I didnt show the other version of the scene because it only seemed to change dialogue with the companions and not anything with Solas so i dont know if theres consequences later instead. I also just didnt wanna reveal everything so people can experience stuff themselves too!
That makes me think that they might use the Rashomon Effect for Solas. Rian Johnson used it in The Last Jedi. Would be a great storytelling device for him.
I don't mind the hair, it matches the early concept art for Inquisition pretty well. Plus it's nice to see a non-bald Solas when you're looking about 2000ish years into the past considering he was presumably young once
@alakurielle I'd actually completely forgotten about that line until you mentioned it, but if I can use it for strange hair choices in my life so can he :P
@@Hello-yt7jp I, like Bioware, am from Edmonton (a "village in the north" if you will). I have multiple relatives who have had this haircut. All of them played hockey.
@@AndE667 Mullet was mostly just an example. It’s a common, I’m an adult now I can do whatever the hell I want type of haircut for some college students.
I think it comes across as utterly tragic how Solas seems to be just some guy trying to do right, and even with his agents you can tell he cares deeply, but they still regard him as a god/an other - I'm curious if this means he's just always been alone (seperate from the other 'gods', seperate from the common ancient elves, etc...). And the fact he's called 'Wolf', not Solas, it just makes me sad. He feels so disconnected from the world around him even though he seems to want that connection. Also, young Solas with hair, I love it personally. Thanks for the vid, Kala!
It's interesting you say this. I'm watching someone else play through trespasser, and verbiage keeps popping up about Wisdom is found through the knowledge and the mastery of the self, the world, and one's place in it. Makes me think that his "good" ending might involve reconnecting him to this world and it's people somehow. But if both Varric and the Inquisitor have failed, what will it take?
@@libbygreen420 I totally agree - I think Solas' positive character arc will see him building up a connection to the world and the people in it, and his negative sees him taking his disconnection up to 100. But until we reach the end of Veilguard, I think his journey/character arc is far from over :)
It is as Solas said at the end of Trespasser..."You also know the burden of a Title that all but replaces your Name." He was Wolf (or Dread Wolf to the Evanuris) ...your Character was Inquisitor. Also it is interresting that we now know that the Church in Dragon Age is wrong about the Blight.
@@ladysulevin I think there’s a reason why his greatest fear is dying alone, poor wolf. The fact that wolves are meant to be pack animals just makes it all the more poignant.
@@rayclay3249 Nah, I think if you punched Solas once, he fully expects you have no problem doing it again because you’re just that kind of person. Fool me once, etc etc.
@@dogplanetofficial Nah, I meant that it would be funny to see the flashback of the punch in Inquisition again cause you were talking about flashback of Solas and the Inquisitor
Solas is fire with or without hair, so, happily, that doesn't bother me. What interests me far more is that it appears we get to help direct something in a memory. Gotta wonder if & how those decisions stack up over time in his story.
I find it wild that Rook and Bellara are juding him for a mercy kill of someone Blighted 😭 like even in modern times there’s no real cure for the Blight- that’s commonly known. he didn’t want her to suffer. granting that mercy… I would HOPE someone would do that rather than try to give me hope when there is none.
@AndE667 I don't believe anyone just infected by the blight will turn into a broodmother. Hespith's poem mentions darkspawn "spewing" into the mouth of the women who would become broodmothers and it being a couple days of violation.
i, personally, love Solas’ hair. not only does it show that he likely lost his hair during his sleep but also it’s the perfect choice for the young rebellious youth Solas speaks so distastefully of. also it mirrors his concept hair.
@@paendapower he's lived a long time - the devs specified elvhen lose their hair once they hit around a millennia (this was in a recent Q&A in discord) - he could've easily been 1000 years old before the events of the veil and had already lost the hair.
@@lurksmcgee It honestly didn't sound like they were being serious. I mean, somebody asked why Solas is bald and they went "well he is pretty old haha".
@@lurksmcgee Yeah, I thought about it, he could have become bald much later after this memory and he was still very young in this, well for an ancient elf. Hope they don't show him with hair shortly before creating the veil, that would be immersion breaking for me.
I'm really excited about his memories tbh, because it seems like we can choose the outcome(?) - it's based on how we see Solas here: some might think he won't help and others would say he would try everything to safe his people (in this case his agent). This is going to hurt me on another level , I guess.
The "choice" there is actually really interesting. In banter with Cassandra where she says that what she saw in the Fade isn't real, Solas says that it is "all real." Every memory and every interpretation is someone's reality; Loghain abandoning King Cailan in a bid for power is just as real as Loghain retreating to spare his men's lives.
i feel like either im very lenient on spoilers or something bc i don't consider this major (myself). Makes sense but i've also said (like a broken record) what constitutes as a spoiler is so different for everyone. I like him with hair im sorry 🫣 i love when games make choices like that to show a visual difference in age or flashbacks or whatever. And i genuinely just love the hair mechanics too.
same, I don't consider this much of a spoiler at all. Spoiler to me is like knowing the Fen'Harel reveal at the end of Inquisition. THAT I would have been pissed to have been spoiled. But this... nah.
Ghilan'nain's choice of attire is far more questionable. Or at least the mask. Kinda funny how the orlesians seem to have taken influence from the ancient elves!
So this basically confirms all the theories about Ghil'lanain; she created the Blight and is directly or indirectly responsible for the Darkspawn. It now makes sense why Solas basically told the Grey Wardens they didn't have a clue what they were doing...
If that’s the case, then Solas sealed what was left of the Blight in the Fade, specifically in the Evanuris’ ‘Golden City’, after he created the Veil, and since it’s practically a magical form of infectious disease, it tainted it Black. So when the Magisters Sidereal including Corypheus entered there, they got infected and spread it throughout Thedas, essentially making it an accident, a massive and apocalyptic accident, but still
My bet is that Andruil got infected by the Blight when she go to the Void and Ghilan'nain experimented with it, infecting Coryphemus, the Architect and the rest with it when they enter into the Black City, and the rest is history.
