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He isn’t particularly devastated about it, which is fine for a jaded general battling thousands of years of wars against the Evanuris.

But the collective whiplash from the retcon narrative in DA4 of look how “reasonable and kind he was and would never hurt innocents” when the big bad Wolf tricks spirits into dying & giggling about it. His memorable quote was “Solas! We’re supposed to be better than that.” When he finds out Solas just got hundreds of spirits killed as a decoy to get something from Elgar’nan’s palace.

It cheapens the whole thing quite frankly all to poorly make out new ways of The Dread Wolf being ruthless without even bothering or caring for reference any of the actual things he did in the previous game, or even in a average written book.

They added Felassan’s unresolved grievance in DA4 who just rants as we fight it what happened to Felassan and it has been changed from what happened in Masked Empire… inconsistency man.

Also the concept of Felassan giggling at the idea of Briala and Celene, ah it’s toxic yuri but why you gotta make it weird…and about male fantasies okay cool.

And that was achieved by erasing pivotal plot points, established cultures and characters from the narrative in this past games in a manner that legitimately did not make any sense.

But wait! They kindly let us design our past protagonist, even had an option for who they romanced but it doesn’t matter at all unless it’s that one guy. And they’re either a sad wifey or a sad comrade. Also no they don’t get closure, no they have no agency, and yes they were written last minute by a totally different team in an redemption ending for that guy and everything was his fault…but he was also a slave bound to his master but she did nothing wrong, they tried to tell him to chill but he didn’t listen…because everything is his fault…except that guy’s redemption ending is him being freed from his master’s service which makes him stop being …smug?

Bright side is your former protagonist gets to give up their entire life and go to jail with their beloved, because that’s the fate they deserve also they’re a mortal and can’t actually survive there…

Oh and that guy? Yeah, we (the writers) threw him in a cupboard and he’s basically powerless with zero followers because he upsets the creative director and protagonist self insert for a myriad of very mature and rational reasons, and he also thinks villains in medieval fantasy fiction are manosphere podcasters…