much as he loves the Fade and magic and finds beauty it in, he is horrified how we are all "empty shells" including his own race of people. Think about a mage living only in a world with Tranquil. He walks in a world where no one, NO ONE save maybe Lavellan, can partake in the things he loves about it most. And it's HIS FAULT. That's some massive guilt stewing there in addition to a want to restore magic to each creature in its realm.

Especially when you come to the argument of "Is suffering worse than death?" Consider we don't really know what goes on in the afterlife in game (or in life, I guess), Solas views this magical castration as an abomination and a pity. It's suffering. He thinks that Thedas suffers for it. And it does....think about it:

• demonic possession
• mage/templar conflict
• the Chantry
• blights (maybe)

These are all terrible things that resulted from the Veil being torn and completely reshaped the world into the clusterfuck that it is. He wants a reset button, and he hopes he can get it. A consequence is the probable destruction of the world. Maybe it won't happen. 

 

Suffering worse than death? Yea....who can really say? Solas thinks it's worse.

My Lavellan would follow him in an instant: her clan is dead, her family is dead, her world is destroyed by war, but her love, though...her HEART is alive. She was a reluctant leader of the Inquisition. She hates the way Thedas treats her and her people and figures she no longer has a place in it, as so many of her people do not, either elves or mages. She wants to bring back a world with magic, a place for her people. "Elven Glory" and whatnot.

 

To me, helping him is the "evil" choice because of the pure destruction of numbers of people, not in the goal: the goal is to bring back the world intrinsically tied to magic. The consequence is a possible destruction of Thedas. Worth it? We don't or won't know (at least until the next game)

The warm fuzzy answer to this dilemma is, of course, "SAVE ALL TEH PEEPLES!"

You just proved all the points I wanted to make for my Lavellan

Hi-five!

No seriously.. My Lavellan never felt like the Herald of Andraste. The more the Inquisition was going on the more she was feeling tired, sad and not a part of it. Having Solas at her side was good for her because they share the same views. When revelations started to come out about Elvhenan history, she immediately became curious, she wants to know about what happened to the Ancient Elves that she only heard of in Dalish stories.. when she starts to understand that Dalish legends are wrong it's like a new world opens for her, suddenly she feels relevant, like she has a mission to uncover as much as possible.
In Trespasser she is just discouraged again because Solas left and the past 2 years have seen her trapped into all these political human affairs she has no care for. And then both Ferelden and Orlais which she tried to help at her best start to be hostile and treat her like sh*t.. She is already on her way to disbanding the Inquisition when going to the Exalted Council.
Then she gets to see the remains of the Vir Dirthara, and how the world was before all this happened. She is attracted to this and then when Solas reveals his plan to her, she knows she wants the same. She does not like how this world has become, with demons roaming around and humans making all the (stupid) decisions, people without a connection to the Fade and looking like Tranquils. She remembers the world where Spirits wonder free without being hostile and are friendly, the world Solas described to her back in Haven. She wants that world, even if she has to die for it.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not hostile to the idea of paying a high price to make the world better. Hell if there was a way to do this in the real world, and remove all evil, all wars, all the corruption, the people that are starving, all that is wrong, wouldn't you want to take it? Even at the cost of your life? Life is not forever anyway. Might as well do something useful with it. 

But she also knows he doesn't always make the best choices. So she would like to go with him and help him achieve what he wants in the best possible way. Who knows, maybe there would be a way to avoid all the bloodshed? Who is to say there isn't? And she wants to be with at his side when the Evanuris wake up. They sound very vengeful..

So yeah that's why she picked up that option. And disbanded the Inquisition she has no more need for. She will keep looking for him. At least if they have to die, they'll die together doing what in her mind is a right cause. (Even if depending on BW she might not have a chance to do this ).

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But that's just my Lavellan. My Trevelyan instead is TOTALLY against this. She didn't disband the Inquisition either. She told Solas she will prove to him that this world is worth fighting for, for good or ill.

Just two different points of view

[Gervaise]

The  problem for me with Solas is that he spent much of the game telling other people how they were wrong or should do things differently or in the case of Dorian "If you are really sorry for the past, then free all the slaves of all races", and I was for the most part agreeing with him, but then I discover that it made no difference whatsoever to his outlook.   To give an example, what if Dorian went home and by some miracle ended all blood magic and persuaded the Magisters to free all the slaves?   What is the point if Solas is apparently going to consign them all to a fiery death?    What was the point of him giving us a few years of peace in the south?    Anyone who takes him seriously is going to spend the remaining years they have left trying to find a way to stop him, not enjoying a peaceful retirement.