So this formally confirms that Ghil created the Darkspawn, which was already a popular theory. It also makes sense that her Blight then created a means for the elven gods to communicate outside of their Black City prison, so the "dreams" of the Darkspawn are likely powered by the Evanuris. 7 imprisoned Evanuri, 7 dragon gods (5 of which are defeated), leaving the two gods in DATV tied to the two remaining Dragon Gods. That's what I get from this, anyways. Also ties in to Andraste hearing voices, as she may be an Archdemon's soul a la Kieran. the soul passing ritual seems extremely similar to how Flemeth/Mythal maintains her "immortality", so I have to assume they are linked. I'm guessing Andruil, who's essence appears tied to Sera, now, and I believe is the soul of Dumat/Andruil. Andruil is the Silent Hunter, and Dumat is the Tevinter Dragon God of Silence.
It's also a possibility that the archdemons were nothing more that the mouthpiece for the elven gods while they were imprisoned meaning they could potentially still exist. If they don't exist anymore then that just insinuates that only Gray Wardens can slay gods, since it was they who consumed a divine creation. Honestly it's rather poetic. Undone by your own creation.
I find it a bit strange still. There's no mention of the malignant aspect of the elven pantheon, they were also imprisoned by Solas (in the abyss rather than the heavens) but oddly absent from all of this
@@kallekallessonsThere is still the old Elven writings in Trespasser that talk about them enslaving thousands, these memories don't seem to be from Solas but other elves from that time. There's also the Horror of Hormak that paints a very specific picture of the gods. It's hard because we have heard the tales from the Dalish that make them out to be benevolent. That's the beauty of the story telling in Dragon Age, there's always half truths that can be interpreted different ways. I'm looking forward to seeing these memories in Veilguard more than anything else. The whole lore surrounding the Evanuris is fascinating to me. I hope we get to see the others in the past too. Especially Dirthamen 😊
@@lost_witness_8495 It seems to be implied that they were benevolent if Solas said Ghilanain was the most sensitive of us, something happened that corrupted them in that case. I've only seen the red lyrium idol do that in DA2, the red lyrium in Inquisition was never mentioned to be mentally corrupting people did it? The only other case of corruption is the thing from the void that changed Andruil that made Mythal strike her down. That and the blight could be the same thing I guess or from the same place in the abyss, and it's corrupting them all which would explain why Solas is tryign to stay away from it.
@@kallekallessons I think the blight definitely corrupted their nature, as well as power. They may have started off benevolent but not towards the end. I know they have shown Gillain'nain using the blight as a weapon but I still have a feeling the original source of the blight came from the Titans, perhaps Titan hearts. Whatever the gods discovered from the Titans certainly gave them a boost in power. We have seen blighted creatures are able to influence the blight in different ways. Gillain'nain seems to have mastered blight magic. Red lyrium definitely corrupts too. In Inquisition Dagna explains how red lyrium has the blight. The only real source we have for the Evanuris benevolence really comes from Dalish tales. It's kind of established that the Dalish have misinterpreted a lot of what they think is their history, Vallaslin etc.
There is something about the phrase “us” and later when ghil says “children of the gods” that is making me think there is some familial dynamic going on with the evanuris.
ì've always wondering if they're blood related or if it's just a role they put themselves into. in any case, ghilan'nain is always said to have "married" into the family with andruil.
@@NiaMariaePlays or dirthamen who knows those murals with her and the bear are interesting to me too. I wonder if solas isn’t a sibling to Elgar Nan or something similar. I hope we find all of this out. After the war he seems to refer to the evanuris as them but here in his youth he says us. I’m so ready for this game haha.
oh dying to know what the other dialogue choice of "try to find a cure" says now- bc it's the crossroads/fade, does how Rook reacts change the memory/the way the spirits re-enact it? AH!
No way!! 😭 A few weeks back I guessed depending on how you act in his memories he'll change as a person- as in if you think he was cruel as a rebel he most was. Until I see the other option for the cure chosen I'ma presume I was right
As far as we can tell, only the modern elves depict her as innocent, everything we have learned about her actual past self is that she was basically Dr. Frankenstein empowered by Cthulhu
We know she is definitely a monster and a mad scientist but it threw me when Solas called her the most sensitive of them. Remember the tales of Gillain'nain's apotheosis and how she had an affinity for animals. It just reaffirms the way Bioware spin half truths in their lore surrounding the gods. I love it. It's almost like 2 sides of the same coin. You have the Dalish interpretation of being an animal lover, but flip the coin and she is some crazy Dr Frankenstein experimenting on animals. Imagine what the other Evanuris will be like when the coin is flipped for them !
I don't know which idea frightens me more: that Ghilan'nain invented the Blight, or that Ghilan'nain *discovered* the Blight and thought, "Oh, I can make this even more evil." 😨
I’m betting the Blight started in lyrium after the Evanuris put the Stone to sleep. There’s a codex entry about Andruil making herself armour out of “the void,” then disease and corruption spreading across her lands - it would totally make sense for her wife to start playing with the stuff.
i agree! in his concept art from inquisition i think he had some kind of braids and honestly i think it gave him a very "wild" look, suitable for a young wolf i believe
Thank you for sharing Kala! I was not expecting to be interacted with by the memory, this is awesome!! And hope for future Solavellan fanfiction of Memory Solas reacting to the Inquisitor visiting
absolutely love this fragment of memory it's eerie to see so many thing in the past with rebellion and evanuris were so close to exactly how we theorized for so many years. also I love his hair its exactly what I imagined it looked like and even similar to how I sometimes modded him in some playthroughs. crazy to see it was so close to canon hehe 🥰
Still recoving from the lore reveal that elfs just become bald when they hit a certain age and that has been consistent since Origins. I thought I was regaining a sense of normalcy in my life again, then boom, egg mullet.
