#Dragon Age: Inquisition Spoilers

[thedasphiliasociety]

How have I never seen this before? Ah, amazing.

The past is done with us the moment we are done with it.

[aesfocus]

[ofdinosanddais1]

[DA:I Jaws of Hakkon Spoilers]

Lol so I'm playing jaws of hakkon and Kenric was like "yeah what elven god is this? It starts with g" and then it cut to my inquisitor with the Ghilain'nain vallaslin

[starfoam]

Here's how it ends:

Luminous steps through a portal, after leaving a scroll with Cassandra. She does not return for an hour, then two, then twelve, then twenty-four, then fourty-eight. Two days, five, ten, thirty, one-hundred and eighty.

The scroll contains her final orders - a restructuring of the order, now that its purpose is served. It shapes itself to suit the future that's coming, a future without the Herald of Andraste in it.

Cole stops looking first. When asked, he simply says that there's no reason to look. Blackwall moves on shortly after, then Vivienne, then slowly the others let go one by one.

Dorian and Varric hold out the longest. Dorian is angry at the world, Varric is angry at himself. Things were bad. She was not well when she left for the last mission - what she seemed to know was her last mission. She kept them away, knowing they would see. Her right and left hands, held at arm's length in the final hours of anyone seeing her.

The public responds. The hero is grieved, and Clan Lavellan grows cold with the Inquisition, even as it flourishes within Wycome. The Dalish will not forget how the world treated the best of them.

Life goes on. Eventually, new groups are formed and new stories told. Within ten years, nobody's looking for her anymore.

Somewhere in a forest lies a temple to Mythal with a burial ground for her faithful. No one has been there for a very, very long time.

Within a stone grave at the foot of the All-Mother's image, Inquisitor Lavellan's armor does not rot, even as it's overgrown by Arbor Blessing and Royal Elfroot. A single, dried-up flower lies at the stone's head.

[abelas]

They made bodies from the earth. And the earth was afraid. It fought back. But they made it forget

[lanaluuart]

Playing around with Dorian's design a bit.

[kikicolors]

trapped in the fade

[thunderboltfire]

Wait a second, didn't he had an earring and some grey hair in his character's portrait, too?

[thessaralka]

Bellara: "Solas killed mythal? After all that? Is this another memory from a different time?"

Scout Lace Harding, pride of the Inquisition, IQ 177: "no. He wore that same outfit in the Inquisition."

I'm sorry but I am sobbing this line of dialogue was so fucking funny. The implication that he only has two outfits, that he fucking frescoed himself in one of them, and that it was so iconically raggedy that Harding knew immediately it was from Inquisition Time asjhflamcnjfkwjajcbkwit

[hrtiu]

Me until Veil Guard comes out

[westlywheatly]

Vallyn would love Solas even as a worm

[wetsocksinbed]

Solas being in the Fade in Inquisition: oh my goodness this is the Fade! I’ve never physically been here before! Look at it! It’s so beautiful! Inquisitor come and look at this!

Solas being in the Fade in Veilguard: WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS FUCKING PLACE

[nesquako]

Dragon age is more alive than ever and i want to share my wisdom in this matters

[where-i-hide-my-shame]

I've seen it said that Rook is a better romance option for Solas because unlike Lavellan, they know who he is from the get go. So let me make something clear:

Rook does not know Solas better than Lavellan does. They know his history, his crimes, even his regrets, but what he shows when they talk to him is very much a mask.

Fen'harel is not who Solas is. As dishonest as he was about his past during his time with the Inquisition, he also came the closest to being himself ever since he took a body.

In sappy terms, he hid his deeds and plans from Lavellan, but not his heart. With Rook, it's the opposite.

Who we see in Veilguard is not some kind of "Solas unmasked", it's Solas who has returned to wearing the mask he was allowed to shed for a little while and hide the fact he'd ever worn it.

The raggedy apostate who plays mental chess with Bull, trolls Sera, beats Blackwall at diamondback, who nerds out about magic with Dorian and approves of helping every single hinterlands peasant you encounter, that's the real Solas. Keeping his past a secret is what allowed him to stop being what his service to Mythal and his people made him into, even if for just a little while.

[aves-rook-laidir]

I know that The Descent DLC was designed to be post game, aka after Solas left but holy fucking shit now there’s a really fucked up hilariously dark in game reason why Solas does not utter a god damn WORD of banter or commentary during that entire DLC.

[macenlace]

Reminder to be kind to the writers/devs as they’re beholden to a much larger company that makes the big choices as far as what they do with the final product. Don’t forget, we almost got live-service online multiplayer DAV. They remade it from scratch, YEARS into the production just to give us what we actually wanted, a single player narrative-driven game.