Reasons why Solas needs to listen to Varric Tethras and not Ruin Everything Forever
Varric: Whatās with you and the doom stuff? Are you always this cheery or is the hole in the sky getting to you?
Solas: Iāve no idea what you mean.
Varric: All the āfallen empireā crap you go on about. Whatās so great about empires anyway?
Varric: So we lost the Deep Roads, and Orzammarās too proud to ask for help. So what? Weāre not Orzammar and weāre not our empire.
Varric: There are tens of thousands of us living up here in the sunlight now, and itās not that bad.
Varric: Life goes on. Itās just different than it used to be.
Solas: And you have no concept of what that difference cost you.
Varric: I know what it didnāt cost me. Iām still here, even after all those thaigs fell.
Solas: You truly are content to sit in the sun, never wondering what you couldāve been, never fighting back.
Varric: Ha, youāve got it all wrong, Chuckles. This is fighting back.
Solas: How does passively accepting your fate constitute a fight?
Varric: In that story of yoursā-the fisherman watching the stars, dying alone. You thought he gave up, right?
Varric: But he went on living. He lost everyone, but he still got up every morning. He made a life, even if it was alone.
Varric: Thatās the world. Everything you build, it tears down. Everything youāve got, it takes. And itās gone forever.
Varric: The only choices you get are to lie down and die or keep going. He kept going. Thatās as close to beating the world as anyone gets.
Solas: Well said. Perhaps I was mistaken.