ok alright. i am finally posting ✨where there's smoke✨ my inquisition au fic! newest chapter is here!
the premise, in short:
what if, after anders was notably an apostate who blew up a chantry building and killed a chantry leader... people are not particularly stoked when this happens again. except even more destructively. and this time with a Heathen Elf™️ found at the scene.
so, instead of seeing the prisoner as any sort of positive religious omen, (most of) the people in haven instead see her as a dangerous criminal, and react accordingly. and this starts to cause further problems. solavellan is also there eventually.
the premise, in long:
what if the tranquil didn't just all get turned into oculara offscreen, and actually were part of the plot.
what if anders and kirkwall haunted the narrative a bit more.
what if, a dalish elf who suddenly wakes up in chantry custody for a mass murder... assumes any personal information shared will lead to providing a target for an exalted march. and therefore doesn't share any. which only looks more suspicious lmao.
what if the dalish/city elf stuff was not written in a way that i personally found very stupid (it will at least, be stupid in a new, different way! diversity win <3)
[holds up incredibly minor npcs] "i just think they're neat"
what if leliana's rose vision and general heretical tendencies went somewhere. i think she can have a little a chantry schism, as a treat.
what kind of weird person would be like "hm yes. i love to wander around. as a visibly dalish apostate. all by myself :^)" and, what reasons might they have for going to the conclave directly, when it's literally Templar Central. here's her character tag uwu.
also i retconned some aspects of vg lore when i felt like it. didn't make sense and doesn't compel me! the elves don't need white guilt! solas cannot be arlathan's most special, invaluable, genius military mastermind, who singlehandedly won the titan war, and invented tranquility, the blight, eluvians, and sliced bread - then was still mythal's yappy lapdog who got laughed at in meetings afterwards. that is just contradictory fhdghfkdh.
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Same anon, you’re absolutely right, the writers couldn’t even think of ways to villainise him, maybe because their idea of really bad villains are podcasters and the evil orange man etc. Didn’t the creative director say “it’s impossible to write fictional villains because real life has way too many and it’s not escapism anymore. -.-‘
Veilguard doesn’t even really address the fact Solas gave the orb to Corphyeus which resulted in the Chantry blowing up, a lot of ppl died and one random bystander got the anchor and became head of the Inquisition. He came and helped but ultimately there is a reason to say “he’s villainous” and it blows my mind because that’s a pretty big deal. Instead we got Solas is bad because he is gonna tear down the Veil and he started a rebellion and hurt a lot of people, oh and Rook says so.
The Veilguard writers also said “ Solas was evil because he didn’t just do the right thing and have free and fair elections for all. And put it to a vote who wants slavery and who doesn’t. And maybe have another vote asking do they want to be ruled by the Evanuris.” Because they never read a history book in their entire lives apparently. ;_;
Felassan is weird to me, because as far back as in Masked Empire (written by Weekes), he seemed so callus? O.o Like with what happened to the Dalish clan and Imshael. And then his character in Veilguard being the “voice of reason” while he agrees with what Solas is doing but “not that way” it’s very messy.
haha YEAH. they said something like "real fascists aren't nuanced, that's why i don't write the villains as nuanced". which is so cool. it's great to have ostensible leftists thinking this way <3 never think about why fascism occurs or whether Good Smart People might be susceptible to a harmful ideology <3
i think it's funny that the game basically takes the stance of... solas is Bad, for doing stuff that was either not fully of his own volition, or was entirely selfless and meant to help other people, or was just a neutral self-preservation act
so he's bad for:
Existing Evilly Through Blood Theft Due To Elf Sins (💀) when mythal asked him to. smh, elves should just stop existing and the problem is solved 🙄
following orders and making the dagger when he was her servant(?) slave(??) (unclear but vital detail lmao?)
deserting mythal's service and rebelling against slavery to try and help people. and he wasn't peacefully voting for change instead :/
trying to stop the blight, and sacrificing his civilization to preserve the world's general habitability
waking up and trying to stop the blight (again) when it's unavoidably about to pour out and the veil is already collapsing by dai era
escaping the 24/7 torture chamber regret jail after being locked in it. smh, just stay in there indefinitely while elgar'nan gives people sunburn and rook airbnb's his house 🙄
but then his actual terrible deeds that he had full control of his actions for, and were not for the Greater Good to save lives?
