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Trespasser Pt. 21

The Dread Wolf

Trespasser Masterpost Previous: Elven Ruins

The PC emerges through the eluvian alone.

PC: (Gasps.)

They make their way through a dozen Qunari mid-attack that have been turned to stone. They hear voices up ahead.

Solas: Ebasit kata. Itwa-ost.

Solas and the Viddasala stand on a hill.

Viddasala: Maraas kata!

He turns towards an eluvian.

Solas: Your forces have failed. Leave now, and tell the Qunari to trouble me no further.

Viddasala: (Disgusted noise.)

She rushes him from behind, and he turns her to stone without looking back. The PC approaches slowly.

PC: Solas.

The Anchor flares, driving them to the ground as Solas turns back.

PC: (Cries out in pain.)

Solas’s eyes flash with magic, and the mark calms down.

Solas: That should give us more time. I suspect you have questions.

Special (found all Qunari notes): You’re the Dread Wolf. [1]

General: You work for Fen’Harel? [2]

General: I came to find you. [3]

General: How did you do that? [4]

General (did not ask Solas about elves, himself, or the Fade): Not really, no. [5]

1 - Special: You’re the Dread Wolf. PC: The Qunari answered some of those questions. The information I found while traveling through the eluvians answered more. You’re Fen’Harel. You’re the Dread Wolf.

Solas (high approval): Well done. [6] Solas (low approval): You have grown clever since I left. [6]

2 - General: You work for Fen’Harel? PC: The Qunari believe you’re an agent for someone who has taken the name Fen’Harel. Solas: The Qunari reject myth and legend. If you told them of your meeting with Mythal, they would attribute it to a demon. I am no one’s agent but my own. I fear that the truth is much simpler, and much worse, than the Qunari believe. PC: You’re Fen’Harel. [6]

3 - General: I came to find you. PC: The Qunari were trying to kill you. I wanted to get here first. Solas: I know. They sought an agent of Fen’Harel. I am no one’s agent but my own. I fear that the truth is much simpler, and much worse, than the Qunari believe. PC: You’re Fen’Harel. [6]

4 - General: How did you do that? PC: How were you able to control the Anchor? Solas: In the same way as when I stopped it from killing you at Haven… although I am stronger now. The mark you bear was bestowed upon you by the Orb of Fen’Harel. My orb. PC: You’re Fen’Harel. [6]

6 - Scene continues.

Solas: I was Solas first. “Fen’Harel” came later… an insult I took as a badge of pride. The Dread Wolf inspired hope in my friends and fear in my enemies… not unlike “Inquisitor,” I suppose.

Choice dependent dialogue:

Not romanced [7]

Romanced [8]

7 - Not romanced Solas: You also know the burden of a title that all but replaces your name.

Dialogue options:

Pleased (Dalish PC): I know you’re not evil. [9]

Pleased (non-Dalish PC): You fought for freedom. [10]

Angry: [Attack him.] [11]

Sad: Your life sounded hard. [12]

Stoic: You’re like Mythal, then? [13]

9 - Pleased: I know you’re not evil. PC: Our legends about you are wrong. I saw the truth as we traveled the Crossroads. Solas: You saw another story, written in desperation to give me more credit than I ever deserved. PC: You were a hero, Solas. [19]

10 - Pleased: You fought for freedom. PC: The Dalish legends about the “evil trickster god” are all wrong. I saw the truth in the Crossroads. Solas: You saw another story, written in desperation to give me more credit than I ever deserved. PC: You were a hero, Solas. [19]

11- Angry: [Attack him.] PC: You lied about everything. The PC moves, and Solas’s eyes glow. PC: (Cries out in pain.) Solas: I understand your anger. In your position, I would share it. PC: You’re really him? [19]

12 - Sad: Your life sounded hard. PC: I saw the stories as we traveled through the eluvians. Are they true? Solas: They are closer than the Dalish legends, though still prone to making me into something more than I am. PC: I’m so sorry, Solas. What you’ve seen… I can’t imagine. [19]

13 - Stoic: You’re like Mythal, then? PC: Are you a fragment of what Fen’Harel once was, like Mythal? Solas: No. This is all I have ever been. PC: And the legends? [19]

8 - Romanced Solas: And now you know. What is the old Dalish curse? “May the Dread Wolf take you”?

