Meta Masterlist: Dragon Age

meta masterlist: dragon age

The Suspicious Fact that Solas is an Atheist (But He’s Not Really?) or: Due to the Nature of Spirits and the Fade and Belief-As-Worship, The Evanuris Were Maybe Actual Deities and We’re All In Deep Shit (w additional commentary) (more additional commentary)

The Mistranslation of “Him Solas Evanuris” and how that poem may be telling the story about how Solas became an Evanuris

About Titans, the Blight, and The Evanuris

Are the Old Gods the Keys to the Evanuris’ Prison?

My Dragon Age 4 Expectations

Solavellan: the Romance about the Sacredness of Consent

Solas Takes Back the Anchor and He Has It Now

One of the Cole + Solas banters is secretly about Mythal

the Puzzle of the Dead Hand in Ghilain’nain’s Grove 

more about Elves being Spirits

Inquisition, A Game About Empathy And Compassion

My Very Earliest Solas Meta :’)

Every Dragon Age: Inquisition character is a Foil to Solas

Parallels between Solas and the Mayor of Crestwood

Why Lavellan Would Still Be Worried For Solas After Two Years

The Elven Faction in DA4 Sounds Intimidating

The irony of players hating Solas when his character arc depends entirely on you and how you treat him

The Man on the Island

All New, Faded For Her

Flemeth and Kieran in the Fade

The Nightmare Demon, Solas and “Dying Alone”

The Forbidden Ones and the Forgotten Ones

Imshael Wants Solas To Win

The Hunt of the Fell Wolf

Solas and Skyhold

Solas and the Eluvians

Solas and Felassan

Solas and Mihris

RARE CONTENT/DELETED CONTENT:

Master Tag for All Cut/Rare Content

Entire Text Script/Talktable of Inquisition

All The Music In Dragon Age: Inquisition For Download

in-house developer character descriptions!

rare dialogue - Solas and Morrigan talk about Mythal being a Goddess of Vengeance

more rare dialogue from the Temple of Mythal

scene description of the Flemeth + Solas scene

cut dialogue - Morrigan in the last scene with Solas and Flemeth

Everything Solas has to say about the Blight/Red Lyrium

Good details about the Post-Temple-of-Mythal conversation

The Default Gamestate for DA4??

Cut Inquisition Quest - “The Big Bad Wolf”

happy trans visibility day, everybody

Potential.

Every dead soul was once a living organism. Plants, trees, animals and people in Soul Society were all once alive. Humans in particular were created in such a way that their potential spanned out before them, if only they had the courage and power to grasp it.

Upon death, a human soul can go one of two ways: locking away their rationality, decision-making capacity and ability to say no, stop, enough, for the gain of power, the retention of growth and evolution; or, excising their potential, their ability for growth and power and ability to become more in such a way that allows them to keep their mind and individual thoughts.

According to shinigami, who in many ways don't understand or even know the meaning of potential, this is the difference between a soul that passes on, or a soul that hollowfies.

The true difference in them, is that a "plus" soul or Shinigami has cut out and/or eroded away their power of progress, in a way that is subtle enough not to be noticed; but, in hindsight or from the viewpoint of a foreign intelligent being, is all too clear and unsettling. A Hollow, meanwhile, has changes that are so obvious as to mark them as an entirely different species, even though they aren't; they trade their higher minds - temporarily - to keep the ability to grow and change and evolve to greater strengths and appearances. And the stronger they get, the closer a resemblance they achieve to their original form: the human one. This, after all, is how Vasto Lorde are born, and they are frighteningly similar to humans in so many ways.

Of the two types of soul, Hollows are the ones who, in the end, have the opportunity to truly become "human" again - albeit, without a physical body.

Shinigami, meanwhile, are stuck; their souls find comfort, an equilibrium, and simply stop there. They have a set amount of power, conforming most often in a 100:1 ratio to what they had as humans (and even that only partially accessible without training), and no more than this. By cutting off their growth capacity, so they have limited themselves to remaining as a fraction or less of what they once were, or could have become.

When attempting to create a hybrid, a Vizard, the process was likened by Aizen to knocking down the barriers between Shinigami power and Hollow power. I, however, hold with a... mildly different hypothesis.

I suspect that Aizen may simply have returned to those Shinigami their own potential for growth.

Bro abby is literally the human version of ">:3"

I mean LOOK AT HER

wings are so fucking cool imagine being able to just move part of your body and fly up into the sky whenever you wanted. i'm normal about this. no i'm not i wish i was a dragon.