#freakin solas

[miyku]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | ▶ dev. Bioware

[darkling-er]

Not the freakin’ concept art Solas haircut 😍

[seeker-ophelia]

OK Y'all, I just can’t with these "Ghosts-Of-Christmas-Past-Easter-Eggs" I am finding.

Spoilers, Veilguard so ya know, watch out.

The Three Choices ™

My Sisters in Andraste, what in the ever-loving fuck is happening.

Why am I still talking about this?

"Because, Sera, Bioware, my genuine sorrow for the tragedy of our history cannot be diminished by a single moment."

These are THEIR words!

oNe DaY sOmEoNe WiLl SuMmARiZe ThE tErRiBlE EvEnTs oF yOuR LiFe So QuiCkLy

Varric: ITS KINDA HARD TO START A NEW STORY BEFORE THE OLD ONE IS OVER smhhbcqkwiokvnvanavj

"DoNt WiSh FoR uR chAraktErs To CoMe BaCk Cuz We'LL uNaLiVe TheMz"

[Sera] SHES HUMAN NOT WHATEVER YOU SAID

Varric, on the importance of being seen, even if not needed:

Varric & Bull, on choosing their people:

Varric & Solas, on the destructive nature of humans,

For now the best thing I can offer you is... *dramatic pause*... the truth.

*Gut wrenching Hidden Gulp*

But just like Solas, YOU DIDNT TELL US THE TRUTH. You HID IT FROM US.

And just like Solas, I fear your Pride will be your downfall.

These are THEIR words!

───────

Blackwall Devs:  You haven't said much to me since... well, you know.

Solas Fandom: There is little to say. I assumed we were alike. We'd seen war, knew its terrible costs, and yet understood that it was necessary. But there was nothing necessary in what you did. You did not survive death and destruction. You sowed them. To feed your own desires.

Blackwall Devs:  I know that. I see it every time I look in a mirror. I try to make up for it.

Solas Fandom: By wearing another skin. You ran away rather than face what you had done.

───────

Solas Fandom: I will remember this. When it is over.

Blackwall Devs: This? This war? The Inquisition Veilguard?

Solas Fandom: The people. How you we fought against the tide. It is... courageous.

───────

It's rough, innit, Blackwall OP? But they come and go.

Sera, don't.

Right, right... you're set on being sad forever. But then the sun freakin' comes up.

Yes, well, it's not that easy.

Didn't say it was. I implied I didn't care. Uh-huh, that's right. Implied.

(laughs)

You better laugh. I had to ask Solas for that one.

───────

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Bless you for your tags on my post, you freakin get it 😭

Fhdjdjjd i do, i do get it. I was there when people replied to others saying "solas avatar, blocked" and I remember how hard it was to be one of the few that made a correct analysis of that character. They finally gave us the proof that we were right all along and it's been glorious

[ladyofsnark]

I don't give the Inquisitor much credit for... well, anything. Let's face it. They're no Warden.

BUT

During the battle at Haven, the only realistic way it could actually play out is for the Inquisitor to go ALONE. Your companions tag along because gameplay mechanics, but there would be no way for them to survive, since they run off when Corypheus comes in to deal with you personally. But five minutes later we get the signal to set off the last trebuchet.

The Inquisitor really would have to go "Nope. No one's gotta die but me." and rush out there alone for ANY of it to make sense.

And I just wish that that had actually happened in game. It would have been a crazy powerful moment to give the Inquisitor. It would have made EVERYTHING more meaningful. The whole "died and came back" Messiah narrative would have been so much more powerful if we'd seen it play out as just the Inquisitor running off into the fight and make that kind of self-sacrifice. It would have also made it make sense why they're chosen to be the Inquisitor. Cass mentions that the Herald leads them out of Haven, but any leading is done in a freakin cutscene. And even then we're not really leading. We're following Solas' guidance.

Early on, Bull tells you that a leader has to be someone willing to make the hard choices. A Herald throwing themselves into a hopeless fight to give everyone else a fighting chance? THAT would have been their moment.

More importantly, however, it would have finally, FINALLY given the Herald some agency. We are basically just Cass' and Leliana's little hand puppet through the first half and we're not there because we have a CHOICE. Deciding that they're willing to die to save the Inquisition to give the world a fighting chance against Corypheus? Would have finally given the Herald that moment of deciding "You know what? I might die, but before I do that, Imma make these assholes BLEED for it." and do it of their own volition.

