Until The World Fades Away

Solas & Lavellan at the end of DAI, Trespasser and DAV

Congrats to them for finally having an ending together!

(you know, there's something to say about how in every other one, they are separated from each other, but in their end slide they are reunited, embracing and not letting go)

I feel like something that’s obvious but nobody’s actually pointed out is that the Blight (which we now know to be corrupted Titan spirits/Titan nightmares) perpetually creates darkspawn to replace the dwarves. The dwarves used to be some kind of vast, populous hivemind before they were severed from their dreams/the Titans, and the Titan’s spirits were separated from the Stone, yeah? Dwarves practically WERE an extension of the Titans until that point. Point to Inquisition dialogue where Solas describes them as a “severed arm”. But once those two separations happened, the Blight had to create new bodies to maintain the structural integrity of isunatoll/the song, now that the two were separated. The darkspawn are a lesser hivemind because the Blight/the Titans no longer have access to the dwarves. And the darkspawn are typically mindless + hostile because the severed spirits/dreams that are attempting to pilot them have gone mad with rage from the sheer violence and isolation of the mutilation they’ve experienced. It’s astounding writing and worldbuilding. But in Veilguard all we got was “oh the darkspawn aren’t people” :) :) :)

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Just realized one of the rituals in The Temple of Mythal has Fen’Harel statues all over it. and it’s the most complicated one.

Solas, you ass. That gate trips me up every time. It’s the only puzzle I can never complete on the first run.

Sulah x Solas comm for @elspethdekarios

This is much better than the final version too. It goes more into why Solas is even doing this and Rook feels less like a bus driver.

sometimes self-care is consuming a piece of media for the 174th time

They forgot your name

Solas' petrifaction spell for interested parties who would like to try their hand at translating it. I cannot say if this was used for other characters or if it is unique to Solas. File name within Frosty: FXT_Casting_Ring_RGB [extracted via Frosty Editor]