Legacies and Legends
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A Second Meeting
Rook enters the empty Cobbled Swan.
Rook: These meetings can’t be good for business.
They look around.
Rook: I’m here, Inquisitor.
They find the Inquisitor sitting near one of the windows, looking outside. Rook sits across from them.
Rook: It isn’t just “Inquisitor,” is it? You were someone before that.
The Inquisitor: Adaar was our chosen family name. Long ago.
The Inquisitor: House Cadash. If you’ve heard of them, you say you haven’t.
The Inquisitor: Clan Lavellan. We try to be no one you’ve heard of.
The Inquisitor: I’m a Trevelyan. Feels like someone I haven’t seen for a long time.
The Inquisitor: Morrigan is holding a perimeter. We’re alone. Tell me what Solas did at Elgar’nan’s ritual.
Rook: Sounds like you already know.
The Inquisitor: I need to hear it from you.
Dialogue options:
1 - Solas saved us.
Rook: Elgar’nan raised his Archdemon. Solas got us out of there. We saved a lot of people.
The Inquisitor: You sound grateful.
Rook: Why not? He really did help.
The Inquisitor: It seems so. He’s always thinking about where it ends.
2 - He had no choice but to help.
Rook: We were up against an Archdemon, and he reached out to help. Seemingly.
The Inquisitor: You’re not sure about his motives?
Rook: Could be genuine, could be self-interest. He’d have been screwed, too, if we didn’t make it.
The Inquisitor: He’s never clear. But he’s always thinking about where it ends.
3 - He protected his investment.
Rook: Solas helped get us through, but he was protecting his interests, not us.
The Inquisitor: You don’t think he helped for genuine reasons?
Rook: I think he wants his plan to succeed, whatever it is.
The Inquisitor: Always a plan. He’s always thinking about where it ends.
4 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.The Inquisitor: How many of his names do you know? God of Lies, Dread Wolf, Fen’Harel. They’re titles he earned from enemies, followers, and fractured history.
Worldstate dependent dialogue:
The Inquisitor: He and I shared another name. Vhenan.
| Elf | Non-elf |
|---|---|
| Rook: Your heart. He meant that much?The Inquisitor: Yes, he did. | Rook: Elven for “heart”?The Inquisitor: For my heart. |
The Inquisitor: You’ve spoken to him in your dreams. You’ve felt the power of that mind. His love could burn against me like a bonfire. He seemed so kind, and wise, and sad, and looked at me as if I somehow mattered more than anything around us. For a time, I thought I would have followed anywhere he asked me to.
Dialogue options:
5 - Affable: Did he ask you to join him?
Rook: Did he try to get you to come with him on his quest to tear down the Veil?
The Inquisitor: No. In fact, he forbade me to join him. He said he didn’t want me to see what he would become. But that wasn’t quite the truth. (Chuckles) He’s a terrible liar.
Rook: He’s the god of lies, Inquisitor.
The Inquisitor: Tricks and treachery, yes. Lies of the heart, no. He forbade me to join him because I might have changed his mind, and then he left enough clues for us to follow anyway.
6 - Stoic: Except that you didn’t.
Rook: Guess that changed when he decided to tear down the Veil and destroy the world. The Inquisitor: Did he ever really decide it, though?
Rook: Well, he was doing the ritual.
The Inquisitor: Yes. A ritual we would never have known about had he not saved my life and told me what he planned to do. He warned me not to follow him and then left enough hints for us to do so.
7 - Sad: I’m so sorry.
Rook: It must have been horrible when you learned the truth.
The Inquisitor: How could I have fallen in love with a god and never realized it? Why didn’t he tell me? So many things he said, so many half-truths inevitable in retrospect. And then he went off to destroy the world, leaving me to clean up his mess.
Rook: You mean the Inquisition?
The Inquisitor: I mean all of this. He let me fall in love with him and then told me we couldn’t. Then he told me not to follow while leaving me just enough clues to find him.
8 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Rook: Hold on. You think he wanted you to stop him?
The Inquisitor: His name is Solas. It means “pride.” Perhaps he couldn’t change his mind himself, and hoped that someone else could help him. Or maybe I’m the prideful one, imagining his broken heart so that I never have to face my folly: That I loved someone who made such grave mistakes. That I might love him still.
