Wesley LeBlanc of Game Informer on Twitter: “Just a heads up: No feature on Dragon Age: The Veilguard today – it’s coming tomorrow [July 4th] instead. And to temper expectations just a bit, as it’s a holiday, it’s a quick, newsier story rather than an in-depth feature” [source]
Solas was the first romance (and second playthrough) I did in dai so I didn’t really know what differences it made to the gameplay at the time. I mean there are only a couple flirts you can do in the first half of the game, and technically the actual romance path doesn’t start until Skyhold, so really didn’t know what to expect from it.
So fast forward a little bit to when Corypheus attacks Haven, and while during one of the trebuchet parts my Lavellan got downed. This wasn’t the first time this had happened, obviously, since this was my second playthrough. But I was absolutely not expecting Solas to yell “Fenedhis!” in a panicked voice when it happened.
The way he said it felt oddly out of character for him that I literally paused the game then and had to look up wtf he said and why. That’s when I found out that romanced companions have different dialogue for when inky gets downed in battle and my heart just melted. Especially considering everything that happens during that part of the game.
Because that happened during my first solavellan playthrough, I’ve always accepted the headcanon that Solas fell for Lavellan all the way back in Haven but was never going to act on it until she eventually made the first move. And is also the reason for why he drops the “Ar lath ma” bomb when he does.
“I walk the dinan’shiral. There is only death on this journey.”
Faux stained glass ‘triptych’ art of Solas’ journey, inspired heavily by the frescoes, art, Veilguard gameplay trailer and of course Nick Thornborrow’s amazing The Chant stained glass, as a sort of companion piece to my previous stained art Dragon Age: Trespasser a long time ago (WHERE I SAID I WOULDN’T DO A TRIPTYCH BUT LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW??)
this took me more than a week of sleepless nights so imma lie down now bye
do you guys ever like forget you’re interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go “oh wait i’m like crazy crazy about this yeah”
