App // Caldera

[goethbeforethefall]

Application for caldera.


Player
Name: Mica
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Over 18?: Yes
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Character
Name: Solas
Canon: Dragon Age
Canon point: Just after completion of the Main Quest "Isle of the Gods" in Dragon Age: Veilguard
CRAU?: No.
Age: Thousands of years
History:

• Began life as a metaphysical personification of the concept of wisdom. A Wisdom Spirit.
  
• Became closely bonded with a Spirit of Benevolence
  
• She turned herself into a living flesh-and-blood elf, and convinced him to join her. This twisted their natures; a twisted spirit of Wisdom takes on an aspect of Pride, and Solas name translates directly to mean "Pride." This is quite traumatic for him.
  
• Together with other ancient elves who used to be spirits, and their descendants, they fought several wars.
  
• Against the Titans, for their magic-rich lyrium blood, which was won by Solas' trickery and war crimes beyond all possible worst things...
  
• (and also involved the creation of a terrible all-consuming Blight.)
  
• Against other elves, the Forgotten Ones, for sovereignty, territory, and power, which was won in rivers of blood and cultural appropriation...
  
• (which also involved the creation of a massive system of chattel slavery.)
  
• And against one another, when the other Elves, the Evanuris, decided they'd rather keep their positions as self-styled gods and slavemasters, rather than set the people free to live as they please...
  
• (who also wanted to use the Blight as a tool, which was a pretty stupid idea all things considered.)
  
• The Evanuris killed Solas' beloved and master, Mythal, who had once been that Benevolence Spirit from the beginning.
  
• Solas locked all his former allies away in a big cage in the Fade, the realm of dreams and spirits. The seal on this prison was a Veil separating the dreaming world from the waking world, which was powered by the life force of the Evanuris.
  
• The effort nearly killed him, and sent him into an enchanted sleep for millenia
  
• Their horcrux dragons lay sleeping underground, slowly being corrupted and killed while Solas slept, and in their cage the Evanuris were also dying off one by one as their dragons died.
  
• He woke up to a world much changed by all he had wrought, and by the intervening millenia of cultural destruction and development. He despaired, and decided to tear down the veil and change it all back...
  
• ...except he was too weak to do it, after his long nap time.
  
• So he tried to trick the mortals into helping him. But it backfired and instead of conning them into helping he nearly got the world destroyed again.
  
• And now, instead of conning anyone at all, Solas fell in love with a mortal. So saving the world from what he had done to it now had a ticking clock, as well as the imperative of duty.
  
• He forged a tool to end the world, and to save and restore the world to what it should be. And he was about to succeed when...
  
• Rook, the protagonist of Dragon Age: Veilguard shows up, and ruins his whole day, trapping him in his own god-cage, and freeing the few yet-living Evanuris.
  
• He spends most of the video game's plot reduced to trying to manipulate Rook through the bars of his cage, so to speak, until one day he is able to find a crack in the wall, a way out...
  
• ...But instead of stepping out of his cage, he steps out into caldera's TDM.
  
• Honestly, he deserves what's coming to him.
  
  Personality: Solas is a complicated person. He's a anonymous mage from out of the wilds, he's a two-faced snake in the grass, he's an thoughtful and insightful presence, he's an entire culture's satan allegory, he's softspoken and compassionate, he's a decadent fallen noble, he apologizes when he knows he's done wrong, and he's an ancient and vengeful god.
  
  He considers the perspectives of those around him with equanimity, and strongly resists classifying things as simply good or bad. Solas considers systems of power and their interactions with peoples lives, in nearly everything he encounters. He appreciates even the most hostile enemy's perspective, while he still seeks to destroy them. He is observant, reserved, and polite— and he shares his knowledge freely, where it is wanted. He has many people who have considered themselves his friend.
  
  But he also doesn't actually care about any of their feelings, perspectives, or personal desires enough to put any of them above his own goals. He has no actual friends.
  
  He's an insightful person who evinces compassion with all peoples and believes every kind of person has a right to live freely. He also seeks to destroy the world in a misbegotten desire to compensate for his perceived past wrongs. He's nobly self-destructive to the point of comedy— if only he weren't destroying everyone else along with him. He admits all his wrongs freely, and apologizes with a heart-wrenching sincerity, but he can't actually seem to change his behavior for the better.
  
  He's a manipulative bastard, a man of many faces, and a traitor to those who ought to have been assured of his faithfulness, and he's also genuinely kind and thoughtful. He loves deeply, and wants what he cannot have. He is constantly dishonest, and yet almost never lies outright. He burns down lives and then weeps in the ashes. He's a mess.
  
  But once you have truly secured his loyalty, he will never be able to escape it. That one fact about his personality has defined his life, and the course of history. More than anything, he wishes he could be free of that part of himself and truly become (in his own eyes) the great betrayer that others consider him to be. All he wants is to live his life in peace, without duty, without fate, without power.
  
  But he can't. Not until the person he pledged loyalty to releases him from those chains. And he is very sure that she never can, and never would.
  
  Powers and abilities: Solas is a mage, tied to the realm of dreaming and spirits, the Fade. He draws power from that and other sources, which he is able to use to produce a wide variety of magical effects, from light, to fire, to electricity, and even complicated and long-lasting enchantments. He is a particularly skilled and powerful mage who, at the height of his power, was as unto a god compared to ordinary people. Even if he gets his magic back, he will be much diminished without his godly power to back it up.
  Chosen faction: Undine
  Suitability: Solas too is from a high fantasy low-tech world. He will find almost no difficulty adapting to the setting, aside from the kind of difficulties he would have under any circumstance in which he was put into a jamjar game. I'm really looking forward to tormenting him about it, honestly.
  
  Sample
  Caldera TDM
  
  Questions, comments, and concerns: None, whatsoever!