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Oh they have screaming matches and she's mean to him!
WRONG
Shes super patient with him, actually. She handles the important paperwork and politics while encouraging Alistair to hype people up after the final battle. He's amazing at morale, he can make you feel like the crisis isn't that bad and you can handle it!
She sits with him while he learns about all his responsibilities, patiently explaining the documents they need to look at and review and why. Explains every position in court , why they're important , and what is expected of them.
He learns she's obsessed with coffee and goes out of his way to buy special roasts from the market district.
She laughs at his jokes , they're corny and hilarious and no one else really jokes around her. He treats her like a human being and she is stunned by it.
He's so jovial, so good-natured and goofy, but beneath it he's sharp, he's down to earth and he knows what must be done. He's a commoner too, more so than Anora even if you consider their upbringing, they become very popular with the people.
They go out drinking together. They push for elven rights together, the alienage gets repaired and rebuilt. They support Bann Shianni without hesitation.
She makes a point of deferring to him, so he can get used to making decisions too. She emphasises that his voice is also important and that they are ruling TOGETHER. She encourages his self confidence.
She doesn't force him to consummate on their wedding night. They'll do it when he's ready too - if he's ready too. It's politically stupid maybe, but so much has already been taken from both of them.
Slowly, she falls for him. He's beautiful, he's amazing, he's everything.
His feelings develop slower, she's tall, strong, and supports him. He notices early on she tends to forget to take care of herself - especially right after the blight. She doesn't eat, hardly sleeps, and exercises to the point of exhaustion. He steps in - he is always there with food, with company, with a drink or an ear whatever she needs. And maker help her if she doesn not retire to bed when he does and she's not there in the morning. She will get an earful.
They have to share a room. The bed is huge so they have space. He gets so sued to her presence. He'll just start to talk about whatever is on his mind, and she'll listen.
they could never get me to hate dai it's like that game was formulated in a lab to make me obsessed with it. the near-empty open world maps? i love. the wordy, timed war table quests that take real-life time to finish? i love. the absolutely horrendous platforming they tried to do? i love. being able to control and walk around as every member of your party? i love. the overwhelming inventory management? i love. collecting schematics i'll never end up using? i love. i love you forever dragon age inquisition
"degenerate" "gooner" "perv" shut up. shut the fuck up. listen to yourself. you sound ridiculous. human sexuality is HEALTHY and NORMAL. don't get caught up in this wave of puritanistic ideals that try to convince you your sexuality is immoral and unhealthy.
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We know that Solas is afraid of “dying alone” but I also wonder if this is the fade’s oblique way of saying that he’s afraid to live forever. The fate of a true god.
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Not me distinctly remembering that DLDR was originally meant for GAY ships because homophobia in the 2000s was so bad that gay fics would get mass flamed if you didn’t put that disclaimer.
thank god for solas that he didnt have to reunite with lavellan in wolf form. it was embarrassing enough to have eyes on him getting gmod ragdolled by the archdemon but if he had to reunite with them like that it wouldve been him on his belly like hes a socially awkward labrador with unmedicated social anxiety making friends at the dog park going hhheheheheem🥺hhhrhurhehmmmmheeheem hh hh 😭🥺🥺heeheem💔😭hhhurgh (gag hem heem 🥺(throws up)
According to the devnotes in the text file, the prison was originally different from what we see in the game. Rook first wandered in the darkness, then along a bloody path among fallen comrades. In the end, the path was supposed to lead to the Demon of Regret who could change its appearance and voice to put pressure on Rook. There was a choice to confront it or give in.
Alone in the Dark
Rook awakes in darkness, alone. Chains appear to have attached themselves to Rook.
Attempting to gain a bearing, Rook starts to hear a voice. The voice sounds like Solas, but different. A path appears before them.
Rook attempts to get answers from the voice while following the trail.
Blood Leading the Blind
The path resembles blood dripping over the edge of a cliff. The trail disappears after rook moves forward.
The Voice returns to inform Rock they have swapped places with Solas.
Rook Demands answers, but is taunted in return.
A small light appears at the end of the path.
