#who tbh have absolutely no business to be wreaking such havoc on the more organised domains of life

[markscherz]

‘But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everyone & everything’

- Charles Darwin. Letter to Charles Lyell, 1 October 1861

[drinkyourfuckingmilk]

What kind of stuff are you hoping for in DA4?

- ideally I want the inquisitor to be the protag because despite what bioware was going for, it really does NOT feel like the inquisitors story is wrapped up and it feels like such a loss of all the important history they have with solas given he’s going to be the main antagonist of the game. but I’ll also settle for a new protag w/ the inquisitor as an adviser alongside dorian. so long as the inquisitor plays an important role, whether they romanced solas or not. 

- dorian as a companion or an adviser too since, you know, the game will be set in his homeland and he’s now a magister.

- cole popping up and kinda of serving as an inadvertent mediator between solas and the protag/inquisitor. 

- tevinter slave rebellions led by “agents of fen’harel”

- FENRIS (I mean, come on, he’s a former elven slave from tevinter, the setting of this game is basically tailor-made for his character). 

- if you played as lavellan, it’d be interesting if there’s any suggestion that lavellan went around to their clan (if they survived in inquisition) and the other dalish clans to warn them about solas’ plans, since they may be infiltrated by his spies or swayed by the elven restoration propaganda. given the dalish’s inherent distrust of fen’harel, it’d be interesting if lavellan could somehow unite the dalish clans against him after revealing the real consequences of solas’ plan. 

- one or two escaped evanuris (either falon’din or andruil because solas seems to hate those fuckers most) wreaking havoc. this would be fun as hell, but also an escaped evanuris could serve as like a big ol strawman argument for everything that was wrong with ancient arlathan which could influence solas’ decision. like if the evanuris also wanted to destroy thedas, and solas suddenly see’s himself in these old murderous bastards, it’s the kind of introspective shit he’s such a slut for, and might give him pause in his plans. And these remnants of ancient arlathan contrasted with modern thedas coming together to rise up against them could help remind solas of why his creation of the veil was necessary and why there’s value in the world he saved aka modern thedas compared with the pitfalls of absolute power of arlathan that allowed people like the evanuris to endanger the entire world. So that might help change solas’ mind and also means the possibility of some amazing fucking battle scenes between solas/new protag/inquisitor vs evanuris. this is my biggest guilty pleasure wish tbh. I want solas and lavellan taking down an evanuris together. 

- morrigan might even join them in the fight mentioned above. given she’s likely to inherit mythals power from flemeth and the power of the well, it seems pretty obvious she’ll have a big part to play and she’s the only one (if she inherits mythals power we see flemeth transferring through the eluvian at the end of DAI) that might be able to match solas or another evanuris in a fight. she might be wistful for the preservation of old magic the way solas is, but she’s also not going to risk keiran’s life for that. 

- hawwwwke. I’ve given up on the warden showing up but hawke needs to be part of this somehow. 

- leliana giving solas a hell of a time with his plans since she is both Divine and wields a lot of influence and power but also because she’s absolutely ruthless. though solas does know her tactics but she is now a lot more powerful than she once was, and has united a lot more of thedas with her policies. 

- sera and red jenny playing an important role against solas. which I think is likely because one of solas’ main frustrations with sera and red jenny is that they didn’t work like a typical organization - they’re disorganized, have no fixed chain of command or structure, they’re unpredictable which is a great weapon against someone like solas who is such a tactician and only because he knows how structured organisations, even guerilla tactic groups work. he doesn’t understand red jenny, so they could undermine him with their whole unpredictable chaos tactics. 

- depending on whether you elevated briala or got rid of her in inquisition, that might influence solas in whether he changes his mind. briala, now elevated in the orlais court and having her own army of elven spies, could help in the fight against solas. I think she’s a great counterpoint to solas’ bullshit idea that the modern elves are a lost cause, since she’s made great strides in empowering them and their influence through thedas by playing the sociopolitical game. 

- more details about the titans, and a bigger role for the dwarves to play in all of this. 

- I also would love to see or have references made to old mates like zevran, alistair (I mean, surely the king of fereldan will have a part to play), aveline, sten, isabela, etc

- but I also REALLY wanna see merrill and her response to this dread wolf rising business.