Ma abelas dar uth

My sorrow is unending. (Because Solas broke my heart). Spoiler alert, this blog is it's own spoilers and some posts might not be tagged such. My main blog is wisowind and I write @wisowind on AO3

[maabelasdaruth]

Herald of Fen'Harel: The Fox and The Bound

Amelin Lavellan was nineteen years old and first of her clan when she went exploring into a cave and found far more than she bargained for.

Celeste Ackerman (alternative name for myself) died on Earth and isekai-ed themselves to the world of dragon age, pulling her way through the void to become real in Thedas.

Emerging somewhere between a possession and a new person, Amelin Celeste returns to her clan with all my knowledge of dragon age and waits for the events of Inquisition so that she can go as a spy to the conclave and attempt to save her clan, change the world and the heart of the dread wolf.

[annori]

Mark Haber, from Saint Sebastian’s Abyss (2022)

[solavellan--hell]

I think a common misunderstanding towards Solavellans (or Solas enjoyers in general) is that they like this purified fanon version of him as this poor innocent guy who did the things he did by accident and shouldn’t be held responsible for any of it.

No. His appeal lies in him as a metaphor for all the ways you can be broken and bent and twisted that your reality becomes as twisted as you. The line between love and manipulation, and how faint it can become under the right circumstances. How easy it can be for a victim to turn into a perpetrator. The themes of duty and regret, social identity and the nuances of perspective when it comes to morality. Discussion of how much intentions and external influence actually matter when it comes to one’s actions. And, my personal favorite, the question of how far can you go and still remain redeemable.

Most Solas enjoyers I have seen and interacted with like him because of this, not in spite of it. There are plenty of very hot less morally confusing characters to love in this series, all with their own lovable traits. And sure, some people might try to water down his character, but that’s a minority in my experience.

[pooyaaaaan]

2026/5/23 Today's drawing.

Tried to jump on the watermelon trend about 100 years late, but I just couldn’t picture Solas actually biting into watermelon (I know that’s not the point, okay!!), so it somehow turned into Solas taking the metaphor a little too seriously 😂

The full version is on X and Bluesky

[hejee]

did this between comms again and yep im making my own da4 canon

[okthisway]

Solas: Now, if you will come with me, I can show you what has prevented me from reaching Elgar'nan… and you can tell me your plan.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Found abusive family

[rabid-raygun]

Saw this on twitter but with a critical error so here have the fixed version lol

[liaragaming]

Pfft. Solas isn't straight. Let's be real. I don't care if he's only romanceable by fem-Lavellan in Inquisition. You cannot convince me this man hasn't fucked men.

[burning2know]

for some reason the "caught him off guard" thing makes me think that solas thought himself a (mostly) gay man until fem lavellan magically revealed herself to be more than a dirty ignorant ratty baby dalish elf

[liaragaming]

😂🤣😭

[emarttt]

Ellana always thought the dreadwolf never cared about her after everything that happened 10 years ago, but she actually was far from his truth…

This is what I had in mind for the solavellan reunion in veilguard, hope you like it !

[miatheenchanted]

/iris by goo goo dolls is the perfect solavellan song and you can't tell me otherwise

[beastliness]

that man is beautiful like ripe fruit to me and I am approaching him with a paring knife

[foxeareddevilish]

it's crazy how, when replaying the DAO, DA2, and DAI, literally everything is suddenly about Solas to me. everything mirrors him in some way, everything is foreshadowing one way or another.

This shield from DAO is called the "Fade Wall" ffs!

The fucking "Andraste's Mabari" song Codex from DAI is about Solas and you can't change my mind!

Solas goes to sleep, almost killed by trying to avenge Mythal's murder, only to wake up centuries later to go on his Din'an'shiral to complete his work and go "lay on the pyre" (kill himself) in the ritual that will tear down the Veil. (Which was NOT the ritual at the start of Veilguard, but oh well.)

Solas and his role in the narrative are baked into the foundations of the whole franchise, no matter how much Veilguard may or may not have botched the landing narratively.

[vhen-harel]

“But you were always stubborn. Insubordinate, unmanageable. Even by Mythal’s reckoning.” ~ Elgar'nan.

God I just love this line because it reveals so much about Solas. It basically suggests that Solas was never someone that anyone could fully control - though it certainly sounds like some tried to. Calling him “insubordinate” and “unmanageable” is just who he’s always been.

What really stands out for me is “even by Mythal’s reckoning,” because as close as him and Mythal were, she never could fully rein him in. Can you imagine how many times Solas would have pissed Mythal off? So whatever their relationship was, it was never about him blindly following her. If anything, she’s being used as the benchmark here - if she couldn’t manage him, no one could.

It also makes his rebellion feel like the natural result of who he already was.

[obsidian-bone]

I drew him so pretty and now everyone else looks ugly by comparison 😩

[stonesense]

solas you are such a pushover oh my god. + slightly approves + slightly approves + slightly approves. “nobody alive could possibly meet my high standards” “[asks the obvious question left open by what he said]” “fuck they’re meeting all my standards... a wisdom i thought not to see in this age...” i’ll literally never be able to experience low approval solas just because i’m too compelled to press all the dialogue buttons

[dalishious]

History repeating itself.

Solas and Felassan were obviously close, in a way that I personally see as hard to define between friendship and romance. Whatever you want to call it, their love for each other was obviously very strong.

We don't know for sure why Felassan kept his vallaslin. His most well-established trait is his value for freedom, so I figure there must be a motive within him somewhere to keep what in his day were slave markings. And so I thought, maybe he uses them as a symbol of rebellion in his own way.

Amaris, meanwhile, sees the vallaslin as having been reclaimed and given a new purpose in modern times: marking her as Dalish. Because her biggest fear is assimilation, it means a lot to her to carry that recognition of her culture. So in a way, she too uses it as a rebellious purpose.

I think part of the reason Solas breaks up with Amaris in this moment, is because he realizes that she has proven to him what Felassan tried to say before Solas killed him: the people of modern times are real. And that means he killed Felassan for nothing. We know how hard it is for Solas to admit he's wrong, and this probably crushes him in a way that's scary. Solas pushing Amaris away is both out of grief for Felassan, and fear of repeating his past mistake.

[clairedelune-13]

Underrated moment that needs to be brought back.