Dialogue options:

Pleased: My people were wrong. [14]

Angry: You lied to me! [15]

Sad: Yes, ironically. [16]

End romance: What we had is over. [17]

Stoic: You’re like Mythal, then? [18]

14 - Pleased: My people were wrong. PC: Our legends about you are wrong. I saw the truth as we traveled the Crossroads. Solas: You saw another story, written in desperation to give me more credit than I ever deserved. PC: If you had just told me… Solas: Then you would carry the same burden I do. PC: I want to. Ma ghilana, vhenan. [19]

15 - Angry: You lied to me! PC: Ma harel lasa! Solas: Only by omission. PC: Ma lasa banal’ghilana! Solas: What would you have had me say? That I was the great adversary in your people’s mythology? PC: I would have had you trust me! [19]

16 - Sad: Yes, ironically. PC: And so he did. Solas: I did not. I would not lay with you under false pretenses. PC: But you lied to me. I loved you. Did you really think I wouldn’t have understood? Solas: Ir abelas, vhenan. PC: Tel’abelas. If you care, give me the truth. [19]

17 - End romance: What we had is over. PC: Whatever happened between us has ended, Solas. Speak no more of it. Solas: As you wish. You’ve earned your anger. But I am not the monster the Dalish painted. [19]

18 - Stoic: You’re like Mythal, then? PC: Are you a fragment of what Fen’Harel once was, like Mythal? Solas: No. This is all I have ever been. PC: And the legends? [19]

19 - Scene continues.

He starts to walk, and the PC follows.

Solas: I sought to set my people free from slavery to would-be gods. I broke the chains of all who wished to join me. The false gods called me Fen’Harel, and when they finally went too far, I formed the Veil and banished them forever. Thus I freed the elven people and, in so doing, destroyed their world.

20 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: The Veil destroyed the world? [21]

Investigate: Why did you form the Veil? [22]

Investigate: The elven gods aren’t dead? [23]

Investigate: How did the gods go too far? [24]

Investigate: How did they become “gods”? [25]

General: What happens next? [26]

21 - Investigate: The Veil destroyed the world? PC: How did creating the Veil destroy the world? Solas: You saw the remains of Vir Dirthara. The library was intrinsically tied to the Fade, and the Veil destroyed it. There were countless other marvels, all dependent on the presence of the Fade, all destroyed.

Solas (Dalish PC): Your legends are half-right. We were immortal. It was not the arrival of humans that caused us to begin aging. Solas (non-Dalish PC): The elven legends of immortality? All true. It was not the arrival of humans that caused them to begin aging.

Solas: It was me. The Veil took everything from the elves, even themselves. [back to 20]

22 - Investigate: Why did you form the Veil? PC: You love the Fade. Why would you create the Veil to hide it all away? Solas: Because every alternative was worse. PC: Meaning? Solas: Had I not created the Veil, the Evanuris would have destroyed the entire world. [back to 20]

23 - Investigate: The elven gods aren’t dead? PC: You banished the false gods—you didn’t kill them? Solas: You met Mythal, did you not? The first of my people do not die so easily. The Evanuris are banished forever, paying the ultimate price for their misdeeds. [back to 20]

24 - Investigate: How did the gods go too far? PC: You said that the elven gods went too far. What did they do that made you move against them? Solas: They killed Mythal. (Chuckles.) A crime for which an eternity of torment is the only fitting punishment. PC: I thought Mythal was one of the Evanuris. Solas: She was the best of them. She cared for her people. She protected them. She was a voice of reason. And in their lust for power, they killed her. [back to 20]

25 - Investigate: How did they become “gods”? PC: The Evanuris were elven mages? How did they come to be remembered as gods? Solas: Slowly. It started with a war. War breeds fear. Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command. After the war ended, generals became respected elders, then kings, and finally gods. The Evanuris. [back to 20]

26 - General: What happens next? PC: That’s the past. What about the future?

Solas: I lay in dark and dreaming sleep while countless wars and ages passed. I woke still weak a year before I joined you.

Solas: My people fell for what I did to strike the Evanuris down, but still some hope remains for restoration.

They walk further, and Solas stops in front of the eluvian.

Solas: I will save the elven people, even if it means this world must die.

Dialogue options:

Special (romanced): I agree with your goal. [27]

General: Why is that necessary? [28]

General: I’ll stop you. [29]

General: Don’t make me fight you. [30]

27 - Special (romanced): I agree with your goal. PC: Let me help you, Solas. Solas: I cannot do that to you, vhenan. PC: But you would do it to yourself? I cannot bear to think of you alone. Solas: I walk the din’anshiral. There is only death on this journey. I would not have you see what I become. [31]

28 - General: Why is that necessary? PC: Why does this world have to die for the elves to return? Solas: A good question, but not one I will answer.

Solas (high approval): You have always shown a thoughtfulness I respected. It would be too easy to tell you too much. Solas (low approval): You will survive this day, Inquisitor, and though I owed you an explanation, I will not give you tools to use against me.