Cause I don't know about you, but my Inquisitor is busy cranking a fucking handle while Cass and Blackwall are doing all the heavy lifting fight-wise. And that doesn't really build a whole "Hero of Haven" narrative.

[ageless-soul-au]

So...I recently received some not so great news and am feeling kinda down and was wondering if you guys had any fluff headcannons for the chain? Also I absolutely loved the latest chapter of Con! Ravio, legend and warriors are so freakin cute!!!!!!!

idk if these are headcanons but here's some cute stuff/scenarios

CONFIDENTIAL SPOILERS IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP (most recent chapter is 34)

Wind and Wars need to hug. Wind has had far too many Things happening on this quest to not receive them and he really looks up to Wars, but he's doing the Teenage Boy thing of not asking for affection bc he's trying to act adult. He's 17, still a kid fr, and Wars needs to hug him and tell him he loves him and is proud of him. The same thing needs to happen w Time and Wars fr (and they might have gotten that a little when Wars went off to talk to him in the orchard after that blow up) but I've been thinking abt Wind and Wars since he got spooked by Twilight, okay. It has been a thought on my mind for a LONG time.

Please please think about the chain going back to Sky's era and Twi chatting with Sun and playing with Sky's kids. He Loves kids, he is so good with them fr, he'd think Polly and Sola are delightful (if energetic together). Think about his Thing with Sky. Think about how Sky would feel watching Twilight laugh and entertain all of them and then look over at Sky with this bright, happy smile. There are butterflies in Sky's stomach and he can't get them to go away. He's gotta talk to Sun about this wolfman STAT jxgxgdjssb. Same vein, Sky meeting Hazel and getting teased by Telma and aggressively assessed by Dusk.

Ooh! We talked about this the other day. Wars learning violin and he and Legend playing together! Legend on piano or cello 🥰 My mans Warriors can't play wind instruments but he should get to try all the types before giving up on playing music, especially with a musical savant bf

-Kio

If you are feeling down, we have just the thing! Piggybacking off of Kio, I’m gonna tell you something about the Hero of Warriors. This is a man who loves music. Adores it to pieces. He grew up around it if in a very everyday sense, because his mother hummed and sang as she went about her day around the house. He doesn’t know it because she liked to improvise and mashup melodies, but he actually grew up listening to what essentially amounts to the soundtrack of the rest of the chains adventures. As such, he has a VERY keen ear for melody and gasp, the whiteboi has RHYTHM !! if Legend could just get him to pick up a string instrument (Any string instrument, sized for his hands and devoid of having to blow any kind of air into it), he would be a very happily surprised savant.

If that isn’t enough, then I feel obligated to impart to you this snapshot into New Parents Sun And Sky.

For the first year and a half, despite having two fully functional cribs for their two daughters, the baby furniture sat gathering dust at night. Why, might you ask— and I’ll happily tell you.

It’s because they were both so enamored with the cute and terrified at how small the twins were, that they were afraid to be outside of arms reach of them and thus the babies slept in between them. Sun and Sky would curl up, more or less fetal position but not quite, and create a barrier between themselves and the scary long drop from the bedside to the floor.

Their daughters slept right in the middle of a mommy and daddy heart shape, and I just think that’s neat. ❤

-Mizu

[tea42]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Artists, writers, crafters, and all other creative creatures here- what thing have you made that makes you smile the most? Not the one you think is best, has done well with others, or even you are the most proud of. Which makes you smile?

Frame it. Print and bind it. Display it with joy.

You deserve it.

58 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

#4

Picture it...

Anders getting very excited because when looting they find fancy new robes in his size and he hasn’t had anything new or fashionable in years. He goes to put them on and comes out all preening to the group.

Fenris: Why is the Mage wearing lingerie from Tevinter?

59 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

#3

Fenris romance cut scene note

I just watched both variations of the initial Fenris romance scenes back to back for the first time and I noticed somethings. He ends up pushed against the wall in both but I noticed some differences.

In the grab and push one Hawke is kissing his neck while Fenris’s head is tilted to his left. Fenris’s hands move along Hawke’s back, hips and rear.

However, in the alternative scene in which Fenris initiates he is KISSING HAWKE BACK when against the wall and while his hands are roaming they move slower and more assured. Freakin’ yeah! He deserves that.

I used to like the first one more but after noting these differences I’ve changed my mind.

