I'm replaying Inquisition for one of my Veilguard playthroughs (never got around to finishing before it came out) and while this has likely been pointed out already, I think Cole was everything Solas wishes he could've been, or what he wishes the ancient elves could've been.
Cole is a spirit with a physical form, a form he more or less made himself (could be slightly wrong on this, lore details are a little muddied rn with all the new revelations lol). What if the ancient elves could've done that instead of using lyrium from the Titans? What if that whole war could've been avoided? Everything Solas regrets happening is, more or less, solved by Cole and what happened with him

















