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(Poor Cullen)

Edit: Comment changed. I need to apologize for my thoughtless response. This is beautiful piece of art and it broke my heart to think of Cullen tainted by red lyrium.

Red suits him

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Interesting thoughts.

Also, did we learn in Trespasser that putting up the Veil did kill lots of people though? It's been a while since I've played so I could be very wrong, but that's what I remember. Especially from that one spirit in the place that looks like a library.

looking how solas keeps on saying that today's eleves are not his pply and haven't seen them as people at all for a long while? I wouldn't trust him at all... I'm pretty sure most of them would probably die after the veil is torn...

What I think he means (taking everything he’s said about elves in every worldstate and not just the few things we might have heard in our personal games (and maybe I should make a compilation of his comments so everyone is on the same page as me - his comments are Many and Very Interesting)) is this:

The “elves” of Modern Veiled Thedas are not really elves at all because they are torn apart from their natures as magical spirits. And this isn’t, like, something we can argue about - the way Solas defines elves? Modern elves, mortal and unmagical, genuinely do not fit that description, in exactly the way dwarves do not resemble the way they were when they lived inside the Titans, enthralled by the earth. They’re different people. They are not his people.

Now this is very Theory Territory, but my current guess is that Lifting the Veil (and reuniting basically the physical shells of modern elves with their True Natures, with the Fade and with magic, it will be the end of Modern Elves as they currently exist. The end of them as People, and transforming them into the true People, not artificially and unnaturally“apart from themselves.”

Taking another likely but more negative view on what he possibly means, it could very well be that the raw chaos will kill all/most of the modern elves, but restore a world united with the Fade & magic wherein spirits can take on bodies and become immortal elves as they were. So, modern elves would die, but spirits would be able to “take on form” and become elves again. This one confuses me only so much that I don’t understand why pulling the Veil down would kill everyone when putting it up did not. And he seems like he’s maybe erring on the side of assuming everyone will die (and being cool with that because it makes elves (as he defines them) possible again) but he’s not entirely sure what will happen.

Anyway I trust him and wish him luck with whatever he wants to do in rectifying this unnatural and horrific divide in existence 😎

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I can't load an old Skyrim save without creating a new character because I don't remember what's going on, so trying to get back into a novel I'm writing is a total n i g h t m a r e

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Observation: my personal canon Lavellan

I'm super obsessed with Solas, but my canon Lavellan is a rogue (because it was super fun), but also because she doesn't know enough about magic to be suspicious of Solas and I think any mage ought to be. Every time I've run a mage Lavellan she either romances someone else or it feels disingenuous.

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Heyo

Back on tumblr strictly to look for da4 news

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Yessss

And then following that with Palaven? Phew

I swear, nothing prepared you for the “Leaving Earth” sequence in Mass Effect 3.

The Score, the look on Shepard’s face, the crumbling world, the ships destroyed, the reapers moving in, the radio chatter, the cries for help… Leaving Anderson, not knowing if you’d ever see him again… and worst…  the child that died in that shuttle. 

That scene was the epitome of extreme hopelessness and grief in the face of insurmountable odds against a terrifying and unknown enemy.

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Whoa there was definitely dialogue in here I've never heard 😮😮

The negative responses Solas will say to the Inquisitor if he disapproves of them.

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1, 8, 9

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Sometimes I get Papa Roach stuck in my head, even though I do not have a wife who will put roses on my grave.

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Oh

Never really thought about it before, but realizing now that the Temple of Mythal was giant wake up call for Solas. It was a physical representation of everything he’d lost. He came face to face with his people and everything they were reduced to.

It’s why directly afterward he asks the Inquisitor what they plan to do once Corypheus is dead, and why the Inquisitor can pick up on, “Why are you talking like you’re going to die/leave?”

It’s why he decides to tell Lavellan everything, and then also goes, “Oh, wait. Shit. I can’t let her change this.”

He keeps it together so well during that quest, but I can’t even imagine what’s going on in his head.

Side note - Abelas knows it’s Fen’Harel who just walked into Mythal’s temple with a group of strange people and doesn’t bat an eyelash.

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Perfection

Don’t exile me from the fandom

But the default for Hawke looks like the guy who plays Damon from Vampire Diaries with a beard

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Okay fine :’(

Do with this as you will.

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I woke up thinking "I wish I could cast prestidigitation so I don't have to shower". It's going to be one of those days I guess.

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I mean, both are true

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Further, please note the Pride demon in Solasan

Solas is the reason the first boss fight is a pride demon.

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Posted this previously, and had a fic planned for this exact scenario.

Would also like to add that this is a perfect parallel if part of Solas's reason for erecting the veil was to stop the blight (i.e. the Old Gods, possibly the Forgotten Ones?) People have literally lost part of their senses in Solas's view and the world has been ravaged by Blight.

Depending on how Solas is written in the next game, I'm firmly in the "Solas isn't bad he just makes mistakes" camp.

The thing with Solas is… he woke up from uthenera to a world that he does not recognize, a horrible world where everything is awful, where his people are suffering badly, where everything he knows is gone. To put the cherry on top, it’s a world that he deliberately brought about by his own hands.

It’s exactly the same situation for Solas as it was for the Inquisitor when they time-traveled into the horrible future where Corypheus ruled. The Inquisitor had few qualms about sacrificing people in that future because it “didn’t really matter or exist” - the only thing that mattered was going back to the past to prevent that horrible future from occurring.

The Dalish derided and hated? The city elves in alienages? This is Solas’ Bad End Future. Solas does not consider the world around him to be truly real or right. He doesn’t understand the Dalish, and can hardly recognize them or City Elves as elves. He does not want to understand or even think about modern elves because it’s Solas’ fault that they were killed, that they were enslaved, that they have to live the terrible lives they do. He spends as much time in the Fade as possible because of escapism, frankly. Because some of his oldest friends still live there, and because he can still walk lost Arlathan’s streets in his dreams… he wants to be in the past again, where he didn’t fuck everything up. 

He’s very much a lost, isolated character looking for guidance, a true hermit of the tarot. Every conversation he has with the other companions is him desperately sound-boarding off them, “What should I do? What would you do? What can I do?“ His conversations with Varric about the Man On The Island haunt me, especially. (“How can you be happy, surrendering? Knowing it will all end with you? How can you not fight?”)

So yeah, he is a bitter sleepwalker trying not to invest in anything around him… because of self-preservation. Because if he invests emotionally in it, it will make everything harder. If he was truly an asshole, and if people truly didn’t matter to him, this wouldn’t be a problem for him. 

The touching part about Lavellan is not that he treats her better than other people, because he doesn’t. It’s that his feelings for her force him to confront the future that he made, and see it as real. (“You’re real, and it means everyone could be real. It changes everything, but it can’t.”) This future is real, and it’s something he made, and its reality matters deeply.

It’s the story of a god who is estranged from his people (literally, statues of Fen'Harel are not allowed inside Dalish camps) and his relationship with Lavellan helps him reconcile the reality of the world and decide what to do about it. It’s a sleeping god finally answering the call of the Dalish, who never expected to be answered. It’s a mortal convincing a god that his people still need protecting.

The story is incredibly touching to me, especially how I experienced it.