![]() ![]() The common thread to all of these? He struggles visibly when it's time to lie. ![]() He's presented in so many ways-as an antagonist or supporter as a humble outsider or as an inside power player as a supercilious git, or as a man of the people as a potential friend, or as a lover. And yet his faces go beyond simple definitions of true or false. Yet while Solas may love secrets, and feints, and puzzles, his mask is surprisingly transparent he's simply not a liar at heart. And as usual with our paradoxical onetime almost-god, he loves secrets and wordplay, and I think this is due in part to the slight humor that so often goes unacknowledged with his character (to me, at least), as well as to his more powerful, elemental and yet ultimately simple need to speak the truth. ![]() ![]() He hides adeptly the rest of the time, as at home in shadow as in light. No matter what face he's presenting, Solas is often at his most revealing when he is in the grips of some great emotion (or, to a lesser degree, when he's feeling playful). I believe that Solas wears many faces, both metaphorical and actual, throughout the stories of Dragon Age, which is why I'm fascinated that Solas is so amused by the Orlesians, for instance, at Halamshiral-when he himself may be the most adept mask-wearer in all of Thedas! SOLAS: We all have a face we want to show. ![]()
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