I imagine that Veilguard will be more of a Boss Gauntlet as each chapter or level ends with one of the Elven Gods being a boss, and the All Father is the final boss of the game.
@@samflood5631So while this is possible I think only Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain broke free from there prison and are the only ones who will be in the game
Pls at least one another memory...oh gods, I'm dying, I want to see them all... I personally love his hair, it matches with concepts and his eyebrows in DAI
I used to think that the blight was an effect of having "sundered" the titans. And that Ghi just took advantage of it for her experiments....This is MAJOR. 😮
I hecking knew it! Been calling the Blight as an evanuris creation that helped lead Solas to the imprisonment of them since DAI and all his snarky comments about the Wardens.
Shared to the fb DA group! I labeled spoilers and cautions and spoilers for spoilers, and I hope no one comes for me about the comment section because I warned spoilers for that, too. Thank you so much for giving me next hyper fixation from this stuff-- Ghilan'nain's VA lol sounds similar to Jean Gilpin to me
I saw a small fraction of that scene yesterday in a preview. It felt like coming across a picture of a loved one in their teens or early twens, when they were still trying to look extra cool. 😅 I just love the difference in style between an older perhaps more sophisticated Solas and his young rebel-wolf self. And great video btw. I can't wait to see more of his memories!
Oh god, Ghil's VA reminds me of my old chemcial engineering professor. Not the characterization direction i was expecting tbh, but boy did that give me some flashbacks.
I love Solas in all looks. I'm kinda disappointed they aren't speaking full Elvhen in these memories. It would've bbeen a cool detail, then you could ask Solas or other spirits about it and decide whether or not to believe and possibly unlock dialouges, scene, etc.
With all the new lore about elves, I'm super curious to know if the Maker is an elf as well, considering the Golden City seems to have belonged to them all along. The whole Andrastian religion would probably fall apart if the masses knew...
Not to dissimilar from what would happen if today's modern religions were able to find out the truth (as in what really happened) behind the bible and creation. People romanticize and deitize God to be worshipped. I see God as nothing but a creator
I can't understand at all how can anyone perceive Solas as anything but a 100% benelovent true god. Ever since Inquisition/Trespasser I'm on board with him, I loved what he did in the past and I love even more what he planned to do and I can never get over the frustration that Rook fucked it all up. Whatever direction the story goes I don't think I will like it, unless they pull a "Solas is the true saviour of Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Qunari and even the Lizard People" it will just be a major disappointment. And I will fanfic myself a reality where Lavellan and Solas saved the world from itself.
Well there is the whole destroying elven civilization and having effectively low and racist opinions about Modren Thedas with the plan to tear down the Beil risking a world wide apocalypse
My worse fears. The Halla lady seems to have always been a fanatic raised to God Hood due to her power. They probably did fear her creations without her realizing it. Many have theorized this, but I never thought it was so close to being true. Was Myhtal the only decent one?
From Solas perspective she is the only decent one. But he's the worst so it's probably a lot more complicated. I think this is teasing us on the idea that Solas actually kills Mythal the first time to prevent the blight from spreading. When he says they did it it's probably a "look what you made me do" type of deal.
@@imnotmephisto I refuse to believe it. Her most devout, Abelas, would have slain the powerless traitor wolf the moment he walked in Mythals sacred temple. On a serious note, I feel all the Elf Gods (save the forgotten ones) did something important for the world of Thedas and elves that can be seen as "shaping the world", and the years plus accomplishments combined with next to limitless power corrupted them on some level. More than likely when the Dredwolf tricked both sides in the war, Mythal refused to join and was killed by her own fellow gods. It would take Elger'nan to power scale someone who took down the mad Andruil. The trickster would have had to set her up to be jumped. Single fair combat is not his style.
@@agnosticgamerdarthdracarys5859 I can't argue with "Solas won't shoot the ones". That's fair. But it doesn't have to be a fight. The reason Solas was so effective as a trickster is because people trust him. She may have had her guard down. As far as Abelas goes. I think they shouldn't have included that because it leaves too many unanswered questions about why he's not telling you who the dreadwolf is. But as far as Abelas, again, your boy had 1 job. 1 job. He probably helped Solas and didn't even realize he had just bodied Mythal.
Trying to understand if this implies Ghil created the Blight or if she experimented with something existing and made it worse (like experimenting with a virus can make it more contagious). I personally would prefer the Blight to be smth more than a crazy scientist project, but oh well. Either way, I'm itching to know more! Also, Solas's hair is fine, we all had our haircut experiment phase😅
Personal theory: the Blight started in lyrium, Andruil discovered it (her armour made of the void, followed by disease spreading across her lands), and Ghil decided to play with it, ultimately creating the darkspawn.
Any memory you can share I would be so happy! I love that this create more questions, I can't wait to play the game. I imagine there is a Horror of Hormak situation
k so this seems to imply that ghila"nain created the blight..... meaning the tevinter mages were most likely tainted by the elven gods in the fade and not the maker
i tried not to spoil myself too much for the full scene so i skipped some parts of it, wanna experience it fully once the game is out. tbh this was okay spoiler wise worst spoiler was the in the prologue that someone played without any cuts and THAT SCENE happened, i wasnt ready 😥 i loudly gasped! Im a Bald Solas fan too, but idk i kinda dig it, and am so happy we get to experience some of his back story
Coming back because I had a thought: What if the agent whose POV we are in when viewing these memories is Felassan? (I am delusional and begging, but plllleeeeeease BioWare.)
came here after someone already spoiled entire group in FB without any hiding the pic and took picture of solas' memory and the hair and it honestly annoyed me so I felt like I might as well watch this video now.
