#he organizes it like Ava organized the student files in Abbot Elementary and hides shit like its National Treasure

[hoboblaidd]

Anything personal hidden in Solas' study in the Lighthouse? We find the Anchor research notes, but anything else? Like unsent letters kind of thing? Hypothetically, for no reason.

Irving's head.

Kidding (probably). The problem is that finding any of his stuff is difficult. You can only call his study an "organized mess" if you're being charitable. It's a chaotic cataloguing system that only makes sense to him.

But with enough time, patience, knowledge of ancient Elvhen dialects, and uninterrupted access to his study, you're likely to find the following:

I've talked before about how he has dossiers on everyone, probably dating back to the early rebellion days. Some of these are written down, others just exist in his head. All of these are under specific artifacts, which function as super complex and highly volatile paper weights.

He has every letter Varric sent him tucked into a book about macroeconomics in the Free Marches. He has newspaper clippings about Magister Pavus and the Lucerni interspersed throughout the complete volumes of Tevinter High Fashion magazines. He has the back and forth hit piece articles on the College of Enchanters versus the New Circles of the South in an old Tevene children's book about how to do certain spells. He has records of Montilyet trading transactions in a shipbuilding book from the Storm Age.

He has an inventory of every single eluvian June made and a list of its corresponding key in a very, very ancient book about glassware in southern Elvhenan. He has extensive and exhaustive notes on 'Those Across the Sea' stuffed into several rolled up and equally ancient geological maps. He even has reports on Ghilan'nain and Andruil, but these are slipped behind the tiles of the ceiling (Ghilan'nain) or the floor (Andruil). Under the right conditions - Veilfire + a specific incantation + lemon juice - one fresco on the wall has a fine line connecting his entire network of eluvians and even finer dots indicating the location of every Fen'harel altar and safehouse across the continent. Somewhere in here he also has a list of his agents in both Elvhenan and the Dragon Age, but he buried them so well that he can only find them on a new moon.

Finally, he does have unsent letters. So many unsent letters. These are all within the pages of just about every book on his shelf (or his desk, or under the cot, or between artifacts, etc. etc.). Unsent letters from the Dragon Age, mostly to Dhavi, Nanna, and Varric. Unsent letters that are barely legible anymore to Mythal, Landalen, Ghilan'nain, and even Elgar'nan.

There's also all the models he made during the rebellion. Several of them are burnt to a crisp (looking at you, Suledin Keep), and most are secreted behind bookshelves, vases that are also stuffed with maps, stolen paintings, as well as behind artifacts, etc.