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flowersforthemachines · 8 days ago

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Some facts about Taash (and also the Lords of Fortune, the Qunari, Dragons and other related things) gathered from the banters

Featuring Shathaan's stories about the Crows!

I went through all companion banters on DanaDuchy's channel after playing the game to write down all facts about companions/the world that I haven't seen brought up anywhere in the game as a writing reference (and for funsies).

Note: This list may not be exhaustive. I might have missed some something or didn't write it down because I considered it common knowledge. If you have anything to add, please DM me or send an ask! (do specify what banter the information is coming from, though)

Note 2: Posts from this series (mostly) don't include information from banters specific to quests or between companions and faction members. I plan to do another playthrough to capture more of those and will add any relevant info to the character posts.

Other characters' posts: Bellara, Davrin, Harding, Lucanis, Emmrich, Neve. I'm also planning a post about just the Lighthouse some time later

About Taash

General:

Taash gets grumpy if they stay inside for too long

Taash may polish their treasure hoard or clean the dishes (even somebody else's) to get out of their head

When Taash is feeling sad, they ask somebody else about how they are doing, so they can focus on somebody else instead of themselves

Taash doesn’t like talking about their feelings because it makes them sad (Lucanis can relate)

Taash doesn't read books before bed because they have a tendency to stay up past their bedtime to finish the exciting parts

Taash seems to care quite a lot about fibre and digestive health (they are so real for that). For example, they enjoy the smell of coffee but don’t drink it because it’s bad for their guts

Taash drinks alcohol

Taash once requested Bellara/Lucanis to cook them a demon (the suggestion was disregarded)

Taash liked Lucanis’s deep-fried peppers

Taash liked Bellara’s stir-fry

(If Rook is in romance with Taash) A spirit of devotion appears next to Taash after they enter a relationship

Taash doesn’t want to look for more dragonfire tablets because “they are just more orders”, and they already have enough

Taash doesn’t kill in cold blood and needs to get angry in order to kill someone

Taash has good taste in gemstones, knowing which colours match which (based on the banters where they recommend gemstones for Emmrich’s lich helmet). They say it’s a Lord of Fortune thing, they have to know how to make gems look good

Taash isn’t afraid of the Fade, because the spirits there mind their own business and don’t try to possess anyone (or anything)

Taash thinks that even if the Nevarrans almost brought their dragons to extinction, they will still come back eventually

Taash is extremely excited to hear that Morrigan can (potentially) turn into a dragon and wants to ask her about it next time they meet

Taash doesn’t mind finding no loot when hunting dragons because as long as you survived an encounter with a dragon, you have a new story to tell

Taash doesn't think of dragons as monsters since they are a natural part of the world and have been around longer than anyone else

On fire-breathing:

Taash started breathing fire when they were a toddler

Taash needs to eat greens after breathing fire, or they get headaches

According to healers, fire breathing hurts Taash’s lungs

Taash accidentally set their first female partner’s hair on fire during their first sex

Taash once tried to cook with their dragon breath and accidentally melted a pot and set the kitchen on fire

On Taash’s sense of smell:

Taash got their heightened sense of smell after they got sick and couldn't breathe through the nose for a couple of months. After they recovered they could suddenly smell everything

Tassh can smell when someone is ovulating. They can also smell who had been in the room before them, and who is hungover

Taash could also tell Neve got together with Rook or Lucanis from the smell even before anybody told them

To Taash, Minrathous smells rainy and ‘like rich people hurting poor people’

Early life and the relationship with Shathann:

Taash learnt to swim before they learnt to walk

Shathann sometimes wouldn't let Taash play/go swimming until they finished their studies (like being able to tell the difference between some pottery shards)

Shathann gifted Taash axes during one of the gift-giving holidays when they were younger. They were simple kindling choppers, but Shathann helped decorate them to make them look like Qunari weapons. During a conversation with Bellara, Taash realises that may be the reason they are still using axes to this day

Axes are also good at lodging between dragon scales and allows them to climb up

Taash grew up poor, though they didn’t realise it because Shathann always made sure they had enough food, even at her expense (like pretending she didn’t want to eat because “Rivaini food is too rich for her”)

Taash spent the money they made from their first job as Lord of Fortune on buying Shathaan a dress. Shathann didn’t appreciate it, instead urging Taash to buy themselves boots or some other useful things

Shathann hated apples because their skin would get stuck in her teeth (“Evataash, that fruit is stupid!”)

