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I absolutely ADORE the way you draw Solas, I'm absolutely in love 🥺🥺🥺

Aahhhhh thank you so much! Here’s a Solas wip for you 💖

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Watching people Let's Play / Live Stream The Veilguard, get to Solas's "the Veil will not come down by my hand," and see them do the math in their head never gets old. 🤣

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"hunt well," who let solas dragon age say that!!!!! in the middle of a ball where he's feeling sooo cocky and sooo in his element!!! GOD

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I wondered if anyone had requested this yet on Cameo and then remembered that I have money to exchange for goods and services

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“For a moment, the sunlight illuminated something within - a sliver of what the spirit might have been. Not the opposite of Regret. A different flavor, or shade. Contemplation. Introspection. It felt the echo of the actions that had summoned it. There might have been a better choice, said a thought it had never been allowed.”

- Dragon Age Tevinter Nights, Callback

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Dragon Age Deep Lore (in the internal wiki): Connor Guerrin is actually the son of Bann Teagan [source, two]

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I mean, if you think about it, Felassan's slow arrow worked. By refusing to get the Eluvian key, he bought just enough time for Solas to grow attached to the world, just attached enough that he could be either saved or stopped.

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I saw a thing on TikTok I think calling Solas being a Spirit of Wisdom “empty lore” and I just. Really? No?

Solas became Not Just A Spirit when he made a body. I personally think he thought at one time that people didn’t have spirits. Which is why his question to Lavellan about her spirit is so uncomfortable to him. He’s asking about something he isn’t even sure exists.

That all being said, people are bodies with spirits within them. They have souls. But no person is ever just one thing. You can be happy and sad at the same time. You can be nurturing and wrathful.

Solas can be wise and also extremely stupid. He can bull-headed and understanding. He can be gentle and cruel. He can be cunning and manipulated.

It’s all part of the difference between a spirit and a person. Spirits are one dimensional. People aren’t. To force a spirit who didn’t desire this at all to be this, to be flooded with all the complexities and nuances that a person is… if they were prepared and not willing, but enthusiastic, they’d be alright. If they’d been coerced and then not only coerced, but had their original purpose twisted even while now a person…

It’s torment.

It’s not empty lore. It’s Solas’ story. It’s absolutely who he is. It tells you so much about why he is the way he is. Why he’s so contradictory and terribly flawed. Double speaking, double thinking, lying halfway to the truth and stirring facts into his falsehoods like salt. He’s slowly being corrupted, slowly falling into being what the Evanuris were. Until Lavellan.

Lavellan is the only person who checked that.

And while Mythal does have to release him, Lavellan is the only person who Solas wants after all of this. She’s the only person who made him feel his soul again and help him to actually step back into his original purpose. The time they’re apart, he pines for her because he’s not only missing her the person, Solas is missing who he got to be again with her.

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kinda rough but i wanted to draw something raw

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Every love story reminds me of them

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You can love a character and still admit when they’re wrong. I love Solas but can acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he’s never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out for his actions (which are always correct).

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Regrets of the Dread Wolf

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i'm not even a solavellan but i can't stop thinking about them having a child and teaching them to speak elvhen before the trade language.

Solas teaching them to paint, and play music, and sending them to bed each night with stories of ancient elvhenan (the good parts, because there had to be good parts).

And regardless of whether or not they turn out to be a mage (they probably would, since they'd be part whatever the fuck Solas actually is cause he's not really a normal elf) magic would be a huge part of their life.

When they have bad dreams Solas would walk into their dream and comfort them, banishing the demons.

That child would be so, so loved.

And Solas would think to himself that for once in his very long life, he did something right.

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If Veilguard was DA2, Part 2

Can't get out of my mind how much I think Varric's final word should have been "Hawke." Can't get out of my mind how the devs threw around "bird names" for the DA4 protag before landing on Rook. Can't get out of my mind how DA Exodus has a cast of characters that "Solas doesn't know." So... here's a fun thought experiment:

Progtag = Hawke

Veilguard opens with rescue mission into the Fade to save whoever was trapped there in DAI. You play as your Inky to recover either Hawke or the Warden. This character is changed by their time in the Fade, and I think the physical world would be very jarring to return. The Lighhouse would be a happy medium of existence for them.

