#just to add salt to solas' injury

[magnetic-rose]

"In this place we prepare to hunt the pillars of the earth. Their workers scurry, witless, soulless. This death will be a mercy. We will make the earth blossom with their passing."

codex entry: old elven writing (about the dwarves)

"Solas: I am sorry to have bothered you with my questions about your people Varric. I see so much of this world in dreams. Humans, my own people, even qunari. Dwarves alone were lost to me, save scattered fragments of memory where some spirit cared to watch. Now I know why I see so little.

Varric: And why is that?

Solas: Dwarves are the severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood. Undirected. Whatever skill of arms it had, gone forever. Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."

Banter in DA:I

"I think that’s why Varric so confounded him. He was so clearly alive and a person despite being utterly disconnected from the Fade."

trick weekes, when asked if dwarves could meet solas' standards for personhood despite their disconnect from the fade.