#solas and ghilan'nain

[zaahvi]

GLORY TO THE RISEN GODS

[arlathen]

SOLAS' MEMORIES [►]

[vounoura]

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[lokri-art]

My inquisitor in DAtV :D

[nananarc]

DATV Show

i have been spinning this idea in my head ever since the trailer came out

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Commission Info on my website (nananarc.art/)

[reynisxxsimart]

Ghilan'nain fanart 💀

[veilkeeper]

i do have to say that i like elgar'nan and ghilan'nain as our primary villains. because they look like cartoon bad guys on the surface but if you look a little deeper and find all those hidden little notes and codex entries, it's obvious they actually do have complexity that they don't want us to see.

ghilan'nain is actively in mourning. not just for andruil, but also for her fucked up little experiment of an archdemon, her most perfect creation, razikale. at the end of fire and ice, she is ready to throw herself into a fight that she might not win because she's blinded by her own grief, and she only doesn't because elgar'nan holds her hand and pulls her away. protects her. we can find notes that talk about how elgar'nan is concerned that she's not taking time to mourn properly. we know she's checked in on her first creations, the halla, despite the fact that she writes about them in this sort of detached, almost patronizing way. she calls them something she made when she was "untraveled and naive" and that she could never make them again, but she visited them just to see what they might have become in her absence. like she cares more than she wants to let herself.

and elgar'nan calls her sister, despite the fact that ghilan'nain is the youngest of them. he lets her experiment on lusacan for the express purpose of cheering her up. and when she dies he seems legitimately torn apart by it. what should be an opportunity for the first of the firstborn to finally become the sole tyrant he was practically made to be is instead him becoming completely and utterly alone, the only remaining of his kind. i don't think it's coincidence that both he and solas drift to each other as they do, even if it is as enemies. they're too alike, and they're also the only remnants of the old world, their world, that either of them have.

i can't say that i'm particularly sympathetic to either of them—they're both unrepentant monsters who have committed atrocities across millenia, but the fact that they have this hidden depth reminds me that at of the day they are not really anything that no one else is. they are very powerful mages that other people called gods. and people can be very sentimental, indeed.

[eonianshadow]

ghilan'nain my beloved

[pausegame]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[strawberry-halla]

here’s something to think about:

solas says he was going to transfer elgar’nan and ghila’nain to the regret prison. we know the only way to get out is to accept the regrets and move past them, to let them go. so why would solas put two egotistical maniac gods inside a regret prison? they don’t seem to have regrets. everything they did, from slavery to horrible experimentation, elgar’nan and ghilan’nain take these as accomplishments in stride.

but solas. this fucking guy. he knows the evanuris. all of them are basically family to one another in some form or fashion. solas saw their rise to power and who they were before becoming who we know them as now.

solas knows they have regrets. and why does he use the regret prison to hold them??? because solas in his own twisted, silly way, thinks that maybe just maybe, his old friends are STILL in there. that maybe they can go back to who they were as spirits before they took on their bodies.

if they would just accept what they have done as horrible, inhumane, downright evil. if they would come to regret what they did, and let go of their desires to be gods, to just be. and there’s another side of this!

if elgar’nan and ghilan’nain never get over this regret, like solas cannot get over his no matter how hard he tries, they’ll be stuck there forever. it’s literally genius. he is so fucking smart.

the evanuris can either let go of their mad desire to take over thedas and move on, or stay locked in prison for eternity. it’s a win either way. holy fuck.

[amadelii]

Relationship status: year 10 of an awkward situationship that could have ramifications for the fate of the world because the gods she used to follow might actually be horrible (aka It's Complicated)

I can't wait for the new game - I'm very fond of this desperate, tortured, wet cat of a man. Bonus points if Lavellan can swoop in and save him from his own delusional chaos for Peak Drama 🙏🙏🙏

[galadrieljones]

A little Solas and Ghil, as I used to write them in my old Arlathan AU. I added some little "horn" imagery to her hair clips, as a nod to the new shots we have of Ghilan'nain from DA4, but yeah the lore here is not that lol. In any case, somebody brought up Ghilan'nain being Solas's ex the other day, so they've been in my head. They were wild and free.

[housederiva]

The acknowledgment that the halla couldn’t be recreated left a harrowing feeling in my chest ngl

[merrinla]

source

[vir-bellanaris]

Solas being freed from the Fade prison before the Ghil boss fight. Lavellan joining to help in the fight too. Neither knowing the other will be there. Lavellan getting thrown around and Solas going blinding rage protective don't mess with my girl ill snap your neck between my teeth and use your tentacles as floss crazy.

They win obviously. Then return to the Lighthouse where Solas and Lavellan have some words and then some things that don't involve words.