(some memes to cheer you up while we're all waiting for news 😘 ) Part 2

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I have no idea what's happening out there, I'm living in this isolated semi offline bubble to avoid spoilers and it's killing me, but WE'LL BE PLAYING THE NEXT DRAGON AGE *THIS* MONTH. AFTER TEN. WHOLE. YEARS. HOW FUCKING CRAZY IS THAT. IT STILL DOESN'T FEEL REEEAL.

While the Solas romance tarot card has been circling around as the Hierophant a few people have pointed out its similarities to tarot card of The Fool, but do to misconception on what The Fool card actually means this has been commonly dismissed.

Resemblance: While it can be argued the three major characteristics of the Hierophant card are present, the characteristics of the fool tarot card fit much better.

The Fool tarot is defined by:

Rising sun; facing north-west

Staff, with bag

Guardian white canine

Mountains behind him

On the edge of a cliff, about to step off

While the sun is not depicted the light seems to be coming from the same direction as in the Fool card.

Staff is present in both although the top of Solas’s cannot be seen

The white dog in the Fool card is perfectly replaced with the white wolf in Solas’s tarot card

The golden hills in the background are reminiscent of the mountains in the Fool card but flipped with the bigger ones in front of him.

Now no cliff is depicted but when you put the cards together (as bellow) something with a similar meaning to Solas as the cliff has for the Fool appears. 

  The cliff the Fool is about to step off of symbolizes him moving into the material plan,  leaving his past life behind him. As we know Solas was represented by The Hermit before this which, he was alone. Now as the Fool with the cliff in front of him Solas is presented with Lavellan’s outstretched hand, asking him to leave his life of solitude behind and accept her and this world. The best part is the Fool is about to step off the cliff in his card and if Solas’s card is styled after The Fool then he’s about to take Lavellan’s hand.

The Hierophant tarot is defined by:

His hand raised in benediction

His triple scepter

Two initiates

While Solas’s hand is raised, it looks to be more reaching as discussed than raised upwards like in the Hierophant card.

What Solas is holding in his left hand looks more like the fool’s staff than the hierophant’s scepter..

The wolf could be an initiate but the fool card’s dog describes it better.

Repercussions: If Solas’s romance tarot card really is The Fool tarot card, the news could not be better.

Since the Fool is a card of new beginnings with a promise that anything can happen rather than sticking to tradition as the Hierophant is and since the romance with Solas  only started after he broke up with Lavellan, it is likely this new journey is them being together.

Unlike the Hermit and the Hierophant the fool is carefree and impulsive, while we never saw Solas embody these things the fact that his tarot card is The Fool rather than The Hermit he may show a shift in the overly worried, afraid to let someone in personality we saw before.

Furthermore The Fool tarot card encourages following ones heart even if doing so may be crazy or insane, like loving a mortal, as well as having faith and trust in where the universe is taking you. So possibly telling Lavellan the truth about being the dread wolf, what actually happened and what he needs to do next.

Now us staring off into nothing, indecisive, will have a new reason.

I mean, quite literally, the way it presents its lore to you. In picking up notes and books as you go along and sifting through the codex, the game effectively asks you to act as an anthropologist. You’re met with a host of primary and secondary sources, some many hundreds of years apart from one another, written by anyone from the highest Chantry scholar to John Farmer, and you’re meant to constantly be questioning every piece of information you’re given. What biases are present in what I’m reading? What is fact and what is complete fabrication and what is, potentially, a slightly twisted version of a fact? How does one source potentially contradict another? The lore is one giant mystery-puzzle that you get to piece together across three games, and what conclusions you draw are going to be entirely different from someone else’s, and so on.

And yet, the series still does something even cooler than any of that. You realize, at a certain point, that this idea you have been engaging with on a meta-level — this idea that history is biased and fallible, that it’s written by colonizers and conquerers, genocidal racists and religious zealots, that the ability to control historical narrative is the prize you win for spilling the most blood — that idea is one of, if not perhaps THE most important, overarching theme of the series. The way that we remember history — what we remember and what we don’t, and why — and the impact that has on people on a sociological, political, cultural and psychological level, on both a macro and micro scale. It’s the entire thesis of the series’ main villain’s whole motivation.

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I'm so excited!!