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Low Approval: You Have Abandoned the Elves

Available if the PC has asked Solas about elves.

PC (Dalish PC): Ma banal las halamshir var vhen. PC (non-Dalish PC): Are you ever concerned that you’ve turned your back on your people?

Solas: I have done no such thing. I simply see no way to help the elves, oppressed as they are now.

Dialogue options:

  • Special (Dalish PC): You could teach us! [1] +Solas slightly approves
  • Special (nobility perk): Educate them. [2] +Solas slightly approves
  • General: Really? No way at all? [3] +Solas slightly approves
  • General: Why not fight? [4] -Solas slightly disapproves
  • General: Do you feel nothing? [5] -Solas disapproves

1 - Special: You could teach us! PC: Ma halani! Lasa ghilan! Solas: How many Dalish would listen? Most care little about improving their lives. They already consider themselves perfect, the sole keepers of elven lore. I might reach a few, at most. [6]

2 - Special: Educate them. PC: You could teach them what you’ve learned. You could give them the tools to help themselves. Solas: How many would listen? Most of the poor and oppressed do not want to work to improve their condition. They want only comfort, an affirmation that they are good for being poor and oppressed. I might reach a few, at most. But… you are right. That is more than I reach doing nothing. I suppose I am just tired of fighting. [6]

6 - Dialogue options:

  • Investigate: What are you fighting? [7] +Solas slightly approves
  • General: Rely on friends. [8]
  • General: So change. [9] +Solas slightly approves
  • General: Don’t give up. [10] -Solas disapproves

7 - Investigate: What are you fighting? PC: What do you mean, you’re tired of fighting? Fighting what? Solas: Did you think I honed my magical skills to impress spirits? I have joined my share of causes. But when I offered lessons learned in the Fade, I was derided by my enemies… and sometimes by my allies. Liar. Fool. Madman. There are endless ways to say someone isn’t worth listening to. Over time, it grinds away at you. [back to 6] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 8 - General: Rely on friends. PC: That’s when you should lean on your friends. Solas: Apologies, Inquisitor. I have learned not to do that. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 9 - General: So change. PC: If you’re tired of losing, you might consider winning. Solas: (Laughs.) You’re right. I’ve given that advice to others in the past. Apparently I needed to hear it myself. Perhaps there is hope for you yet, Inquisitor. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 10 - General: Don’t give up. PC: If you stop fighting, they win. Solas: You do not win a war by fighting to the death in every battle. Pick the fights you can win, remember your goals, and do nothing that does not further them. Scene ends.

3 - General: Really? No way at all? PC: The man who has lived half his life in the Fade has no ideas? Solas: Not unless we collapse the Veil and bring the Fade here so I can casually reshape reality, no. PC: You’re a mage!

Solas (mage PC): As are you. What’s more, you are the Inquisitor. You could order Halamshiral returned to the Dalish, if you wished. Solas (non-mage PC): And you are the Inquisitor. You could order Halamshiral returned to the Dalish, if you wished.

Solas: But ultimately, you know that would fail. That even you cannot solve this. Why attack me for knowing that as well? [11]

4 - General: Why not fight? PC: With your power, you could do something. I’ve seen you in battle. Solas: Who would I attack? A gate guard? What if he felt sorry for the poor knife-ears under his watch? Or the lord who rules the city? Would his death at an elven apostate’s hands lead to better treatment for elves? There is no simple solution. I think you know that. Why attack me for knowing it as well? [11]

5 - General: Do you feel nothing? PC: You could still try. But ultimately, you don’t care enough about them. Solas: So you attack me, not for failing to have some magical solution, but for not appearing to care? Which is it? Do you wish me to find a way to help elves, or do you wish me to cry, to prove my feelings? There is no simple solution. I think you know that. Why attack me for knowing it as well? [11]

11 - Dialogue options:

  • General: Because I will help them. [12]
  • General: Because I wish I could help. [13] +Solas slightly approves

12 - General: Because I will help them. PC: Because you’ve given up, and I haven’t. I’ll find a way to help elves, with or without your help. Solas: And in all sincerity, I wish you luck. For my part, I will do what I can. Scene ends.

13 - General: Because I wish I could help. PC: I know. You’re right… but I wish you weren’t. Solas: If it helps, so do I. Scene ends.

Low Approval: You’re Addicted to the Fade

PC: Tell me something. Do you care about anything in the world beyond the Fade?

Solas: Ah.

PC: Ah?

