#me writing an emo essay on the bus home? it’s more likely than you think

[mythalism]

trying to suggest the irrelevance of the majority of inquisitions main quest and companion decisions is due to the games focus on specific characters in a new part of the world also doesn’t make sense when the most predominant, once-titular character is solas, who cares deeply about several of those past decisions and whose reaction to those decisions served as important insight into who he is as a character, as well as set the foundation for who he is going to be as a character in veilguard.

solas’s his relationship to cole gave the player unique insight into the reality of spirits as beings with personhood, and gave nuance to the spirit/demon dichotomy presented by the chantry. solas’s derision of the grey wardens was the first suggestion that the blight was more complex than it appeared, his criticism of the grey wardens corruption informs his larger beliefs about groups being vulnerable and further establishes his identity as a lone wolf who cannot trust the people around him. solas’s personal quest gives us rare insight into his past, his relationships to others, how he processes emotions like rage and grief, and his ruthlessness if pushed. solas’s fury at an inquisitor who drinks from the well and refusal to do so himself is some of the only insight into the complex nature of his and mythal’s relationship that we get, and shows us how he both reveres and distrusts her. the entire point of Solas’s character, as a “mirror” as the lead writer of the game puts it, is that his time in the inquisition quite literally creates who he is. he is literally morally, and behaviorally shaped by the inquisition. he tells blackwall that he will remember how bravely people fought. he tells us how the inquisitor proved him wrong about the world he is intent on destroying.

and none of it matters? past “did you romance him” and “did you vow to stop him”? lol ok