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in case you want confirmation on whether Solas starts sobbing after Lavellan says “There is no fate but the love we share” 🥹
They made bodies from the earth. And the earth was afraid. It fought back. But they made it forget
ehm... this... you know?
Hot damn I love this romance
🥰 these two
Before Veilguard's release I was theorizing the Veilguard companion characters might have been designed to be parallels to the known Evanuris, but I couldn't place all of them.
Now that I've played the game (almost twice) I think I've figured them all out.
Rook - Elgar'nan, the leader. Controller of light and dark. The one who influences the others.
Neve - Mythal, who can be a fierce protector or a source of inspiration and hope.
Harding - Andruil, the hunter, who went mad from the Void and had to fight her way back
Bellara - June, the inventor. Master of magical artifact.
Lucanis - Dirthamen, keeper of secrets, who mastered the twin ravens of Fear and Deceit, and returned from death.
Davrin - Ghilan'nain, Master of Monsters, Keeper of Halla.
Emmrich - Falon'Din, the necromancer. Friend of the dead.
Taash - Sylaise, who's fire cannot be quenched.
Which leaves Solas to play the role he always has - Fen'Harel, the trickster and betrayer, who could ally with them, if only they will listen to his advice and try to protect their world as best as they can.
Pardon me for reblogging myself. I was completing a companion quest when I realized that every single companion quest deals with the companions defeating a corrupted version of themselves.
We are literally watching the Evanuris battle their demons.
Aelia (Neve) - A blood mage who "protects" her city via blood magic, fear, and propaganda.
Shade (Harding) - A shade of herself made of wrath and anger.
Cyrian (Bellara) - A master of magical artifacts easily corrupted by the emotions of a tyrant
Illario (Lucanis) - An assassin who uses secrets to deceive and gain power.
Isseya (Davrin) - A Grey Warden corrupted by Blight who made monsters of her wards, the griffons.
Johanna (Emmrich) - a necromancer who despises Spirits and the deceased and sees them only as tools.
Dragon King (Taash) - an adaari who wants to use his fire breath to rule others
Elgar'nan (Rook) - the final battle with the last standing god, who caused the corruption of all the others
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Ghilan’nain’s Elvish
People seemed to enjoy the psychic bitchfight post so I figured I’d do one for Ghilan’nain’s lines in the ‘Siege of Weisshaupt’, too. Once again, I'm no expert, all glory goes to to [ FenXshiral ], and remember this is a vibe-based language so results vary with context, inflection, speaker and so on.
In the lead-up to the boss battle, First Warden Jowin will show up to take Davrin’s place as final sacrifice, only to be snatched up by Ghilan’nain before he can deliver the blow. After remarking on the quality of his blood, Ghil rips out his heart, turns it into an archdemon strength buff, then drops the used-up Warden like hot garbage. A moment later Wyrm!Razikale emerges from the moat to start the fight.
Ghilan’nain has two lines in this cutscene:
“Lasa hedallin ghellara”
(Spoken either to or about the First Warden as she manipulates his blood/heart).
Lasa = grant/allow/give
hedallin = blood of a noble kill/sacrifice; blood of [your] defeat
1. hel/hell (adj. noble, moral, just) + dala (v. kill, destroy) + lin (n. blood, person m.)
or 2. [hela (v. contest, oppose, fight) + dala (v. kill, destroy)] + lin (n. blood, person m.)
The use of ‘noble kill’/‘blood of your defeat’/‘sacrificial blood’ feels very deliberate here. Just before Ghilan’nain grabs him, Jowin recites the Grey Warden motto, “In war, victory! In peace, vigilance! In death, sacrifice!” . She’s throwing his words back at him, saying his ‘sacrifice’ would’ve been a waste... she'll put it to better use. She even taunts Rook with this later in the fight: “Witness! A Warden’s blood to birth your own destruction.”
ghellara = [my] beast more strong
ghe (n. monster, beast, creature) + elvara (v. to make difficult, hardy, sturdy, complex; from adj. elvar) + el (more, much, many. Used as a superlative) + ara (pron. sb. poss. my)
= “The blood from your sacrifice will strengthen my beast.”
"fenathra mellas”
(Spoken as Razikale’s transformation completes)
The natural assumption is fen = wolf, which would result in: fen (wolf) + ath (embodiment of) + ra (prn. it) or ara (my, possessive), making it, ‘the wolf’ in a kinda roundabout way. More like, “that wolf guy” or even, "my wolf guy" instead of a name or title. But I don’t think Ghilan’nain is invoking Solas or "the wolf” here. He isn’t an opponent at this point in the game, and neither her nor Elgar’nan see him as a real threat anyway. Additionally, the way she says the word ‘fenathra’ is quite soft — almost wistful — especially by comparison to the deep, guttural, delivery of, “mellas”. I think the root word she’s using here is actually ‘fenor’.
She calls Razikale her greatest creation. She mourns her death; pitifully telling Elgar’nan that Rook took her away. Razikale is more than just important to her — she is the very embodiment of the word 'precious'.
fenathra = My Precious One
fenor (precious) + athe (used to change the meaning of an existing word into, ‘physical manifestation of’, or ‘embodiment of’, eg. “the dead” from death) + ara (my)
Mellas = Allow now / Go!
melana (adv. now, in relation to ‘time’ or ‘when’) + lasa (v. grant, allow, give, let - imperative verb form)
= “Go, My Precious One!”
I've been working on her remaining lines for several days now and am currently tearing my hair out about it, but I will add them to this post as a reblog once I finish!
As a bonus I'll throw in Solas' dialogue to Davrin when he briefly joins your party at the end of the game.
Dialogue source: Solas Interaction with All Companions [ x ]
"Mala shivanas ar athim"
mala (your) shivana (to do one’s duty, conjugated) ar (I) athim (humble, humility)
The Elvish scans in Solas’ Hallelujah cadence, so I preserved it for the translation.
= “I am humbled by your duty," or, "Your sense of duty humbles me"
And so a prison of regret is transformed into home by Wisdom and Hope.
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thinking very casually about how in one of felassan's codex entries he writes that solas always thought mythal would join them one day, and that he believed it so strongly that he made a place for her near him in the fade, but she never came, and he never saw her again. thinking even more casually about how all these many centuries later solas seems stunned when lavellan comes to join him. comes to stand at his side and support him, as he hoped mythal would do. how stunned he is when the person he loves (who he did not even dare hope would join him, this time) does exactly that. in the fade, for the rest of their days.
It hits even harder if you think of how Solas sacrificed the fade that he loved, his morals, and committed atrocities at Mythal’s request and the one time he asked for something in return, for her to join him, she never showed up. And the place he created for her was everything she could have wanted.
So then when it comes to Lavellan, he expects nothing. Why would she follow him, after the lies and the absence, to a place he believes is terrible, sacrificing the world she knows for him? He gave everything to Mythal and she couldn’t put aside her wants to be there for him, so then why would Lavellan after everything he’s done to her?
But then she does. He didn’t even have to ask. And it brings tears to his eyes to realize that her love is unconditional and that he is enough.
Solas looking at Lavellan vs Solas looking at Mythal
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There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.
The elephants yearn for the mines
can't wait to see people draw Davrin in all sorts of heroic poses fit for illustrations of Arthurian legends, Bellara in pretty pastel sundresses, Emmrich wearing nothing but copious amounts of gold jewelry, Taash in bodybuilder poses (and shirts with the sleeves cut off and the sides scooped), Harding in the coziest of furs, Neve in suits and posed like a Leyendecker illustration, and Lucanis lit like a Rembrandt looking menacingly back over his shoulder, and for everyone to be so fucking correct