If Taash chooses to pursue Rivaini culture and wear Shathann’s horn as jewellery, they have a blacksmith do runes in the old Qunari language along the edges and get a Seer to bless it

Shathann stopped telling stories about the Crows after Taash once climbed on the roof to play as a Crow

The things Shathann taught Taash about the Crows:

Antivan Crows make themselves invisible to dragons by imitating the dragon's shadow

Antivan Crows coat the beaks of actual crows with poison so that the crows can kill people by pecking

Antivan Crows can slow down their breathing until they become invisible

Antivan Crows come through houses at night and kill children who aren’t in bed

Antivan Crows can do a special move that stops their enemy's heart

Antivan Crows can strangle a Qunari with their own dar-saam (but only if it’s tied incorrectly)

Relationships with companions:

Bellara gives Taash advice on cooking dinner for their mother

Davrin teaches Taash to use buckets filled with water and sand for lifting

Taash has never flown a kite before and asks Harding to teach them

Harding's mother sends Taash a letter with homemade candies after Shathann’s death, calling it “a hug from afar” (Taash appreciated the gesture and liked the candy)

(If Rook is in romance with Taash) Taash asks Lucanis about what Rook likes to eat, and Lucanis offers to teach them how to make coffee/tea/chiocolata calda

Taash isn’t scared of Spite, and even convinces (or more like intimidates) him not to talk about how other people smell without their permission

Lucanis agrees to teach Taash how to kill targets with flair (with varying degrees of success when it comes to cool one-liners) and then plans to ask Teia to make a Crow cape just for them (Taash is very excited about it, as they love crow capes)

Taash insists Neve should get some trophy from Aelia (a ring, or an amulet with her name) to show everyone she beat her, and doesn’t understand why Neve isn’t interested in something like that

Taash offers their blood to Neve for blood magic purposes (Neve doesn’t take up the offer)

Taash thinks Neve’s ‘dresses’ are pretty

Taash thinks nobody can go toe-to-toe in magic with Neve

Taash offers to hook Neve up with their jeweller to get her a discount (in case she wants a new leg) because “Neve deserves nice things”

Lords of Fortune:

Lords of Fortune have a drunk game where they throw a goblet made from fool’s gold into the water for others to find. Whoever finds it gets free drinks for the rest of the night. The game has only one rule: no punching in the junk

There is also another drunk game where drunk Lords jump off a giant cliff. The only rule is not to hit the water face-first

Even if those are “drunk games”, you can participate in them sober, as long as you are willing to be as stupid as the drunk people

The Lords of Fortune pick new jobs by Isabela throwing daggers at a map or racing nugs (the winner picks the job - could be its owner, or the nug itself)

The lords used to blindfold Mateo (the faction merchant) and spin him around in circles until he tripped on something like a map. They stopped doing that because a Seer told them to quit (the whole thing gave Mateo headaches)

After Shathann is gone, Taash is in charge of appraising Qunari artifacts for the Lords until they find a better expert

The Lords of Fortune work with a Dalish clan keeper Shivanas (Taash calls them ‘Shiv’) who appraises artefacts for them (tells them what’s okay to sell and not to sell etc.)

After losing his hand, a Lord named Bernst got a lock-pick hand prosthetic decorated with gems

About Dragons:

Different breeds of dragons can mate and produce offspring. That’s how ice- and lightning-breathing dragons came about

The muscles of dragon wings’ are vulnerable behind. Another weakness is the underbelly

Fighting Dragons is all about making them come to you, either by having them see you as a threat (so they come down to assert dominance) or prey (so they come down to eat you)

There is a dragon called Wildervale Spitter, which can breathe fire or poison gas. The “fire breath” is actually just poison that burns when the dragon breathes. Most dragons always ignite their breath. The Spitter's special for being able to choose whether to light it up.

Dragons have an extra eyelid that they shut while breathing fire in order to protect their eyes

About Qunari etc.:

Eb-ketarra means something like “growing memories.” When you graft someone’s horn onto yours, you also add their strength to yourself

Qunari food uses a lot of oil for frying

Qunari have a much better sense of smell than humans

Qunari can bury their dead with large jars inlaid with a flame pattern. It’s called ‘issalatar’ and is empty inside, representing that the deceased’s body is also empty now that their spirit is gone

The Rivaini armada can hold its own against the Antaam fleet, but only in good weather. They can’t match the Antaam in firepower, but they can outsail them

Isabela is apparently still a captain of the Siren’s Call

#probably a bit late in saying this but if you are interested in where a specific piece of information is coming from feel free to ask #I more or less remember where all facts in all posts came from #when I started taking these notes I never would have thought Taash's would end up the longest #that's how you know that personal bias wasn't involved because if it was we would have a 3k-word Bellara post on our hands but here we are #well taash is my second favourite. *maybe* the biases were involved #also probably has something to do with the fact I started taking more and more notes as time went on #and I listened to Taash's banters last #well I am planning to make revisions to the posts when I play the game again (very soon TM) so maybe the others will catch up #and thank you so much to everyone who reblogged and said something nice in the tags every single one of them means the world to me <3 #dragon age #dragon age the veilguard #veilguard spoilers #taash #lace harding #neve gallus #meta #references #datv banter #flowers.txt #Shathann #lords of fortune #datv banters

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daitranscripts · 3 months ago

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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. PC: Solas, have I ever wanted to hear one of your endless explanations? Solas gives them a look. PC: 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