Reaching the Light fills the screen with white.
A still image of Solas appears when the white fades. He is striding out of a opening in the fade. This scene is identical to the one where Rock was moments ago.
Approaching Solas triggers a banter about Solas with the voice.
Approaching the Portal triggers a banter about the prison.
Reminded of the Lost
The set pieces fade away into the darkness, the path continues beyond.
Escaped, but the battle has just begun.
Figures come into view as Rook travels down the path. They are the fallen followers from the Ghilan'nain's battle, Frozen in their death throes.
The scene is frozen in time capturing the moments Rooks followers died along with a scene of Ghilan'nain.
Taunted by the Lost
The followers that died taunt rook.
Banter will play as players fumble around the space and while they progress down the path.
Banter line about the First Fallen Follower
Banter line about the Second Fallen Follower
Another flash of white fills the screen.
The mighty have Fallen
Rook finds themselves on the walls of Weisshaupt. Similar to earlier, the scene is frozen in time.
Rook walks the ramparts with the still battle around them. The voice speaks of moments from the battle.
Banter line about Ghilan'nain.
Manipulation Manifest
The voice asks why Rook is here. Rook responds by mentioning Varric. The scene fades away.
Rook finds themselves on another trail, however this time there is a doorway at the end outlined in the darkness.
Passing through the doorway leaves Rook inside Varrics room.
Suddenly the furniture and the walls will fall away, revealing a pile of rocks.
Approaching the rocks triggers the Varric Reveal scene.
First/second/third/fourth banter of characters. Get the Characters speaking about Varric.
Challenge the Demon of Regret by walking towards it.
Regret Changes its appearance and voice to imitate characters Rook has interacted with in an attempt to stop Rook in their tracks.
Changes again to another character.
Changes to one last character.
Within the Conversation there are non-standard game overs depending on which response is chosen.
Give-in to Regret
Confront Regret
Approaching the Demon, Rook overcomes their regret. Triggering the outro cine.
Rook emerges from the Prison, where all their followers await them. After the hugs and jubilation, the group sets off to stop Solas and Elgar'nan will new found determination.
The text also contains some lines from the dialogue with the demon.
----------
What is this!
Is someone there!
Hello!
Rook.
Solas?
Solas, you...!
It's like... walking against a wall.
Follow the line, I guess.
Where does this lead?
What... what am I seeing?
It's what you chose. The tipping point.
What are you? What's the point of this?
This is the truth of your actions. Your tipping point.
The moment of freedom. A god walks free, because another took his place.
Someone who played the role.
Solas built a cage that could hold the gods. You trapped him, but were also his way out.
You're not Solas. What are you?
Another god?
I am the lock on this prison.
Keep going, Rook. It's a long way back.
Back? To what...?
I'm not moving without answers!
I deserve answers.
You will get what you deserve.
You're more like Solas than you know. It's the blood on your hands.
What blood? Show me!
Neve/Bellara? No. You're fake, like Solas.
(Neve banter)
I fought for you, Rook. You led me to this.
She'd call me Trouble, make some joke to hide how she feels.
She wasn't fighting for me. She wouldn't say that.
(Bellara banter)
Was this what I fought for, Rook? Was it worth it?
She'd never say that. Every moment was worth it.
She knew why she was fighting. Didn't need me to tell her.
You're not her. Not real.
Live long enough, the only thing that's real is what you've lost.
(Harding banter)
I did everything for you, Rook. And then you left me.
Lace would blame herself. That would hurt more.
Her voice, but she'd never try to hurt someone like that.
You don't know her. Not like I did.
(Davrin banter)
I saved you, Rook. What was the point?
That's not how he'd challenge me. How he'd tease me about it.
He'd have saved anyone. Done it for the challenge alone.
You don't know him. Not like I did.
If the pain is great enough, appearances can be all that matter.
You're stealing these voices. If this is the Fade, are you a demon?
I am Regret. The Regret of a god. And you are a speck that I will consume forever.
You feed me regardless.
Wardens, hold the wall! This is our house!
Hold that wall, Wardens! Push them back!
A face in the sky. Like no Blight before.
