i am so unbelievably thrilled and astounded to announce i actually managed to finish this album so now i get to share the absolutely UNREAL artwork from @mimi-maru - thank you so much naomi 🥹 it is so soft and tender and sad and hopeful ahhhhhhh i love it so much it's insane!!!
the full release will go up on spotify and other streaming platforms in a week's time (26th Sept) but in the meantime i present you with the final track, It Won't Be Terrible If You're With Me.
back in june i posted a shorter version of this song. i deliberately made it around ninety seconds because i thought people wouldn't want to stop their music or stop scrolling their dash just to listen to my thing but the response was just so unexpectedly warm and lovely that it inspired me to consider making a few more solavellan inspired tracks (originally i thought it'd be like 4 tracks total which is why i called it an EP, it's turned out a lot bigger than planned lol).
since this was the track that started this whole thing, it's only right that you get to hear the extended version before the full album gets released next week!
EDIT 22/09: I have a bandcamp now!! check it out here!
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yeah alright chat let’s buckle down and psychoanalyze the veilguard ‘atonement’ ending theme!
for those who wish to listen along, the lovely amazing ghil dirthalen was able to capture the music (bioware for the love of god PLEASE release this track i will sell my soul for it) on her youtube channel, here!
i am not a music professional! these are things i picked up on listening to the theme by itself and watching the ending. i try my best to identify instruments so i will make errors in correctly identifying them. please educate me if you know more than me! i don't want to discredit anything used here!
alright let’s get into it!
0:00 - 0:47
plays right after defeating elgar’nan, this is the dread wolf theme as solas is staggering down the steps monologuing to rook about how his plan to tear down the veil must go on.
rook intercepts the lyrium dagger and here is where they make the choice to either trick, fight, or redeem solas.
0:48 - 1:18
the music is tense, but the dread wolf theme slows and starts to morph into something else.
rook turns to solas, saying how they do not wish to fight him and are given another dialogue choice after choosing the ‘redeem’ option.
1:19 - 1:30
the music sort of dins out here to just the cello/violin(?).
rook is telling solas that his plan to bring down the veil is not what he needs to do nor is it in HIS best interest. i think the music fades out here because the three dialogue options you're given are very powerful in their wording and needed to be amplified.
1:31 - 1:57
the violin/cello(?) starts off and you can hear some notes resembling the inquisition theme. this is solidified by the harp joining in and then you hear notes of someone singing like the well of sorrows theme from inquisition. i like to think this is solas fighting with himself thinking of his time during inquisition (and with lavellan) and the well of sorrows theme is both playing as solas's unyielding devotion to mythal.
solas is given the lyrium dagger to make his choice. he looks down at it, and for a brief moment you can see him tapping the blade with his finger. he's pondering this plan. he looks up at rook briefly before looking back down at the dagger again. solas looks like he's going to say something, but turns away from rook and starts to walk up the steps.
1:58 - 2:05
the harp plays the inquisition motif, or at least a very short brief version of it. you can hear the singing still as lavellan steps into the doorway and looks up at solas.
2:06 - 2:23
the violin plays as solas finally reaches the top of the stairs. it almost sounds like it's pulling? it changes notes almost as if it's changing direction. solas fighting with the idea of tearing down the veil or binding himself to it.
finally he says he can't bind himself. that 'to stop those would dishonor those i wronged to come this far.' i don't know what instrument it is, i think it's a woodwind instrument and a rainstick? plays as solas says he can't bind himself to the veil. he chooses to persist in his plan despite being given a way out.
2:24 - 2:28
GOD THIS PART. the choir builds as the inquisitor's voice cuts solas off. this same string of notes sung is often used in inquisition when the inquisitor comes on screen in the past.
no other instrument is played here. it is just the voices of the choir.
'vhenan...'
2:29 - 2:37
one note of the piano drops as soon as solas turns his head from lavellan in shame. this was exactly what he feared, letting her see him like this. the inquisitor starts trying to reason with solas: 'you think you've gone too far to come back, but you're wrong.'
2:38 - 2:53
alright SO this part is EXTREMELY important and also INCREDIBLY hard to pinpoint but if you go back and listen to inquisition's 'thedas love theme' you CAN hear parts of it interwoven in this section. the cello is so overwhelming because the inquisitor is pulling solas away from his plan again.
he's wanting to listen but he's fighting so hard because he doesn't think he deserves this. even after lavellan says she forgives him! solas doesn't think he's worthy of her.
2:54 - 3:20
the cello is pulling faster to add tension to this part because once again solas rejects even the love of his life's plea! you become hopeless thinking that their love never mattered even against the fate of the world. solas says he cannot because he feels like he NEEDS to avenge mythal by bringing down the veil. he's bound by duty and pride, there is no wisdom here.
3:21 - 3:55
ALRIGHTY FOLKS THIS PART HERE OHHHH MY GOD. so the cello swells again because solas is about to tear down the veil it seems for good, because if not even his vhenan can convince him, who can?
morrigan shows up, and as soon as she stands before solas you get slammed with all three games' themes at once! first you hear origins and then 2, and then finally inquisition all interwoven together. this part is SO insane to me. holy shit!!!!!!!
i just want to say even though we are talking about the music, you will see that morrigan, rook, and lavellan are lined up from left to right. past, present, and future. i am so fucking feral over that. they did that on purpose i don't care what anyone says. anyways! back to the music.
3:56 - 4:20
the choir again! holy fuck! you can hear da2 and a little bit of origins? at least i think it's that. this is played as rook hands morrigan mythal's essence and she channels it for mythal to appear before solas. literal chills babes!
