The Vallaslin and the Dalish Creators {Lore. - No Spoilers} 

Or "The Followers of Fen'heral". Gosh, i need that game to come out now....

I wish...saw some fan made tattoos for this and they were so cool.. like ..four eyes on their forehead 🤔🙀

@@HimeBurrito but he didn't support tattoos on the face, remember? Hopefully his heart in the 4'th game will be melted by love and he will give up on his plan killing everyone. 😍

@@BaverIy yeah he doesn't but there would probably some cultists who WANTED/WANT him kill everyone and don't care what his intentions are

Haha oh I hope she romances Solas, so their heart can break as mine did! Lol

Actually you can make it less visible when you first make your character(I’ve done it before just to see if it was possible) you just gotta mess with the coloring but you gotta put the tattoo on the one where it’s barely there then mess with the coloring ^-^

Why would that spoil it?

@@callummellis3280 Bc in DAI thereis only one way to not have a tattoo anymore and that's by romance Solas

@@wardensoath6204 I did't know that, that's cool, but can't you also just not chose one in the first place, pretty sure not having one is an option (though its been awhile tbf lol)

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true but it would of been neat if Fen'Harel had a rebel marking of some sort

HE did...if you read Coles dialogue he states cryptically that Solas was asked by 'her' to take a body and 'she' put her markings on him. The her could very well be Mythal and since Solas means pride he most likely could have been a spirit, like cole, that took form. "He did not want a body. But she asked him to come. He left a scar when he burned her off his face."

@@MikhailaRaibead mmm, that is not clear so stating it references to a vallaslin would be innacurate

@@MikhailaRaibead His Vallaslin is baldness.

I'm also a Libertarian 😍

If only they didnt resemble malnurished teenagers

@@The1Floyd with giant heads Luckily armor helps lol

Whyy?

I agree but also gonna hold a torch for my fem Carta thug from Origins

Concerned Geek: im sure they shit and piss somewhere, there was no such thing as a toilet back in 1000 AD lol. maybe they used some kind of large bucket to sit on and the poop would drop in some kind of water that's connected to a river, that takes it out to the ocean lol. other than that i couldn't tell you, cause you go back a thousand years ago, in most ancient castles back in the 1100's and even earlier than that, especially in England, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire during Jesus time in Israel, there were no bath rooms. so id imagine they do there business in water or river outside lol. bears shit in the woods, before there were bathrooms people had to go somewhere to take a shit. so there was no need for plumbing lol, i can only imagine not being able to wipe my ass lol. especially if it's runny and you know what that's like. everyone thinks we couldn't live back then, and there right because we couldn't. we have everything they don't have, but just a few hundred years ago people lived that way. it wasn't until 1700 when the first toilet was invented, and was just 300 years ago. travel 200 years before that, there was no such thing. that's why if you notice in video games, the castles you find in Dragon Age or the Elder Scrolls comes from inspiration from ancient castles.

@@Jeymez They just give the piss pots to the circle mages to blast into oblivion

@@Jeymez there were rudimentary toilets before the 1700s they just simply either were long drops which lead to a put which needed cleaning sometimes this pit was basically the basement and others dropped off into rivers r underground bodies of flowing water. They were terrible for hygiene and would lead to the spread of diseases but they were a type of toilet that this world would have. There would also be things like bedpan and other bucket like toilets which would just be disposed of on the street into the gutter but this would likely be the option in alienages and impoverished regions and even then they might do communal toilets which were a thing in the medieval period. Living in the forest wouldn't be substantially better as you would be at just a high risk with disease but due to it being harder to separate the natural work from food and water but those with training like the dalish would have would be able to avoid these dangers at a better rate but it would require alot of effort and they would be just at risk of a simple wound or meal being their death though magic does make it easier to survive in this period and we also see the development of non magical medicine/surgery in inquisition.

@@hugebigpenis1 your probably right, but they would be alot different than how a toilet looks today, and there's different kinds but they function a similar way. I find asian toilets in Japan and China for example to be the most interesting based on how you have to use it.

Pluss you know, being away from angry humans with pointy objects seems to increase elven life expectancy for some reason.

