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Veilguard spoilers based on the audio from the playtest, an au idea
You know how they say the Inquisitor is super important to solas's story. And how in the recent trailer they said we're going to be seeing that story.
Crazy take- what if some time shenanigans happen and The Inquisitor is the one who actually sees those memories. How the Inquisitor treats solas during the war is how it affects the future "I regained my god powers" solas.
I doubt this would happen, unless 👀
Mostly because the story is very much written for Solas to meet quizy for the first time as a victim of his actions
But you could say he was a different person back then, spirit theory, memory loss from sleep, etc. Only remembering the lessons years later.
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Apparently I'm not done - sollavellan lil story idea
Solas meets the inquisitor and pining for them. Not being able to say anything because of the butterfly effect.
Then when he goes to tell them about him being fen'harel, about how he loved them since day one, knew them long ago, everything. He backs out, and tells them about the vallaslin.
Years later the inquisitor goes back in time meeting Solas with his vallaslin, pining for him as he did once long ago.
They tell this prideful vallaslin wearing elf about the very thing he taught them, instead of saying why they looks so sad, all while dodging telling him the consequences of his actions in case the alternative is far worse.
To finally go back to her time where both can finally talk freely 😭
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Veilguard spoilers based on the audio from the playtest, an au idea
You know how they say the Inquisitor is super important to solas's story. And how in the recent trailer they said we're going to be seeing that story.
Crazy take- what if some time shenanigans happen and The Inquisitor is the one who actually sees those memories. How the Inquisitor treats solas during the war is how it affects the future "I regained my god powers" solas.
I doubt this would happen, unless 👀
Mostly because the story is very much written for Solas to meet quizy for the first time as a victim of his actions
But you could say he was a different person back then, spirit theory, memory loss from sleep, etc. Only remembering the lessons years later.
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Apparently I'm not done - sollavellan lil story idea
Solas meets the inquisitor and pining for them. Not being able to say anything because of the butterfly effect.
Then when he goes to tell them about him being fen'harel, about how he loved them since day one, knew them long ago, everything. He backs out, and tells them about the vallaslin.
Years later the inquisitor goes back in time meeting Solas with his vallaslin, pining for him as he did once long ago.
They tell this prideful vallaslin wearing elf about the very thing he taught them, instead of saying why they looks so sad, all while dodging telling him the consequences of his actions in case the alternative is far worse.
To finally go back to her time where both can finally talk freely 😭
Idk how many of y'all played fable 2, but if Solas acts like the character who guides you through it I'm going to be so happy 😭
She randomly just talks at some moments, guiding you the whole time yet at a distance. It's so good.
If you're looking for another rpg to try out I highly recommend it!
"Never forget even the simplest choices have far-reaching consequences."
- people from the past who got messed up by the powers in control
Spoiler- character archetypes both games
I'm replaying the game and man- But no seriously, the similarities between Theresa and Solas?
- taking the burden of the past without telling others
-leading the main character and manipulating the narrative almost flawlessly
-literally the hardest to tell if they're on our side or not. So many story beats suggest she's twisted it to make things happen.
Like- an old mage trying to stop an ancient artifact from destroying the world, one she claims instantly without explaining it (foci). A few years later they come back and do it again, far more harshly. People must die, the world's better for it. I can see both frowning each time you refuse to kill someone or back out of your promises.
And I know most folk don't like 3, but it really shows how manipulative she is.
I've been playing the new Dragon Quest Monsters game and I've had like, two thoughts -
everything is either huge or tiny and I LOVE it and
I never played the previous game but I know the general vibes of the story. I'm going to cry if they don't give Psaro the same love they did Malroth ;v;
Art spoilers for story (ig?) and a VERY late game monster I grinded for, literally 10h early game. IDK why I did that but-
Psaro IS SO TINY!!!
Also I literally raised E ranks into the true dragonlord- with the end goal of my boi malroth ofc. But getting half his tree done was so time-consuming I gave up and decided to continue into the mid tiers. and the DLC will probably help ngl
May I briefly be that dick to say if u wanted to give nier automata/replicant a go, please do. Excellent story, music, and setting. I black out and think about those games at least once a day
As Gale's on the mind again, time to bring up BG1 lore about mystra!
For anybody who truly doesn't think Gale was groomed, that a good god would NEVER!
This isn't even the first time she's done something like this, sure it wasn't grooming for Dornar Silverhand but she did take over his love interests body so she could manipulate him into children...
History of the Chosen of Mystra is a book about the goddess of magic, Mystra, and how she invested some of her power into mortals. It also
Tldr She takes over a girl (who was enthusiastic to be a goddess's chosen, then unsure once she realized it was for this) to convince a guy (her very loyal follower who was already in love so he said no) for kids.
He watches his wife become a literal shell of herself so that she can have seven children with the energy of both their parents. And he ends up having to kill his wife because she's become a lich shell of a person.
