Some fun, lighthearted stuff from a recent DA panel interview (video below). Gareth David-Lloyd is always so delightful.
Gareth David-Lloyd Highlights
Fave VG ending – “My favourite is redeem. I’m going into the next game knowing everything possible, so I played Inquisition three times… and every single time, I was always friends with myself (Solas) or romanced. Last time I played it, I romanced Solas… so redeem Solas. Despite all his flaws and trickery, there’s a righteous, good soul in there somewhere, I think.”
His fave line – “I lay in dark and dreaming sleep…”
Inquisition got him back into gaming – it's his favourite DA game.
Upset he didn’t get to do mocap for VG. He went into the recording studio and had to watch a video of someone else doing Solas’ mocap and lines. They wanted him to do the lines in exactly the same way. For GDL, that wasn’t acting to him. Eventually they called him back in to record some lines the way he wanted – which meant they ended up having to redo the mocap to match his interpretation.
Fave character - Solas – “complex and such an asshole… is an anti-hero, anti-villain… so much fun playing those complex roles.”
Really enjoyed that a lot of Solas’ lines were written in verse.
Joseph Capp Highlights
This VG panel was the first time GDL and JC ever met.
Had a full bio sheet to learn about Elgar’nan.
Hasn’t played VG yet.
Fave line: “All the world will soon share the peace and comfort of my reign.”
This was Joseph’s first fan event.
Fave character is Lucanis, based on cutscenes (since he hasn’t played it).
Elven language – they gave him free rein on how to pronounce the elven words.
Binged on gaming – played Origins and Inquisition simultaneously. Also binged a few community content creators’ podcasts and videos.
A lot of Elgar’nan’s material were rewritten close to release, and he had to go back in to re-record lines.
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I watched a couple of interviews taped at PowerCon with Gareth David-Lloyd (Solas's voice actor) and I took a few notes because that's fun for me!
These notes are in no way exhaustive or the whole interview, I just wrote what I was interested in and edited to remove filler words like "ums" or backtracking to get to a point.
First video was an interview with Gareth David-Lloyd (Solas) and Joseph Capp (Elgar'Nan)
Joseph Capp to GDL: "What's your favorite of the Dragon Age games?"
GDL: "Oh Inquisiton... if you romance Solas" (grins)
GDLs favorite Veilguard character is Solas because of his arc, he's an asshole but he's like an anti-villain. Its so much fun playing him. And not knowing what he's going to do next or what he's going to say or what his real plan is.
Talking about making player characters, the actors and interviewer are saying they make their first character often as like themselves as possible.
GDL: "When I first did Inquisiton I was a human warrior, male. By the end I was a female elf mage. So I could romance myself more than anything"
JC, answering a question about how he did with doing the elven lines
"I think for the most part they gave me free reign on how to pronounce it. In terms of getting into the world and the lore I kind of binged on DA when I got the role. I played Origin and Inquisition simultaneously, which I don't recommend doing. I got very confused and I was also listening to a lot of Ghil Dirthalen's videos and like Jackdaw and Dragon Age lore videos and like there a podcast called "lorecast" I think"
GDL: "a lot if Solas's lines were in verse and absolutly beautifully written.. Trick Weekes was, they created Solas, and its such a beautiful, so beautifully written, its a pleasure to read the lines. So I remember most of it"
"I started Veilguard three years ago [video is July 2025] and I think Inquisiton, including the DLCs that took three, nearly four, three and half, years to do all of it. But it's not in one go, you go and record a bit and then they go make a bit and then a month later you go back and record another bit. So it's not intensive but it's a long process"
JC: "I think quite a lot of Elgar'nan was rewritten closer to the release of the game because I went in for a few sessions where I did quite a lot of the stuff that ended up in the game there"
July 2025 PowerCon Panel- Gareth David-Lloyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvGvyLWUcyE
GDL: "I didn't have any pictures of Solas from Dragon Age until about three months into recording. And I was surprised. I thought 'oh he's bald and he's uh you know, he's quite buff. He's wiry, wiry wasn't he?'"
Q:Have fans come up and said a character has resonated with them?
GDL: "as far as Solas goes, I haven't had anyone come up and go 'you've made me want to sort of destroy the world' so, not yet" ... "but as far his sort of relationship, his tortured relationship with the playable character if you decide to go down the romance option, yeah people have come and said, you know, it's given them the feels it's reminding them of a relationship that they've had that's been difficult. And that's always nice to hear when you strike a nerve personally with somebody"
"I have had a few people come up and say 'Solas destroyed me' and they look like they want to hit me. Because they felt really betrayed. I suppose that's one of the things when you've got romanceable characters and you can actually get into a relationship with them, if the betray you, then you feel betrayed."
Q: (the interview mentioned earlier they take something from the character they're playing to relate to/latch on to play the character) What did you take from Solas?
GDL: "the first ever sort of thing I took from Solas was definitly his sarcasm, his dry sense of humor."
Audience Q: "thinking of Solas's character arc over the two games and how much was revealed in the latest game, knowing that there's a few endings of how it could go, what one would you choose from?"
GDL: "In Inquisition I always ended either friends or romancing Solas.. so there's always been part of me that wants to redeem and make him see the error of his ways and reach that humanity that's still inside him, deep down inside somehow. And I think, I don't want to spoil it, but there's an ending that sort of does that"
Audience Q: "if somehow what you voiced was live action, would there be anything you'd take from your character's wardrobe?"
GDL: "Anything that Solas wears is awesome. Especially the last thing he wears in Trespasser" .. "I'd be owning that all night"
Audience Q: "when you had to do the elvish dialog, did you find that harder?"
GDL: "The Elvish language, well I mean altogether between Inquisition and Veilguard I've probably been working on the game going back and forth to the studio for about four or five years. So about three years into that I sort of got a grasp on the pronunciation of the Elvish. But yeah at first it was scary seeing this language which doesn't exist come up on the screen. They're like "go". There are phonetics to help you, they sort of guide you through it. But yeah, especially when you've got a big long speech or paragraph or it's even worse when and it's cut into English, where you're speaking English and then there's a line of Elvish thrown in and you've got to switch between the two. Yeah it's daunting but it takes a while to make these games. After a while I got more comfortable with it"
Was happy to receive my Elgar'nan autograph (via Streamily) and find this adorable message from Joseph Capp written on the back.
Happy to pop that autograph cherry for you sir! lol
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