Odd way to intepret a bald head on a drawing then. :/
Why would Solas be fighting against the Dread Wolf? Red eyes too, is he affected by Red Lyrium?
It's weird, staring at the image, one second I can see the bald head perfectly fine but the next it looks weird again. It's like my brain is constantly changing its mind about what it thinks it's looking at. It's like an optical illusion lol.
And yeah, good question, idk. Could be symbolic for his inner conflict. Which makes me wonder if this mural actually exists or will exist in Thedas and if it may have been painted by Solas himself like the one in Skyhold. Maybe he decided to make his baldness less obvious, too :P
It's worth noting that in a mural in Trespasser, which is suspected of being a self-portrait according to the DA wiki, though I don't remember where that info comes from(only played Trespasser once when it came out), Solas and the wolf are also depicted as separate.
(You also have the triangles and the white/grey circle here. Have we seen them anywhere else?)
I can't tell if Solas has red eyes, you mean the Dread Wolf though right? For what it's worth, it also has red eyes in Solas' tarot card after he leaves the party.
But if you look between the mouth of the Dread Wolf you can see red lines which could be red lyrium veins I guess, so I don't know. They're also next to his head above the circle.
My general thoughts on the mural: The seven orbs are obviously the old gods, with two still being alive, except Urthemiel who can kinda still be alive but not in dragon form. I can see him not counting for those reasons, but maybe it could suggest that the orbs don't represent the old gods and which ones are dead, but instead the prisons and which ones are empty? idk. There's orbs like that in relation to the titans in a mural in Trespasser, is there a connection? My Inquisition DLC lore is too rusty to attempt to make sense of that.
(Upside down triangles!! But different? I'm most likely way off base but for some reason I'm obsessed with these triangles, what do they mean??? Also is it just me or do these orbs look like the
anus on the Greendale flag in Community lol)
The idol might symbolize the blight, or red lyrium, or whoever the idol itself is depicting. It looks like Solas is either trying to free it or to lock it up. The tree might be Mythal? Or an alienage vhenadahl symbolizing elves joining Solas. I think that's all I can think of right now. I don't know what the white cracking circle is, idk what the red one behind Solas is, I'm not 100% sure that even
is Solas, idk why some of the fire is gold and some is red, and I don't know why the ground(?) looks that way. What do you guys think?
If there's one thing I hope for, its the return of a darker tone and atmosphere- Inquisition seemed oddly sanitized as a Dragon Age game. Like the Fade didn't seem as disturbing and seemed like a more generic "other world", the racial prejudice aspect was downplayed, it lacked that gritty medieval atmosphere.
One thing I am exited about is Solas as the antagonist, this series has lacked a really good villain since Loghain.
I honestly think both the Arishok and Meredith were great villains. The Arishok especially was very imposing and quotable. "Fixing your mess is not the demand of the Qun, and you should all be grateful!"
Inquisition is the odd one out with Corypheus who was lame but then Solas kinda was the real villain.
