Broadly speaking, some of this stuff is possibly an error on the Wiki
Yeah, frankly, it is not reasonable to expect one person to know all of this. Which is why I'm here to help, I suppose. I'm still in my post-Inquisition worldbuilding meta frenzy, and I made a point of reading EVERY SINGLE codex entry I encountered, including the ones that were in previous games, so I'm freshly topped up on lore knowledge.
The thing about Solas speaking in iambic pentameter is also from the Wiki and I'm devastated to learn it isn't true. (But not as devastated as I am that you ruined my Tevinter-being-involved-in-vallaslin joke DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO COME UP WITH THAT).
SORRY. I SPREAD ANTIJOY EVERYWHERE I GO.
I think a lot of people recognized that his speech was metered and assumed it was iambic pentameter because that's just the primary sort of metered speech a person who doesn't read a lot of poetry hears; it's the go-to, to the point of possibly being shorthand for the whole beast. That and anapaestic tetrameter, which is what A Visit from St. Nicholas is in. I am familiar with this primarily because I use meter a lot in my prose. ... er, anyway, my point is, I keep seeing the iambic pentameter thing all over the internet, even though the standard verse structure of Hallelujah is
and the rhythm of the line that ends in an amphibrach is especially prominent in Solas' speech. "And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah." "No ordinary magic would affect them." It is definitely an amphibrach and not a fifth iamb followed by a stray syllable; it's too consistent. Other Solas lines tend to start with a couple of iambs and then dissolve into normal speech.
#arguments I am internally having with people in fandom all the time
... okay, but now I want an autotuned version of Hallelujah cobbled together from Solas' lines.
I am also amused and slightly afraid by how much elven lore you seem to know.
I can't very well write pornography about a person without having an encyclopedic knowledge of their culture, can I? Ask me sometime how much I know about scripture and medieval occultism.
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Yeah, frankly, it is not reasonable to expect one person to know all of this. Which is why I'm here to help, I suppose. I'm still in my post-Inquisition worldbuilding meta frenzy, and I made a point of reading EVERY SINGLE codex entry I encountered, including the ones that were in previous games, so I'm freshly topped up on lore knowledge.
The thing about Solas speaking in iambic pentameter is also from the Wiki and I'm devastated to learn it isn't true. (But not as devastated as I am that you ruined my Tevinter-being-involved-in-vallaslin joke DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO COME UP WITH THAT).
SORRY. I SPREAD ANTIJOY EVERYWHERE I GO.
I think a lot of people recognized that his speech was metered and assumed it was iambic pentameter because that's just the primary sort of metered speech a person who doesn't read a lot of poetry hears; it's the go-to, to the point of possibly being shorthand for the whole beast. That and anapaestic tetrameter, which is what A Visit from St. Nicholas is in. I am familiar with this primarily because I use meter a lot in my prose. ... er, anyway, my point is, I keep seeing the iambic pentameter thing all over the internet, even though the standard verse structure of Hallelujah is
iamb iamb iamb iamb
iamb iamb iamb iamb
iamb iamb iamb iamb amphibrach
iamb iamb iamb iamb
iamb iamb iamb iamb
iamb iamb iamb iamb amphibrach
and the rhythm of the line that ends in an amphibrach is especially prominent in Solas' speech. "And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah." "No ordinary magic would affect them." It is definitely an amphibrach and not a fifth iamb followed by a stray syllable; it's too consistent. Other Solas lines tend to start with a couple of iambs and then dissolve into normal speech.
#arguments I am internally having with people in fandom all the time
... okay, but now I want an autotuned version of Hallelujah cobbled together from Solas' lines.
I am also amused and slightly afraid by how much elven lore you seem to know.
I can't very well write pornography about a person without having an encyclopedic knowledge of their culture, can I? Ask me sometime how much I know about scripture and medieval occultism.