#if only weekes would drop the black codex instead of solas' somewhat cursed kinks... alas

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I kinda viewed Solas’s “people die, it’s what they do” as: people (specifically elves) die because of Solas. Every ‘natural death’ since the veil came up is Solas’s fault. He ‘murdered’ all those people. With the veil still up, Solas will be an eternal murderer, even after Solas is gone. He will never stop killing in that respect. So it’s kill the people who are already condemned to die by him already, or save people in the future in that they are no longer subject to ‘natural death’. Or maybe I’m way off base 🤷‍♂️.

maybe! but i don't think you ever get to ask him about it... if his motive was "i want to bring back immortality for everyone" then he should be allowed to do like a sales pitch for rook or the inquisitor about it lmao 😭

the bizarre thing is that they started off in trespasser with his plan sounding really ambiguously nostalgia-fueled, with vague hints of a Blight Trolley Problem lurking. so people had all kinds of guesses on whether he was just hung up on arlathan, or thought it was the only way to save the modern elves and spirits, or whether he had an actually objectively necessary reason to cause that much destruction to solve another problem.

and then in veilguard it's like... THE most sympathetic version of the problem he thinks he's solving, in that the blight WILL actually kill everyone without his intervention. so it's a very clear trolley problem. but then they handwave solving that part, and remove the elf and spirit stuff, and then his remaining motives are about mythal and the veil just having general bad vibes i guess(?). and also he went through as many rounds of layoffs as bioware did, so he has no agents who can weigh in on what they think he's doing either...

i just think it's incredibly flop writing for a major antagonist if at the end of the story you're like "wait, why WAS he even doing all that?" haha.