#solas MAYBE.

[anan-yong]

Many people believed that Solas might have had auburn hair based on his brows, which got me curious and here we are.

#i love his bald head the most tho #dragon age #young solas #? maybe #digital art #solas dragon age #dragon age fanart #dai #dragon age inquisition #my art <3

[citrineghost]

I think this fandom may be one of the ones that takes the MOST artistic liberties with its characters, so let's see if we're all experiencing the inaccuracy the same way lmao

#tbh ive never seen art of blackwall but maybe its cause i havent played inquisition yet so i wasnt looking out for him #never heard anyone talk about him either #tragic #artistic liberties was the nicest way i could have phrased that #some da art ill look at and be like who the fuck is that #lmao #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #zevran #alistair #anders #fenris #iron bull #dorian #solas #blackwall #cullen

[felassan]

Current IMDB page for DA:D. (bearing in mind that iirc IMDB is sometimes incorrect and anyone can contribute to it) [source]

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #solas #video games #maybe Mika is doing a new role #or other voices in DA:D? in DA:O she was the VA for Anora Isabela Bella Dilwyn and assorted other voices #such as Violent Human Female and Hooded Courier

[galacticsabc]

had a rough two weeks. but I did progress enough through inquisition to get to the beginnings of some romance.

#this is me agonizing on who jarvis should go for #i dont fuckin know dude! i love all these fuckers! #well. maybe not solas #sorry solas #da inquisition #da inquisitor #lavellan #dai #dragon age inquisition #dragon age inquistor #iron bull #the iron bull #dorian pavus #josephine montilyet #art #my art #indigo star jarvis #artwork #my artwork #digital art #dreamerx86

[emmavakarian-theirin]

i feel like technically speaking this would be the equivalent of sniffing paint

#also maybe it's because i have no sense of smell but i feel like candles made to smell like something entirely fictional-- #is the laziest way to sell something and basically scam people #anyway bioware hire me to come up with more original ideas that aren't just slapping brands on something #mass effect #and they made one for solas too LMAO

[herearedragons]

tag the oc that's most likely to get stuck in a time loop and what kind of time loop it would be

#I feel like Kyana has time loop potential but idk what the exact loop would be #maybe the loop is the entirety of DAO and she keeps getting companions killed/locked into their Bad Endings #and the loop only stops when she manages to get them all to survive the Blight #something something she needs to learn to be a good leader and care about others #unsuccessful loops reset via the archdemon killing her (even if the dark ritual was performed) #Selene gets the classic 'your love interest keeps dying and you try to stop it' time loop #to escape the loop she must Let It Happen (and then it turns out it's fine and everyone survives) #Secret gives me the vibe of someone who knows they're in a time loop but has given up on trying to solve it #she's just going through it. trying everything. keeping herself entertained. trying to stay sane #sometimes she clues Varric in on the looping. sometimes she doesn't #actually maybe her time loop rule is that someone else has to save her from it. nothing she does by herself will work #idk what the exact reset point would be #I'm thinking the Arishok fight maybe. or Meredith #I don't think it would go as far as the Fade #also. after writing Homecoming I did have the thought of a time loop story #with Dorian as the one being trapped and trying to prevent Neil from dying/becoming possessed #maybe in his case he's not really trapped. he can stop anytime he wants but he keeps choosing to go back #the reset point is something Solas-related maybe #herearedragons meta #oc: kyana amell #oc: watcher selene #oc: secret hawke #oc: neilar lavellan #oh. actually. Aqun would be pretty fun to put in a time loop #that runs over some part of DAI and/or Trespasser #Adina is his time loop buddy (the person he usually tells about the loop because she immediately believes him) #idk what his reset/escape condition would be though #maybe in his case it's something purely mechanical #like there's no lesson to be learned it's just a magical anomaly he's trapped on #and on a meta level the 'lesson' is accepting that not everything has a Purpose or a Reason

[ivee-draws]

you’ve heard of bald solas, you’ve heard of auburn solas, but have you considered auburn solas with GREYS

#dragon age #solas #fen’harel #fenharel #art #dread wolf #dragon age inquisition #my art #he wants to give wisdom not orders #i suppose i am just tired of fighting #💔 #excuse the blurriness and sketchy lines this was a resized procreate doodle i rlly liked #maybe i’ll actually paint over it or something soon ☀️