getting thousands of people killed by the breach and corypheus, due to his Whoopsie Daisy Plan. and ruining the inq's life afterwards
executing felassan without even letting him finish his last words
hanging out and seeming friendly with people for weeks or months(?) while still seeing them as half-alive husks, then lying to them nonstop even afterwards
being very racist to every race including his own
8 day breakup journey for lavellan and then ghosting them
tells dorian to dedicate his life to becoming an abolitionist, then goes "uwu sorry i'm ending the world btw <3". dorian should hit him with hammers actually
luring the inq through 27 mirror combat levels while they believe they're terminally ill, and then taking off the arm and saving their life. he could've actually just broken into skyhold or caught them somewhere while traveling, and done this more humanely without severe psychological trauma to them
there's no acknowledgement of those, or any indication that solas registered what he did and wants to make amends. he goes to eternal jail for stuff that was not actually a problem, and lavellan can meekly follow him in like a consolation prize lmao :')
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It is funny (in a sad way) that take about Solas not caring about the elves, only started the rebellion to spite the elven Gods and his slave master and did everything as an out of control selfish egomaniac because he was salty as not being a wisdom spirit anymore…”
That’s what Veilguard made him out to be, we got Felassan scolding him for killing spirits and not caring when Bro was heartbroken in his DAI quest when he had to help his spirit friend, he’s so gosh darn sensitive that he needed to go cry for three days about one spirit being corrupted and having to release them. Veilguard did Solas so dirty thanks to the pov of Epler and Weekes in some half baked retcon that they decided not even Mythal could tell him to stop …
it's a bit wild bc it relies on a series of very funny assumptions to work haha
> we have to assume that, even IF solas started the rebellion partially for selfish ego reasons, this is... bad...? cancel him for not being ideologically pure about stopping slavery and saving lives from the blight?? ok haha. time to cancel 90% of historical and present day figures too. this doesn't even seem very plausible, bc for all of dai he is very ideologically consistent about not wanting any slavery.
> we have to assume that he had a cure for the blight, and was just executing his agents for fun. even though every game repeatedly says there's no easy cure, it's a horrible slow death and people prefer to be mercy killed rather than suffer for months, and solas himself is terrified of blight. but he definitely could fix them i guess. skill issue, guys! walk it off!
> we have to assume that "telling one group of volunteer soldiers to attack a risky target they'd already agreed to go after, while secretly sending a flanking party to do something else" is... bad. perhaps i am cold hearted but this is Normal. there are war table missions in dai that are more morally objectionable. there are no super clean insurgencies or wars without sacrifices, or people going into situations of nearly certain death.
it WOULD be unethical if he told them it was a safe mission before sending them in, or sent them to die for a personal goal instead of the cause they'd already agreed to. but he didn't even do that. you cannot actually tell an entire army "hey guys! ten of you are going on a super secret mission btw :) just so the rest of you have informed awareness :)" bc then it will leak, and the entire thing fails.
> we have to assume felassan, the guy who asks "is anybody going to feed these 50 dalish elves to a demon?" and doesn't wait for an answer, after gaining their trust and pretending to be one of them for years, and then calling them weeds to be pulled, is the moral core of the rebellion. lol. lmao even.
i actually think felassan comes off as much worse if you take his vg dialogue, bc it's like.... he's not sad about unsuspecting dalish civilians getting betrayed and slaughtered. but he is sad about Volunteer Soldiers dying in a battle that they all agreed to go into. that takes him from "ruthless about his mission" to "is not ruthless about spirits, but specifically disdains the modern elves, to a degree that makes solas seem like a sweetheart" hkskjdag
a little while ago i saw a take like "solas doesn't really care about the elves. he only started the rebellion for selfish reasons bc he had personal beef with elgar'nan and mythal, and everything he does is just out of an ego clash with them and the elves aren't important. this is bc he's a pride demon who's not capable of going back to being a kind wisdom spirit anymore"
which is think is actually VERY fun if you take it as. in-universe propaganda from tevinter after trespasser?
