“Everything I’ve done was for them… and now, no one can stop me. No one, except, perhaps… her".

 

For centuries, civilizations have been built upon stories. Some sacred, others forbidden. But every story is a form of power. And every truth, a form of rebellion.

This Book 1 speaks of guilt, faith, crushing responsibilities, and the first tremor of a love that does not yet understand the magnitude of what it will one day destroy. It is not rebellion yet; it is the dawn before the tragedy.

I am not trying to retell Dragon Age: Inquisition. The explosion of the Conclave is only the starting point that allows me to narrate another story... the intimate origin of a relationship that will change the world. 

When I began writing this story during the pandemic, I too believed the tale Solas had sold us. But I came to understand it was only one version within a greater fiction. He was, after all, remembered as the god of Lies, Treachery and Rebellion, depending upon the story.
This book is the origin of the woman behind the myth, and of love before the fall. It is an elven tragedy, and all I want is to bare the wound.

"I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans...That's my man..."

All recognizable characters, settings, names, and lore belong to EA and BioWare. This is a fan work based on the Dragon Age universe. Original characters may appear, but the story remains grounded in the world created by BioWare. I am not affiliated with the copyright holders in any way. No copyright infringement is intended.


It took me a long time to find the right tone and turn for this story. This is the third time I write about them, and the first time it truly feels like the story moves forward.
Solas is a character who touched something deeply personal in me, a thread of rebellion that runs through my own life.
I always felt I owed him a fic. Though perhaps… I owed it to myself.
Writing this was beautiful. A personal journey, through and through.
This is my little gift to the community, but also, to the apostate I became.

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

Inspirations:

All the Dragon Age novels, codex, and games.
Epic: The Musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
The Misery - Sonata Arctica (Cap "Lady Pain")
"The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking
"Escape from Freedom" by Erich Fromm
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
"Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" by Yuval Noah Harari
"A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
"An american slave's journey to freedom" by Frederick Douglass
"Perreo. Una revolución" by Cazzu
"Everything I'll say to you tomorrow" by Elísabet Benavent
"The Spinoza problem" by Irvin D. Yalom

He was the adversary. She was the storm that could shatter him.


Chapter 2 - Epigraph