4:21 - 4:55
DO YOU GUYS FUCKING HEAR TRESPASSER? BECAUSE I SURE FUCKING DO. HOLY SHIT. I CANNOT EVEN DESCRIBE TO YOU WHAT THIS MEANS. lost elf. solas is lost. he's lost EVERYTHING up until this moment. his family, his friends, his soulmate, EVERYTHING. he's like a sad, lost, child in this moment.
anyways! lost elf starts off really quiet and slow and deep as mythal lays out her wrongs in front of solas, showing him that he alone was not the pariah of this story. mythal reminds him that she also committed the same wrongs as he did, it's not solas's alone to regret. she was there too. if not for her, solas would not have done what he did.
4:56 - 5:22
lost elf is still playing very quietly in the background! as soon as mythal appears the cello is more carefree, flowing, free! solas is free now! lavellan KNEELS before him as solas breaks down, an immense weight falling off him as he's finally free to be who he chooses. no longer bound by pride and regret.
solas stands up and realizes that what he wants is to atone. to fix his mistakes the right way, not the way mythal would have wanted or his pride would want. his wisdom sees that if he uses what he knows, he can at least start to mend the past wrongs.
5:23 - 6:02
ugh i don't know who let hans zimmer absolutely fucking COOK here but the cello starts to move faster in a more hopeful, determined state as solas binds himself to the veil and promises to soothe the titan's dreams, help find a cure for the blight, and atone for all his mistakes. it really fills you with a sense of relief and pride for him! like yeah babe you do that! proud of you!!!
6:03 - 7:14
ok so i actually have been crying the entire time lol! i literally cannot stop. so this part! so many big feelings. lavellan steps up to solas, telling him that he won't make this journey alone. the main chorus of lost elf starts to play and i cannot tell you when you hear the cello and the fucking violin start playing TOGETHER because solas and lavellan are finally TOGETHER after being literally put through the fucking wringer for 10 fucking years.
and the SYMBOLS CRASHING TOGETHER WHEN THEY KISS IS JUST HOW I FEEL ALL THE TIME ABOUT THEM. lost elf is THEIR theme. this is not just solas's theme anymore this is solas AND lavellan's theme. they made it their theme. this is about them now, your honor!
alright so that's how i feel about all of that because this theme literally has rocked me to my core. the entire sequence is insane. the past motifs of the past games being used destroys me. and then lost elf comes in and just smacks the nail in the fucking coffin.
thank you bioware for absolutely destroying me 10 times over with this theme. and thanks to all the people who actually read my insane ramblings! i will never shut up about this sequence for the rest of my life.
When I was still in school, for as long as I can remember, I couldn’t help but scribble in the margins of my notebooks… so it is absolutely no wonder that I’m still doing some variation of this to decorate some of my posts on my Tumblr blog decades later !
I recently noticed that some of my dividers have broken confinement and I was extremely flattered, since I’m by no means the artist I wish to be yet. 😅
So, for those who might be interested, I have decided to put them all here for sharing. Have fun !
DIVIDERS : [for personal use only // credit greatly appreciated but not necessary]
PNG ART (Spirit Form Solas) : [for personal use only // do not repost or feed to AI // credit mandatory]
ROYAL ELFROOT (simple)
GEOMETRIC DECORATIVE FRIEZE (simple)
ROYAL ELFROOT AND GEOMETRIC DECORATIVE FRIEZE (combined)
ROYAL ELFROOT AND GOLDEN TRIANGLES
✨SCINTILLATING ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE✨
LOST ELF THEME MUSIC SCORE !! 🎼
(for my fellow musically inclined solavellans, with love) 💛
This song hurts you and heals you at the same time 💙.
And the fact that you hear bits of it at the start of Trespasser, when the Inquisitor starts noticing the power getting stronger - perfection. Love that idea.
The whole story, the pain and grief in Solas, love from Solavellan, and the music to amplify it all - I genuinely had tears in my eyes. Even with a new replay, you still can't get away from the heartache that the first playthrough brought.
All in all, this game (these series**) have bewitched me body and soul.
Album dedicated to Lavellan and Solas? Yes please. Lovely work by @rat-spit-village 👏 💜You are very talented and thank you so much for sharing with us.
These instrumental tracks are so melodic, haunting and beautiful. And to have various themes from DAI and Trespasser woven in? Punch me in the gut!
And Vhenan is so beautiful as is It Won't be Terrible if You're With me.
Overall, just wonderfully emotional.
If you want to support this artist, there here is a link to buy the album: Var Lath Vir Suledin by ratspit
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A little practice video for my arrangement of Lost Elf Theme from Dragon Age Inquisition: Trespasser. I'd learned it months ago, but it fell by the wayside, so it's a little rusty now that I'm practicing it again. Planning on filming a proper video of the whole piece soon. :^)
so i decided to replay Dragon Age: Origins and was really curious to explore some mods. While I expected the Dalish Mage mod to be fascinating, what i DID NOT EXPECT was the Tamlen romance add-ons to be such a gutpunch. Marawen (the former SarahCousland) hit an absolute home run. Link to mod.
Because the music is hauntingly familiar to anyone who's played Trespasser. It's the Lost Elf Theme. Yes, mods, but I never in a billion years expected to get hit with THAT at the end of a Dragon Age Origins intro story.
And between the presumed death of Mahariel's love (the truth is far worse) and the discovery of the first eluvian IN an ancient elven AND ancient Tevinter SHARED SHRINE (hint hint hint hint hint hint hint), to say it's a phenomenal bookend for Trespasser and it's segue into Veilguard's putting it mildly.