The Mother of Monsters. Like no Blight before.
That's Weishaupt. I saved the Wardens.
You saved some of the Wardens.
And they're dead, aren't they.
I came to warn them. Their plan wasn't going to work.
I tried to warn them. The gods changed everything.
They didn't know about the gods.
Why were you here?
I told you, to warn them.
That's what you came to do, not why you were here.
But why you, Rook?
Because I trapped Solas.
Because Varric—
Why show me this? To make me give up?
Ascend.
What?
Rise to match the gods. Rise above those who died.
See why you lead.
You won't keep me here! Said it yourself, this cage is for gods!
I'm not like them! Not like Solas!
"A cage built for gods."
Or mortals with delusions.
I'll get out, you know. I get out of things.
Solas got out.
Stubborn. Another thing you and Solas share.
Another? What's the first?
The regret. The blood on your hands.
You want to know how he swapped places with you? How your regret could match his?
Every choice you've made, you owe to this.
This is the moment that put lives in your hands.
Welcome to your cage. The moment why you lead.
When Varric showed you the cost of leadership.
And the god of lies regretfully killed him.
He was always...?
Always.
The first fight against Solas? Varric is still...
Right where you left him.
This... is the moment Varric died. But this regret isn't mine.
The god of lies abhors blood magic, but made an exception for you.
He had to do it. You made him do it.
Varric died at that ritual. You didn't want to face it. And with a little blood magic, you didn't have to.
The moment Solas used. When the blood on your hands clouded your mind.
Solas was trapped in his own cage, but if your regret grew, he could escape.
Only by trading you. Shaping you. Until your regret matched his.
So Varric lived on, in your mind, until it could hit you all at once.
This is the end. When he traded his regret for yours.
This is the very real loss that let Solas swap his regret... for yours.
Regret is the price we pay for acting when no one else will.
That's what leaders say. When they get people killed for the greater good.
When they toy with lives.
It was lies. The whole time...
I was toyed with. Lied to.
This mistake. This failure.
And it can never be undone.
Do you see? How everyone says one thing, but you hear another?
(Laughs.) Poor "injured" Varric.
Give up. Lucanis has only spite for you.
Give up. Emmrich could never love you.
Give up. Die. Taash doesn't care.
Give up. Harding deserved better.
Give up. Neve deserved better than you.
Give up. Bellara needed better than you.
Give up. Davrin deserved more than you.
Give up. Your fortune is wasted. End it.
Give up. Die. No one will mourn you.
Give up. Die behind the Veil.
Give up. End this contract. You failed.
Give up. You failed your calling. Die.
Give up. Fade like the failed shadow you are.
Give up. You're a poor example of your kind.
Give up. You failed what's left of the elves.
Give up. Your time in the sun is over.
Give up. You can't fight your way out of failure.
Give up. Your magical powers can't help you.
Give up. There's no evading this death.
Give up. You're alone in the dark, like you deserve.
Give up. You could never match those who came before you.
Give up. Death is the only role you deserve.
Give up. There's no point in even trying.
Give up. Die. Like Solas knew you would.
Give up. This is what your failure deserves.
Give up. No one believed in you. End it.
You're right. I can't go on.
I can't deal with the loss.
Lies win in the end.
Regret is too much to bear.
It's too much...
There's nothing...
I give up. I failed Harding/Neve/Bellara/Lucanis/Davrin/Taash/Emmrich.
I give up. I'm no Shadow Dragon/Warden/ Veil Jumper/Mourn Watcher/ Lord of Fortune.
I give up. I failed the Crows.
I yield. I failed as a human/elf/qunari/dwarf.
I'm a failure as a mage/warrior/rogue.
I give up. I have no one.
I failed the heroes before me.
Delicious.
I'll face regret. Keep going.
Things always seem impossible. Just fight one battle at a time.
You're not in this alone.
Go on, Rook. It was always you. You got this.
You know bullshit when you smell it, and that demon is full of it.
Varric?
How dare you make me lose him twice!
Using Varric was a mistake.
If you really knew what Varric meant, you wouldn't have used him.
