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[BSpud]

This is one of those fan theories where subjective tastes, cherrypicking, misinterpretation and misremembering get turned into "plot holes" and "bad writing," isn't it?

[Ariella]

My guess is that if the future were good, the characters wouldn't have any urgency in returning to their time or finding a way to prevent the "dark future" from occurring.

I know, and the DA team had to do it in the over the top darky dark Armageddon way both to make the point and since it's only a year. I really prefer dark futures that no one realizes are dark except the time traveler because that's the way things have always been. It's a bit more psychological.

And I talked to the husband more about that theory. He called it the wormhole theory of time travel. The idea is that Wormholes can not only could move one through space quickly but time as well since it does deal with the time/space continuum. The theory states that the first wormhole invented acts as an anchor. You can create other wormholes forward and people can connect backward to the anchor wormhole but cannot go past because there's nothing to anchor to.

And yes, I use the term anchor specifically.

So if the power of the Breach and the Anchor are what allows the magic to work, then there is no way to go to any point in time before that power existed in that form (it was basically in a potential energy state in the Orb). I'm not sure if the magic would have been possible if Solas' plan had come about since it sounds as if it would have been more controlled, but I may be wrong.

[Gervaise]

I thought I'd revive this thread just to throw out another idea about the "illusion of the Fade" comment even though I think it probably was time travel.   When Solas asks you things it is clear after Trespasser that very often he already knows the answer.   Thus he is pumping you for information to see if you've figured it out yet.    So instead of the illusion of the Fade being engineered by Alexius, what if it was actually Solas?    Hence him asking you is to check you haven't realised it was a trick of the Fade.

 

When Alexius attacks you and Dorian counters it, it simply stops time briefly (just as happened with the Envy Demon).    Into this space Solas (a powerful ancient Dreamer) inserts a vision of the future if you fail to stop Corypheus.   This would account for why the identity of the Elder One isn't revealed; Solas knows who it is but he's not letting on yet.   He knows who was with you, so that would account for why they are still in the castle a year into the future.   He may well know about Alexius' reasons for helping Corypheus; it's amazing what you can learn in the Fade.     He knows what the likely effects of failing to close the Breach are and probably also knows a great deal more about red lyrium than he ever let on.   It is interesting that if you take him with you, he is there in the castle looking ill, but he admits later in your vision of the Fade Haven that when he thought you were going to die and the rift couldn't be closed, he was planning on running off somewhere to prepare for the inevitable (come up with a contingency plan for the failure of the Veil), so in a future where you were sucked into a rift in time, he would have run off too.  Plus when Dorian explains to him about how you got there, he understands perfectly.

 

Since he maintains at the end that he would be pleased if you proved him wrong about the need to destroy the world; giving you that nightmare future also gives you added impetus to try and stop him.    From what he says, his plan would result in a more abrupt, fiery, end to the world, rather than the gradual deterioration that we are shown, but it is still a powerful motivator none the less.

 

Like I say, I think the Hushed Whispers time travel was meant to be genuine but I do like to play devil's advocate and being a Dreamer and an ancient elven mage, I think Solas does have that ability to mess with people's minds in that way.