So, I've been reading and writing fanfics for about 15 years for multiple fandoms now, but only discovered DA(and Solavellan) this summer. Playing all four of the games didn't give me much time to find many fics and besides, long time fans of a fandom know the best fics in their fandom and the hidden gems. So if anyone has any Solavellan fics that they love or that they wrote(promote your stuff!), please put them in the comments because I NEED more Solavellan. 😭

Preferably smut and angst with a happy ending. Virgin Solas, Solas with hair😭, time travel fics, post Veilguard, post Tresspasser, Inquisition time etc. Anything other than sad endings. Unless the sad ending fic is a MUST read/classic fic. I'm not easily triggered so idc if it's too kinky or too graphic or whatever, I just need to read about them. 😭

I came across this great Tumblr post that perfectly articulates something that’s been bothering me for a long time. Like many of us, I feel the companions’ dialogue does Solas a massive injustice—especially during the Regret Murals scenes.

Yes, Solas has done bad things and continues to do them, but the game hyper-focuses on his failures without acknowledging the centuries he’s spent at war, the countless people he’s saved, and the friends he’s lost.

Here’s a snippet from the post:

"Only sadly, infuriatingly, in the end, that fallen hero’s ending is put into the hands of a protagonist who judges him from the perspective of someone who has never even stumbled – not because they are wiser, braver, or kinder. No, just because the writers were gracious – or cowardly? – enough to never let them fail.

The game gives Rook a moral high ground which isn’t earned in the slightest because Rook never had to walk even a quarter of a mile in Solas’s shoes. They don’t know what they would have done in his stead, they have no idea what it actually means to see the sorry shape the world is in and know that it was your hands that shaped it. And even where Rook might actually be culpable – the interruption of Solas’s ritual that freed the remaining Evanuris – anyone is quick to assure Rook that it wasn’t their fault.

Whatever regrets Rook carries, they’re born from self-doubt and trauma response. Survivor’s guilt, mostly. When compared to Solas’s immense guilt, Rook’s regrets are, for lack of a better term, insignificant. That Rook manages to face them doesn’t mean that they are more truthful or emotionally mature, it just means that Rook’s story is a tale for children and Solas’s is not.

It’s not that I’m necessarily opposed to the idea that the player decides Solas’s fate through their actions. It’s the injustice of it all that bothers me: The player is led through a game that provides a safe space for their character, one that is devoid of any interpersonal conflict and any ethical quandary. Rooks succeeds through kindness and heroism and taking their companions on team bonding exercises.

As if Solas could have won the war against the Evanuris if he’d taken the time to take his companions on coffee dates."

I think this really nails the issue: the game sets Solas up as this immensely complex and tragic figure but hands his fate to a protagonist who is never truly challenged or given the chance to understand him on a deeper level.

I highly encourage you all to read the full post—it's worth it.

Please note - it more than earns an explicit rating from chapter 2 onwards for explicit smut.

First time writing, had to get it out of my head and on the page. Enjoy!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61416820/chapters/156993811?view_adult=true

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Summary: AU. After Felassan fails to secure the eluvian password, Solas summons him to Haven to assist in addressing the rising threat of Corypheus. When the situation takes a dire turn, Felassan accompanies Solas in joining the Inquisition. It isn’t long before Felassan recognizes that Marel Lavellan holds the key to saving this world—and possibly to altering Solas’s own plans. Find on Ao3!

Chapter 11 is live! 🎉 I’ve finally mapped everything out, and this fanfic will be 50 chapters long. I’m so excited about where the story is heading that I’ll be posting updates once or twice a week—can’t wait to share more with you all! 🥰

Anyone knows if Cole will comment on the romance lock-in scene (when Inky has the chance to encourage or discourage him) if he is made >!more human?!< Or does he have to be >!more spirit!< to pick up on it?

I’m considering making Cole >!more human!< for a change but I need that banter to happen because it hurts so good.

Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic, but I wonder what kind of spirit they'd make. I subscribe to the Lavellan/hope spirit vibe.

This is like my 6th playthrough of BG3 and I hired the cleric hireling from Withers when I noticed it was a high elf. I was customizing the appearance when I remembered that this new Nexus mod came out with the ancient elven set for BG3. I’m pleased with how it turned out.

I’m on my second (and now Canon) playthrough of DAI and I was thinking about how Solas never seemed to jump on the idea of time travel, after Dorian talks about it.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been rereading Looking Glass, but I would expect Solas to go “hmm maybe I can use this magic to go back and stop myself from creating the veil”

At least, that’s what I’d do if I was a 10,000 year old shapeshifting semi-deity who royally screwed my entire species and now had the knowledge that time travel was possible 🤷‍♀️

Here's a compiled list I've found from this sub and a bit elsewhere of recommendations people give when asking for something that reminds them of Solavellan or Solas. Feel free to chime in with a +1 to any existing entries on the list if you feel they especially hit the nail on the head.

