Solas Masterpost

Main Quest Cutscenes:

The Threat Remains: A Blessed Hero What Pride Had Wrought: Forgive My Melancholy

Prompted Conversations:

In Hushed Whispers: Point Taken Champions of the Just: Betrayal is Worse Here Lies the Abyss: Unnerving Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts: Court Intrigue - Source of the Breach - Investigate: Tell Me About Elves Investigate: Tell Me About the Fade Investigate: Tell Me About Yourself Investigate: Tell Me About Your Journeys Investigate: Tell Me About Corypheus - Specialization: Knight-Enchanter Specialization: Necromancer Specialization: Rift Mage

Personal Quest - All New, Faded for Her:

Pt. 1 - A Friend in Need Pt. 2 - Twisted Against Its Purpose Pt. 3 - Responsible Pt. 4 - Return to Skyhold

Approval:

Measuring the Veil - Low Approval: How Does It Feel? Low Approval: You Have Abandoned the Elves Low Approval: You're Addicted to the Fade Warm Approval: Felt the Whole World Change Warm Approval: Sleep Well? High Approval: Before the Anchor

Romance:

The Truth Post-Romance: Harden Your Heart - Wicked Eyes and Wicked Eyes: After the Ball

Deleted Dialogue

UPD: changed the shape of his ears a little 😎

Warm and cold. I created two versions of a Solas portrait—maybe to reflect the different sides of his personality.

They forgot your name

These are all taken from the toolset (mostly under “cuss” in the soundsets, but also from various bits of dialogue), organized for your convenience.

These are Dragon Age: Origins ONLY. There are no files that are human-readable for DA:A, DA2, or any DLC or expansions.

Not English the King’s Tongue

Brasca! (Zevran)

Vashedan! (Sten)

Pretty normal

Alas!

Blast it all, anyhow!

Blasted bastards!

Blech. (Sandal)

Blood and ashes.

Blood and honor!

Bloody blast it!

Bollocks.

Cripes.

Crud!

Curse me for a fool!

Cursed for a fool!

Curses!

Confound it! (Flemeth, of all people)

Damnation!

Drat!

Fiddlesticks!

Blast and blazes!

Blast and damnation! (Morrigan)

Blasted curses of a thousand misfortunes!

Blood and damnation! (Leliana)

Burn it all!

Fire and death!

Dirt and spit!

Flaming bastard.

Garbage!

Lazy, slack-jawed louts.

Miserable wretch.

Of all the blasted–!

Of all the cursed–!

Of all the infernal–! (Riordan)

Of all the–! (Leliana)

Oh dear.

Oh, bother!

Oh, for pity’s sake!

Oh, poppycock.

Oh… blast it! (Alistair)

Phooey!

Shoddy piece of crap!

Sod it all!

Son of a bitch!

Son of an inbred!

Tarnation!

That’s a stinker! (fade!Cailan)

That’s swill!

Those bloody whoresons.

Thrice-cursed whorespawn.

Two-faced bastards.

Elves

Bleeding thorns!

By the lost Dales!

Fenharel’s teeth!

Mythal'enaste!

Slap me around and call me a wild sylvan! (Shianni)

Well punch me in the teeth and call me a wild sylvan…

Invocations of Andraste

By the Lady!

Andraste’s ashes!

Andraste’s breath!

For the love of Andraste!

For the love of Lady Andraste!

Lady’s breath!

Merciful Andraste!

Oh, Andraste, help me…

Oh, for Andraste’s sake.

Oh, for the love of Blessed Andraste!

Oh, for the love of the Maker’s Bride.

Well, throw me in a fire and call me Andraste!

Andraste’s clothing

Andraste’s holy knickers!

By Andraste’s burning under-drawers!

By Andraste’s dirty socks!

By Andraste’s holy knickers!

By Andraste’s sword!

Andraste’s ass

Andraste’s ass!

Andraste’s fat ass!

Andraste’s lily-white ass!

Maferath’s hairy arse! (bonus Andraste’s husband’s ass due to not having another category in which to put it)

The Maker

Great Maker!

Holy Maker!

Maker damn you for a fool!

Maker-forsaken piece of–

Maker’s beard!

Maker’s Blood.

Maker’s breath! (by far the most common Thedas-specific curse)

Tears of the Maker!

Paragons

Aeducan’s beard!

Beards of the Paragons!

Bemot’s beard!

Blood of the Paragons!

By the beards of the Paragons!

Caridin’s teeth!

Ortan’s teeth!

Paragon’s teeth!

Paragons have mercy!

Ancestors

Ancestors have mercy!

By the hairs of my ancestors!

By the stones of the Ancestors!

By the teats of my ancestors!

By the tits of my ancestors!

Dwarf culture

Bronto piss!

