That whole thing about Leliana having been tortured continuously didn't ring true when you see how quickly she recovers. If she had truly been hung by her hands for weeks on end, she should not have been capable of holding a bow, much less firing one. Then she single handed holds off the Venatori while Dorian does his thing; it was very stirring stuff but totally ridiculous.
The problem I have is that the hints given in the epilogue to the main game that suggest that any changes you make in the regimes are only holding up because of your relation to the ruler/Divine are totally ignored in Trespasser. Solas suggests the reason he is saving the life of an Inquisitor he doesn't like is because chaos is going to result if they die. Then the Inquisition is even cut down to size under the Divine or disbanded altogether but apparently it has nil impact on the general scheme of things.
For example, if you put Briala in power in the main game, the only hold over the nobles is now gone, so presumably there should be a massive backlash against both Briala and the elves. Assume this is why they are all rushing off to join Solas, except that this occurs regardless of who is in power. If Briala maintains her position regardless, with the backing of Divine Leliana and a truncated Inquisition, why are the elves leaving? Then again, why would Gaspard be stupid enough to reverse the reforms because surely the Inquisitor will tell everyone about the super power elf "god". Mind you I couldn't really understand why everyone was insisting on cutting the Inquisition down to size once Solas had revealed himself. If the Inquisition was needed to counter Corypheus, surely it is still needed to counter Solas, who is Corypheus with nobs on?
I also felt that we should have seen more of what the elves suffer in DAI to realise why people like Briala are acting as they do. There was one reference to Celene putting down the elven uprising and a few bits of minor prejudice, including insulting names, but nothing like as bad as the City elf origin to make you realise why life for elves is so awful. I think they should have ensured players learned what Celene did to Briala's parents and every other servant in her household to achieve the position she did. If you hadn't read Masked Empire Celene seemed no worse than a bit of a snob who was rather distant from everyone, not a totally ruthless noble who sacrificed her servants in order to advance herself.
It was also confusing in Trespasser as to which elves Solas thinks he is saving. Playing an elf myself, I naturally assumed he meant just the ancient elves like Solas since he said I was going to die along with everyone else. Still it was hard to see how he is meant to be saving them since they were not under threat any more than they have been for the last several thousand years. So is he saving the modern elves too? That would at least provide a bit of moral greyness to his actions since from an elven perspective things haven't improved a lot in the last several thousands years and have likely only got worse as a result of his actions.
Unlike Origins where I feel they made a dark world where actions could be perceived as morally ambiguous but you are the one who decides; now I feel they are trying to artificially portray something as being either way, when clearly it isn't. Solas is a case in point; I still struggle to understand why I would want to redeem someone who has just clearly told me he intends on going through with an action that will result in the destruction of all life in Thedas apart from his select few.
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