#moving on is not a straight line apparently dsgksdfk

[octosan]

Lately I can't help wishing we'd gotten to see the regrets of the other Evanuris (or at least Mythal) if we were going to "reveal" the events of the past through regret memories to begin with.

Mythal claims that Solas' memories are "cultivated" but we never learn what that means and we never get any counter narrative to compare it to. Imagine if we had gotten to see Mythal's regrets; what factors did she remember that Solas missed/forgot, or likewise what did he remember that she didn't? If we saw her recollection of the same event as him, would even the dialogue change (or one of those things where it's radically altered by tone lol)? What would it say about these characters? What new details and mitigating circumstances would it introduce to the events of the past?

For example, Solas remembers a lot of things as being his fault. What if we looked into Elgar'nan's memories and saw that his role in the events of the past were relatively minimal? that he really was, to Elgy, just an annoying pest up until the creation of the Veil. Imagine looking into June's memories and seeing him just completely miss the soap-opera drama going on between Elgy, Solas, and Mythal because he was busy with his own shit.

We would have to conclude the truth is somewhere between all these different perspectives. Which would be a bit more on-brand for Dragon Age's presentation until VG.

I mean, hell, Harding remembers the war with the Titans from the Titans' perspective at the end of her questline, but she doesn't get to chime in about it when those scenes come up.

I also had a separate complaint that went a bit off the rails below the cut dksfgksfdk

idk certainly one of the worst parts of the regret questline for me was all of your companions taking all of the memories uncritically as fact, down to the specific WORDING choices. These memories should never have been dialogue based and they should never have made the language of it a factor because it just shows off the strings.

There is no language barrier between Solas and your individual companions in these scenes but there IS suggested to be a subtle language barrier between all of you listening to them. Emmrich specifically tells us that we all heard this in our respective native languages. Meaning, I assume, that he heard it in Nevarran and is trying to explain what he thinks it means in Trade. Or something like that.

But everyone is on the same page about what they heard for the most part?

Like as the worst example to me, coming to the conclusion that Solas singlehandedly created The Blight comes down to the fact that he specifically said the Titan dreams would become "a blight of pain and anger", which is wording that Davrin says out loud.

But I'm sitting here like... is that what he said in Ancient Elvish? And that's what that means in Nevarran as well? In Antivan? What language did he say it to Davrin in, modern Elvish? And is Davrin now translating it when he uses the game's language? I guess it's possible Davrin is not actually fluent in elvish but still, is his native language Trade? So all these languages use the same word for the Blight, proper noun, and "blight", the noun? So all of these languages are just cyphers for each other? How does the internal translation of these memories operate?

Imagine if Solas had just said "Look, the titan souls are going to be very fucking pissed at us for doing this, Mythal" and your companions just can't connect the dots dfkgkdfkgsdk.