Also i don't understand why they aren't speaking in elven here ? If this was thousands and thousands of years ago, they should be speaking in elven and we should be reading subtitles
Wow late I didn’t even know this video was out so probably not gonna get this noticed but the reason why solas has hair is cause he’s young it’s been confirmed that the older ancient elves are they are bald so this video is basically showing ghilian nan joining the Evanuris so this set up could be like hundreds of yrs before solas actually went to war with the evanuris
He had hair?!! Also love how we gain more insight into Solace and why he created the Veil - especially if the Elvhen actually created the Taint that made the Blight. Does that make the Old Gods actually transformed Elvhen? We saw in their trailer they can shapeshifter so can it be they are stuck in that form due to contracting the taint? Or is it Ghil’s test subjects?
I think I would prefer a braided hair or something, he looks so unnatural 😂 I think it's pretty obvious now that it was indeed Evanuris who created the blight sheesh
honestly the only thing that i dislike about the game so far is how the character's mouths move when they speak it like doesnt match i hope theyve somehow tweaked that since this preview
This is really cool, it looks like the crossroads will play a major role in the narrative instead of just being a cool background for combat. I’m not sure if it’s okay to mention, but if you’re reading this, are there more moments like this or was this the only one you got to see in the time you were given?
I honestly like Solas with hair. I like to think he went bald because all his "I'm going to save the world by destroying it" attempts caused hair loss. Everyone knows villainy leads to bad hairlines. 😅
I didnt show the other version of the scene because it only seemed to change dialogue with the companions and not anything with Solas so i dont know if theres consequences later instead. I also just didnt wanna reveal everything so people can experience stuff themselves too!
That makes me think that they might use the Rashomon Effect for Solas. Rian Johnson used it in The Last Jedi. Would be a great storytelling device for him.
I don't mind the hair, it matches the early concept art for Inquisition pretty well. Plus it's nice to see a non-bald Solas when you're looking about 2000ish years into the past considering he was presumably young once
4000ish years in the past, ashktually.
@@lemonf6859 Fair enough, I can never really keep the various calendars squared in my head
Nice to know I’m not the only one who just immediately thought of his “we were all young once” line XD
@alakurielle I'd actually completely forgotten about that line until you mentioned it, but if I can use it for strange hair choices in my life so can he :P
I love Solas’ hair. It’s like he went through a phase in his early 20’s and got a mullet. He’s such a dork.
@@Hello-yt7jp I, like Bioware, am from Edmonton (a "village in the north" if you will). I have multiple relatives who have had this haircut. All of them played hockey.
For the record, that is not a mullet. 😅
@@AndE667 Mullet was mostly just an example. It’s a common, I’m an adult now I can do whatever the hell I want type of haircut for some college students.
@AndE667 the shaved sides is pretty common with gen z players - granted, it's too long in the back.
It's a mohawk without product in it. If he had some egg whites, and/or hair gel and some AquaNet, that would've been a really nice 80's tall 'hawk.
I think it comes across as utterly tragic how Solas seems to be just some guy trying to do right, and even with his agents you can tell he cares deeply, but they still regard him as a god/an other - I'm curious if this means he's just always been alone (seperate from the other 'gods', seperate from the common ancient elves, etc...). And the fact he's called 'Wolf', not Solas, it just makes me sad. He feels so disconnected from the world around him even though he seems to want that connection.
Also, young Solas with hair, I love it personally. Thanks for the vid, Kala!
It's interesting you say this. I'm watching someone else play through trespasser, and verbiage keeps popping up about Wisdom is found through the knowledge and the mastery of the self, the world, and one's place in it. Makes me think that his "good" ending might involve reconnecting him to this world and it's people somehow. But if both Varric and the Inquisitor have failed, what will it take?
"Tear down the walls and you will see the truth."
@@libbygreen420 I totally agree - I think Solas' positive character arc will see him building up a connection to the world and the people in it, and his negative sees him taking his disconnection up to 100. But until we reach the end of Veilguard, I think his journey/character arc is far from over :)
It is as Solas said at the end of Trespasser..."You also know the burden of a Title that all but replaces your Name."
He was Wolf (or Dread Wolf to the Evanuris) ...your Character was Inquisitor.
Also it is interresting that we now know that the Church in Dragon Age is wrong about the Blight.
@@ladysulevin I think there’s a reason why his greatest fear is dying alone, poor wolf. The fact that wolves are meant to be pack animals just makes it all the more poignant.
A flashback of Solas and the Inquisitor, no matter the nature of their relationship - BET
Even the...punch? That would be fun to see again
@@rayclay3249 Nah, I think if you punched Solas once, he fully expects you have no problem doing it again because you’re just that kind of person. Fool me once, etc etc.
If there is a scene, I think it would probably be an original scene, one we never experienced while playing.
@@dogplanetofficial Nah, I meant that it would be funny to see the flashback of the punch in Inquisition again cause you were talking about flashback of Solas and the Inquisitor
Solas is fire with or without hair, so, happily, that doesn't bother me. What interests me far more is that it appears we get to help direct something in a memory. Gotta wonder if & how those decisions stack up over time in his story.
I find it wild that Rook and Bellara are juding him for a mercy kill of someone Blighted 😭 like even in modern times there’s no real cure for the Blight- that’s commonly known. he didn’t want her to suffer. granting that mercy… I would HOPE someone would do that rather than try to give me hope when there is none.
Given that the elf's also a woman, she probably would've turned into a brood mother. That would have been so much better.
