Final Fantasy 14's Emet-Selch and Dragon Age's Solas Have a Lot in Common
Final Fantasy 14 and Dragon Age are very different games, one being an MMO by Square Enix and the other being a single-player RPG by BioWare. However,Final Fantasy 14 is an MMO with a fascinating story and compelling characters that BioWare fans may love. Some players have been pointing out that two fan-favorite characters from these games have some unique similarities: Emet-Selch and Solas.
Both of these men want to destroy the world in order to rebuild their worlds that fell many years ago. While their personalities and connections to the player are quite different, both characters have become fan-favorites because they are sympathetic villains. Solas wishes to tear down the Veil and rebuild Arlathan/Elvehnan, meanwhile Emet-Selch wants to destroy worlds in order to remake Etheirys.
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Solas and Emet-Selch are not the only similarities to draw between these games. The worlds they want to restore are also quite alike. Solas wants to restore the world of the elves to a time when they were immortal and magic was available in everyone. Emet-Selch's Etheirys is a place where anyone could easily create life with their imagination, and they were immortal (though could choose death if they wanted).
Due to their past and these fantastical lost worlds, they feel the current world is dire and its people are only a fragment of what they should be. In Trespasser, Solas can tell the player that he did not even see others as people because of their lack of magic and knowledge. The same is true of Emet-Selch, who believed the people of Eorzea to just be pieces of his people, un-whole and not worth empathizing with.
Outside fallen worlds, fans also empathize with these two characters because they
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