Solas: I am not Corypheus. I take no joy in this. But the return of my people means the end of yours. [31]

29 - General: I’ll stop you. PC: You’re going to destroy this world? Solas: Not happily. PC: I’ll have to stop you. Solas: I know you will try. [31]

30 - General: Don’t make me fight you. PC: Solas, whatever you want, this world dying is not the answer. Solas: Not a good answer, no. Sometimes terrible choices are all that remain. [31]

31 - Scene continues.

Solas: It is my fight. You should be more concerned about the Inquisition. Your Inquisition. In stopping the Dragon’s Breath, you have prevented an invasion by Qunari forces. With luck, they will return their focus to Tevinter. That should give you a few years of relative peace.

32 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: Is it really my Inquisition? [33]

Investigate: Why should I be concerned? [34]

Investigate: What about the eluvians? [35]

General: What about the mark? [36]

33 - Investigate: Is it really my Inquisition? PC: The Qunari said the Inquisition was unknowingly working for agents of Fen’Harel. Solas: I gave no orders. PC: You led us to Skyhold. Solas: Corypheus should have died unlocking my orb. When he survived, my plans were thrown into chaos. When you survived, I saw the Inquisition as the best hope this world had of stopping him. And you needed a home. Hence, Skyhold.

37 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: You gave him your orb? [38]

Investigate: What was meant to happen? [39]

General: I appreciate it. [40]

General: Thanks, I guess? [41]

General: So we were pawns. [42]

38 - Investigate: You gave him your orb? PC: You gave your orb to Corypheus? Solas: Not directly. My agents allowed the Venatori to locate it. The orb had built up magical energy while I lay unconscious for millennia. I was not powerful enough to open it. The plan was for Corypheus to unlock it, and for the resulting explosion to kill him. Then I would claim the orb. I did not foresee a Tevinter magister having learned the secret of effective immortality.

39 - Investigate: What was meant to happen? PC: What would have happened if Corypheus had died and you’d recovered the orb? Solas: I would have entered the Fade, using the mark you now bear. Then I would have torn down the Veil. As this world burned in the raw chaos, I would have restored the world of my time… the world of the elves.

43 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: But then the evil gods return. [44]

General: Truly? [45]

General: That sounds bad. [46]

General: That’s monstrous. [47]

44 - Investigate: But then the evil gods return. PC: If you destroyed the Veil, wouldn’t the false gods be freed? Solas: I had plans. [back to 43] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 45 - General: Truly? PC: I never thought of you as someone who would do that, Solas. He looks away. Solas: Thank you. [48] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 46 - General: That sounds bad. PC: So at least some of the stories about the Dread Wolf are true. Solas: I did not lead a rebellion against immortal mage-kings without getting my hands bloody. [48] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 47 - General: That’s monstrous. PC: You’d murder countless people? Solas: Wouldn’t you, to save your own? [48] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 48 - Scene continues. ㅤㅤ ㅤ Solas: You must understand. I awoke in a world where the Veil had blocked most people’s conscious connection to the Fade. It was like walking through a world of Tranquil. ㅤㅤ ㅤ PC: We aren’t even people to you? ㅤㅤ ㅤ Solas (high approval): Not at first. You showed me that I was wrong… again. That does not make what must come next any easier. [back to 37] Solas (low approval): The fault is hardly yours. The Veil was my creation, another of my countless mistakes. [back to 37]

40 - General: I appreciate it. PC: Whatever your reasons, we couldn’t have defeated Corypheus without you.

Solas (high approval): Your doubts are misplaced. Everything you accomplished, you earned. [back to 32] Solas (low approval): Do not thank me. Without my orb, Corypheus would have never been a threat. [back to 32]

41 - General: Thanks, I guess? PC: For whatever it’s worth, thanks for the castle.

Solas (high approval): For whatever it’s worth, you used it well. [back to 32] Solas (low approval): Enjoy it while you can, Inquisitor. it was mine once. [back to 32]

42 - General: So we were pawns. PC: You never cared about us. We were the means to an end.

Solas (high approval): You were people, and you deserved better… like all the rest I have used in one hopeless battle after another. [back to 32] Solas (low approval): You have a castle, an army, and a title that leaves every world leader quaking in fear. Be content. [back to 32]

34 - Investigate: Why should I be concerned? PC: What’s wrong with the Inquisition? Solas: You created a powerful organization, and now it suffers the inevitable fate of such: betrayal and corruption. PC: It’s not that simple.