@AndE667 I don't believe anyone just infected by the blight will turn into a broodmother. Hespith's poem mentions darkspawn "spewing" into the mouth of the women who would become broodmothers and it being a couple days of violation.
i, personally, love Solas’ hair. not only does it show that he likely lost his hair during his sleep but also it’s the perfect choice for the young rebellious youth Solas speaks so distastefully of. also it mirrors his concept hair.
But he did selfportrait himself without hair, and that before his sleep, seems retconned to me.
@@paendapower he's lived a long time - the devs specified elvhen lose their hair once they hit around a millennia (this was in a recent Q&A in discord) - he could've easily been 1000 years old before the events of the veil and had already lost the hair.
@@lurksmcgee It honestly didn't sound like they were being serious. I mean, somebody asked why Solas is bald and they went "well he is pretty old haha".
@@lurksmcgee Yeah, I thought about it, he could have become bald much later after this memory and he was still very young in this, well for an ancient elf. Hope they don't show him with hair shortly before creating the veil, that would be immersion breaking for me.
@@lurksmcgee that was as a joke, it's not actually canon
I'm really excited about his memories tbh, because it seems like we can choose the outcome(?) - it's based on how we see Solas here: some might think he won't help and others would say he would try everything to safe his people (in this case his agent). This is going to hurt me on another level , I guess.
Man when she chose that answer I was like Nuh uh solas would bend over backwards to help lol I cried no lies
@@xanatricebass2741I think it's good, now we can choose the other option and experience the outcome ourselves! 🙏🏻
The "choice" there is actually really interesting. In banter with Cassandra where she says that what she saw in the Fade isn't real, Solas says that it is "all real." Every memory and every interpretation is someone's reality; Loghain abandoning King Cailan in a bid for power is just as real as Loghain retreating to spare his men's lives.
@@Nutellafuchs I know you’re right but my heart 😭🤣 but man I can’t wait To play this GAME
i feel like either im very lenient on spoilers or something bc i don't consider this major (myself). Makes sense but i've also said (like a broken record) what constitutes as a spoiler is so different for everyone.
I like him with hair im sorry 🫣 i love when games make choices like that to show a visual difference in age or flashbacks or whatever. And i genuinely just love the hair mechanics too.
I ok love his hair wonder is there a way he can grow it back 😈😈
same, I don't consider this much of a spoiler at all. Spoiler to me is like knowing the Fen'Harel reveal at the end of Inquisition. THAT I would have been pissed to have been spoiled. But this... nah.
@@burtiebees exactly like thats something that is BIG but some people are more sensitive to this kind of content
I mean in fairness...we all made...choices about our appearance when we were young didn't we. In the 80s I totally rocked a mullet.
Ghilan'nain's choice of attire is far more questionable. Or at least the mask. Kinda funny how the orlesians seem to have taken influence from the ancient elves!
Tarashl: "your awake"
me: you were trying to cross the border right? same as us and that Horse thief over there.
*Flashback Solas with hair:* "Hear the music & the calling of my people, the ancient elves".
(Begins to play Skrillex dubstep music)
I hope to god we get to see flash backs of Mythal
So this basically confirms all the theories about Ghil'lanain; she created the Blight and is directly or indirectly responsible for the Darkspawn. It now makes sense why Solas basically told the Grey Wardens they didn't have a clue what they were doing...
It seems like she experimented with the blight, but wasn't the one who created it. We'll see.
If that’s the case, then Solas sealed what was left of the Blight in the Fade, specifically in the Evanuris’ ‘Golden City’, after he created the Veil, and since it’s practically a magical form of infectious disease, it tainted it Black. So when the Magisters Sidereal including Corypheus entered there, they got infected and spread it throughout Thedas, essentially making it an accident, a massive and apocalyptic accident, but still
My bet is that Andruil got infected by the Blight when she go to the Void and Ghilan'nain experimented with it, infecting Coryphemus, the Architect and the rest with it when they enter into the Black City, and the rest is history.
solas not only with hair but a chiseled blush and contour
And guy-liner
Solas before he slipped out to see Depeche Mode.
LOL
LOL!! I spat out my drink at this one
I dunno, I'd more say The Clash myself.
Not enough Eyeliner for Depeche Mode. 😂
So this formally confirms that Ghil created the Darkspawn, which was already a popular theory. It also makes sense that her Blight then created a means for the elven gods to communicate outside of their Black City prison, so the "dreams" of the Darkspawn are likely powered by the Evanuris. 7 imprisoned Evanuri, 7 dragon gods (5 of which are defeated), leaving the two gods in DATV tied to the two remaining Dragon Gods.
That's what I get from this, anyways.
Also ties in to Andraste hearing voices, as she may be an Archdemon's soul a la Kieran. the soul passing ritual seems extremely similar to how Flemeth/Mythal maintains her "immortality", so I have to assume they are linked. I'm guessing Andruil, who's essence appears tied to Sera, now, and I believe is the soul of Dumat/Andruil. Andruil is the Silent Hunter, and Dumat is the Tevinter Dragon God of Silence.
It's also a possibility that the archdemons were nothing more that the mouthpiece for the elven gods while they were imprisoned meaning they could potentially still exist. If they don't exist anymore then that just insinuates that only Gray Wardens can slay gods, since it was they who consumed a divine creation. Honestly it's rather poetic. Undone by your own creation.
I find it a bit strange still. There's no mention of the malignant aspect of the elven pantheon, they were also imprisoned by Solas (in the abyss rather than the heavens) but oddly absent from all of this
@@kallekallessonsThere is still the old Elven writings in Trespasser that talk about them enslaving thousands, these memories don't seem to be from Solas but other elves from that time. There's also the Horror of Hormak that paints a very specific picture of the gods. It's hard because we have heard the tales from the Dalish that make them out to be benevolent. That's the beauty of the story telling in Dragon Age, there's always half truths that can be interpreted different ways.