Rook: You almost sound like you’re ready to join him in that prison in the Fade.
The Inquisitor: To give up the world for him? No. We’ve got to save it first. But after… if there were a way, if he felt the same, if I could leave the world behind and just have him… I don’t know.
Dialogue options:
- You deserve happiness. [9]](#9---you-deserve-happiness)
(The Inquisitor will be willing to reunite with Solas.) - You were good for him. [10]](#10---you-were-good-for-him)
(The Inquisitor will be willing to reunite with Solas.) - He’s not good for you. [11]](#11---hes-not-good-for-you)
(The Inquisitor will not be willing to reunite with Solas.) - He wouldn’t want that for you. [12]](#12---he-wouldnt-want-that-for-you)
(The Inquisitor will not be willing to reunite with Solas.)
9 - You deserve happiness.
Rook: He really made you happy?
The Inquisitor: Yes, he really did.
Rook: Well, you deserve to be happy. As long as he’s not, you know, trying to tear down the Veil again.
The Inquisitor: That would put a damper on things, yes.
10 - You were good for him.
Rook: One thing I’ve learned in this job is that the people I need the most are people who can tell me when I’m wrong.
The Inquisitor: We all need that sometimes.
Rook: It sounds like that’s what you were for Solas. If the two of you were better people together, and you were happy, too…?
The Inquisitor: I was.
11 - He’s not good for you.
Rook: You’re saying Solas needs you standing there to stop him from destroying the world.
The Inquisitor: I know how it sounds.
Rook: I think you deserve to be with someone you don’t have to fix.
The Inquisitor: I suppose I do. Thank you.
12 - He wouldn’t want that for you.
Rook: I believe what you and Solas had was real… but that doesn’t mean you have to give up your life for him.
The Inquisitor: I suppose I just wanted to save him.
Rook: Sure, but not while sacrificing yourself. I don’t think he’d want that. It’s okay to care about him but still let him go.
The Inquisitor: I suppose it is. Thank you.
13 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Rook: This is all hypothetical, anyway. He’s trapped in the Fade with no way out.
The Inquisitor: He’s surprised us before.
| Rook is in a relationship | Rook is single |
|---|---|
| The Inquisitor: But enough about me. Tell me about you and [Bellara/Davrin/Emmrich/Harding/Lucanis/Neve/Taash].Rook: What? Who… how?The Inquisitor: Morrigan has eyes everywhere.Rook: Of course she does. | The Inquisitor: But enough about me. Tell me about embarrassing Elgar’nan in front of all his cultists. |
They settle into a conversation, and the scene fades.
| Vowed to save Solas | Vowed to stop Solas |
|---|---|
| The Inquisitor: I once called him by another name. Friend.Rook: Some friend.The Inquisitor: Do you always agree with your friends?Rook: We’re pretty aligned on whether or not to destroy the world, if that’s what you mean. The Inquisitor: I will never excuse what he’s done. He’s killed people I held dear. You know this, too. | The Inquisitor: I called him by another name for a time. Comrade, if not friend.Rook: You went your separate ways when he turned to ending the world?The Inquisitor: There was some unfortunate overlap. I will never excuse what he’s done. He’s killed people I held dear. You know this, too. |
Rook: But…?
The Inquisitor: He became those names when he fought gods, and regret for his world turned into destroying ours. Sound familiar?
Dialogue options:
5 - Sounds like you and me.
Rook: You’re making us sound like Solas. That’s uncomfortable.
The Inquisitor: We’re not like our enemy. They’re making us do this.
6 - Sounds like an excuse.
Rook: Solas earned his prison. And the gods have earned what’s coming to them, too.
The Inquisitor: I’m just saying, focus on tomorrow. They’re the ones looking backward.
7 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Rook: Simple as one of Varric’s morals. “Don’t become what you hate.”
The Inquisitor: Or trapped by what we’ve lost. Also one of his.
The Inquisitor: Tell me about the team you’ve built.
Rook: Are they a concern or…?
The Inquisitor: You’re handling things. This part, what you have now… I just miss the banter about friends.
They settle into a conversation, and the scene fades.
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