Feel free to contribute in specific recs or similar rec requests that remind you of Solas or Solavellan I could add from, I'll add to the list as I see them!

Books

#Movies / TV Shows / misc

#Video Games

Any book recommendations, preferably romance novel, that has a character similar to Solas? Or even just has the same vibe/feelings that solavellan gives you?

I'm sorry if it was discussed like 999 times for all this years, but still. What appeals to you more for Solasmance? Mage soulmate or irony of him falling in love with "basically tranquil"? I know in the game it's almost the same but for your headcannons? Tell me

... Blighted?

That's it, that's the question. Is there any evidence one way or another? The image of the red lyrium idol makes me nervous in that regard, and if he wasn't before, wouldn't getting torn up by and literally biting a Blighted Elgar'nan be... problematic?

Then again, he let Lavellan kiss his gorey mouth so maybe he has everything under control? And I guess Davrin should have been able to sense him if he was previously Blighted?

I don't want him to be but I'm concerned lol.

Hey there!

I've been writing a lot lately because I needed to elaborate the fact that Solas' story is probably over.

I liked Veilguard so I'm not rewriting that lol. But I needed to tell the story form Lavellan's and Solas' pov, adding content with them, because I feel there was so much potential there.

The fanfic follows the canon and the events from Veilguard with some surprises and it deals with things that were left to our headcanon (poor Lavellan mourning Varric anyone?? The well of sorrow??? Felassan sob). Also it will show them in the regret prison post-game. Massive spoilers obviously.

So yeah. I love those two and I can't let them go.

Here is the link if anyone wants to give it a go :)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14419455/1/The-Ceiling-Above-Us

EDIT: I posted it also on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61400416

Hey guys! I've really been enjoying writing dragonage Fanfiction as of late. I've been using it as writing exercise, especially the Solavellan angst.

I'm currently writing a big one which will be my Lavellan's journey through inquisition and Veilguard, going more indepth to how her and Solas's relationship develops but it's going to be a long one and I keep loosing momentum. It's in my Lavellan's POV but I also really like writing through Solas's POV as well!

I've currently published short two fics, one post veilguard in Solas's POV and another surrounding the statuette in Solas's POV transitioning to Lavellan's.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good emotional study for Solas, preferablly canon compliant? Any exploration into the Eggs head you want to see explored?

I was thinking about doing one where he is looking at the mark right at the beginning of inquisition just before Lavellan wakes up (and up to their first meeting) but I don't think I know Solas and Cassandra's dynamic well enough at the moment. Or maybe I just want to write more raw emotional angst right now 😂

Any suggestions would be massively appreciated!

Hey gang. So I was thinking of the way Solas acts at the winter palace and how quite a few people cite that as him being someone who fooled around a lot when he was younger. So I started thinking that when not romancing him, would he have fallen back into possible old habits and perhaps snuck off with one of the elf servants and get a bit intimate, even if not full on? After DATV I’ve felt more and more like Lavellan is replaceable and more used to fill the void, so in a run where you don’t romance him, who’s to say he wouldn’t get with a follower or elf lady who pursues him the way Lavellan did, especially when drunk, or one who knows his identity/knows he’s connected to Fen’Harel, or even one who didn’t know like Lavellan? Or if he wanted information or to persuade someone to his side, would he be willing to use sex for that post-veil, especially when drunk at the winter palace? What do you guys think? And yes, I’m well aware I’ve thought about this too much. I’m having a time.

Edit: Hey again gang. Was not expecting so many responses but thanks for the kind and level headed discussions! You all have great points and obviously I don’t want the answer to be “Solas would do that stuff,” but I tend to really lean towards what ifs so that’s why I’ve argued back quite a bit. I certainly hope you’re all correct with what you’ve said because the idea I posed makes me very uncomfortable and I really hope that it isn’t the case. (And if it once was it’s in his far past). So again, thanks for the great responses and I’ve loved seeing all this Lavellan love!

Final Edit: Hey there, Trick Weekes. You ever want to confirm Lavellan is Solas’ one and only in all universes, I wouldn’t be upset.