Solas: The Inquisitor turns [their] hawk-like gaze to me, penetrating deep into my most secret desires. Only… not. I care deeply for many things beyond the Fade. Just not you.

Dialogue options:

  • General: How can I change that? [1]
  • General: Thanks so much. [2] +Solas slightly approves
  • General: Tread lightly. [3] -Solas disapproves

1 - General: How can I change that? PC: If the Inquisition is going to succeed, I need everyone’s support. Solas: No. You need everyone’s obedience. PC: I disagree. I’d like us to reach a better place. Solas: Then do something worth respecting, Inquisitor. Scene ends.

2 - General: Thanks so much. PC: Well, at least you’re polite about it. Solas: You did ask. I am powerless to hide anything from the keen eye of the Inquisition. Scene ends.

3 - General: Tread lightly. PC: You’re going to want to watch that attitude, Solas. Solas: Why? Do you have another expert on the Fade hiding around here? Are you absolutely certain you won’t need me? I volunteered to help, Inquisitor. Rattle the bars if you like, but I chose to enter this cage. Scene ends.

Warm Approval: Sleep Well?

Solas: Sleep well?

Choice dependent dialogue:

  • Non-romance [1]
  • Romance [2]

1 - Non-romance

Dialogue options:

  • General: That was incredible. [3]
  • General: That was… I don’t know. [4]
  • General: That was strange. [5]

3 - General: That was incredible. PC: I’ve never done anything like that before. Do you regularly talk to people in dreams? Solas: No. Consider that one more rule you have effortlessly broken in your rise to power. [6]

4 - General: That was strange. PC: I had some odd dreams. Very odd dreams. With very odd people in them, for that matter. Solas: I will take that as a compliment, given that you include yourself. Remember, you came looking for me. [6]

5 - General: That was… I don’t know. PC: When I asked to talk to you, I didn’t think we’d be doing it in the Fade. Still better than the dream where I’m standing naked in front of the war table. Solas: Since you went to the trouble of finding me in your sleep, it was worth the effort of doing something interesting. [6]

6 - Scene continues.

I had no idea that the Anchor would allow you to dream with such focus. It is truly remarkable. But I am reasonably certain we are awake now, and if you wish to discuss anything, I would enjoy talking. Scene ends.

2 - Romance

Dialogue options:

  • General: That was incredible. PC: I’ve never done anything like that before. On a number of levels. ㅤㅤ ㅤ
  • General: That was strange. PC: I had some odd dreams. Very odd dreams. Liked how it ended, though. ㅤㅤ ㅤ
  • General: That was… I don’t know. PC: When I asked to talk to you, I didn’t think we’d be doing it in the Fade. Or, for that matter, doing it in the Fade.

If PC is in an active romance with someone else Solas: A momentary lapse in judgement. As you are now seeing someone else, we may comfortably leave it in the land of dreams. But I am reasonably certain we are awake now, and if you wish to discuss anything, I would enjoy talking. Scene ends.

If the PC can romance Solas Solas: (Laughs.) I apologize. The kiss was impulsive and ill considered, and I should not have encouraged it.

Dialogue options:

  • General: I’m sorry. [7]
  • General: And yet you did. [8]
  • General: Are you not interested? [9]

7 - General: I’m sorry. PC: Solas, I thought you were interested. If I misread you, I apologize. Solas: No, you have no need to apologize. I…

8 - General: And yet you did. PC: You say that, but you’re the one who started with tongue. Solas: I did no such thing. PC: Oh, does it not count if it’s only Fade-tongue?

9 - General: Are you not interested? PC: You did kiss me back. If I’m pressuring you… Solas: No, you’re not. I am perhaps pressuring myself.

10 - Scene continues.

Solas: It has been a long time, and things have always been easier for me in the Fade. I am not certain this is the best idea. It could lead to trouble.

Dialogue options:

  • Flirt: I’ll risk it. [11]
  • End relationship: Then let’s end it. [12]

11 - Flirt: I’ll risk it. PC: I’m willing to take that chance, if you are. Solas: I… may be, yes. If I could take a little time to think. There are… considerations. PC: Take all the time you need. Solas: Thank you. I am not often thrown by things that happen in dreams.

12 - End relationship: Then let’s end it. PC: Agreed. Best simply to be friends. Solas: Thank you. I appreciate that… and I will always remember a surprising moment stolen in a dream.

13 - Scene continues.

Solas: But I am reasonably certain we are awake now, and if you wish to discuss anything, I would enjoy talking. Scene ends.