#[ this is a shift from my prior hc where he was solas much later but

[theharellan]

related to the last ask, but i've long headcanoned that solas wasn't his first and only name. i prefer to approach the nature of pride with a softer lens than the game, as i find the framing of "pride=bad" a very catholic/christian perspective that doesn't necessarily track with either the elves as a people or solas himself. there are aspects of his pride that are negative, certainly, not helped by his tendency to mirror. but it isn't something i like to wholly condemn. i think after mythal bid he take a body he was, essentially, nameless. he was what she needed, and changed accordingly. it was only after rallying the force that would become the rebellion that he took the name solas- pride, yes, but also elvhen for "to stand tall." which is what he tried to do during those years fighting the evanuris.