What’s everyone’s number 1 song that reminds them of Solavellan? Mine is probably “Little Dragon - Twice” You can associate the lyrics to either Solas or lavellan back and forth, I think the words fit so perfectly with the whole story of the romance imo. For just Solas alone the number one song that reminds me of him is 100% ''Finnegan Tui - Old one'' i highly recommend you all listen to it. I am in the process of making and montage of him to that song.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBlU7aCyfh5/?igsh=NWFnYTN6aG9vODdh

"You didn't tell me he was hot?!" 😂

I'm looking for a more of a slow burn of them finding out that solas is fen'harel or fanfic where they think solas is an agent of fen'harel for a while.

Sorry for the horny posting, but does anyone know where I can find nsfw Solas/Solavellan fanart lol? Tumblr used to be my go-to destination for sexy art, but it’s not allowed anymore, and I don’t know where to look!

Any help would be very much appreciated!

So, might be a little slow on the uptake as I just finished Veilguard yesterday, but why on earth did the evanuris need to >!use lyrium to make their bodies!< (Dav spoiler) when >!Cole can just become human for wanting it, even with the veil intact!<(DAI spoiler).

I mean did they just not know? Is that why Solas is so put off or taken aback by the thought of that during Cole’s quest?

Could >!the war and blight have been completely avoided if the evanuris just believed harder!< (DAV spoiler)? Cause uhh, I guess Solas is that universe’s fool if so I guess

Alright, since we didn't get to talk about it in the game, cause veil=good!, how dare you have any other thoughts counter to this truth! I still wanted to talk about it somewhere!!

So, using my shallow knowledge of Veilguard's admittedly tepid lore and my rather hazy recollection of past games:

Veil up:

1. Blighty Mcblightson

Apparently hanging out in the black city. I think the Veil is what is keeping it there? <!Particularly with the Evenuris gone!>

2. Everybody wants to worship someone aka allowing nigh-limitless power to a flawed being might be a problem:

Basically, if the veil comes down some new evenuris will pop up and take over and people will doubtless end up worshipping it.

3. People will die! This is the tact Veilguard takes. But Solas tend to change his estimate of the impact on the world. Could unleash a cataclysm of demons and burn the world with the raw energies of the Fade or it could just kill a few thousand.

Veil down:

1. Natural state of the world

2. Who knows how many ancient elves are trapped in uthenera?

3. Tranquil elves (elves are fundamencut off from the fade)

4. It hurts the spirits (I don't think this is specifically said anywhere but I think it stands to reason that what happened to the elves, what makes them "tranquil", is mirrored on the other side of the Veil.

So if the elves are cut off from the Fade, the spirits are cut off from reality. (Personally, I think this results in more demons as the spirits are starved of reality and the emotions that they embody).
Basically the spirits are experiencing the polar opposite of being tranquil.

Lemme know what y'all think!

He holds up my books now.

So did anyone else notice how we went from "your world will burn" or whatever in Tressspasser. To "it would only kill a few thousand people" or whatever he said in Veilguard?

Is anyone else bothered by sudden change in stakes in the Veilguard?
I feel like it made stopping Solas seem, well, a lot less important.

I think this was compounded by the fact that we never got the chance to discuss whether or not the veil was even worth keeping up.

Hi! I finally decided to translate my fanfic into English as well. Here are the links (Wattpad, Fanfiction.net, and AO3) and the synopsis in case anyone is interested in reading it! There will be plenty of Solavellan, mixed with Lucanis x Rook. A small heads-up: there will also be +18 scenes, so if that's not your thing, just be aware. Thanks! Links and synopsis:

Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/story/386512828-the-veilguards

Fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14421011/1/The-Veilguards

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61328644/chapters/156754084

Synopsis:

A new adventure awaits...

Ten years after closing the Veil's breach, the elven god Solas has not given up on his mission to bring down the veil once and for all, no matter what it takes... even if his heart and life are harmed in the process.

Rook, a member of the Antivan Ravens, is recruited by Varric, Solas' former companion, to stop him on his suicidal mission.

On the other hand, Lavellan, the Inquisitor responsible for closing the rift ten years ago and entrusting the mission to Varric, approaches Mintharous, the city where Solas—with whom she once shared her heart—has been located.

Can Rook save the world from an ever-increasing danger?

Can Lavellan save Solas from himself once and for all and bring him back to her side?

And most importantly...

Can our heroes save Thedas once and for all this time?

Welcome to the world of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

So I finally finished Veilguard, and I have a lot of thoughts, but did any one else who played elven Rook catch the confusion about her heritage?

I mean in my playthrough I was told by Rook herself that I was a city elf twice and then late in the game she told people she was Dalish twice.

I mean, I thought DAI had some writing mistakes but this was just sad and very jarring.