I'm looking forward to seeing these memories in Veilguard more than anything else. The whole lore surrounding the Evanuris is fascinating to me. I hope we get to see the others in the past too. Especially Dirthamen 😊
@@lost_witness_8495 It seems to be implied that they were benevolent if Solas said Ghilanain was the most sensitive of us, something happened that corrupted them in that case. I've only seen the red lyrium idol do that in DA2, the red lyrium in Inquisition was never mentioned to be mentally corrupting people did it? The only other case of corruption is the thing from the void that changed Andruil that made Mythal strike her down. That and the blight could be the same thing I guess or from the same place in the abyss, and it's corrupting them all which would explain why Solas is tryign to stay away from it.
@@kallekallessons I think the blight definitely corrupted their nature, as well as power. They may have started off benevolent but not towards the end. I know they have shown Gillain'nain using the blight as a weapon but I still have a feeling the original source of the blight came from the Titans, perhaps Titan hearts. Whatever the gods discovered from the Titans certainly gave them a boost in power. We have seen blighted creatures are able to influence the blight in different ways. Gillain'nain seems to have mastered blight magic. Red lyrium definitely corrupts too. In Inquisition Dagna explains how red lyrium has the blight. The only real source we have for the Evanuris benevolence really comes from Dalish tales. It's kind of established that the Dalish have misinterpreted a lot of what they think is their history, Vallaslin etc.
There is something about the phrase “us” and later when ghil says “children of the gods” that is making me think there is some familial dynamic going on with the evanuris.
ì've always wondering if they're blood related or if it's just a role they put themselves into. in any case, ghilan'nain is always said to have "married" into the family with andruil.
@@NiaMariaePlays or dirthamen who knows those murals with her and the bear are interesting to me too. I wonder if solas isn’t a sibling to Elgar Nan or something similar. I hope we find all of this out. After the war he seems to refer to the evanuris as them but here in his youth he says us. I’m so ready for this game haha.
I wouldn't if it was permanent, but this was a long time ago, in a hight of fancy elvem shenanigans. Not surprised he took a rebel haircut.
Omg as a lover of The Horror of Hormak, I'm so so so glad we get more of Ghilan'nain's creepy experiments!!!!! I'm so excited
oh dying to know what the other dialogue choice of "try to find a cure" says now- bc it's the crossroads/fade, does how Rook reacts change the memory/the way the spirits re-enact it? AH!
With the cure she ends up being something like a grey warden...maybe.
I will be SMASHING that “try a cure” because bellara sassing that is gonna piss me off 💀
No way!! 😭 A few weeks back I guessed depending on how you act in his memories he'll change as a person- as in if you think he was cruel as a rebel he most was. Until I see the other option for the cure chosen I'ma presume I was right
This game is going to make me cry so much, and I’m certain most of it is going to be because of Solas.
SAAAAAMMME
Ghil looks like she'd fit right in with Orlais. Makes me wonder if Orlsian masks were also another concept copied by humans from the elves.
Ghilan'nain sounds more like a university lecturer than the innocent girl she's depicted as in stories.
As far as we can tell, only the modern elves depict her as innocent, everything we have learned about her actual past self is that she was basically Dr. Frankenstein empowered by Cthulhu
@@SethKyros she definitely is more than Mama Stag
@@SethKyrosit actually make more sense the elves imagined the gods like themselves
We know she is definitely a monster and a mad scientist but it threw me when Solas called her the most sensitive of them. Remember the tales of Gillain'nain's apotheosis and how she had an affinity for animals. It just reaffirms the way Bioware spin half truths in their lore surrounding the gods. I love it. It's almost like 2 sides of the same coin. You have the Dalish interpretation of being an animal lover, but flip the coin and she is some crazy Dr Frankenstein experimenting on animals. Imagine what the other Evanuris will be like when the coin is flipped for them !
@@lost_witness_8495 even solas what was he actually a god of? He’s clearly a member of the pantheon so I wonder what role he played.
I don't know which idea frightens me more: that Ghilan'nain invented the Blight, or that Ghilan'nain *discovered* the Blight and thought, "Oh, I can make this even more evil." 😨
I’m betting the Blight started in lyrium after the Evanuris put the Stone to sleep. There’s a codex entry about Andruil making herself armour out of “the void,” then disease and corruption spreading across her lands - it would totally make sense for her wife to start playing with the stuff.
His hair really should be braided or at least tied back... Falling loose the hair would either fall to one side or part in the middle.
i agree! in his concept art from inquisition i think he had some kind of braids and honestly i think it gave him a very "wild" look, suitable for a young wolf i believe
@@melantha5006 I really don't mind the hair, it looks good on him. I just can't help but nitpick about the lack of a hair tie. lol
@@MarieCurtis92 same!
It is pre-veil, maybe the elves used magic on their hair XD
Thank you for sharing Kala! I was not expecting to be interacted with by the memory, this is awesome!! And hope for future Solavellan fanfiction of Memory Solas reacting to the Inquisitor visiting
Honestly, I like that he has changed over the years.
It's not Solas's memory, it's a memory of Solas
absolutely love this fragment of memory it's eerie to see so many thing in the past with rebellion and evanuris were so close to exactly how we theorized for so many years. also I love his hair its exactly what I imagined it looked like and even similar to how I sometimes modded him in some playthroughs. crazy to see it was so close to canon hehe 🥰
Y'all talking about Solas' hair, but here I am admiring the glory that is the Halla-Mommy
The design didn't look intimidating to me at all
This isn’t a spoiler if you know the lore???
