#[ while i replay im taking notes to hopefully make a stronger case than what i can pull from here (which is mostly from 1 pt +

[theharellan]

One of my biggest criticisms of Solas's writing in Veilguard is that, while I feel he's still a nuanced character, his motivations were simplified and stripped away until being just about his pride and Mythal. With none of the nuance of past games about his duty to the (still living) ancient elves, spirits and how the Veil harms them, the casual everyday murder of modern elves. I think this was done because if they didn't want the Veil to always come down (and the Veil was always going to be all or nothing, you can't write around it if it were a choice) and they wanted to satisfy the people who wanted a happier ending for Solas, you would have to remove that complexity.

For my Solas, the above remain his primary motivations for wanting the Veil removed. Mythal isn't not a factor, but more connected to ensuring the continued punishment of the evanuris than to the state of the world. Solas didn't want the world to be as she envisioned even before the Veil went up- he rebelled against her because he thought her vision for Elvhenan was bad, actually.

My Solas can still be talked into the canon atone ending, but I think it would be more of a neutral to bad ending, whether he's alone or he's not. I don't think Solas is ever going to find atonement without community, and the canon ending doesn't give him that. One reason I personally see as the reason Solas avoiding the Mythal fragment in the Crossroads, besides guilt over murdering another aspect of her, is that for much of their existence she was often able to talk him into doing something that seemed to be for the greater good but actually hurt people (hurt him). A lesson he learned and then enacted on others in his life. I see the atone ending as being another note in that song for Solas.

I won't touch much on my own (non-canon) interpretation of why Mythal might ask him to do this as she isn't my character, but I do think it isn't as benevolent as presented in-game. Ultimately I will leave that up to any Mythals tho.