Crows = Zevran

Offers more nuance to Treviso. Zevran would want to bring the Crows down, but then who protects the people? How does Zevran balance those two sides? Does he favor one over the other? Does he struggle with the choice? How about the player?

Fade Expert = Anders

No Mourn Watch, sadly. But how has Anders and his relationship with Justice been doing since the rebellion? Does being in the Lighhouse/Fade, give Justice more control? Inky has found a way for Anders and Justice to separate via the Avvar - would Anders want that? Mirrors the question Lucanis faces over whether or not to separate from Spite.

Shadow Dragons = Fenris

Fenris is the founder of the Shadow Dragons. Would offer a slightly different perspective on things as he probably wouldn't harbor any love for Minrathous like many other Shadow Dragons. His journey could mirror Neve's in a sense where he has to decide if he's a protector of Minrathous or just a hunter of slavers.

Elven artifact tinkerer = Merrill

May or may not actually be part of the Veil Jumpers. But she would certainly want to know everything. The Archive spirit adds a similar conundrum for her from DA2. Is it worth all costs to preserve elven culture or are some things worth letting go? In what ways have her views changed over the years? In what ways have they stayed the same?

Grey Wardens = Alistair / Loghain / Stroud / Hawke Sibling

Hawke Sibling didn't end up in DAI, but I've seen arguments that it should of have been them instead of Stroud, so pick your favorite Warden. The First Warden probably doesn't like them much.

Isabella

Do we need a dragon expert? Even Taash says archdemons aren't dragons. Not sure we need the Lords of Fortune either. I've seen arguments that isabela's role in Veilguard makes no sense. So... free space. Rewrite her story.

Inquisition = Harding

No change!

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You had me thinking about this for awhile....perception is reality? If you become consciously aware that there is no real air, you could experience suffocation - because the Fade is shaped by belief and perception. The Matrix. If you die in the Matrix ... If you start to believe “I’m in a vacuum,” you’ll experience the vacuum as real. And blood magic is an extreme way of making illusions or false beliefs stick in the physical world. Rook is in denial and grief. That’s already a mental state ripe for illusions or memory rewrites for Solas. Cue the blood magic...the more a subject wants to believe something, the more seamlessly blood magic can slip that belief into them? Lyrium is a magic bridge for mages...to the fade...blood magic bypasses that bridge like a short circuit ... Did what I write even make sense? You have my mind spinning now. I feel like I just vomited random words.

Okay... this makes sense to me. We know the Fade changes to your perception. And so, in both a figurative (and apparently) literal sense, your perception is able to become reality. For example, Harding's Fade-plants in Veilguard actually become real plants through her perception and treatment of them.

Lyrium as a bridge to the Fade is a really interesting concept and would explain how it can enhance the power of mages.

Blood magic as a bypass of the bridge - also really interesting!

Still hung up on blood magic making it harder to enter the Fade - but, I think blood magic is the only type of magic we've seen as able to override someone else's will. So if mages interact with the Fade through willpower and lyrium can enhance that connection, it kinda makes sense for blood mage to "break" the connection (if someone is forcing their will on someone else). Thus making those two forces might conflict with each other somewhat just by nature.

There was a post I saw the other day that listed cut codexes from Veilguard, and one of them was Emmrich explaining that Solas used blood magic to make Rook forget about Varric's death by capitalizing on the moment of denial within their grief.

And that immediately made me think of The Last Flight. The problem with having griffons go through the Joining is that they there are so opposed to the Blight they literally tear themselves apart to destroy it. So Isseya uses blood magic to convince a newly joined griffon that the Blight they sense in their body is only a simple cold, that it will pass like any other illness.

The idea behind this was to simply prevent the griffon from destroying themselves. And it works, but it also somehow turns the Blight into a contagion that can pass like a simple cold from one griffon to another.

I have no freaking clue for what that means as far as Rook being able to see and talk to Varric. What the fuck did Solas do? Also, wtf is up with blood magic that it's able to take a concept inside a person's head and make it a reality?

Something with lyrium and the Fade, I'm sure...

My brain cannot figure this out...

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Lucanis after Weisshaupt, probably: It is a sad day, losing our Warden friend to the Archdemon.

Davrin: Stop telling people I’m dead.

Lucanis: Sometimes, it’s like I can still hear his voice.