To which after he cuts her head off mystra shows up and goes "yeah sorry, my doing." And he loses it, running from Neverwinter up to the north and disappearing until he dies for 30 years where she continues to protect him.
The worst part? Dornar goes back to her after it all, helping her find more chosen. What Gale could have been.
I feel like a big part of the story that the writers were trying to tell us was that even if you were formally mortal the second you go on to the pedestal of a previous God you inhabit who they were, and mystra is the weave before all.
It fits perfectly with the Durge (and Astarion) storylines, if you don't remove yourself completely from the cycle you will inevitably become what you dislike, even if you intended for the best.
Below is the full txt
History of the Chosen of Mystra:
The reason why Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, invested a portion of her divine might into mortals is not known. One of the popular theories, and one that is gaining more support in light of the other goddess' during that period, is that Mystra foresaw the Time of Troubles (and her own passing at the hands of Helm) and chose to give some of her powers to mortals in order to ensure that her successor (the female mage, Midnight, as it turned out) would have a number of nearly immortal allies in the struggle against the schemes of the gods (the now dead Bane, Myrkul and Bhaal) who precipitated the Time of Troubles by stealing the Tablets of Fate.
The theory goes on to suggest that Mystra informed Azuth at approximately the Year of the Rising Flame (0 DR), more than 1,300 years ago before the Times of Troubles, that some of her power must be put into the hands of mortals who would then become known as Mystra's Chosen. The power would sleep within the bodies of those mortals, allowing Mystra only to call on it only with their permission. It would give the Chosen to innate ability to heal quickly, and would give them life spans far greater than those of ordinary mortals. Mystra speculated that these mortals might be able to call on her power and thereby gain some special abilities, but that these powers would not rival those of a deity. (See "Powers" below.)
The Goddess of All Magic then began to select mortals she thought to be suitable. One of the first was the young mage Elminister, and she also singled out a promising wizard named Khelben Arunsen. Both of them proved to be worthy and capable receptacles of her power, but Mystra's other early attempts to invest her power in living humans were unsuccessful, and she came to realize that only a very few mortals were of stern enough substance to contain such power within themselves without being destroyed or corrupted. Even though some people aside from Elminister and Khelben may have possessed the requisite strength, it is possible that having lived for years prior to being visited by Mystra had set them on a path from which they were not able to deviate. Whatever the reason, the problem needed to be solved. To get around the difficulty, Mystra devised a plan to use herself as a vessel to breed individuals who could be nurtured and acclimated to her power from the very beginnings of their lives.
For the father of these individuals, she picked the best example of human stock she could find: Dornar Silverhand, a nobleman and a former Harper who lived near Neverwinter. Mystra then possessed the body of Elue Shandur, a helf-elven sorceress whom Dornal was already attracted to. Mystra revealed her presence and her plan to Eleu, who happily and eagerly agreed to have the goddess share her body. Eleu had been reluctant, but under the influence of Mystra the woman became a seductress, and Dornal found his advances being suddenly returned with great fervor.
Dornal and Mystra/Eleu were wed in the Year of the Drifting Stars (760 DR). The first of the seven daughters, Anastra Syluné, was born the following winter. Sylune's six sisters emerged at one-year interval thereafter: Endue Alustriel, Ambara Dove, Ethena Astorma (she prefers the name "Storm" these days), Anamanué Laeral, Alassa Shentrantra (known today as the Simbul) and Erésseae Qilué. These siblings have become known in Realmsian lore as the Seven Sisters.
Dornal, who had been kept in the dark about his wife's true nature through the years (presumably because Mystra didn't want to risk losing his services), was disappointed and distraught by the time his sixth child was born; he had always wanted sons as well as daughters. More importantly, he was seeing his wife deteriorate right before his eyes. The strain of coexisting with the goddess all these years had turned Eleu into a withered shell - in essence a lich, clinging to life only because Mystra's power was within her.
When Eleu was carrying the seventh child, Dornal consulted a priest who told him his wife had been possessed by a entity of great magical power. To spare both of them any further agony, he attempted to slay his wife's physical form by severing her head from her body.
As soon he had done this, Mystra was forced to reveal herself to him, and she went on to explain her scheme. Just as she had worried would happen, Dornal was aghast at how he and his wife had been used by the goddess. He turned his back on the corpse of his wife, abandoned his lands and his children, and vanished into the North. Mystra bore him no ill will, and in fact protected him for the final 30 years of his life. When Dornal finally did meet his end he called out to Mystra, and the goddess granted his continued existence as her servant. Now known as the Watcher, Dornal Silverhand travels the world unseen by mortals on a continuing mission to locate candidates to swell the ranks of the Chosen and to identify possible threats to Mystra and her minions
I've wanted to draw Gale on his desk, but there are no solid references online that aren't the video itself.
I figured I'd post this quick study in case others would like to have a look (No promises the layout is accurate)
If there are some edits or errors of note feel free to lmk, also if any could find a way to camera sweep the room I'd cry
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