[peoneys]

And for you lil uzi, Fen’Harel

#fanart #my art #art #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #fen'harel #solas #I’m coloring it for good mesure but I like the line better #as always hmm ouin #my passion is hair #I love drawing hair like #too much maybe #shoutout to all the solasmancer who crave to braid his long hair #I crave that mineral too #I got a hair kink don’t look at me 👁👄👁

[time-awa-y]

I think it's interesting how even though Coles a spirit he never really seems to notice (or it isn't directly stated in the game) that Solas is like an elven god, like he obviously picks up some vibes but still

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age anders #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #like i get that would ruin the plot #i feel like if you were good enough friends with Cole he'd mention it #but also like he likes Solas #so maybe he wouldn't #dragon age solas #dragon age cole

[ghastlytofu]

do you ever think about the fact that sera's adoptive human mother convinced her AS A CHILD that a total stranger hated her because of her race - to protect the woman's own pride, mind you!! it wasn't even true!! racist AND self-absorbed!!!! (which tbqh the venn diagram is a circle) - and the ramifications of sera cutting herself off as soon as she starts to say, "i hated her, and i hated- (myself)" and how ungenerously the fandom interprets her pain and makes it all about their picture perfect elf oc. because i do.

#i read a fic ages ago that literally had EVERY companion just absolutely ripping into sera on lavellan's 'behalf' #meanwhile #s*las????? #no one called him out on how he condescends to the dalish #or calls qunari savages #or calls dwarves barely alive because they don't dream #this is not actually an anti-solas or anti-lavellan post tbc it's just #the lack of grace sera receives for being like 19 and homeless and dealing with very real trauma is just......... #sera #sera dragon age #fandom critical #solas critical #just to be safe #like there are Issues™ with sera's own writing #but don't use that to invalidate her feelings or her trauma damn #especially not to prop up the heterosexual male fave and his romance with one (1) iteration of the Inquisitor #maybe let wlw have something for once #maybe just. consider it.

[unpopular-sober-thoughts]

To the OG Solavellan lovers out there, how have you survived 10 years of this hell? It’s barely been a year for me and this man has me in a chokehold I can’t escape.

I can’t even enjoy Astarion properly because Solas is in the back of my mind, brooding grumpily that I’m not romancing him!

#it’s not fair #maybe it’s the lack of a resolution that has me slowly dying from the inside out #what the hell has he done to me #Solas #solavellan #dragon age inquisition

[greypetrel]

"I don't understand, Chuckles, why is Sparkler scared of the outside and Pikachu isn't?" "A mistery for the ages."

It had to be done. (Dorian survived the experience, Varric just did what the Hawke kids loved. Except he's not a panzer-like child like the Hawkes, and wasn't as appreciative.)

You're welcome about Varric.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dadwolf au #dragon age memes #varric tethras #solas #dai #dorian pavus #aisling lavellan #pencil art #wip #greypetrel #flash forward to ten years later #Aisling doing barrell riding and trick riding like it's nothing both dads scared shitless by her cartwheeling on a horse #and Dorian in a shady corner with a book complaining about the bugs and the mud and the smell of horses #Aisling tries to have him mount but he hisses angrily at her #Solas has to agree that MAYBE Varric was right since Dorian doesn't seem so prone to break his own neck

[merrybandofmurderers]

to this day i do not understand why solas hates the grey wardens so damn much. like. he HATES them. his comments about them are vicious. it's like their very existence is a personal offense to him. dude's been awake for A YEAR, has never seen a blight or met a grey warden aside from blackwall, but he feels SO INTENSELY about this

a lot of his dialogue about them reads like projection. i think he sees in them his own worst flaws, and his past mistakes, and his fears about what he's doing. some of his dialogue is,, deliciously revealing

but a lot of it also seems to imply that he knows things about the blight that we don't. a lot his opinions focus on how dangerous the blight is, and he thinks it's foolish anyone would fuck around with it

he's never personally seen a blight, never lived in a world plagued by the blight (the first darkspawn appear around 3000 years after the veil went up) but he is ADAMANT that the blight should not be messed with, that blight magic cannot be safely used, that the wardens have no idea what they're dealing with

it makes me think the blight DID exist during elvhenan. i've seen theories that the void/abyss contains the blight and that's part of why andruil went mad after she started hunting the forgotten ones there. tevinter ofc teaches that the blight already existed and the magisters just discovered it, not created it. maybe that's partially true

anyway, i'm just thinking out loud. solas's hatred of the grey wardens is baffling to me and i hope we get it explained in the next game. with stuff apparently going down in weisshaupt, maybe we will

