solas/cadash couldn't happen because he'd be in his little study all sad and torn up about his Deal™ and cadash (absolutely clueless about the Deal™) would be like "maybe a little backstabbing and sabotage could cheer you up? i've got a cousin who needs to learn a lesson" and his sheer love for the game would take over and he'd black out and only come to his senses forty years down the line, deep into a surprisingly wholesome marriage (thirty-seven years and counting) to the head of the cadash family, now the strongest branch of the carta on the surface, bunch of dwarves calling him boss, a bunch more calling him uncle, he has grown a moustache,










