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sunlight-shunlight · 8 hours ago

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me staring into the distance:

so the evanuris/blight situation is that: solas managed to, at the height of his power + with all his ancient elf besties helping, seal them into the black city and make the veil. and this took so much out of him that he was basically comatose for 5000 years. ok fine.

but then in vg, his initial plan was to put them in a different jail, while the veil is still up (despite that weakening all magic significantly and making it difficult to even access the black city). and then he wants to tear down the veil afterwards, presumably expecting to still be awake to do so. despite not having his original orb or his ancient elf besties anymore? so it doesn't particularly make sense in general. similar to how he described what he wanted to do with the orb, you'd expect him to take out the veil first and then reseal/move the jail?

(and then he wanted to put them into a Regret Prison when he is the ONLY one out of that entire situation who feels any regrets... 😭)

then his more ambiguous-sounding veil removal motives of being depressed about elves/spirits and unable to see the modern world as worthy of existence... become almost irrelevant. bc it's kind of necessary for him to Do Something? or else everyone fully dies of turbo blight when the archdemons die and the black city inevitably opens?

but then no one really mentions the looming catastrophe of the blight part, and they handwave it at the end, and all act like he's being very unreasonable. which he is! but only bc they made him dumber than a rock and weirdly inconsistent in his capabilities, not bc his motivations were actually proven to be wrong. aaaaa.

#veilguard critical #i'm going to be honest. the regret prison was like #SO goofy as a concept imo #like yeah ofc it'll trap solas dreadwolf. guy who regrets every action ever taken in his entire life starting from day 1 #the well known sunk cost fallacy king #why would it trap... a bunch of self absorbed dictators...#elgar'nan peacefully: ''i've thought about it and i'm great actually. never did anything wrong 😌'' and leaves #''ahhh it's about PROCESSING regret-!'' well unfortunately that's still very unconvincing #rook had a small handful of regrets and just walked out no problem #presumably the evanuris have even fewer and milder regrets?#elgar'nan like ''hm. i regret not killing my wife earlier! ok i've processed it. time to leave 😌''#ghilan'nain like ''i regret not making my ultimate creation: three crocodiles a halla and an elf mashed together. would've been fun''#????#like putting a rat in a box made of cheese...#it would make way more sense if the evanuris made it in the black city as a way to trap solas while they were in their time out tbh #vg's whole plot is just like #a series of ''don't worry about it kitten'' missing threads #and it does seem like they never fully decided on whether they wanted his plan to be ''necessary'' or not #so they flip flopped between making it sound like a guilt-fueled nostalgia thing that he should be talked out of or stopped #versus a genuine trolley problem that is just Too Unspeakably Dire to reveal #and then decided there could not be any moral complexity so trolley problems are as bad as the worst version of the plan. fhsjfbh #personally the regret prison is my stupid google doc bc i unfortunately need to consider this for solas' internal narration 😔#at any given time i am the pepe silvia diagram meme...

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