If Bull betrayed the Inquisition Solas: Isn’t it? Perhaps we should ask your friend, the Iron Bull. Tell me, where is he?

Solas: Do you know how I discovered the Qunari plot? The plot I disrupted by leading them to your doorstep? The Qunari spies in the Inquisition tripped over my spies in the Inquisition. The elven guard who led you to the Qunari body, who intercepted the servant with the gaatlok barrel? Mine.

49 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: Why did you help? [50]

General: Thanks. [51]

General: You set us both up. [52]

51 - Investigate: Why did you help? PC: Why bother disrupting the Qunari plot, if you’re going to destroy the world regardless? ㅤㅤ ㅤ High approval Solas: You have shown me that there is value in this world, Inquisitor. I take no joy in what I must do. Until that day comes, I would see those recovering from the Breach free of the Qun. PC: Why? Solas: Because I am not a monster. If they must die, I would rather they die in comfort. In any event, it is done. [back to 49] ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ Low approval Solas: I will do what I must, but there is no benefit in allowing harm to come to innocents before it’s necessary. And the Qunari offended me. [back to 49] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 52 - General: Thanks. PC: I guess we owe you for that one, too. Solas: I hope it gives your people some final peace. [back to 32] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 53 - General: You set us both up. PC: So you let us do your dirty work? Solas: The mistake was yours to fix, Inquisitor. [back to 32]

35 - Investigate: What about the eluvians? PC: You control the eluvians now? Solas: Yes. You remember Briala from Halamshiral? For a time, she controlled part of the labyrinth. One of my agents was supposed to take it from her, but he did not succeed. I had to override the magic personally. The Qunari stumbled upon this section independently. With them gone, the eluvians are now mine. [back to 32]

36 - General: What about the mark? PC: There’s still the matter of the Anchor. It’s getting worse.

Choice dependent dialogue:

Romanced [54] High approval [55] Low approval [56]

54 - Romanced Solas: I know, vhenan. And we are running out of time.

The Anchor flares again, and the PC falls to their knees.

PC: (Cries out in pain.)

Solas: The mark will eventually kill you. Drawing you here gave me the chance to save you… at least for now.

Dialogue options:

I won’t give up on you. (The Inquisition will try to convince Solas to change his plan.) [57]

I can’t let you do this. (The Inquisition will stop Solas, even if it means killing him.) [59]

57 - I won’t give up on you. PC: Solas, var lath vir suledin. Solas: I wish it could, vhenan. PC: (Cries out in pain.) Solas kneels, and they kiss. Solas: My love… He stands. Solas: I will never forget you. Solas turns and walks through the eluvian. Scene ends.

55 - High approval Solas: Yes. I’m sorry. And we are almost out of time.

The Anchor flares again, and the PC falls to their knees.

PC: (Cries out in pain.)

Solas: The mark will eventually kill you. Drawing you here gave me the chance to save you… at least for now.

I’m going to redeem you. (The Inquisition will try to convince Solas to change his plan.)[58]

I can’t let you do this. (The Inquisition will stop Solas, even if it means killing him.) [59]

58 - I’m going to redeem you. PC: You don’t need to destroy this world. I’ll prove it to you. Solas: I would treasure the chance to be wrong once again, my friend. Take my hand. He holds out his hand and the PC takes it. Solas: I’m sorry. There is a flash of magic. Solas: Live well, while time remains. Solas turns and walks through the eluvian. Scene ends.

59 - I can’t let you do this. PC: If I live… I’m coming to stop you. Solas: I know. Take my hand. He holds out his hand and the PC takes it. Solas: I’m sorry. There is a flash of magic. Solas: Live well, while time remains. Solas turns and walks through the eluvian. Scene ends.

56 - Low approval Solas: Yes. [60]

5 - General: Not really, no. Inquisitor: Solas, have I ever wanted to hear one of your endless explanations? Solas gives them a look. Inquisitor: Ever. Solas: Well, then, briefly: I am the Dread Wolf. I fought the false elven gods, created the Veil, and destroyed my people. He starts to walk, and the PC follows. Solas: I intend to restore them. Doing so will most likely destroy your world. He stops in front of the eluvian. Solas: Also, your mark is getting worse. [60]

60 - Scene continues.

The Anchor flares again, and the PC falls to their knees.

PC: (Cries out in pain.)

Solas: Ultimately, none but I could have borne the mark and lived. Your death would cause more senseless chaos, more bloodshed. It is unnecessary.

He grabs the PC’s hand roughly and there is a flash of magic.

Solas: Though I doubt you will thank me. Live well, while time remains.

Scene ends.

Next: Fate of the Inquisition