Gabreallia mine honoured the peaceful one(even though im an assassin)

Interestingly, I unknowingly ended up honouring Mythal in both games. Which was made particularly poetic considering I drank from the well of sorrows. (Also while romancing Solas XD)

More blood than ink

And imagine Solas subtly commenting on it.

canon

I like this. a lot.

Well, they can still get creative and add dyes to their blood. And blood, when it dries, comes out a more brownish color anyway. You could walk into a murder scene, but mistake it for mud or dirt on the walls. (Dad hit a deer one time with his white truck, got blood and guts splattered on it. Two days later, it was brown)

@@cussundriakneal9904 Why didn’t your dad wash his truck for 2 days??

Fashion is stranger in strange times. . .

Except Ghilan’nain, with her pretty white hair. :D

I have this theory that they lose their hair when in uthenera, but that it will grow back if they stay awake.

dianna k with dreadlocks since he is the dread wold

@@goldylocks1932 I see what you did there...

I think, he named him "little wolf" because after the ritual fenris was like his dog (only living for his master). Once Fenris is talking about the ritual, he tells, that the markings are made with lyrium. I think this lyrium is making its own way throu the skin. It isnt like painting a vallasin on the skin.

@@jennifercook3130 i wouldnt be surprised to that being the "true" way of making the markings.... since the purpouse was slavery, and thats what they did to fenris. since the dailish lost a lot of knowledge, the ones who still pledge allegiance to the "gods" would mark themselfs in honour, the way they could, with blood.

Daan van der Loon maybe that's the idea

I don’t think it even really matters to him all that much. The writer for Solas said that when he takes the Inquisitor to the waterfall to talk with her he actually planned to tell her the truth about himself and everything. He just chickens out and says something about the vallaslin instead. What he says is true mind you but I don’t think it’s actually a huge deal in his mind regardless because he didn’t actually plan to ever say anything to her about it in the first place.

I hear ya, Solas' whole thing about the Dalish is so pompous and arrogant. "Oh I'm not one of THOSE elves, I'm nothing like THEM. They're ignorant and stupid and savage and don't know anything about anything." Fuck off Solas. It kinda sucked that both of the elves in Inquisition hated other elves, especially the Dalish. And since Elven Inquisitors have to be Dalish, it basically immediately makes both of them insufferable to be around.

@@normal6483 ugh I hate Sera and Solas both of them make me sick

Jake M. I honestly don’t see a problem with letting the inquisitor know because the thing is, that was the original meaning. If that matters to the inquisitor she has a right to know and make the decision to get rid of it. Then on the other hand if all that matters is what it means now then she keeps it. I don’t see any harm in it either way. He simply told her the truth and he doesn’t give her a hard time if she chooses to keep it. The original origin of a thing can matter to someone. On the other hand it might not.

Jake M. I don’t think it was because he was uncomfortable. I think he told the inquisitor because if it were him he would want to know. Like I said before he was originally there to tell her who he was so maybe it was something he had been thinking about telling her but just split second went with because he backed out telling her the other. I don’t understand how he had no right to tell her though. If you mean he had no right to remove it. He didn’t do it against her will. He only does it if she wants him to. He says that he shouldn’t have if it hurts the inquisitor. I think he’s prbly saying maybe he should have thought it through more and maybe that’s what he thinks. That’s fine but I think I would prefer to know the origin if I were the inquisitor. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be upsetting but I think I’d prefer to know. I could be wrong though because I’m not a Dalish elf. lol To each their own though. Bottom line I don’t think Solas was meaning any ill will on the inquisitor. I believe he really loves her. I think he has a messed up mindset on destroying the world but that is besides the point. lol

Otter Lons was that pun intended

lycan2500 1 i want to stick into solas's head

@@lukavidakovic6674 Lol, when i saw someone replyed to this comment, i was hoping someone had said they wanted to stick it into Solas' head. And i wasn't disappointed. XD

lycan2500 1 I hope solas succeeds and the Evanuris destroy most of humanity. Because humans are and have always been the worst, most vile, destructive, arrogant, self-absorbed, evil beings wether in real life or fictional. Fuck thedas. Long live FenHarel and may he take you all

@@SmartAss4123 Damn, don't cut your self on all that edge.

