Sentient FurBY

Since the war, my life has changed completely… my father was martyred, and I became the sole provider for my mother and my younger siblings. Every day I try to secure food and safety for them despite displacement, fear, and loss 💔

I have been married for 3 years to the woman I love deeply, and our biggest dream was to become parents 👶🏻

But after long attempts and many doctor visits, we learned that we need IVF treatment, and its cost is far beyond what I can afford.

My wife cries silently every night, afraid that our dream may never come true. I try to stay strong for her and for my family, even though exhaustion fills our hearts 🌧️

Sometimes it feels like the war has taken everything from us… our home, our safety, and even our simplest dreams 🕊️

But despite everything, we are still holding on to hope and trying not to give up.

All we ask for is a small chance at life 🤍

Any support, no matter how small, could make a huge difference in our lives. This is my link, and I kindly ask for your help.

On the same day they were laid off they took the time to reach out to us, because they truly cared about The Elder Scrolls. I personally know the same is true for many other names on that list. These weren't empty suits forwarding emails from one layers of managers to the other.

If this cruel experiment from Microsoft fails, it may be lights out for id, Obsidian, and maybe even and Bethesda within the next ten years.

God fucking dammit Microsoft, yes we want Fallout and TES games to come out faster but not at the cost of thousands of people's jobs and their financial safety and well being.

Sure there are third party fan-run servers and "single-player" conversion mods that people make, but thats just not the same as what the core game experience was meant to be.

That's the unfortunate social contract gamers make with MMOs and their developers.

"You keep supporting me and I'll keep supporting you and we'll make thing game live as long as we can."

Unfortunately that becomes increasingly difficult (if not impossible) when the legs are cut out from under the devlopers by their parent company like Microsoft is doing to Zenimax Online studios here.

ESO is such a giant part of my life, always has been since launch, and these devs have done wonderful things for it.

And the queer representation that's been a consistent presence throughout the game since its launch in 2014 means the world to a lot of people! It certainly means a lot to me. We've had same-sex couples, trans and non-binary people, bisexuals, lesbians, gay men, healthy relationships, toxic ones, tragedies and happily ever afters, even a canon aromantic!! Representation is hard and messy and not everyone will agree with the depictions it offers, but ESO has always made an effort to include people and make them a part of the world, whether its a big character focus or just a casual aspect that happens to be present, and it's been that way since the beginning, which means everything to me.

God I just love this line because it reveals so much about Solas. It basically suggests that Solas was never someone that anyone could fully control - though it certainly sounds like some tried to. Calling him “insubordinate” and “unmanageable” is just who he’s always been.

What really stands out for me is “even by Mythal’s reckoning,” because as close as him and Mythal were, she never could fully rein him in. Can you imagine how many times Solas would have pissed Mythal off? So whatever their relationship was, it was never about him blindly following her. If anything, she’s being used as the benchmark here - if she couldn’t manage him, no one could.

I believe we met Abelas and the ancient elvhen for a reason. I also think the Well of Sorrows mattered, whether the Inquisitor or Morrigan drank from it. The sarcophagi in Trespasser, especially when paired with Cole’s comments about voices crying in the dark, always made me wonder if those coffins held ancient elves, newly crossed spirits, or some combination of both, trapped in stasis. Either way, these are Solas' people that he's trying to save.

That makes me wonder if the “tools” Solas refused to give the Inquisitor were the ancient elves themselves. What if, once the Inquisitor understood what was really at stake, they committed themselves to finding these slumbering elves and awakening them before Solas could? What if they tried to reach his people first, not just to use them against him (though that could have been a choice the Inquisitor made), but to understand him more and find another path?

Through Abelas, we know at least some of the ancient elves can be reasoned with, work together towards a common goal.

And imagine if Solas had revealed, even then, that he had once been a spirit. A high-approval, romanced Inquisitor, might have been uniquely able to appeal to his original nature as Wisdom. The Inquisitor already reflects him in so many ways and I can see this being a very big reason why a romanced Solas refuses Lavellan joining him. Lavellan would find out more about him, he'd naturally want to share more about himself and in doing so, make him more vulnerable to Lavellan's understanding and connection.

Had the Inquisitor known the truth about Solas, about spirits manifesting, about the ancient elves, and about what he was really trying to do, that knowledge could have become the very thing that helped them reach him.

DAI spends so much time showing us that the Inquisitor is shattering glass ceilings all over the place. They enter the Fade physically, they enter the Crossroads and walk through ancient elven spaces, uncover forgotten history, and repeatedly pass through places tied to spirits, memory, and old magic. These are exactly the kinds of places where the Inquisitor might have searched for the ancient elvhen if they had understood what they were looking for.