I'm guessing the young Solas with hair part is the spoiler
No, the spoiler is the confirmation that Ghil was responsible for creating the blight 😮
Still recoving from the lore reveal that elfs just become bald when they hit a certain age and that has been consistent since Origins.
I thought I was regaining a sense of normalcy in my life again, then boom, egg mullet.
I think we are getting some terrifying villains in this game. Wonderful video!
I imagine that Veilguard will be more of a Boss Gauntlet as each chapter or level ends with one of the Elven Gods being a boss, and the All Father is the final boss of the game.
@@samflood5631So while this is possible I think only Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain broke free from there prison and are the only ones who will be in the game
@@samflood5631and people say this game is gonna bad that sounds like a real fun time boss rushing elven gods
The Dread Mullet
i, for one, support our community boyfriend in his bad haircut era 😂 this has crazy implications tho.....
Pls at least one another memory...oh gods, I'm dying, I want to see them all...
I personally love his hair, it matches with concepts and his eyebrows in DAI
I get goosebumps seeing new Solas content. Its like seeing that special person from 10 years ago that you never stopped thinking about.
I used to think that the blight was an effect of having "sundered" the titans. And that Ghi just took advantage of it for her experiments....This is MAJOR. 😮
I hecking knew it! Been calling the Blight as an evanuris creation that helped lead Solas to the imprisonment of them since DAI and all his snarky comments about the Wardens.
So curious about how that scene would have gone if Rook picked the other option. 👀
I guess that he would have tried and failedbtomcure her and then the rest of the scene wouldnunfold the same as the other
Shared to the fb DA group! I labeled spoilers and cautions and spoilers for spoilers, and I hope no one comes for me about the comment section because I warned spoilers for that, too. Thank you so much for giving me next hyper fixation from this stuff-- Ghilan'nain's VA lol sounds similar to Jean Gilpin to me
i LOOOOOVE his hair! I just wish it was darker. for some reason. just a personal preference. But i love his hair cut
I guess this confirms what i long suspected. The evanuris were behind the blight and darkspawn
I saw a small fraction of that scene yesterday in a preview. It felt like coming across a picture of a loved one in their teens or early twens, when they were still trying to look extra cool. 😅 I just love the difference in style between an older perhaps more sophisticated Solas and his young rebel-wolf self. And great video btw. I can't wait to see more of his memories!
I love the idea that when Solas awoke his hair was so long he just decided screw it and shaved it off
he lost his hair due to his old age
The wolf howl sounds in the background are really cool. Love it
The HAIR! 😂 I always thought Solas might have auburn hair. This is so hilarious and I LOVE it
I was never attracted to the egg.... but the mullet is hot.
Oh god, Ghil's VA reminds me of my old chemcial engineering professor. Not the characterization direction i was expecting tbh, but boy did that give me some flashbacks.
I've seen the devs say that elves who live past a thousand years go bald. Frankly, that just seems silly.
I love Solas in all looks. I'm kinda disappointed they aren't speaking full Elvhen in these memories. It would've bbeen a cool detail, then you could ask Solas or other spirits about it and decide whether or not to believe and possibly unlock dialouges, scene, etc.
With all the new lore about elves, I'm super curious to know if the Maker is an elf as well, considering the Golden City seems to have belonged to them all along. The whole Andrastian religion would probably fall apart if the masses knew...
Not to dissimilar from what would happen if today's modern religions were able to find out the truth (as in what really happened) behind the bible and creation. People romanticize and deitize God to be worshipped. I see God as nothing but a creator
Most likely no maker exists
Ahhh! Thank you for the tasty video Kala
So that was Solas with hair. Not gonna lie I kinda like it.
I think I'll be calling Solas balled Elron from now on🤙
"I'll treasure the chance to be wrong once again, my friend...now mod this god damn hair off of my head".
Aww, let him have his hair! As Solas himself said, “we were all young once.” And who didn’t make some questionable hair decisions in their youth? XD
Who knows 😂 maybe he peed out magic too 😂
I can't understand at all how can anyone perceive Solas as anything but a 100% benelovent true god. Ever since Inquisition/Trespasser I'm on board with him, I loved what he did in the past and I love even more what he planned to do and I can never get over the frustration that Rook fucked it all up. Whatever direction the story goes I don't think I will like it, unless they pull a "Solas is the true saviour of Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Qunari and even the Lizard People" it will just be a major disappointment. And I will fanfic myself a reality where Lavellan and Solas saved the world from itself.
Well there is the whole destroying elven civilization and having effectively low and racist opinions about Modren Thedas with the plan to tear down the Beil risking a world wide apocalypse
YES! Ive always wondered why people cant see that he is just some guy trying to do good.
My worse fears. The Halla lady seems to have always been a fanatic raised to God Hood due to her power. They probably did fear her creations without her realizing it. Many have theorized this, but I never thought it was so close to being true. Was Myhtal the only decent one?
From Solas perspective she is the only decent one. But he's the worst so it's probably a lot more complicated. I think this is teasing us on the idea that Solas actually kills Mythal the first time to prevent the blight from spreading. When he says they did it it's probably a "look what you made me do" type of deal.
@@imnotmephisto I refuse to believe it. Her most devout, Abelas, would have slain the powerless traitor wolf the moment he walked in Mythals sacred temple. On a serious note, I feel all the Elf Gods (save the forgotten ones) did something important for the world of Thedas and elves that can be seen as "shaping the world", and the years plus accomplishments combined with next to limitless power corrupted them on some level. More than likely when the Dredwolf tricked both sides in the war, Mythal refused to join and was killed by her own fellow gods. It would take Elger'nan to power scale someone who took down the mad Andruil. The trickster would have had to set her up to be jumped. Single fair combat is not his style.