tevinter academics getting scared when this slave rebellion gains momentum, and all the agents they capture reference this figure from what they thought was arlathan mythology. so they go in and pore over all the looted texts and stone tablets and put together the worst possible version of events. the dread wolf was simply an egotist, who only rebelled for selfish reasons, and arlathan was a terrible society with dictators and slavery just as bad as tevinter. worse, even? how suspicious that he harkens back to that time?? and his rebellion was even more brutal and evil than the evanuris, probably. look at how this note indicates major troop losses and blighted agents being killed. the dread wolf clearly didn't care about his people.
and even the "ugh the blight isn't even a big deal why is he so steamed about it 🙄" plot point from vg is. tevinter propaganda esque. noooo, they didn't really even do anything wrong when the magisters released the blight! corypheus was basically a smol bean compared to the evanuris, they lured him there with their evil elven wiles! and even if they did release the blight, it's not even that bad. it's a status effect! the dread wolf had a cure all along and refused to share it, so it's his fault!! and even if it was permanent, it only hit those uncivilized rebel provinces, that should be under tevinter's democratic hold anyway. yay <3
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Is it me or was it weirdly random that Neve said her favorite food was “Tevinter Khachapuri” …Khachapuri is a Georgian dish. Veilguard Tevinter is the USA, and in the other games it’s based off Ancient Roman Empire. And then suddenly Georgian cuisine comes into the equation. I was confused or did the writers just throw in their favorite dish and went with it.
well you see. don't worry about it. bc the writers also put fahrenheit recipes with baking powder in there. i think they were just throwing in their favourite foods arbitrarily 😔
also there was the menu one that was wild to me fhdgkhdfgh
like firstly. wouldn't dwarves get offended by a Paragon Level spicy flavour. is that not like going to a very catholic place and naming one of your spice levels Crucifix Nails or smth. people would get upset and start breaking your windows
secondly what is Full Dalish. they would be like the MOST food insecure culture in thedas and not associated with extra servings at all? and also, don't have agriculture in the same way. so the ingredients would be fully different. and also outsiders would barely even see them, so why would they name it that 🥲
Is it me or was it weirdly random that Neve said her favorite food was “Tevinter Khachapuri” …Khachapuri is a Georgian dish. Veilguard Tevinter is the USA, and in the other games it’s based off Ancient Roman Empire. And then suddenly Georgian cuisine comes into the equation. I was confused or did the writers just throw in their favorite dish and went with it.
well you see. don't worry about it. bc the writers also put fahrenheit recipes with baking powder in there. i think they were just throwing in their favourite foods arbitrarily 😔
also there was the menu one that was wild to me fhdgkhdfgh
like firstly. wouldn't dwarves get offended by a Paragon Level spicy flavour. is that not like going to a very catholic place and naming one of your spice levels Crucifix Nails or smth. people would get upset and start breaking your windows
secondly what is Full Dalish. they would be like the MOST food insecure culture in thedas and not associated with extra servings at all? and also, don't have agriculture in the same way. so the ingredients would be fully different. and also outsiders would barely even see them, so why would they name it that 🥲
Is it me or was it weirdly random that Neve said her favorite food was “Tevinter Khachapuri” …Khachapuri is a Georgian dish. Veilguard Tevinter is the USA, and in the other games it’s based off Ancient Roman Empire. And then suddenly Georgian cuisine comes into the equation. I was confused or did the writers just throw in their favorite dish and went with it.
well you see. don't worry about it. bc the writers also put fahrenheit recipes with baking powder in there. i think they were just throwing in their favourite foods arbitrarily 😔
also there was the menu one that was wild to me fhdgkhdfgh
like firstly. wouldn't dwarves get offended by a Paragon Level spicy flavour. is that not like going to a very catholic place and naming one of your spice levels Crucifix Nails or smth. people would get upset and start breaking your windows
secondly what is Full Dalish. they would be like the MOST food insecure culture in thedas and not associated with extra servings at all? and also, don't have agriculture in the same way. so the ingredients would be fully different. and also outsiders would barely even see them, so why would they name it that 🥲
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