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The Inquisitor

I tried my hand at the infamous Dragon age tarot card art style! This is my inquisitor Thalas. It's her post inquisition, but before Tresspasser.

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Here’s something that I LOVE and think about frequently! So, the Fade kiss scene? If you choose the romance option to say, “Felt the whole world change?” and then Solas says that Lavellan changes everything? If you don't choose the romance option after that…he says, “You throw me off so easily. Even here.” !!!!!! AAAHHH Lavellan just there absolutely throwing a spanner in the cogs of the Dread Wolf’s mind, making him malfunction in the Fade, HIS domain!! She's just that fucking amazing. And I love her for it.

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The Story

Funny, how this was about just some kind of Inquisitor (not Lavellan) and the main char was Anchor, but people started to tag it as Solavellan and I chose not to be happy, but to be in hell. And made the whole series of those pics (still it looks a bit goofy for me)

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Even if those you wronged asked you to stop?

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Solas whole Veil Specialist act in Inquisition kills me for real. He spends the entirety of the game deflecting like "Yes the Veil I spend nearly all my time studying the Veil, such a mysterious thing full of mystery" when he doesn't have to learn shit about it, being the one who has created the whole thing in the first place. No, what he is studying when he orders 10000 books about the Veil is 1. how his actions affected the world 2. how people across the ages have interacted with the Veil 3. the state of the Veil now after he messed up with Corypheus and 4. where he'll go from there.

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk to Gareth David-Lloyd (Solas' voice actor) during a Swedish convention. Here's some of the things he said about his work on Dragon Age (that I remember!)

He's not entirely happy with the writing of The Veilguard. "But that's what happens when there's too many cooks" (paraphrasing) and when all the original people disappear from the project (like the layoffs). He said something about how when passing on the project to other people (writers) there's sure to be some lost information or different interpretations.

He didn't know more about Solas than the player did during Inquisition. He just thought Solas was a mysterious companion that disappeared. He only learned more when he got the script for Trespasser (and his reaction to getting all the info from Trespasser was "this is awesome")

I asked how he prepared for the role of Solas the first time he got the role, compared to when he came back for The Veilguard, and one thing he did for The Veilguard was just to play Inquisition several times (which ofc he "had the time for since it took years for The Veilguard to come out" (paraphrasing)). The third time he played Inquisition he romanced Solas, which was "a fun experience".

He hasn't finished playing The Veilguard because he's playing on his son's ps5 and doesn't always have the opportunity to play. He received a free code for the game, but for pc, and he doesn't have a gaming pc (if I recall correctly).

Solas' performance was first done with motion capture, which David-Lloyd said he would've loved to have done himself. Mainly because he originally had to match his voice acting to that of the mo-cap actor's performance (like dubbing), which of course limited his own performance. But in the end he performed the lines in his own way, which he felt was best for the final product, and was more happy with the result. The animations then had to be altered to fit David-Lloyd's performance instead.

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dreadwolf dearest what have you done?

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the hero of ferelden

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Taash Week 2025 - Shokra Toh Ebra

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im sure nothing bad will ever happen to her👍

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Elgar'Daddy

Grumpy puppers

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thinking about the first elves will continue until morale improves

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I can't believe I woke up to Trick Weekes having talked about Solas' kinks in a twitch stream

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The world is in great peril, and you are the unlucky protagonist who must save it! Spin this wheel three times and get your Dragon Age party that you're stuck trying to save it with.

Feel free to reroll repeats. Most are companions, but there are also a few companion-adjacent possibilities. You can assume that you as the protagonist have a basic level of combat competency even if you don't in real life, so don't worry about yourself

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“I’m Not Calling You a Liar (Dragon Age II: Varric’s Theme)” by Florence + The Machine for Dragon Age II (2011)

This rendition breaks my heart.

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Blade Runner Cover Scene With Solavellan . 2025

I think this is literally what happens when he's stuck in the fade prison hehe. I'm sure someone has already done this but I still wanted to draw it myself <3

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