#there’s something here with Mythal/solas and solas/Felassan parallels. in death Felassan took the path solas refused to take. and in doing
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Felassan does not betray solas, Solas betrays Felassan.
Not just by killing him, but by becoming a person who is so distanced from the cause Felassan joined that simply wanting to help free the elven people from oppression (the thing Felassan signed up for, all those thousands of years ago) would require refusing Solas’ orders and result in his execution
The betrayal of Felassan isn’t just murdering him mid sentence with his back turned, it’s also a betrayal of the cause their friendship was founded upon.
#there’s something here with Mythal/solas and solas/Felassan parallels. in death Felassan took the path solas refused to take. and in doing#so refused to be complicit in crimes against a group of people#when Felassan tells Briala that nobody who has successfully ruled an empire cedes power he’s echoing a conversation he had with solas about#Mythal. but he’s also echoing a conversation he’s had with himself about solas#he’s hoping Briala will be the one to listen#scrambled eggs
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