You didn't take his voice. You couldn't, could you? Because it's always been a comfort!
"Things always seem impossible. Just fight one battle at a time."
"I know I can handle this."
"It's not a personal failing to be scared!"
"I'm not in this alone."
What are you doing?
Varric knew the risks. Knew what it might cost.
I didn't lose him. Solas killed him!
Solas did this, and he'll pay!
You think you can break me with what I've lost? What Solas took?
I don't regret this. But gods be damned, Solas will!
He built this prison, not me!
Solas lied, made me lie to myself!
I won't be caged by what he did!
I can see through the regret. I see through you!
I can regret, but keep going!
That loss might have ended me! But not now!
You think you can hold me? That you're the first regret to try?
I have friends to fight for!
And no regret will keep me from them!
I get beat up. Get sad. That's what life does.
It hurts, and then I get back up!
All I can do is keep going!
All I can do is keep trying!
Varric chose me. Saw something worthwhile!
You're damned right he's why I'm here!
I can't regret what he did for me!
More time with him was a gift!
All you've done is remind me why I try.
The value of the friends I have left!
Shown me how much I need them!
I know they're waiting for me!
You think you can keep me from them!
You think you can keep me here? Keep me from what matters?
All of this hurts, but you're wrong about me!
I'm not alone! Not in my heart!
I found love! That's my light in the dark!
Nothing can keep us apart! Not gods! Not you!
I regret nothing about the time we had. Nothing!
(Growl!)
According to the devnotes in the text file, the prison was originally different from what we see in the game. Rook first wandered in the darkness, then along a bloody path among fallen comrades. In the end, the path was supposed to lead to the Demon of Regret who could change its appearance and voice to put pressure on Rook. There was a choice to confront it or give in.
Alone in the Dark
Rook awakes in darkness, alone. Chains appear to have attached themselves to Rook.
Attempting to gain a bearing, Rook starts to hear a voice. The voice sounds like Solas, but different. A path appears before them.
Rook attempts to get answers from the voice while following the trail.
Blood Leading the Blind
The path resembles blood dripping over the edge of a cliff. The trail disappears after rook moves forward.
The Voice returns to inform Rock they have swapped places with Solas.
Rook Demands answers, but is taunted in return.
A small light appears at the end of the path.
Reaching the Light fills the screen with white.
A still image of Solas appears when the white fades. He is striding out of a opening in the fade. This scene is identical to the one where Rock was moments ago.
Approaching Solas triggers a banter about Solas with the voice.
Approaching the Portal triggers a banter about the prison.
Reminded of the Lost
The set pieces fade away into the darkness, the path continues beyond.
Escaped, but the battle has just begun.
Figures come into view as Rook travels down the path. They are the fallen followers from the Ghilan'nain's battle, Frozen in their death throes.
The scene is frozen in time capturing the moments Rooks followers died along with a scene of Ghilan'nain.
Taunted by the Lost
The followers that died taunt rook.
Banter will play as players fumble around the space and while they progress down the path.
Banter line about the First Fallen Follower
Banter line about the Second Fallen Follower
Another flash of white fills the screen.
The mighty have Fallen
Rook finds themselves on the walls of Weisshaupt. Similar to earlier, the scene is frozen in time.
Rook walks the ramparts with the still battle around them. The voice speaks of moments from the battle.
Banter line about Ghilan'nain.
Manipulation Manifest
The voice asks why Rook is here. Rook responds by mentioning Varric. The scene fades away.
Rook finds themselves on another trail, however this time there is a doorway at the end outlined in the darkness.
Passing through the doorway leaves Rook inside Varrics room.
Suddenly the furniture and the walls will fall away, revealing a pile of rocks.
Approaching the rocks triggers the Varric Reveal scene.
First/second/third/fourth banter of characters. Get the Characters speaking about Varric.
Challenge the Demon of Regret by walking towards it.
Regret Changes its appearance and voice to imitate characters Rook has interacted with in an attempt to stop Rook in their tracks.
Changes again to another character.
Changes to one last character.
Within the Conversation there are non-standard game overs depending on which response is chosen.
