Waiting for Bad Ghosts

Continuing posting with a portrait of my BG3 character, Arno

like, imagine if we were thrown forwards in time and discovered that the only humans left were being ruled over and abused by every other race to the point that their oppression is relied upon as a foundation of all society (save maybe one country and a handful of tribes who are also oppressed for different reasons).

what if amongst all of that, we discovered that the few humans who had managed to escape and preserve some of our history were worshipping dictators as real deities. like they had shrines to putin and kim jong un and trump. their artifacts that they died to protect and revered as precious history were pencil sharpeners and legos.

and when you try to explain what our world was really like, how much other amazing stuff there was (medicine, cars, computers, democracies and civil rights (or in solas’ case, eons long harmonies and spells and social gatherings) skyscrapers, etc) they refuse to listen/believe you, get angry, call you crazy and abandon you to the wilds or try to kill you for slighting their "gods".

idk i'd be pretty pissed at them too? I wouldn't have much respect for them either?

ofc this is intentionally Solas centric, and isn't meant to diminish the irl struggles of the native peoples that the dalish are based on.

but i do think that theres 2 lenses to look at this through:

a) the dalish did a remarkable job at preserving a history that was wiped off the earth by every other culture and race, and the tools of their oppression can be reclaimed as a new culture,

and

b) solas had every right to be frustrated at the dalish for not just misunderstanding his culture, but for refusing to listen to him.

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A moment of pain does not undo a lifetime of hope.

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