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"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖍 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖘𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖐𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖗."

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In times like these, remember our unsung hero, Matsuoka Shuzo, catching clams at minus 10 below in the freezing waters of Japan and his famous inspirational speech

https://youtu.be/tYzMYcUty6s?si=-NONNMbT3Upc83bq

This man is killing me, but I'm not giving up, I will learn to draw him eventually! I'm suffering a lot with this sketch but I hope it'll be worth it in the end!

#never give up #fisherman meme #matsuoka shuzo #motivational #motivation #motivating quotes

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'You feel the inexplicable urge to giggle as you are booped by friends and mutuals. It fills you with determination.'

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Same here 🤭

Reblog if I can spam you with boops

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Not to yuck on your yum or anything, but for your theory that solas is lying about being fen'harel, mythal/flemeth does recognize and call him fen'harel. Which seems like pretty solid evidence?

Whoops. Looks like I forgot she did, haha

You're absolutely right 👍🏻

Aw, man. And it seemed like such a great theory in my head 🤣 Oh well

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Solas is not the Dread Wolf

Since Trespasser, everyone is departing from the assumption that Solas is the Ancient Elven God known as Fen'Harel. What everyone should be asking, though, is: where's the evidence?

Solas claims a lot of things when we meet him again in Trespasser. He also claimed he was a harmless apostate that used to live in a secluded village during our first dialogue interaction with him. Throughout the game, he makes tons of statements which later prove to be false or misleading. And when confronted with the possibility that he's not who he claims to be, you earn disapproval from him.

(Remember the dialogue after the Wicked Eyes quest, in the rotunda at Skyhold, where he disapproves if you hint at how odd it is that he misses court intrigue if he'd never been in a court before?)

Now, Solas made several wild claims to the Inquisitor about his identity. However, we know for a fact that he is a mitomaniac (the habit of lying, of fabricating untrue stories to manipulate people's perceptions, either about the subject in order to cast them in a favourable light or to alter their perception of reality and facts), a tendency closely associated with narcissists, psychopaths and megalomaniacs. This is highly relevant to DA4 because, if he indeed isn't who he claims to be, then he is more dangerous than we realize.

Let's assume Solas isn't Fen'Harel. Instead, he was a mage living in the times of Arlathan. We can attribute his knowledge of the Evanuris to him living or working closely to and with them. Maybe he was a servant? An escape slave, freed by Fen'Harel? And in the process, he may have met Mythal and became her follower, even a close ally. That would explain why she calls him "old friend".

Solas, being simply an ordinary servant of the Evanuris, knows everything about where their power truly comes from. He knew about in uthenera, the sleep of "immortality", and so managed to wake up thousands of years into the future. He knew about the Elven orbs - the Foci - and the power they held to allow passage into the Fade from the waking world.

What he (likely) did not know is how to use some of these powers correctly. Hence, his failure in expecting Corypheus to die after unlocking the orb. In fact, the orb likely belonged to another Evanuris and he was stealing it, with Fen'Harel's followers being none the wiser.

There were other failures that Solas confesses, such as the fact that a great portion of Arlathan, located in the Fade, was destroyed after creating the Veil. Not only that, but every life form literally became Tranquil due to his actions. As he himself states, he made everything worse in the hopes of saving the world from the Evanuris. This is very telling, because if any of this is true, then it means he is incapable of foreseeing the consequences of his manipulation of magic, and he isn't such a great magic wielder as the legendary Elven God he claims to be. Or worse, he claimed to have performed these magical feats by himself when it was in fact the historical Fen'Harel who performed them.

And worst of all: if Solas isn't Fen'Harel, then he's no more than a power-hungry mage going after the powers of the Evanuris to storm the Black City and claim true godhood. That would explain why he states: "as the world burns in the raw chaos"...he doesn't really care about the consequences of his actions, not even to the Elven people, who he might be deceiving in order to get them to work for him, so long as he can control what could very well be the Heart of Thedas, the source of all life and magic and effectively become "The Maker", reshaping reality as he sees fit.

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As usual, this is just speculation on my part. However, Solas' magical blunders and his complete lack of power after waking up from in uthenera are highly suspicious. Couple that with him being a mitomaniac and the fact that the real Dread Wolf seems to be a spirit from the Fade guarding the Black City, rather than an Elven mage and you have the perfect combination of factors for suspecting that Solas might be in fact a CHARLATAN. For all we know, the real Fen'Harel might even be trapped with the rest of the Evanuris. Until the Veil is lifted and they are freed, we won't know.

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The DA4 protag after finding out from the Warden companion about Hormak:

'Sooo...there are ELEVEN more charming locations like that underground? And because it's my job to deal with such bullshit since some lovely dev WROTE about it in a book, you and everyone else in Thedas expect me to descend into each of these filthy locations and handle those lovely beasts? Boy, what a time to be alive.'

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