Give-in to Regret
Confront Regret
Approaching the Demon, Rook overcomes their regret. Triggering the outro cine.
Rook emerges from the Prison, where all their followers await them. After the hugs and jubilation, the group sets off to stop Solas and Elgar'nan will new found determination.
The text also contains some lines from the dialogue with the demon.
----------
What is this!
Is someone there!
Hello!
Rook.
Solas?
Solas, you...!
It's like... walking against a wall.
Follow the line, I guess.
Where does this lead?
What... what am I seeing?
It's what you chose. The tipping point.
What are you? What's the point of this?
This is the truth of your actions. Your tipping point.
The moment of freedom. A god walks free, because another took his place.
Someone who played the role.
Solas built a cage that could hold the gods. You trapped him, but were also his way out.
You're not Solas. What are you?
Another god?
I am the lock on this prison.
Keep going, Rook. It's a long way back.
Back? To what...?
I'm not moving without answers!
I deserve answers.
You will get what you deserve.
You're more like Solas than you know. It's the blood on your hands.
What blood? Show me!
Neve/Bellara? No. You're fake, like Solas.
(Neve banter)
I fought for you, Rook. You led me to this.
She'd call me Trouble, make some joke to hide how she feels.
She wasn't fighting for me. She wouldn't say that.
(Bellara banter)
Was this what I fought for, Rook? Was it worth it?
She'd never say that. Every moment was worth it.
She knew why she was fighting. Didn't need me to tell her.
You're not her. Not real.
Live long enough, the only thing that's real is what you've lost.
(Harding banter)
I did everything for you, Rook. And then you left me.
Lace would blame herself. That would hurt more.
Her voice, but she'd never try to hurt someone like that.
You don't know her. Not like I did.
(Davrin banter)
I saved you, Rook. What was the point?
That's not how he'd challenge me. How he'd tease me about it.
He'd have saved anyone. Done it for the challenge alone.
You don't know him. Not like I did.
If the pain is great enough, appearances can be all that matter.
You're stealing these voices. If this is the Fade, are you a demon?
I am Regret. The Regret of a god. And you are a speck that I will consume forever.
You feed me regardless.
Wardens, hold the wall! This is our house!
Hold that wall, Wardens! Push them back!
A face in the sky. Like no Blight before.
The Mother of Monsters. Like no Blight before.
That's Weishaupt. I saved the Wardens.
You saved some of the Wardens.
And they're dead, aren't they.
I came to warn them. Their plan wasn't going to work.
I tried to warn them. The gods changed everything.
They didn't know about the gods.
Why were you here?
I told you, to warn them.
That's what you came to do, not why you were here.
But why you, Rook?
Because I trapped Solas.
Because Varric—
Why show me this? To make me give up?
Ascend.
What?
Rise to match the gods. Rise above those who died.
See why you lead.
You won't keep me here! Said it yourself, this cage is for gods!
I'm not like them! Not like Solas!
"A cage built for gods."
Or mortals with delusions.
I'll get out, you know. I get out of things.
Solas got out.
Stubborn. Another thing you and Solas share.
Another? What's the first?
The regret. The blood on your hands.
You want to know how he swapped places with you? How your regret could match his?
Every choice you've made, you owe to this.
This is the moment that put lives in your hands.
Welcome to your cage. The moment why you lead.
When Varric showed you the cost of leadership.
And the god of lies regretfully killed him.
He was always...?
Always.
The first fight against Solas? Varric is still...
Right where you left him.
This... is the moment Varric died. But this regret isn't mine.
The god of lies abhors blood magic, but made an exception for you.
He had to do it. You made him do it.
Varric died at that ritual. You didn't want to face it. And with a little blood magic, you didn't have to.
The moment Solas used. When the blood on your hands clouded your mind.
Solas was trapped in his own cage, but if your regret grew, he could escape.
Only by trading you. Shaping you. Until your regret matched his.
So Varric lived on, in your mind, until it could hit you all at once.
This is the end. When he traded his regret for yours.
This is the very real loss that let Solas swap his regret... for yours.