59 notes - Posted May 12, 2022

#2

Dragon Age Thoughts- Fenris’s Markings and Vallaslin

warning for spoilers for DAI tresspasser and the dessent

‘The Chains are broken but are you truely free?’

I believe Flemeth is talking about his lyrium markings here. We and Fenris himself are not meant to know this at the time. The markings he has are the actual markings that the Dalish vallaslin are based on, the ones Solas said were slave markings in Arlathan.

I believe Solas also referring to those markings as ‘chains’ supports this.

‘I broke all the Chains of those who wished to join me.’

In this mural from Trespasser the ancient vallaslin is blue, like lyrium.

Vallaslin is ‘blood writing’ and the Dalish use their own blood to make it but lyrium is the blood of the titans and I think that was the original 'blood’ referred to.

That they are lyrium and with the multiple uses of the word ‘chains’ I have come to believe they are not just markings or a source of power, but are meant to tie to the marked to one of the Evanuris. I also think this would require the use of a Spirit but this is more tenuous of a theory based on how spirits are needed in reversing tranquility and also noting that lyrium is used in the brand of tranquility.

I think there are two reasons Fenris’s markings are ‘broken’:

1. Mainly they are broken because the Evanuris they are meant to connect to is sealed away

2. There is no binding spirit used in the exact way needed to connect them

I really hope both are true because if it’s just #1 then if the veil falls Fenris gets enthralled :(

Again, I am late to fandom, please pardon me if these are old ideas.

60 notes - Posted March 8, 2022

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The City of Chains

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[bambsik]

One thing I'm thinking about a lot is Rena's expierience with magic.

As I said before she has magic related trauma. She was a leader of her group in her Tal-Vashoth times. She saw many of her people murdered by magic. And she knows she is also a murderer, but she thinks killing with any kind of weapon is less cruel than anything she saw can be done with magic (I'm not saying she's right, just what she thinks is true).

She isn't radical, but: 1. she doesn't trust mages 2. she thinks templars are needed and doing good job, altough they have their flaws.

So - she doesn't really like Solas, but he's smart and he's helping (she took him to templars base in hope they will get rid of him for her tho). Dorian? He run to warn them and helped fighting against other mages. He also can stay for now. But when Vivienne almost killed a guy with magic at Rena's eyes, and was all playful about it... Instant red flag. No thank you, we don't need your help.

And also that means she is so freakin scared of green mark on her hand. She doesn't want it. That's her main purpouse - get rid of it. Everything else that's happening? Side effects.

She just happens to be very good at commanding people. Like it's in her blood.

[attractthecrows]

the first time around i Freakin Forgor to make this a multi-day poll so let's go round 2

alrigjt decision time but im missing chunks of character building because i refuse to consume podcasts so i am turning to you my humble mutuals and followers

[frostnerd]

I’m playing another run through of DA:I to romance Solas just to see what it’s like but ewwww i hate this bold traitor

[inquisimer]

thank you @kirkwalls-dumbest for tagging me to make my OCs in this picrew!!

I saw it going around recently and popped in to make some and then I made some MORE just now because it’s so freakin cute and I couldn’t help myself😅

So left to right we have:

Solona Amell & Alistair | Mari Hawke & Anders | Neria Surana Lavellan & Cullen

Sari Mahariel & Alistair | Léan Hawke & Anders | Irosyl Lavellan & Solas

Acacia Trevelyan & Cullen | Ariya Tabris & Zevran | Ember Cousland & Alistair

Learn more about my OCs here (or here for mobile users) 🥰🥰

aaaaand tagging it forward, with no pressure of course, to the lovely @roguelioness | @exalted-dawn-drabbles | @effelants | @nirikeehan | @a11sha11fade | and anyone else who wants to participate!!

[sugawara-kkoushi]

Patrick

PATRICK PLEASE-

He’s judging all of us silently 👀

Based on this tweet by Patrick Weekes 😂

[drunken-drengr]

OC Interview feat. Karrie Cadash

@dungeons-and-dragon-age yo thanks for the tag! I think for this I'll have Sera interview Karrie, that ought to be reaalll fun, for the both of them. I'll be tagging @spitfiremabari and uhhh @little-lightning-lavellan if you haven't done this already!

