owlmoose | DAI update: Finished Lavellan; future plans

Yesterday I got Lavellan the rest of the way through Trespasser. A couple of surprises: he felt so betrayed by Solas -- with whom he was cautiously friendly, if not very close; in our last conversation together, he greeted Mahanon as "lethallin", which we both found surprisingly affecting -- he declared that he would kill Solas himself. Given that my kind boy is not given to violence as the first resort to solve problems, I hadn't expected it to feel like the right answer. But of course, when he found Solas in the moment, he was driven to ask why, and based on Solas's answers, he softened his stance to "we'll try to change your mind instead of stopping him at all costs. I also came very close to keeping the Inquisition under Divine Cassandra's control rather than disbanding it, but ultimately it didn't feel quite right for him to work so closely with the Chantry, not even one with Cassandra at its head.

Playing Inquisition as an elf was very interesting, although there weren't quite as many background-specific conversations as there ought to have been. Talking with Solas about Briala after the Winter Palace is one that sticks in my mind as particularly nonsensical, and there was also a "hilarious" moment with Morrigan in the Arbor Wilds, when she tells the Inquisitor that we're approaching a temple of Mythal and the canned response is basically "Mythal who?" You know, Mythal, the Dalish goddess you've been worshipping all your life? The one whose vallaslin you're wearing on your face? That Mythal. But overall I found there were more specific options, and more interesting options, than for either a dwarf or Qunari inquisitor. To the point that, after I finish my m!Trevelyan based in the Elissa Cousland AU, when I do my brand new full canon run (it's finally time to play the City elf!), I think that Inquisitor will be a f!Lavellan who does what I always said I would never do and romances Solas. It just feels too important to the overarching story to avoid it completely.