Regret is the price we pay for acting when no one else will.
That's what leaders say. When they get people killed for the greater good.
When they toy with lives.
It was lies. The whole time...
I was toyed with. Lied to.
This mistake. This failure.
And it can never be undone.
Do you see? How everyone says one thing, but you hear another?
(Laughs.) Poor "injured" Varric.
Give up. Lucanis has only spite for you.
Give up. Emmrich could never love you.
Give up. Die. Taash doesn't care.
Give up. Harding deserved better.
Give up. Neve deserved better than you.
Give up. Bellara needed better than you.
Give up. Davrin deserved more than you.
Give up. Your fortune is wasted. End it.
Give up. Die. No one will mourn you.
Give up. Die behind the Veil.
Give up. End this contract. You failed.
Give up. You failed your calling. Die.
Give up. Fade like the failed shadow you are.
Give up. You're a poor example of your kind.
Give up. You failed what's left of the elves.
Give up. Your time in the sun is over.
Give up. You can't fight your way out of failure.
Give up. Your magical powers can't help you.
Give up. There's no evading this death.
Give up. You're alone in the dark, like you deserve.
Give up. You could never match those who came before you.
Give up. Death is the only role you deserve.
Give up. There's no point in even trying.
Give up. Die. Like Solas knew you would.
Give up. This is what your failure deserves.
Give up. No one believed in you. End it.
You're right. I can't go on.
I can't deal with the loss.
Lies win in the end.
Regret is too much to bear.
It's too much...
There's nothing...
I give up. I failed Harding/Neve/Bellara/Lucanis/Davrin/Taash/Emmrich.
I give up. I'm no Shadow Dragon/Warden/ Veil Jumper/Mourn Watcher/ Lord of Fortune.
I give up. I failed the Crows.
I yield. I failed as a human/elf/qunari/dwarf.
I'm a failure as a mage/warrior/rogue.
I give up. I have no one.
I failed the heroes before me.
Delicious.
I'll face regret. Keep going.
Things always seem impossible. Just fight one battle at a time.
You're not in this alone.
Go on, Rook. It was always you. You got this.
You know bullshit when you smell it, and that demon is full of it.
Varric?
How dare you make me lose him twice!
Using Varric was a mistake.
If you really knew what Varric meant, you wouldn't have used him.
You didn't take his voice. You couldn't, could you? Because it's always been a comfort!
"Things always seem impossible. Just fight one battle at a time."
"I know I can handle this."
"It's not a personal failing to be scared!"
"I'm not in this alone."
What are you doing?
Varric knew the risks. Knew what it might cost.
I didn't lose him. Solas killed him!
Solas did this, and he'll pay!
You think you can break me with what I've lost? What Solas took?
I don't regret this. But gods be damned, Solas will!
He built this prison, not me!
Solas lied, made me lie to myself!
I won't be caged by what he did!
I can see through the regret. I see through you!
I can regret, but keep going!
That loss might have ended me! But not now!
You think you can hold me? That you're the first regret to try?
I have friends to fight for!
And no regret will keep me from them!
I get beat up. Get sad. That's what life does.
It hurts, and then I get back up!
All I can do is keep going!
All I can do is keep trying!
Varric chose me. Saw something worthwhile!
You're damned right he's why I'm here!
I can't regret what he did for me!
More time with him was a gift!
All you've done is remind me why I try.
The value of the friends I have left!
Shown me how much I need them!
I know they're waiting for me!
You think you can keep me from them!
You think you can keep me here? Keep me from what matters?
All of this hurts, but you're wrong about me!
I'm not alone! Not in my heart!
I found love! That's my light in the dark!
Nothing can keep us apart! Not gods! Not you!
I regret nothing about the time we had. Nothing!
(Growl!)
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Like...everyone unquestioningly parrotting the 'god of lies' thing like that isn't strongly implied to be Evanuris propaganda?
Reason 1: he's not a god. None of them are. They just declared themselves that.
Reason 2: there's a codex entry in the Vir Dirthara section of Trespasser which talks about Solas going among the people in disguise and persuading them to his point of view and how this is lies and corruption...except he's currently running a slave rebellion.