Bold = Sera Italic = Karrie

Introduction

Can you introduce yourself? I don't know, can I? Pfft, be serious! Serious interview! Why? Sera isn't serious. Do I know you? Come on already, so we can get this over with, yeah? Fine, fine. Well, I'm Karrie. "Herald Inquisitior,' pfft- 'Karrie "Bjornsdottir" Cadash.' I'm like, around 25, yeah? Think so.

What's your gender, orientatorpiss, and relationship status? Haha I already know all this. Beardy, hmm? Shush! I'm a woman, but honestly if I had a beard people wouldn't doubt I'm male. I am very very muscly you see. Yeah, yeah, I seeee. Eye-candy.... but, er, your tidbits would be a dead giveaway. Hard to miss, sorry. Not if my beard covered them! Ah, but anyways, I'm straight- No friggin way! I've seen the way you've looked at me. Piss off! I'll look at people however I want! ANYWAYS, straight... Don't know don't care. Not a huge fan of touchy touchy love, either. And you and I both know very well I have a thing for beards. Must be itchy when you do it. NO! Stop! Blackwall looks itchy....

Where and when were you born? Well, I was born in the Frostbacks, down South with an Avvar tribe. My Father was good friends with them, there on trading business or whatever. Carta shit. I was born on the third of Bloomingtide, 9:19 Dragon. You ever feel happy having Skyhold up here? Yeah. I didn't really grow up here, more in the Freemarches than anything, but looking out my bedroom window and seeing the mountains is... nostalgic, in a way. Feels more like home than home ever did.

What is your weapon of choice and fighting style? AXES BABY!!! Don't matter what kind! Greataxe, one handed, double axes, I'll rock your shit! Don't doubt it! You are a beast out there! Ah, didn't you become a reaver or whateva? Bull says you smell nice, heh... Yeah, drank some dragon blood, tasted like ASS KICKING- but I'm still a dwarven berserker at heart, y'know? I like to combine those two styles, makes for a mean wrecking machine! Carnage! Mayhem! Mayhem!!! We should like, totally stack up on Bull in battle one day... Do NOT let him toss me, though.

Lastly, are you happy? Well, it's the end of the world, I've been crowned leader of heretics, and I have a stupid fucking mark on my hand! Yeah I'm pretty happy. But.... jokes aside, yeah.... I guess I am happy. At least, happier than I ever was before. I didn't really have anyone before all this. I thought this shit was a curse, but it was a blessing in disguise, really. Now I have you, Blackwall, Solas... A friend, a lover, a... father... Things I never thought I'd ever have. Even if it's the end of the world, least I can spend it with you guys. Awww.... you getting sappy on me, Teeny? Yeah, don't get too used to it though, hah! Savor this while you can, Sera.

Family and Friends

What’s your family like? What is your relationship with them? You already know the answer to this, Sera. It's on the thing, sorry, but I don't control it! Fine, fine. My family was, I don't know... they were just them. Everyone was sort of different. It was just us 4, since, well, forever. Actually, we were a pretty normal family, given that my Father was the Carta's top dog. Lived in a lofty estate, Mom stayed home and took care of us kids. My Father, though, he had more of a warrior-like mindset. Maybe a noble man, gone a bit too far. He taught me to fight at a really young age, showed me all the techniques of a berserker. Maybe my Dad wasn't the best Dad in a Fatherly sense, but he was one hell of a good teacher. He was pretty cool, too... He enlisted to join the Legion of the Dead, hah! Fought down there for awhile, saw some shit, came home due to... reasons. Be glad he didn't die down there, or you wouldn't have the freakin-Herald-of-Andraste here! But yeah, I got most of what I know today from him. He raised me to be his replacement, fill in his boots when his time came to fall in battle. Taught me honor and leadership. Guess I was a bit too wild for even him, though, gave me too much freedom, because he felt it necessary to bound be down in marriage. Ugh, The Carta's not supposed to be like Orzammar! But here we are, acting like nobles with our castes, arranging marriages, blech. He always was obsessed with keeping the Cadash bloodline alive and pure. Yeesh. Just, yeesh. Yeah. My relationship with them is still broken. More with my Father than my Mother and my younger sister. Hell, I don't even know Seli that well, haah. Wasn't around to see her grow up. They've sent messages to me though, since Haven. None that I've bothered to respond to, though...

Have you ever ran away from home? Of course! At least, I tried. Ran away from the marriage, but I was inevitably caught. Carta has eyes everywhere, I tell you. Turns out, I didn't need to. They left me anyways.

