What utter rubbish. You're painting way too simplistic a picture of an incredibly complex character and relationship between him and the Inquisitor - probably one of the best Bioware have written.
Did you play Trespasser? Did you, indeed, play the entire game? If you'd forgotten, Solas, and the responses you receive, changes from the start of Inquisition to the end of Trespasser depending on your approval rating for starters. If you have high approval he takes the mark away because he wants you to spend a few years in peace, revealed the Qunari plot from within the Inquisition ranks to save you as his friend, not just because he wants his magical green light back. Of course he knows your Inner Circle. He's been studying them for however many months it took whilst he was right there, in the Inquisition firsthand! So what's new in Trespasser? He's getting second-hand information? Big deal. And if you disband the Inquisition, that becomes a moot point anyway.
...and yet, you did exactly what he thought you would do, and rushed right in. What if you'd have sent Orlesian, or Fereldan troops after them instead? Except that, he knew you wouldn't, right? Riddle me this, however, why doesn't he just let you die if you have a low approval rating, or no approval? It's not like a DA game didn't have a written in death of the MC. He takes the mark because he wants it. He's not conflicted enough about his plans to put them on hold and allow you to talk him out of it, he just might regret the death of one person. Frankly, I doubt even that, based on his early dialog and how wistful he seemed about a world where the Fade and the "real" world were one and the same. He wants to restore his people, and he makes it clear, you aren't his people.
And yes, I've sat through every single YouTube video with every single outcome - Solas is deeply conflicted if you have a high approval rating and even wants to be proven wrong? Who's going to do that then? Some random who he doesn't know? You as the Inquisitor alone hold that power.
Even if you hate Solas that much, you're seriously suggesting an Inquisitor with a low approval rating wouldn't want to be sure they'd removed the threat that is Solas once and for all in person? Really?? With all the knowledge they have now? And he won't manipulate an entirely new character? Who doesn't know diddly squat about Solas or how he functions and could spend half the game running around the open world of Tevinter like a headless chicken - just as Solas intends - making no headway whatsoever aside from picking elfroot for the herb garden, getting his/her mind bent at the same time? And Solas is not going to figure out this superhero protagonist until the end of the game and go 'oh no how foolish of me to have missed who you were' as you chop his head off?
Actually, my response is based entirely on dialog from within the game. There is no bias, there is no obsessive need to hunt him down for love or revenge, or spite. There is me, listening to what the Inner Circle has to say just before the credits. They are the ones that don't believe they can go after him, since he knows how they operate. They are the ones that suggest they'll have to find new people to do it. None of that is me, trying to convince myself that the Inquisitor is the only choice for the job, there is only me, going off of what the game told me, in a very literal fashion.
As for your very last paragraph, it doesn't even make sense. Aside from the fact that you're dismissing Solas is a megalomaniac psychopath with the emotional empathy of a nug.
Then why are you trying to assign all these other feelings towards him? It seems to me that if one of us has a problem with dealing with Solas, it isn't me. I took him at face value. I paid attention to what the inner circle had to say in the epilogue, and I went on from there. I'm not the one that is trying to change what words mean in order to justify being the first repeated protagonist in the series.
Oh as for your check list - you haven't actually found Solas. He wandered off into an eluvian whilst your arm was disintegrating. That's quite a large omission in the list of finding those responsible.
Restoring order - with Tevinter and the Qunari going to war with each other and the potential for destabilaisation across Thedas as a result? The world is hardly at order, is it?
Why will the Inquisitor be manipulated again? Is the Inquisitor, along with the combined brainpower of the Inquisition, stupid? You managed to outsmart an ancient magister, in a way that felt all too easy, who caused the Blight and turned the Golden City Black. Corypheus arguably had almost as much power, and certainly matched the intelligence and arrogance of Solas. So what, you can't do the same again?
When aren't Tevinter and the Qunari almost at war? Which side of the conflict are you going to "put down" in order to restore an order that hasn't existed for centuries? We took the constant influx of demons coming directly from the Fade, which was what the issue was, not Tevinter, not the Qunari, until Tresspasser anyway. But yeah, let's look at how close Cory and Solas are:
The mark is permanent, you have spoiled it with your (can't remember the rest of the line off the top of my head), but that's Cory in Haven. At the end of Tresspasser, Solas takes what "cannot be taken" according to Cory. Yeah, I think there's a very definite power gap there, how about you?
I too favour the dual protagonist approach as a good way to end the role of Inquisitor by the end of the next game (although I'd prefer a 50-50 split) as well as having my Inquisitor as sole protagonist. Either works for me. I'll put my faith in Bioware's ability to build on their characters in a meaningful way and take on board the feedback from both sides of the fanbase as they've frequently shown they can do. If they come up with a plot, however, that puts the Inquisitor/new protagonist in such a passive role and treated like idiots as we were in Trespasser then that's a different story entirely.
They already knew way back anyway where they were going with this before they released Inquisition so it is pure conjecture. There's plenty of space for healthy, engaged debate on both sides and I can understand the arguments for having a new protag too - I just think the ones for our Inquisitor are stronger. Yet why you should vilify those of us who want our Inquisitors to return I have absolutely no idea.
Because "victim mentality"? I didn't write the dialog, I simply repeated the dialog. If anyone is vilifying you, it's BioWare, because they actually wrote the dialog. We have Word of God that Solas took the mark, it's provided up thread, and I don't do Twitter, or maybe it's in the other thread?
Regarding the next game's protagonist, are we even sure we'll be dealing with Solas in the next game? Are we sure that dealing with Solas won't be the end of the series because what if we can't stop him, and it does destroy the world as we know it? Maybe we spend an entire game building up the powerbase we need to take on someone that can turn you into a statue with a thought? Maybe we have to spend the next game figuring out where he is, since we can't stop him unless we know that for certain, and between the Crossroads, and all the possible destinations, and the fact that we'll have to find an eluvian he doesn't control, because he tells us that he controls the network now, in order to even gain access to all of the potential hiding places. Is this something that is going to happen off screen, in a novel, or series of novels, or the comics? We don't know. We don't know anything, and yet, people are convinced that the Inquisitor is best suited to be the protagonist? That's not based on logical thought, that's based on wishful thinking, and I'd be willing to bet that there are those amongst the what was it, Take back the Inquisitor movement, that believe it can be sorted with tea and cookies.
So sorry if taking the provided information seems like it's vilifying you, or anyone else. I am not responsible for how one feels about the facts as they are presented. That is entirely on the person having the feelings. I am not, however, going to pretend that they are anything other than what they are: The facts in evidence.
(and your post above it too which I have failed to include in my quotes for some reason!)
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