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arlathvhenan · 2 days

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I think it’s weird that people try and point the finger at Solas for being racist and bigoted when I don’t think I could name a single character in DAI who isn’t?

Except maybe Cole and he’s the exception as he’s a spirit who’s newly crossed over and therefore can’t possibly have been shaped by the world’s prejudice.

But as for the rest, has no one listened to their dialogue? Even at their most well meaning, each character has had their actions and world view shaped by a certain form of prejudice. Casual racism is kind of everywhere in Dragon Age.

Just look at Dorian. He says some genuinely racist things to Solas over the course of their banter. And remember that Dorian is an incredibly privileged man who was born to and benefited from the culture that built itself on the ashes of another civilization and enslaved/abused/dismantled the personhood of the survivors for generations. Tevinter is actively a slave state, and at no point does Dorian really give the impression that he’s all too bothered by it. He outright denies the personhood of Spirits, an assessment we definitively know to be not just inaccurate but deeply immoral.

Then there’s Bull. His banter with Solas reveals so much about them both. In particular, it reveals that Bull looks down on pretty every other culture. He holds up the Qun, an ultra authoritarian nightmare state, as the pinnacle of civil order and admits that he thinks the world would be better if they simply conquered and subjugated everyone.

Even Cassandra, Blackwall, and Varric, as much as I love them all and consider them genuinely good people, have their prejudices.

As for Solas, I’m honestly not sure you can call him a racist? It’s just a gross misreading and oversimplification of his character. People point to his plans for the Veil as being genocidal. But they aren’t. Solas hasn’t set out to wipe all Non-Elves from the face of Thedas. He’s not trying to purge the world of all other races. He’s trying to fix a mistake that he made long ago, one which has left the world in a state he can only perceive as nightmarish and doomed.

I feel like people forget that Solas was only back in the world for about a year prior to Inquisition, and in that year he likely experienced nothing but violence and cruelty. The few redeeming things the world had left before he put up the Veil are all but gone. His people have been scattered, subjugated, and enslaved. They’ve had everything taken from them by this new world he helped create, and that clearly horrifies him.

Solas is absolutely misguided, and he’s absolutely stubborn. But racist? I don’t really think you can call him any more prejudiced than the rest of the characters, except in his case we’re talking about someone who is quite literally from another world. He is as alien to the world and its people as they are to him. And still he shows care and respect to others, despite how awful they’ve been to him.

He respects Cassandra and comes to enjoy her company despite how hostile she was towards him at first. He genuinely befriends Varric, reads his books, jokes with him. He never attempts to fight with Sera, despite her being an outright bully towards him. He shows compassion for Blackwall. He even comes to show respect for Bull and Dorian, despite their various ideological differences.

So, bigoted? No I wouldn’t say he is. Bigoted implies that Solas is incapable of tolerating a worldview outside his own, which is demonstrably not the case. Solas can and does accept the arguments and opinions of others. More than once he concedes to Varric. If you’ve played a Dalish Inquisitior who either befriends or romanced him, he changes his opinion about the Dalish, too.

The only subjects he won’t budge on are the ones that a person really shouldn’t?? He sure won’t entertain the idea of slavery being anything but a horrible atrocity, and that’s a bad thing? He’s a hardliner when it comes to Spirits being recognized as people, because they are and it’s the morally correct stance to have. Again, why is that a bad thing?

What is it with people taking characters who have been made victims by either society or circumstance and are vehemently anti-slavery and trying to cast them as monsters who go too far? I keep seeing it in different franchises cough gameofthrones and it’s starting to make me genuinely uncomfortable.

#solas dragon age #solas dread wolf #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #reposting an old meta for organizational purposes

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sapphic-violets-ink · 9 months

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#baldur's gate 3 #dragon age dreadwolf #meme #one day #5k #10k

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chaosroid · 10 months

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#if bioware won't give me my fix then larian studios will #baldur's gate #dragon age #baldur's gate 3 #dragon age dreadwolf #meme

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halfwayriight · 5 months

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Sneak peek at the world of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

#daedit #gamingedit #dragonageedit #dadreadwolfedit #dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #da dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #myedits #*gifs #mydragonage #2k

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markmefistov · 9 months

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Holy Elven Trinity ✨

So while I'm in my flop era rn let's take a look at these 3 pieces that I did some time ago, I love them т_т

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Commissions : Open

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #dragon age origins #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #bioware #my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #fanart #art #solas #fenris #zevran arainai #dragon age art #commissions are open