Depending on the story indeed...such as the stories of slave owning megalomaniacal mages who wanted those who might potentially sympathise with Solas to distrust him?
Like. The thing is... Dalish culture came about from the elves that had been enslaved by the Tevinter EMPIRE for so goddamn long that they no longer really remembered their own histories. Not well. They had a whole, "History became legend. Legend became myth," period. They were given the Dales and had to try and piece their entire culture back together from ruins and scraps.
And those ruins and scraps weren't all, y'know, Fen'Harel's. A lot of them are those of the Evanuris. Which are naturally gonna be praising the Evanuris and, potentially, speaking ill of the Dread Wolf. Hell, a lot of the elves in the Dales were probably descended from followers of the Evanuris who, y'know, weren't sympathetic to Fen'Harel anyway. So even verbal historical accounts would have resulted in some stories that were like, "FUCK THAT LYING LIAR WHO LIES!"
I just.
It's actually really fucking believable that some sects of Dalish are still operating under the thought that Fen'Harel is not to be trusted, even if some of the clans were sympathetic to him at the end of Trespasser.
If 90% of your Ancient Texts (TM) was like, "That little shit," and then said little shit was like, "Nuh-uh!" it's gonna be A Little Hard to believe that coming from the little shit.
There's a literal codex entry in Inquisition talking about the linguistic history of the term Fen'Harel and how the etymology changed over the centuries to fit a more negative narrative around him.
The clan Keepers evolved from priests of the Evanuris, and we heard how many elves in the Vir Dirthara were cursing him for shattering their world after the Veil went up.
Coupled with everything said above about how the Dalish had to piece their history back together from scraps, it's not altogether surprising that the survivors and their descendents would lean a certain way in their views of him.
Multiple unreliable narrators and all that, but the game itself indicates how the narrative was shifted, why, and by who.
Like...everyone unquestioningly parrotting the 'god of lies' thing like that isn't strongly implied to be Evanuris propaganda?
Reason 1: he's not a god. None of them are. They just declared themselves that.
Reason 2: there's a codex entry in the Vir Dirthara section of Trespasser which talks about Solas going among the people in disguise and persuading them to his point of view and how this is lies and corruption...except he's currently running a slave rebellion.
Depending on the story indeed...such as the stories of slave owning megalomaniacal mages who wanted those who might potentially sympathise with Solas to distrust him?
Like. The thing is... Dalish culture came about from the elves that had been enslaved by the Tevinter EMPIRE for so goddamn long that they no longer really remembered their own histories. Not well. They had a whole, "History became legend. Legend became myth," period. They were given the Dales and had to try and piece their entire culture back together from ruins and scraps.
And those ruins and scraps weren't all, y'know, Fen'Harel's. A lot of them are those of the Evanuris. Which are naturally gonna be praising the Evanuris and, potentially, speaking ill of the Dread Wolf. Hell, a lot of the elves in the Dales were probably descended from followers of the Evanuris who, y'know, weren't sympathetic to Fen'Harel anyway. So even verbal historical accounts would have resulted in some stories that were like, "FUCK THAT LYING LIAR WHO LIES!"
I just.
It's actually really fucking believable that some sects of Dalish are still operating under the thought that Fen'Harel is not to be trusted, even if some of the clans were sympathetic to him at the end of Trespasser.
If 90% of your Ancient Texts (TM) was like, "That little shit," and then said little shit was like, "Nuh-uh!" it's gonna be A Little Hard to believe that coming from the little shit.
There's a literal codex entry in Inquisition talking about the linguistic history of the term Fen'Harel and how the etymology changed over the centuries to fit a more negative narrative around him.
The clan Keepers evolved from priests of the Evanuris, and we heard how many elves in the Vir Dirthara were cursing him for shattering their world after the Veil went up.
Coupled with everything said above about how the Dalish had to piece their history back together from scraps, it's not altogether surprising that the survivors and their descendents would lean a certain way in their views of him.
Multiple unreliable narrators and all that, but the game itself indicates how the narrative was shifted, why, and by who.
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