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icharchivist · 4 days ago

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still thinking about how one of the first da4 trailer had a Titan waking up and trying to figure out at which point in development was it decided that ALL the Titans being made Tranquils were just like dead and therefore their time is over, despite also The Descent implying that a whole in the Veil stirred a sleeping titan and Cole saying "[the titans] want to wake up but they can't" in Trespasser.

Like, maybe it's my bias talking and I'm willing to admit that but I don't think the fate of the Titans was completely overlooked in Solas' original plan. I just think that once DA4 took the approach of "let the past go and focus on the present" the Titans had to be wrapped up, and since we never actually talk about Solas' motivations in game, it's left unclear whether Solas wanted to do something for the people he created Tranquility on -- but the original draft seems to imply that something was supposed to happen.

#yeah i saw a post -- which i don't think is a bad one if you only take da4 to the word #but like that's my problem with da4 right? you shouldn't take it to the word #originally i think ALL the titans weren't made tranquil and it's the Veil that blocked them for good #like i still feel like the Blight being their immune system acting up when the Elves stroke them down to create Foci #(and by extention being made tranquil tho i thought they died then) is far more interesting than it being severed dreams #and i also think not ALL of the titans were made such. I felt like dead one = blighted. others made tranquils. others asleep bc of the Veil #that it may be the difference between da2's blighted Thaig and a clean Titan like in the Descent #(after all the Blighted Titan being where we find the Idol Solas used for it)#(it makes sense to me that it's like THIS titan actually was cut down. But others weren't)#(and it's why Profane and Sha-Brytol are different despite the lore (aka eating lyrium once the stone went silent) being the same)#but like those are all theories right? I know this is just something i can accept the L on.#but i feel like the titan waking up in the first tailer #+ Sandal prophecy being about how 'everything will be back like they were'#that the Titans were meant to be healed -- or at least the nontranquil one to wake up with the fall of the Veil #but somewhere in da4 development they scrapped the possible return of the titans #and therefore just makes Solas even worse as a person to not address at all their situation #buti'm a solas stan so i know it can be bc im more sympathetic to him i expect he'd want to fix it #... but i genuinely think the descent+trespasser+This shot in the trailer #implies the direction with the titans was supposed to go wayyy differently #speaking of original draft the artbook had different endings into it #but they all ended with Solas making himself tranquil to appease the blight and solidify the Veil #which is worse than binding him imo but i do think there was this idea of commupence #on punishing him for the tranquility he created by making him so #so i don't think the Titans were overlooked in the first drafts. something happened.#ALSO in Harding's quest she says Titans' fall was the BIRTH of dwarves and dwarves are the fragments of the Titans #but in the artbook it's clear dwarves were here BEFORE as a hivemind for the titan #and the prev games hint to that too. So i also think it's a retcon to make it more sympathetic to say 'the time of the titans is over'#ichatalks about da #ichablogging davg #ichasalty

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