@@agnosticgamerdarthdracarys5859 I can't argue with "Solas won't shoot the ones". That's fair. But it doesn't have to be a fight. The reason Solas was so effective as a trickster is because people trust him. She may have had her guard down.
As far as Abelas goes. I think they shouldn't have included that because it leaves too many unanswered questions about why he's not telling you who the dreadwolf is. But as far as Abelas, again, your boy had 1 job. 1 job. He probably helped Solas and didn't even realize he had just bodied Mythal.
Sera is right. His head cramped up thousand years ago
So- if you choose the other option- does it impact the present?
Trying to understand if this implies Ghil created the Blight or if she experimented with something existing and made it worse (like experimenting with a virus can make it more contagious).
I personally would prefer the Blight to be smth more than a crazy scientist project, but oh well. Either way, I'm itching to know more!
Also, Solas's hair is fine, we all had our haircut experiment phase😅
Personal theory: the Blight started in lyrium, Andruil discovered it (her armour made of the void, followed by disease spreading across her lands), and Ghil decided to play with it, ultimately creating the darkspawn.
Whether you like it or not, what’s the point in modding out visual storytelling? Young solas had an ugly haircut in flashbacks. Sounds relatable to me
Any memory you can share I would be so happy! I love that this create more questions, I can't wait to play the game. I imagine there is a Horror of Hormak situation
My first thought when I saw Solas with hair was, “Ohhh, Kala’s not going to like this…”
Fun fact elves loose their hair around turning a millennium old
Why is Solas the only bald elf we see?
@@bunniewood all the guardians in the temple of mythology are too, they just have hoods
@@bunniewood I think the keeper in Origins is bald too
The hair is dope. My question from seeing that memory is did Ghilan’nain create the Blight, or did she simply use it?
k so this seems to imply that ghila"nain created the blight..... meaning the tevinter mages were most likely tainted by the elven gods in the fade and not the maker
i tried not to spoil myself too much for the full scene so i skipped some parts of it, wanna experience it fully once the game is out. tbh this was okay spoiler wise worst spoiler was the in the prologue that someone played without any cuts and THAT SCENE happened, i wasnt ready 😥 i loudly gasped! Im a Bald Solas fan too, but idk i kinda dig it, and am so happy we get to experience some of his back story
Well, they had to let THAT scene happen because they have to show all aspects of him, I suppose....
@@ICityCatI they can never make me hate him 😂
@@SaraPopovic neither can they make me, but they can make others 😅
Coming back because I had a thought: What if the agent whose POV we are in when viewing these memories is Felassan?
(I am delusional and begging, but plllleeeeeease BioWare.)
Don’t worry, I can handle spoilers.
Don't want to know. 🙈 Saved to watch later. Love the thumbnail tho🥰🐺🥚💜
I had a feeling we would learn the true origins of the Blight here, and I wasn't disappointed.
Nice to see and hear Ghilan’nain.
THE HYPE KEEPS GROWING I CANT WAIT ❤
came here after someone already spoiled entire group in FB without any hiding the pic and took picture of solas' memory and the hair and it honestly annoyed me so I felt like I might as well watch this video now.
Conversations with Lucanis would be nice!
Solas doing a skrilix cosplay
I'm so pleased they honored all the age-old fan art 😂
Also i don't understand why they aren't speaking in elven here ? If this was thousands and thousands of years ago, they should be speaking in elven and we should be reading subtitles
It works like that one mission where you enter the Geth concise. The Memory translates into “English.” For your comprehension
Solas with hair generally scares me, but he also looks great with that haircut
Wow late I didn’t even know this video was out so probably not gonna get this noticed but the reason why solas has hair is cause he’s young it’s been confirmed that the older ancient elves are they are bald so this video is basically showing ghilian nan joining the Evanuris so this set up could be like hundreds of yrs before solas actually went to war with the evanuris
I'd like a memory of Solas and Mythal, especially how she was killed 😊 Thank you, Karla
I would love that. I want to see what she actually looked like
I don't know if I can play this with hairy Solas ... I need an emergency mod to keep him bald. Bro wasn't designed to have hair.
The hair is literally based on his Inquisition concept art.
@@alakurielle I literally don't care, that head is meant to be bald.
He had hair?!! Also love how we gain more insight into Solace and why he created the Veil - especially if the Elvhen actually created the Taint that made the Blight. Does that make the Old Gods actually transformed Elvhen? We saw in their trailer they can shapeshifter so can it be they are stuck in that form due to contracting the taint? Or is it Ghil’s test subjects?
I think I would prefer a braided hair or something, he looks so unnatural 😂 I think it's pretty obvious now that it was indeed Evanuris who created the blight sheesh
I really like the long hair, I just wish it was a bit darker in color. I’m keeping my head canon all his hair is gone from stress
honestly the only thing that i dislike about the game so far is how the character's mouths move when they speak it like doesnt match i hope theyve somehow tweaked that since this preview
I like his young haircut, fits his attitude back then, damn can’t wait
"Sorry sorry I need to kill you all in cold blood now"
Classic Solas.
Ghilan'nain's mask is so goofy. Over on Tumblr I said it made me think of all the mask that they wear in Orlais. I just laugh ever time I see.
This is really cool, it looks like the crossroads will play a major role in the narrative instead of just being a cool background for combat.
I’m not sure if it’s okay to mention, but if you’re reading this, are there more moments like this or was this the only one you got to see in the time you were given?
there's several but this is the only one we can show!
the blight is the blight - eradication at all costs
I love it. Ghil sounds ominous
I honestly like Solas with hair. I like to think he went bald because all his "I'm going to save the world by destroying it" attempts caused hair loss. Everyone knows villainy leads to bad hairlines. 😅
I like how he look with hair.
BioWare are so proud of the hair designers that made solas with some too haahah
lool