#dragon age #da blabs #solas #grey wardens #the blight #or maybe the writers didnt think about it that hard #and solas's unfounded strong opinions are just there to vex me personally

[amexhaustedthanksforasking]

No but like, I love just how tragic Dragon Age elves are. Yeah, yeah, it's a subversion of the usual elven interpretations of the graceful, fae-like species — BUT IT'S ALSO NOT!

They WERE like that thousands of years ago. They had a thriving, beautiful civilization where they were treated fairly, with decent gods, where they could live happily. Right?

That's also not true. Elvhenan was just as flawed, if not more, than the current Thedas of the games. Slavery was still there, so many social injustices, and the very vallaslin they wear in worship of their deities were the binding blood tattoos of said slaves.

But the Dalish have also reclaimed vallaslin, however unintentionally, into not only something to worship their deities, but a symbol of their fight, their people, who they are. Thing is, Dalish aren't exactly looked upon kindly — they're considered feral, savage, or just rumors. Myth. Any elf in the city is treated as lesser by the larger populace, and the Dalish are scrambling to discover/recover an ancient history they'll never understand without help from those in that ancient history. Long after Elvhenan fall, they're still looking for the last remnants of a home no one remembers.

Then, THEN, someone from that time reawakens after a millenia. Old, tired, worn, the one who felled the very gods they worship. Turns out he isn't the worst of them, far from it, but not worthy of worship either

That's good, though. Right? Surely he'll see the injustice brought upon them and hel-

Oh, wait, his goal to bring back the world he destroyed will result in the deaths of this current world? He considers everyone in this world a mistake, the elves nothing more than a reflection's reflection of the people he lost. Lesser. Stupid. Wild. Funny coming from a wolf, isn't it

The death of these people is only an inconvenience, like breaking a few eggs-

I know which egg I want to break

-or maybe the Inquisitor makes him think "Oh shit oh no, these are people too." That doesn't stop him, though. He's still going to tear down the Veil, probably resulting in the deaths of a significant portion of the population, if not everyone. Maybe he won't succeed in the future, I don't fucking know how DA4 is going to go down, but he's got elves from all over leaving to assist him.

If he's open about what he's doing the Dread Wolf doesn't lie, he misdirects, he evades, he poisons his tongue with honey, but he doesn't lie then that means these elves would prefer probably DYING. If he's not open about it, then they're being tricked. Played for a fool. Either way they lose.

The Dalish fought tooth and nail for their freedom, for the chance to find a new home and recover their culture and history long buried. They get a lot wrong, but fuck you, it's theirs, they've reclaimed it FUCK OFF SOLAS DON'T LOOK DOWN ON THEM FOR THIS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ANNOYED IF YOU TELL THEM "hey you're wrong about the history you've work tirelessly to discover and maintain lol" AND LOOK DOWN ON THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR MISINTERPRETATION! Dumb fucking egg oml

Anyway I love the elves in Dragon Age and I love the tragedy of everything, but maybe slow down on that Bioware?? My heart can only take so much

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #solas #inherent tragedy of the elves in dragon age #i think this devolved into a fuck you solas rant #which i mean #he deserves it #fen'harel #imma crack his skull open and cook it over a fire #im thinking scrambled #add a bit of milk and salt #fuck solas (not in the fun way) #maybe this isnt a tragedy so much as me just looking at something depressing and saying “oh fuck yeah thats mine now”

[lethalhoopla]

The new trailer has injected hype straight into my veins (rip everyone who is tired of Varric narrating trailers feat. Solas, but I'm a sucker for both) and the art is just gorgeous as always so I took screencaps - figured I'd share in case anyone else wanted them!

