I don't care if you're neuron divergent and also 3 days old I need you to go to fucking War
I just love the identical shit-eating grin that the companions get when you find that naked guard tied to Celene's bed - these two especially.
They're just living for the messy drama and I am here for it.
Thinking about this data and seeing red.
There was so much space for a nuanced, beautiful exploration of one of the best and most complex characters they’ve ever given us, and instead he got reduced to a handful of regrets presented with zero empathy and a shit tonne of blame when Mythal was RIGHT THERE, dismissive comments about his trauma (“they were doin it” 🤢), and “god of lies”—not sure I will get over this aspect. There were many things about Veilguard I genuinely loved, but this? This can get in the bin.
looking at the pics in this post extra closely and um.... guys
this is joplin's version solas's ritual. first i thought oh how fun! the artifacts from inquisition were going to be relevant, heres a big one! and then i went. wait.
those headpieces look... familiar....
and then i counted the bodies around the table.
its 7, of course.
as he looks on in horror as the ritual goes wrong and it looks like... the blight interferes in some way? or just their spirits get released because rook interrupts?
so while ghilly and elgar'nan were always going to get released by solas's ritual, this literally shows solas using the evanuris bodies for the ritual. you can even see how the first is the most decayed and completely skeletal, while the 6th and 7th, edgar and ghilly, still have flesh.
so there was originally going to be some sort of explanation of what happened to the evanuris's bodies, and solas i guess was dragging them around to do blood magic on them. amazing. this is so much better than falling statues.
Harellan
you are as beautiful as the day I lost you
Here’s that copy/pasted list of Felassan and Solas talking about the same subjects, and having the same weirdly specific opinions:
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this whole idea in both the fandom and the games themselves that being a people attached to their past & a lost civilization is a failing whereas a celebration of the present is something to strive for wrt elven & dwarven culture is something that reads as fundamentally western & liberal to me.
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DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION EXTRACTS - SOLAS HEAD TURNAROUND