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Incomplete list of mods for Dragon Age: Veilguard I would love to have:
1. *spoiler* A mod to remove Varric's . Not the part where he got hurt, but rather the lines that confirm he died. His death doesn't really add anything to the game for be, but instead subtract a bit of fun for me.
2. *spoiler* A mod that removes aharing/Devrin's implied death. I would really like something that suggest that Harding gets "stone-napped".
3. A mod that gives any amount of nuance to scenes involving Solas. It is both annoying to really only be able to have the opinion he sucks, and that your whole team also just goes on about how much he sucks. It really takes away from the game for me.
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āDATV is about hope and is escapistā then why is the story retroactively trying to paint Solas, the only person of the Evanuris who used his power and privilege to help end slavery and liberate the elves, as a prideful arrogant self-centered bastard who secretly loved being worshipped as a god when every single thing he has ever said and done contradicts those assumptions made by the Veilguard companions.
Oh Iām sorry, do you think slave rebellions can be accomplished through peaceful means? Through purely decentralized anarchist uprisings? Are we trying to argue that Solas didnāt rebel the ācorrect wayā? Are we trying to argue that Solas actually wanted to be worshipped as a god by those he freed. Solas, a man who wanted nothing more than to be a spirit of Wisdom and act as nothing more than an entity that would help people act and think mindfully?
The gameās dialogue for the companions tries to make it out like Solas enjoyed being a rebellion leader, rather than it being one of the most frustrating and agonizing and embittering experiences of his existence. The game is so clumsy that is seems to imply that Solas trying to do right by the elves with the rebellion was another mistake on his part, as if someone trying to fight for the rights of an oppressed people is something that is ever a mistake one could make.
Real liberal (derogatory) hours here. Even at your most uncharitableāSolas helped give the elves bodies and helped the Evanuris secure their powerāhe was trying to correct that mistake and was the only one of the Evanuris that was actively doing so. Mythal was dragging her ass the entire fucking time trying to be a fence-sitting centrist that thought you could actually parley and negotiate with slave owners. Oh but wait, Veilguard conveniently proves you can! Just look at Dorian! Apparently all you needed to dismantle centuries upon centuries of brutal inhumane slavery was a dandy saying āplease let the slaves goā and everything is all but resolved in ten fucking years. Solas, why didnāt you try taaaalking to the blood magic warmongering slave sacrificing Evanuris? Maybe things wouldāve gone better if youād just asked nicely š„ŗ
Veilguard tries to go the āSolas is corrupting into Prideā and they botched it so terribly. Solas is prideful, but the writers made him out like his problem was a secret vanity or desire for power. No, his problem was that he thought he was correct. That is a 100000% entirely different issue and it shows that the writers have no concept of nuance for psychology or even what Wisdom and even Pride are. And for people to swallow āWow Solas was just a power-hungry arrogant bastard all alongā is like reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee āthe abandoned prototype of To Kill a Mockingbird that was meant to remain an unused manuscriptāand thinking that is the real story and everything established in TKaM about Atticus Finch was just smoke and mirrors. Like come the fuck on.
Solasās issue is that as a mortal he is inundated with mortal feelings that interfere with the purity of Wisdom. All mortals have levels of dignity and pride that are inextricably linked and mutually dependent to their recognition of their own personhood. Self-esteem, if you will. Wisdom is the act of deliberating and determining and enacting the bestāmost morally correct, most benign, most benign, most āgoodāācourse of action in a scenario based on an aggregation of information and experiences. Solasās āPrideā and biggest flaw is that he believes his judgments are the most objectively correct or best because this guy has spent tens of thousands of years watching and observing and experiencing people make the same mistakes over and over, behave in similar cyclical predictable ways in matters of love, power, violence, hatred, greed, tyranny, cruelty, ignorance, oppression, pride, grief, etc. Because Wisdom is derived from being able to apply knowledge and history and experience to solve a present problem, Solas naturally thinks heās no spring chicken to all this and that heās got a better grasp than most. Where Wisdom turns into Pride is the nature of the mortal mind, which for many likes to rely on rules of thumb and shortcuts and patterns to solve issues. While this is present in the dissemination of Wisdom, the flipside is that it can leave one vulnerable to stubbornness and partiality to oneās viewpoint regardless of new developments. Again, the mortal mind likes shortcuts because it saves time. Puzzling out whether this person or that scenario is truly uniquely unique every single time, wastes time. This is how presumptions and stereotypes arise. That Solas could only observe modern Thedas through what was reflected in the Fade gave him a half-understanding of people. That he chose to develop a resentment toward the Dalish after one bad encounter and remain detached from other races before joining the Inquisition meant he had fallen prey to these intellectual pitfalls, which is the result of his mortal nature interfering with his Wisdom nature.
Solas has never wanted to rule over people. He has never once wanted to be worshipped even at his most manipulative and Machiavellian. He wants to sit under a tree in the summer and discuss idly whether fire could be considered alive and if good requires evil to exist and the pros and cons of allowing collective memory to remain unchallenged.
Like of all things, the butchering of Solasās character pisses me off to no end. Dislike him if you want, hate him if you want, but donāt for a second try to misconstrue that his problem is that he has secret aspirations for godhood. Does he think ancient elves are a superior race? There are definitely indications. But he doesnāt think of himself as someone to be worshipped by anyone, least of all other elves. Very huge distinction.
Actually I think one of the reasons why this game is so awful to get through is how it treats abuse, abusers, and abuse victims.
Under cut due to length of rambling:
Anyone else decide that Varric totally didn't die? I am 100% convinced Hawke popped out of the fade and dragged Varric to their secret hideout to recover.
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elementary may have been copaganda but they were really onto something with their version of holmes he's autistic. he's a sub. he's canonically into bondage. he's a recovering addict. he keeps bees. he's tattooed AND hairy. his posture is insane. he texts in a near-undecipherable string of abbreviations and acronyms. he's the most irritating man in new york city. he's even aromantic