 

To me Solas was no different to the Seeker Lucius and the Order of Fiery Promise.    They believed this world is so broken the only way to fix it is to destroy it and let a new perfect world arise from the ashes.  

 

The thing is that although there are some ancient elves sleeping in uthenara awaiting a return of their gods, there are also a lot of modern elves who are descended from the elves of old.    If Solas really wants to help, then he should direct his power into helping them.    That is how my male Lavellan would be willing to support him.   Not by selling them all out so he can bring back a world that no longer exists.    In any case, there is no guarantee his plan will do what he intends.   It clearly hasn't in the past.   

 

That said, I do wonder if there is a bit more to this than he let on.   For example, red lyrium on the surface of Thedas means that ultimately we will all be doomed and the only way to stop the inevitable decline is to bring back the magic.      There is a link between the Blight, the darkspawn, red lyrium and the activity of the evanuris.    He said if he hadn't banished them, they would have destroyed the world; I'm inclined to think it has something to do with them releasing the Blight.    His actions stopped it and then later on the actions of Corypheus and the other old priests accidentally released it.   

 

So if he had said the only way to guarantee a future for anyone, was to gamble on tearing down the Veil, I might not have been quite so angry with him.     As things stand, my female romanced Lavellan wants to save him but not destroy the world and my male Lavellan just wants to stop him.

[Commander of the Grey]

The problem for me with Solas is that he spent much of the game telling other people how they were wrong or should do things differently or in the case of Dorian "If you are really sorry for the past, then free all the slaves of all races", and I was for the most part agreeing with him, but then I discover that it made no difference whatsoever to his outlook. To give an example, what if Dorian went home and by some miracle ended all blood magic and persuaded the Magisters to free all the slaves? What is the point if Solas is apparently going to consign them all to a fiery death? What was the point of him giving us a few years of peace in the south? Anyone who takes him seriously is going to spend the remaining years they have left trying to find a way to stop him, not enjoying a peaceful retirement.

To me Solas was no different to the Seeker Lucius and the Order of Fiery Promise. They believed this world is so broken the only way to fix it is to destroy it and let a new perfect world arise from the ashes.

The thing is that although there are some ancient elves sleeping in uthenara awaiting a return of their gods, there are also a lot of modern elves who are descended from the elves of old. If Solas really wants to help, then he should direct his power into helping them. That is how my male Lavellan would be willing to support him. Not by selling them all out so he can bring back a world that no longer exists. In any case, there is no guarantee his plan will do what he intends. It clearly hasn't in the past.

That said, I do wonder if there is a bit more to this than he let on. For example, red lyrium on the surface of Thedas means that ultimately we will all be doomed and the only way to stop the inevitable decline is to bring back the magic. There is a link between the Blight, the darkspawn, red lyrium and the activity of the evanuris. He said if he hadn't banished them, they would have destroyed the world; I'm inclined to think it has something to do with them releasing the Blight. His actions stopped it and then later on the actions of Corypheus and the other old priests accidentally released it.

So if he had said the only way to guarantee a future for anyone, was to gamble on tearing down the Veil, I might not have been quite so angry with him. As things stand, my female romanced Lavellan wants to save him but not destroy the world and my male Lavellan just wants to stop him.

I personally see his main point to Dorian being that Dorian keeps trying to apologize but what has he done so far?

You have Solas who saw his people becoming enslaved and took it upon himself to set them free. He didn't stand around apologizing, he took action. For good or ill. For all of Dorian's (genuine) sadness about what (he believes) Tevinter has done, he hasn't attempted to do anything about it. Solas might not see Briala as one of his people but he does respect her because she's trying. She's fighting against a tide but she's doing something. Dorian can't really say the same by the end of the main game. Is it Dorian's sole responsibility? Absolutely not. But if he's that sorry for what his country has done, then he should try to change something.

But even if all of the slaves are freed, that doesn't change the fact that they are not as they should be. The veil still needs to come down. They've had a thousand years to free the elves from slavery and for them to have peace and yet it still remains.

That's my interpretation anyway. Like I mentioned some time ago in Solas' dialogue with Varric: Solas sees inaction as giving up.

[Vit246]

But she also knows he doesn't always make the best choices. So she would like to go with him and help him achieve what he wants in the best possible way. Who knows, maybe there would be a way to avoid all the bloodshed? Who is to say there isn't? And she wants to be with at his side when the Evanuris wake up. They sound very vengeful..

This is the choice I wanted. To go with Solas, see what he does, and if it looks like he needs intervention, then Lavellan will be there to intervene.