Would you consider marriage or having children? Marriage? Children? Oooh yeah, ironic question given what I just told you, don't you think? So I'll take that as a no? Put that marriage option down as a maybe.

Do you secretly hate one of your friends? Yes. You. I hate you. Shut up! Joking, joking. I wouldn't be friends with my friends if I hated them!

Which friend knows everything about you? You! Well, I mean, not everything, obviously. But we're pretty close, yeah? Yeah! I know what your favorite color is, favorite booze, favorite book, favorite undergarments..... Not that close.

Asked by Fans

Are you literate? Have you been to school? What kind of fucking question is that? The kind that's on here. Of course I can read! I've gone to some academies, here and there. My Father was obsessed with my education, at least when it came to history and all things dwarven. Hell, he taught me a lot just by himself.

The eeriest prediction you made that later came true? This is gonna leave a scar.

What is something you were embarrassingly late to realize? People genuinely wanted me to lead them? What? Did you think it was some sort of inside joke? A huge prank by the Chantry? Yes!

Do you have mental health or physical issues? Look at me. Take a good long look at me, Sera. You suffer from: being short, being angry. Dude I'm like 5 inches shorter than you. I'm taller than Varric! Or like, any other dwarf! Ah, there's the anger. Y'know, they say the closer you are to the ground, the angrier you are? Stop talking.

What is your current main goal? It WAS to like, oh I don't know, reclaim House Cadash's long lost glory? Become a Paragon? Now I just wanna get the fuck off Thedas, maybe save it, depends on my mood later.

Choices

Drink or food? Depends. If it's ale, first rounds on me!

Cats or dogs? DOGS. I'm not Orlesian, anyone who isn't Orlesian loves dogs. Also, allergic to cats! Only ever had dogs. Mabaris are truly the best....

Optimist or pessimist? We'll all die eventually.

Sassy or sarcastic? Both. Both is good.

Have You Ever

Been caught sneaking out? From a wedding? Yes. So relatable.

Broken a bone? Surprisingly, no. Fractured, dislocated, sure. Never actually broke one, though. Andraste's tits, a miracle! How?!

Received flowers? Blackwall's love language is practically flowers. What a gentleman.

Ghosted someone? I am exceptionally good at that, actually. I ghosted my family for like 7 years dude.

Pretended to laugh at a joke you didn’t get? No fuck you if I'm not laughing it wasn't funny end of story.

[cutiequisitor]

I legit typed in "solas eclipse" into Google instead of "solar eclipse" and now I'm reconsidering how much impact that egg has had on my unconscious.

[felassan]

Can we also pls take a moment to appreciate new character Strife?

A City Elf who grew up in an alienage in Starkhaven

punched a guard who was beating elvhen children and ended up having to run away and live in the woods

met the Dalish and joined them and learned their ways, including woodcraft, the way of three trees, the faith of the Creators, elvhen history, singing old elvhen songs and their way of looking at the world including how they conceive of spirits and the like

is described as toll and lean ropey muscle w/ callused hands and a straight back

this in combination with being an older dude, 50 or maybe 60 odd

has silver hair

is hilarious and witty, channeling some minor Felassan energy if I do say so myself

is a crackshot with a bow

brave

smart as fuck

his name is fucking STRIFE like a) that is badass as fuck and b) hmmm how very ancient elfy to be named after a quality/meaningful noun like that hmm hmmmm maybe he uses the Trade translation to Blend In

was working in tandem with his Dalish clanmates to steal Antaam plans about their invasion in order to warn the clans in or beyond Rivain before the dreadnoughts land

and hes badass and strong as shit and basically bodily hauls an initially-useless seeming mage he’s chained to through the haunted monster woods, up a fucking tree, up through a river, up a hill, all while being pursued by an entire squadron of Qunari soldiers and TWO Qunari MINIBOSSES, navigating and making the escape plans on the fly, learning to work together with the other as a team AND while doing a freakin superhuman Boromir with an arrow in his arm and a massive fucking Qunari spear-arrow thing punched clean through his torso, except WITHOUT the dying part and also while FIRING ARROWS back at their pursuit

he could probably beat up Solas single-handedly

at the age of SIXTY or sth!!!

did I mention he’s toll and has silver hair

BioWare can we have this dude as a companion pls in DA4

[olivevirus]

I freakin’ love Solas. His heart’s in the right place, but his ego is where his brain should be and his brain is sooo far up his ass.

Thank you.