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inkeyjay · 1 year

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I am the REGRET of a GOD, YOU-

#dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #dreadwolf #dread wolf rises #solas #regret #tevinter nights #demon #dragon age fanart #dragon age inquisition

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hejee · 5 months

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my favorite problematic senior citizens

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #solas dragon age #solas #flemeth #mythal #solavellan #lmao there’s solavellan there #this is a commission break doodle got wayyyyy ambitious #i was having a really bad art block but then something hit me #i was like damn i need to draw my fave gilf of all time flemeth but then i thought yea i should put solas too #and then this happened lol #what is flemeth holding? she’d using a phone (don’t ask me how just go with it)

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mostwantedpotato404 · 5 months

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I was summoned

#anders da2 #da2 anders #dragon age 2 #dragon age awakening #dragon age #dragon age day #da2 #dragon age dreadwolf

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zevrans · 1 year

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DRAGON AGE SERIES (2009-?) dev. Bioware

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larkoneironaut · 3 months

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POV: You’re on a date with Zevran Arainai 🍷

#dragon age #bioware #my art #da4 #dao #dragon age dreadwolf #antiva #antivan crows #zevran #zevran arainai #we'll need a tour guide as soon as we reach Treviso in Dreadwolf...just sayin #manifesting zevran into dreadwolf #come on chant it with me #ZEVRAN AS ADVISOR ZEVRAN AS ADVISOR ZEVRAN AS ADVISOR #Valentine's day art i guess

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dyscomancer · 8 months

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i have zero faith in dragon age 4 being worth a shit now. how do you let such phenomenal talent go to waste like this? what the fuck is happening behind closed doors at bioware?

#dragon age #dragon age 4 #dragon age dreadwolf #mary kirby #david gaider #da4 #dadw #from the desk

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arlathvhenan · 1 day

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I don’t really understand why people complain about the Inquisitor being somehow contrived into plot relevance when that’s sort of how all RPG video games work? At least when it comes to ‘PC saves the day’ type games. It’s kind of a given that some contrivance is necessary to get the Player front and center where the action is concerned.

The Warden was conveniently selected by Duncan to serve the order. Then they were conveniently saved by Flemeth, not out of kindness, but because Alistair happened to be relevant to Flemeth’s plans and The Warden happened to be with him when he was rescued.

Then you have Hawke, whom the plot demanded to be in Kirkwall, ergo Hawke conveniently had family there. Hawke also happened to be conveniently saved by Flemeth because—again—she had some scheme-hatchery afoot and for some damn reason happened to know that Hawke would be going to The Free Marches and she needed a gofer. Then you have the further contrivance with Corypheus and Hawke’s bloodline nonsense which I won’t even get into.

I don’t see how the Inquisitor is any more contrived than either of these two, in fact it kind of feels the least contrived given your character was literally in the wrong place at the wrong time. Everything after that falls neatly into place. You were screwing around where you shouldn’t have been, ended up with a power you don’t understand completely by accident, and now you’ve got enemies who either fear that power or want it for themselves. No Flemeth magically appearing at the start of the plot to nudge the protagonist this way or that.

And finally that brings me to Dreadwolf. There’s been a lot of chatter about DA needing to return to the Everyman protagonist, when I don’t see how they ever left? And to be frank, Dreadwolf is the one story where an Everyman protagonist makes the least sense and will therefore be the hardest to pull off. The new PC will basically be usurping the role that—if this were anything but a video game—would logically go to the Inquisitor, or Varric, or Dorian, or literally any of the characters who have a pre-established relationship with Solas. Narratively speaking, that’s what makes the most sense.

But they can’t do that. We need someone new. A nobody. And getting this nobody to be at the center of all this prophetic fate of the world business is going to take some level of contrivance. They will need to come up with a strong enough reason as to why this new character is exceptional enough to make world-changing decisions on behalf of everyone else in existence. We need a reason why Solas—our alleged antagonist—would take a special interest in this person or be otherwise tied to them because if not then what is the point of having them front and center?

Not saying it can’t be done, but they’ll need some really damn good excuses to justify the new perspective. And those excuses will probably be contrived. You don’t have the fate of the world resting on one person without massive contrivances.

#dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age inquisition #dragon age 2 #dragon age origins #dragon age #meta stuff

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alinamgh · 19 days

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Dorian, Fenris and Zevran (well, mostly Dorian and Zev) discussing over the aesthetic of Antivan rugs while their paramours are planning to save the world (again!)