Daddy T-rex I'm just stating facts. Humans rape, we created war, we commit terrible selfish acts in the name of "higher powers" we needlessly destroy the environment, biosystems, and even entire species of the planet have already been wiped out by us. We are on a clear and steady path to self destruction by either 1.Nuclear war or otherwise 2. Death to the planet by overpopulation or 3. exhausting all natural resources because we can't curb our overpopulation issue. We will be at over 10 billion people by 2030 alone and we have issues with overpopulation today in 2019. We're fucked Thats why I like Solas. He's the Thanos of Dragon Age, the hero we all need but wont admit we want because we are all selfish

I agree! Visiting the temple of Andraste in DAO and really paying attention to her story was more interesting after playing inquisition.

Well, no, because in Inquisition, there were actual ancient elves that served directly Mythal, and the Well of Sorrows, and every single one of those elves within the Temple of Mythal had the leaveless tree design upon their faces. So that one is directly associated with Mythal, as we saw NPCs wearing them.

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For starters... a Vallaslin is a tattoo. Did you not gather that from the video? Anyways the Qunari use Vitar as a magical face paint that hardens the skin and can apply small buffs as well...

or at least if the ancient elf didnt do it . Enchantment? thats no problem for Sanders^^

It does?

I'm a bit late but if I remember correctly you can actually see them both in Inquisition in one of the dessert levels:)

That's the meditation part, when they cleanse their minds.

Kai Robinson x2

I feel like Solas would hate if Fen'harel had a Vallaslin dedicated to him, as he was against slavery and vallaslin in general.

Nope, they represent mythal, slaves only adopted the markings.

@rosecoloredambitions all elven marking represent a god or role, the tree represents mythal, it's why you see the ancient sentinel elves in mythal's temple with the half tree on their faces.

With Solas in the end of Dragon Age Inquisition we learn that the Elven gods were actually mages of phenomenal power but they had reduced the Elves weaker to the slave state. The dreamers, the weaker magi and other were the representatives of the tyrant pseudo-gods and formed the aristocracy as the magisters. 99.5% of the elves had the statue of serf, slaves or servants.

I have human as my canon DA heroes. I am tired of how everything in DA play around elves.

Origins and DA2 is not about elvhen things. It's more about humans - Ferelden, the Chantry and it's issues. :)

@@darthportus Origins literally deals with primarily the Wardens and the Blight..? Which is mostly human oridented? Inquisition is the only DA game that really went ham on the Elven aspect. So...?

@Hurlock: I completely agree with you, on the Solas aspect part of the story. Which is why i'm making my Dalish Elf be my true story line going into DA4, because the story with the Herald of Andraste being in love with the bad guy - and he her - is just too good to pass up. I can't bring myself to hate Solas; he's just too bad of a antagonist for me to hate.

The Dalish are so desperate to preserve tradition that they end up clinging to horrible traditions that should be forgotten, such as the Vallaslin, tattoos that branded you as a slave back when they worshipped the Evanuris. I love the Dalish and given the choice I'd rather be Dalish than a City Elf, but they're a fantastic example as to why traditionalism isn't always a good thing.

Fenris doesn’t have vallaslin, his are lyrium tattoos which are weaponised, he’s not dalish

Aha I read this comment just as she said his name! I'm just as surprised lol

Valaslin is slave mark for the Elven gods- Tivinter had nothing to do with that not even with the fall of first elven empire.

@@darthportus Omg !!! Solas lied to me what a jerk 😠😬

@@maryempire1104 He didn't lie, because he didn't say they were from Tevinter. Don't know where you got mixed up, but my Solas said thry were Elven Slave marks to the Elven Gods. 🤨🤔

Solas never mentioned the Imperium in that conversation

You might be getting it confused with the Inquisitor having an optional dialogue line where she says "This is what we keep? A relic from a time we were no better than Tevinter?"

How is June pronounced? I imagined it’s just pronounced normally but this channel seems to pronounce it differently

@@aislinlindsay3950 like “Yuni” . The J is pronounced like a Y and the “ne” is pronounced “ni” like in the Dalish name Ariane . Anyway, I’d you are interested. There are three volumes to the language guide. Here is the first. Get comfy...it’s LONG and more like school than you might want. Lol. Shathe Shiralen! archiveofourown.org/works/3553883/chapters/7825850