find me in the fade, pls

Andraste's grace: it's not specified whether the flower the kennelmaster has you pick in the Korcari Wilds is Andraste's grace or if the game just needed a one-off asset and decided to reuse one they already had. However, in the dark future in DAI, Leliana is found to have unusual tolerance for the taint, and in DAO she talks about her mother pressing her laundry with dried Andraste's grace flowers, so it makes you wonder. Anyway, the flower stops Barkspawn becoming a ghoul and seems to make them immune to the taint from that point on.

Maric's longsword: he finds it in the Deep Roads and is suprised it isn't covered in the same Blight-rot as everything else - until, that is, he touches the sword to a patch of it and sees it wither away. Whether it's the dragonbone the sword is made of or the runes on the blade is difficult to say, though if it was just the dragonbone then it would make sense for that to be a more well-known property of the material (and would have been an interesting reason for why dragons were hunted to extinction). If Alistair carries it with him, doesit slow the progession of the taint through his body? Does he know its effects, and give it to the HoF to help keep them safer on their journey to find a permanent cure?

That obsidian dagger Duncan finds in The Calling: the dagger belonged to First Enchanter Remille - who also gave the expedition members brooches that accelerated the spread of the taint. iirc the both the dagger and the brooches are made by the Architect with Blight magic, which means the darkspawn magisters have more knowledge of how the Blight works than the Chantry attributes to them.

Whatever the fuck is going on with Avernus: he hasn't managed to cure himself yet, but he's managed to make it to 200 and the Warden can let him continue his experiments if they don't kill him - and he'd be a really useful resource if the Warden later wanted to send him other potential cures for testing.

Dragons: they have an ability to isolate the Blight in their bodies by forming crystaline cysts around the initial infection to stop it spreading. Useful if it can be more widely applied. Also, it's implied that Maric's reaver blood, which Calenhad gained by mixing his blood with a dragon's, is what somehow cured Fiona of the taint, kinda like a reverse STI, BUT in the Deep Roads they went through an area where the walls were coated in a pale, chalky substance suspiciously devoid of Blight-rot and she touched it, so I'm a bit suspicious of that.

2026/1/16 Today's drawing.

- The hands that cradled your face and tilted it upwards to kiss your forehead are soaked in unfathomable quantities of blood. - But they cradled me, yes?

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Serena x Solas

"You change...everything."

What can I say… I like my blades as I like my babes. Sharp and deadly. Amazing characters, who’ve struggled a lot, went through abuse and came out of it still smiling and slaying, trully they are daily inspirations for me.  

They just deserve a lot more attention from this fandom. A lot more. A lot.

I don't think Solas was exactly coerced. On the one side, he was undoubtedly under Mythal's influence for a very long time, both during his life in the Fade and after. However, his pride was constantly pushing back from the other side. In this conflict he could have broken. Leaving the Fade may be a manifestation of his broken will and a step away from his own interests and vision of life.

The name Solas in Elvish means 'to stand tal'. He didn't want to leave his spirit form, but did so under influence, breaking down. So I think Solas may actually be his first name, before the physical form. After leaving the Fade he may have become Fen'Harel, as a reflection of betraying his own principles.

The spirits. Oh yes, they are simply two extremes of one manifestation. Black and white. But we can reflect on this because the lore initially states that some spirits are good, some are evil - demons.

And if we philosophize, then any action can be reframed into grey zone, We could consider that the Fear demon said everything it said from its primary impulses, its light side, in an attempt to remind people of their deepest fear, so that someone like Blackwall, or any other Inquisitor companion in the Fade, would reconsider his entire life and do something good to prevent his fear from coming true.

Same with Solas. His is a very deep character whose views change due to shifts in the world around him and the people in it. So yes, it's likely he is driven by different feelings, including the feelings of various spirits-demons, especially after leaving the Fade, since his personal experience became much richer and his personality underwent many change, but his original disposition as a spirit and its corrupted form dominate at every stage of his life. That is why Solas does everything he does, and then regrets it, but doesn't retreat from his decision.

Mythal is a very important character in his life, and it's very difficult to examine the formation of Solas without her. Because it was she who pulled at him, even without being present in his life. This is easy to notice, given how quickly he abandons his unbreakable plans the moment Mythal lets him go.

Perhaps a spirit retains its true essence only within the Fade. Upon leaving it, a dissolution begins, brought on by the feelings that overwhelm the physical body, for in the waking world everything is subject to desire and passion. This was the case with Cole, though we don't know enough about his future. This was the case with Justice. This was the case with each of the Evanuris, who became the very opposite of what they once were. This was the case with Solas. And I thinl this will be the case with Lucanis's Spite as well, despite the fact that he is a demon.