I Love Dragon Age! This is a Solavellan post.

Okay, so here’s a disclaimer:

Firstly, I don’t own the YouTube videos referenced here. Secondly, probably spoilers if you haven’t finished Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Lately, I’ve been into Dragon Age. Ever since I was young, there’s this thing I had about elves. Badass warrior elves? I’m there. I’m sooo there.

Ergo, Solavellan hell has dragged me unto its depths.

(Fuck Tevinter, though. Dorian’s cool and so is Maevaris Tilani tho she’s not even in the game; dragon age wiki thank you! Still. Fuck Tevinter.)

I’ve only ever played Dragon Age: Inquisition though. And not even all the way through.

This link here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezni9dGZRY4 and this one here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKBZYTrhbuY offer, seemingly, two entirely different aspects.

Hear me out.

I’m going to paraphrase shit because of my own reasons (a 160-ish DAI fanfic, AO3 called It’s Not Lost Until You Give Up with my first semi-realistic slow burn, so go check it out! It's still not finished yet), so bear with me.

In the first one, it’s Cole talking about how you’re real, so it means everything is real and that changes everything but it can’t. It seems to be entirely in Lavellan’s POV; I can understand that.

It’s just… It’s just… What if Lavellan was scared? Scared that the Dread Wolf is real, so are the Evanuris?

I guess that’s obvious. I guess Lavellan could think that yes, it changes everything; I loved the Dread Wolf and I know that they are real. Them being real changes my whole aspect but it cannot. She has to move onward, because she cannot dwell on it.

That’s easy to understand.

But the next video.

It seems to be about Lavellan. Not from her POV. It’s about her. It’s Solas, thinking – you’re real, so it means everything is real and that changes everything but it can’t.

It’s Solas, who knows that these people wearing vallaslin are shadows; it’s Solas, who fell in love with one; it’s Solas, realizing that she’s real before he breaks up with her in Crestwood, and it’s Solas who’s thinking it. Solas is trying to bring back Arlathan by tearing down the Veil; he finds himself realizing with absolute certainty that she’s real. That he’s fallen in love with her.

To my knowledge (I do not know much about Dragon Age, if that’s not clear), the breakup doesn’t happen until AFTER the Well of Sorrows.

(If that’s wrong, it still doesn’t deter my theory that much. I think it might hit him before, but perhaps not nearly as bad. Which would just make him a jackass but I’m in Solavellan hell and playing two Solavellan storylines at the same time so honestly I’M probably just a masochist for when I actually DO get to that point!)

IF THE BREAKUP HAPPENS AFTER THE VIR’ABELASAN.

Solas has just met elves from Arlathan.

Elves, who, at this point, think that the Dalish are just shemlen. It probably hits him, the thought that he’s been thinking all along – my love for her cannot change anything.

So he’ll go through with it.

Yes. He’s an asshole. That’s clear. Especially if you let him remove the vallaslin from your PC’s face.

Ah, well. I’ve not played it through yet. I just like to emotionally torture myself with sad music video of an impending video game breakup.