By the Stone!

For the love of nugs and idiot children!

Nug-dung!

Nug-humper!

Nugs and dolts!

Stonecursed duster!

Stones!

What the nug!

 The Blight

Ah, Blight!

Blight and destruction!

Blighted wretch!

Darkspawn blood!

Fire and Blight!

Griffon’s buttocks! (fade!Duncan)

 The Fade

Blasted fade monkeys!

By the Black City!

By the walls of the golden city! (Desire demon)

Fade monkeys! 

Racial epithets

Bare-skinned shem!

Filthy elf-lover!

Bloody elf guts!

Son of a Fereldan bitch! (Tevinter guard)

Pee and poop

Ah, piss and vinegar.

Crap!

Dog piss!

Flaming rat turds.

Oh, piss on it!

Piss and blood!

Piss and spittle!

Piss on a stick.

Piss on it!

Shit.

Shite.

Stinking road apples!

Turd!

Dogs

Base-born jackal.

Bloody kibble!

Flea-bitten whelps.

Hound’s arse!

Miserable cur!

Of all the motherless mongrels.

Scurvy dogs! (Isabela)

 Food

Applesauce!

Beans and spuds!

Milk and cookies! (Perpetua)

Pickles! (Paivel)

Ugh! That’s bean-rot!

Fereldan culture and history

By the giant stones of the Dwarfson.

Great Dane’s bitch.

Calenhad’s crown! (fade!Maric)

 Animals and insects

Dung beetles!

Flies and bother!

For the love of little fish.

Hind of a jackrabbit!

Hog wash!

Horse feathers! (Wynne)

Motherless son of a goat.

Oh, donkey bum!

Oh… f-frogs! (Daveth)

Oh… rats.

Ox dung!

Pigeon crap! (Shale)

Rats!

Rotten maggot-spawn!

Skunk breath! (Sloth)

Shave a horse and punch me in the teeth.

Spawn of motherless goat.

Sod-eating rodents!

Well, wax my head and call me a pug!

what is this i dont even

Dust bugger!

Oh, fuddle-knuckles.

Stab me with a fork and call me Susan! (Carroll)

Thunder humper! (Oghren)

Whiplash and Crow sauce!

Warm and cold. I created two versions of a Solas portrait—maybe to reflect the different sides of his personality.

Davrin, Grey Warden and Griffon daddy

Assan, the real hero of this story

Varric, very early in the game, also refers to Solas as "sentimental." He says to Rook, "He could burn the world down, and the thing that would make him cry is a single flower with blackened petals."

There's something very interesting about the elven god of lies and deceit, who unwillingly wears his heart on his sleeve, essentially creating a new version of the world in which all sources of raw, magical *emotion* that, according to him, used to imbue it with so much life and beauty have been compartmentalized from the more brutish, harsh aspects of the physical world. Because he, himself, has had to do this very thing to his own heart. He's "split." A very cool archetype. When he tells the Inquisitor to "harden her heart to a cutting edge" in Inquisition, he is projecting. Solas has built a "veil" within himself, to protect his more stern, militaristic identity as The Dread Wolf from the effusive, soft, and intelligent man that is Solas. It's the only way he can get anything done. Perhaps we should more aptly call him the god of stoicism and compartmentalization.

It's also interesting how well characters like Varric seem to know Solas, because it communicates that Solas did open up to the people of the Inquisition, during which time he "played the role" of quiet, unassuming Fade mage. Perhaps this wasn't a role at all, however, and perhaps this is why he is failing so spectacularly now. Who he really is is just this man who fell in love and made friends and found a home within a community where he did not have to cut off his emotions in order to lead. This was the "breach" in his plans, so to speak. It tore his world apart.

The whole story of Veilguard actually starts because Varric knows he can appeal to Solas's emotions and that this has a high chance of working to some degree. It's important to remember that while Varric didn't change Solas's mind at the ritual site, he was able to keep Solas talking long enough for Rook to sabotage his plans. Solas entertains Varric's pleas, because, sort of as Rook guesses with Lavellan at the Cobbled Swan, in some ways, Solas wants to be stopped. He wants someone to pull the reins on him because he is too prideful to stop himself.

Thinking back to Trespasser, I remember we all sort of knew this right away just in reading his body language. I remember someone making a whole post about it, and how he will not allow her to get too close to him. When she approaches, he takes a very measured step back. And later, as he takes the anchor, a task which requires him to take her hand, we see exactly why this is. He breaks down, calls her his "love," and kisses her. He is so stern and so measured and in "control," but then, all it takes is a single touch from the woman to whom he showed a glimpse of his true heart, his true self, to bring him to his knees.

I'm a bald Solas lover I swear!!!!

—> Process video under the cut because of flash warning.