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If I search for the 'Story Rant' thread using the search bar I can still open it and view it, but it doesn't show up in either my list of watched threads (where it's supposed to be) or when I pull up the Rants forum.
I have unwatched and re-watched it twice. I have logged out and back in again...
Other minor tweaks:
Chapter 29 - Inserted a few lines of expository dialogue at the start to clarify just how old Orpheus is.
Chapter 36 - Hawke's backstory from his first year in Kirkwall updated as I found out I'd remembered one of the DA2 sidequests wrong, and it was even more morally...
Minor tweak to chapter 38 - I realized it's better for them to have the 'we're going back to Thedas' talk before they have sex, so I shifted the order around a bit in that scene.
Also, as I'm cross-posting this to SB, I PG-13'ed it some more because SB mods sometimes get really strict.
And in the category of 'things my subconscious did and I did not even remotely figure out that it did that until I was rereading my own shit weeks later', I only just realized that this part of the sequence is actually Hawke projecting his own self-loathing over how HIS life crashed and burned...
Now that you remind me, he's not even a god-elf yet - Solas does not regain his full power until Flemeth/Mythal sort-of sacrifices herself to do that, and that's only in the post-credits scene of Inquisition. Since the Epilogue occurs shortly before 'The Final Piece' (the Inquisition main quest...
Gale: Thanks to several applications of alchemical science Toril had that Thedas missed, I've just made a breakthrough on the Joining formula! Darkspawn blood can now be used to cure those suffering from the Taint without the usual side effects!
Solas: It's.... FINE. It's... JUST... FINE...
Note that another person who knows Shadowheart's childhood story very well is not only still back in Baldur's Gate but is currently Isobel's new acolyte. As well as Nocturne being able to tell her own more humble story of 'I grew up in the church of Shar too and let me tell you folks, it...
I admit I would like to imagine that in this timeline Solas is eventually brought around to see what a false path his life is on and he finally gives it all up and him and Lavellan reunite, older and wiser. I mean, Gale is one of the very few people who actually can shut him down with 'Power...
Well, maybe not little... :p
And as for the author's mad demented omake mental shipping chart, there are two faint possibilities for Gale. One of them is the Inquisitor herself (this one romanced Solas, she'd entirely deserve a chance to rebound with 'I could have been a god myself but I was...