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Veilguard cut content that made me lol

update: apparently all of these are in-game (thank you commenters) and i just missed them. 🫣 but, in case you missed them too:

Since the Varric letter made everyone sad - here are some more of my favorite finds after spending literal hours combing through Frosty Editor. Funny edition.

Behold, what was lost:

naked ghilan'nain?!

2. bran (update: I have been informed that this one is actually in game, I just missed it!)

3. the Randy Dowager is only part of Solas' erotica collection, apparently

anyway, more to come soon!

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solamancer lavellans are so unhinged and I'm here for it

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Solas, the man that you are.

I am obsessed with him, I will never recover from him, he is beautiful to me, enjoy these screenshots of my boy c':

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"No. I am sorry. That was poorly said. You have earned better from me."

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UPDATE ON DREADWOLF HEIGHT!!!

exported their meshes together and scaled them until solas was 6ft.

12 METERS!! HE IS 49 FEET TALL!!!

AND 19 METERS LONG (62 FEET)!!!!!!!!!! he's even bigger than i initially estimated based on the pics!

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🖤🔥

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I'll be honest, I didn't have "Solas is the reason dwarves can't do magic" on my Veilguard bingo card.

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we could spend every day catching fish in a little boat, every night drinking fermented fruit juice and watching the stars

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With his romance with Lavellan, Solas learned a horrific truth—that him simply as a humble man was enough to be lovable. He had been plied out of the Fade by Mythal because of her need for him, and out of devotion, he became something more and dreadful for himself, for her. And she never reciprocated that devotion with the same intensity. He spent millennia fighting for her as a thing he detested—a man of war and death, a being whose mortal body imbued him with innate qualities and emotions that would further twist his Wisdom nature. He was producing the very poisons that would normally corrupt a spirit by virtue of [Being a Person]. The external influences now harbored inside him.

But Lavellan showed him. That being you are, the one that wished to ponder and reminisce of spirits, who valued liberty and freedom and knowledge and the wry observation? That was enough. That was always enough. But he can’t accept it, because millennia of being Fen Harel, being devoted to Mythal and her cause.. to sunder it from himself would feel like a magnificent loss. He has been that for so long, is there anything yet truly left of the Wisdom spirit that once was?

Not only that, but given corporeality, Solas is compelled by the operant [If I can, I must]. He CAN do something about the Veil, so he will. If he doesn’t, then he is forsaking the memory of those whose choice he made he destroyed. He is forsaking his own principles. To do nothing in the face of injustice and cruelty is a sin he cannot bear.

He comes to the Inquisition as a “humble apostate”, both as disguise and because in his de-powered state he is of little greater use (if he had greater power I’m certain he would have nudged the Inquisition toward their goals). This is a costume he is wearing, or so he tells himself. He exists to advise, to suggest, to subtly direct toward more peaceful and humanitarian and spirit-friendly directives. He operates as his former [Wisdom] spirit state.

And Lavellan grows to love it, to appreciate it. She grows to appreciate [Solas as Wisdom]. That part of him, the part of him that he has put aside for thousands upon thousands of years, though his nature craves to return to it. Without his ability to be Fen’Harel, it is pretty much all he has. And oh, this mayfly mortal born of a “forsaken ignorant people”, she is drawn to him, seeing him as a [man], seeing him at his (comparatively) weakest, most ineffectual state and finding it pleasing. Desirable. [Enough].

Enough. He is enough as Solas, simply Solas. But if it is enough for Lavellan, why was it not enough for Mythal? No, no, there was a reason. There was a war. War requires more of people. It requires limits to be broken and terrible mantles to be donned.

But Lavellan is fighting an existential war against Corypheus. And she does not demand more of him. She values what little he is able to provide—guidance, insight, his magic. It is [Enough].

We Solavellans have dissected and discussed at length about the nature of the relationship being one built on deceit, the moral and ethical quandary of love cultivated under a false identity. Veilguard has confirmed the existential struggle and quiet agony that Solas experienced by transitioning into [Being]. While Lavellan should of course had been informed of his ‘true identity’ before falling in love with him, an argument could still be made that Fen’Harel is not his true identity but a long-worn mask that he wishes he could ditch. The man Lavellan fell in love with is who he should be, who he wants to be. Far more underpowered than he’s comfortable with, sure, but the personality for certain. Just a person giving advice, discussing at length about topics he enioys, exploring memories and ruminating over them, smirking over small verbal sleights of hand and sly tricks, engaging in philosophical debates. All of that is already there, that is who he is in peacetime. The man has known war and conflict for so long that he has mentally split Solas and Fen’Harel as two people, because he needed to, but they are the same. Solas who has the martial prowess of Fen’Harel. Fen’Harel who possesses the capacity for wry levity and sincere artistic sentimentality of Solas. SOLAS YOU ARE BOTH AND MORE THAN THESE TWO HALVES.

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a more tender redraw of the end kiss.....

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Veilguard Endgame (Solavellan) Spoilers

Solavellans that may feel like the kiss was a letdown…

my darlings PLS consider the following - this man has literal blighted blood on his mouth pls do not give him a PANIC ATTACK seconds after getting you back (from ten years apart mind you) by frenching the egg and risking blighting yourself pls he literally will not survive it

not even to mention the weight of this moment - there will be a time for a long, sweet reunion but this insane moment is not it i promise if you save it for fade jail and let the egg hit the showers he will be ALL over you (and never let go again)

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I saw this on the hellsite and it made me laugh so much

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ever since i beat the game, i haven't been able to stop thinking about this line:

the fact that, even to a made-up version of the man he killed and is now forcing rook to see, he can't bring himself to say the words "i'm sorry".

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Rook: Except Inquisitor Lavellan 😏🫢

Solas: ....She is a hot piece of ass good woman. Growing close to her was...selfish of me.

(ALSO notice how Solas doesn't say "a mistake" after hesitating)

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Ar lath ma, vhenan 🐺

Something something archdemon blood smeared across our lips like lipstick stains idk

Solas and Layla Lavellan

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nobody asked and yet may i offer you General "one sided pining" Felassan ? Hang it there man, i know the Dreadwolf has a ferocious charm