#dreadwolf take you

[pineflowerart]

May The Dreadwolf Take You

An attempt at the fresco style paintings from DA:I

[captaintweet]

Another Solavellan comm ^^

[vanilavellan]

“What is the old dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?”

[secretmage]

The Din'anshiral | DeviantArt

"I walk the din’anshiral. There is only death on this journey."

Faux stained glass 'triptych' art of Solas' journey, inspired heavily by the frescoes, art, Veilguard gameplay trailer and of course Nick Thornborrow's amazing The Chant stained glass, as a sort of companion piece to my previous stained art Dragon Age: Trespasser a long time ago (WHERE I SAID I WOULDN'T DO A TRIPTYCH BUT LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW??) this took me more than a week of sleepless nights so imma lie down now bye (Find the WIP Gif here!) edit: prints for anyone who wants them!

[heraldofthenug]

MAY THE DREAD WOLF TAKE YOU, MY GOODNESS.

[bishicat]

Solas in a ✨glorious✨ blonde wig was not in my dragon age bingo card

[blissedgone]

How it feels as the excitement builds over DA:D

"So, your nerdy bald ex, who dresses like a hobo, made out with you in a dream, painted your political exploits on his wall, confessed his love, grabbed your ass, then walked you to a cave to tell you something but instead took away your most important cultural heritage before dumping you?"

Me: "Yes."

"Then he ghosted you after your biggest achievement. You found him, and he claimed to be the god feared by your people but also just a guy, said everything bad in your life was his fault, and revealed he accidentally wiped out his people who he wants bring back by destroying the current world state which he created."

Me: "Yup."

"He has a huge underground network but won’t let you join or stop him. He admitted causing your painful ailment (which is what got him interested in you in the first place). He cut off your arm to prolong your life, but his plan will likely kill you and your friends in the near future.

Oh, and he still stalks you in your dreams."

Me: "Yeah, I can fix him."

[an-established-butt-dent]

I am not a god.

I am prideful, hotheaded and foolish -

- and I'm doing what I must.

When you report back to the Inquisitor,

say that I am sorry.

Audio is an excerpt from this video by Solas' voice actor.

Colored pencil on paper.

[rosieofcorona]

okay my darlings, i've seen a lot of takes on the AMA and this answer in particular:

and after mulling it over for a few days, i have decided to offer a scalding hot take for which i need you not to execute me marie-antoinette style, please 🙏🏻 (under the cut for length).

when epler said solas realized he doesn't have any "real regard" about the lives and goals of the elves, i didn't take it to mean that he is apathetic. i took it to mean the exact opposite, really. here's why. solas loves his people. incontrovertibly. he cares very deeply about their freedoms, about their existence, about what he's done to hurt them, intentionally or not. truth be told, it's kind of his whole thing. but their motivations are, as epler said, likely to be very different. solas always has very big picture goals. he wanted to free an entire people in arlathan. he wants to restore an entire people in thedas. and his followers, for their part, might agree with those larger goals. but their personal goals are likely not so large-scale. an elf or a spirit in arlathan might wish for simpler things for themselves. the freedom to choose their own path, their own fate, their own purpose. to keep themselves safe, to live in peace. to not serve all their lives under tyrants. an elf in modern thedas might want the same. to live without circles, or alienages, or clans. to not be derided or scorned or punished in societies that were built up around them, sometimes by their own labor. and solas wants to get them there, because he loves them. he does. but he cannot love them all as individuals (or as epler said, via "formal connections,") because it would be impossible. to save The People™ requires sacrifice, and solas knows this. all revolutions have martyrs, and solas knows this. individual goals, always, are dwarfed by the good of the cause, and solas knows this. and this, i think, is where he realizes that he would be doing them a disservice by using them as tools, even willing tools. that he would be robbing them of their lives and their own motivations by allowing them to continue in his service. when epler said that solas' rebellion turned him from being a leader, I took that to mean that solas learned from what happened in arlathan, with the spirits that he and felassan brought into battle. he loved them, too, and they died for him, and for his greater good. it was never malice or apathy against the individuals. it was what had to be done to accomplish his goals on a much grander scale. i think solas realized, near the end of his plans, that he could not continue to consider the elves as The People™, but as people- as full and separate lives, each with goals and needs and loves and purposes of their own. and yes, they chose to follow him, and yes, they may be sympathetic to said greater good. but he knows how many individuals have died in his name, even if they believed in what they were doing. solas has been through all this before. he knows the costs firsthand, where these people likely do not, not truly. he's seen the loss and the grief that comes after revolution, and he doesn't want that for them. because he loves them, both as his People and as his people. he doesn't want their lives reduced to his purpose, which will override their own unless he gives up his power. it's an act of love, to me, that he realizes this. an act of love to let them go, which the evanuris could never do.

[aldruiel-scribbles]

I'm happy for Harding finally having her moment, okay? But I swear to God that if they don't give magic to my babygirl Dagna then everything is going to shit. Give her magic or else please @bioware 😭

[scribeofmorpheus]

I've been thinking about how funny (as in: 'this day could not get any worse' kinda 'funny') it must have been for Solas to wake from uthenera, discover so much shit has happened to the elves in the last 1000+ years, (on top of this, maybe he has a heart-pounding scrap with a spider that tried to eat him as he stumbled on solid ground), then he motions to run his hands through his luscious auburn hair, sighing discontentedly, and he fucking discovers he's not just doomed by the narrative, he's BALD! Coy, hot-blooded, cunning Fen'Harel, sweet talker!, has now been demoted to apostate hobo middle-aged 'Fade' scholar by the power vested in Thedas!

[nateeseart]

[vanilavellan]

var lath vir suledin

[pinacoladamatata]

i just think

[ayamikasai]

The Dread Wolf Take You 😈✨

Did anyone else’s heart skip a beat when his voice came on the Vows & Vengeance trailer 😭

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[dragonagecinema]

Waited 7 years to see the Dread Wolf with hair 😍