#dragon age #dragon age: dreadwolf #da:d #da4 #solas #i'd tag varric but he's not *pictured* lol so #i went off in the tags of the cinematic i reblogged earlier but for REAL there's a lot of little things in this trailer that are new!! #i mean i'm not surprised it's not an 'official' game trailer lol they're almost certainly saving that for game awards this week #but- the symbolism with the 7 evanuris outside the circle rim (theorized previously but now confirmed & with symbols!) #the way the golden city turned black (also dope skull) - its been theorized that the gc/bc was elven related but!! this is a BIG lead #plus ppl have been noting it almost looks like there's a ship sailing away from the gc before it turns black/as it does so #in those swirling black patterns that 'root' out before the image changes- #so!! new theories re maybe the evanuris/remaining elves fled the gc? after corrupting it??? or otherwise Fucking Around and Finding Out #plus the final one! with solas and the er- bomb/spell to destroy the veil - the 4 (but possibly 5 it looks like ones clipped out) #semicircles representing the evanuris - and more importantly... the archdemons probably - bc 5 defeated archdemons.... out of ostensibly 7- #5 evanuris down (or more terrifyingly: 5 of their 'locks'?) (or or- 5 of their simply leaked Bad Vibes in Dragon Form) out of 7 #somehow tying into this spell...? #solas (if ogb was a thing in ur playthrough) not only has mythal's energy but ogb's.... so many unanswered questions and loose threads #i and every other Lore Nerd are desperately trying to figure out what can be braided together with any reasonable effect lmao #regardless - gorgeous art is gorgeous hello new desktop bg

[ndostairlyrium]

“Naptime, at last” 

by @greypetrel​

There was a lot to do in the house. He shouldn't close his eyes. What he should do was waiting five more minutes for both children to fall asleep more soundly, move both Dorian and Aisling away from him to some proper pillows, rise up and clean the house. The kitchen wall really needed some cleaning after today's shenanigans. A very unwise decision, for him, to think they couldn't actually build a catapult with legos when they announced their project (a kid at school apparently had a book on medieval warfare and they've been inspired). Because what they managed to build was not only perfectly functioning, but also enhanced by magic, and able to throw eggs at breakneck speed and in a high parable... right on the kitchen wall. They have been absolutely thrilled and danced around him, ignoring as per usual all his requests that medieval siege machines were to be used out of the house, and that they shouldn't waste food. Right now, tho, staring at a wall absolutely lurid with eggyolk and eggshells stuck in the goo, so high he would have needed a stair to clean everything, he felt proud of the two five-years-olds, and also incredibly cosy. Dorian's heavy breathing from his head fallen back on his belly, little hands still clutched on one of his books, and Aisling smaller frame curled against his side, a little hand holding his thumb as she sucked her own, they both kept him warm and lulled him to sleep as well. Maybe the two little balls of destruction were right: explaining why and how nuclear reactors could explode was, indeed, relaxing, and better than any of Varric's own fairytales to concile sleep. Yes, he thought, maybe closing his eyes for five minutes and bask in one of the rare moments of pure, homey quiet with the two, when they were just cute and not a very distructive kind of cute, wouldn't be so bad. The eggs on the wall were already dry, after all, and kids grew up all too fast. Solas could indulge.

-

DadWolf is very tired, and also apparently a good human pillow. A direct sequel to this

Collab between myself and the amazingly talented @greypetrel, owner of the sweetest child Aisling and criminal mastermind behind DadWolf AU. Once I saw the sketch I knew I needed to color it, so she kindly provided me with the smoothest lines ever ;; absolutely gorgeous!! It really was a joy to work on such a precious picture! Also of course little Dorian is already devouring such books << who ever doubted that?

Concept, sketch, and inks by @greypetrel Colors by @ndostairlyrium 

#long post #collab #greypetrel #dragon age #dadwolf au #solas #inquisitor lavellan #aisling lavellan #dorian pavus #ndo sta l'art tag #aisling is just the cutest omg #I can hear the title screen song of this sitcom and saxophone is involved #or maybe trumpets and piano in a happy swing a la the nanny #noo I'm not obsessed with this au #no no gerry scotti no no