Anyone know where it came from? The definition everyone quotes is this:
When I say "everyone," I don't just mean our own elven page, but all of these:
(These are mostly other fan-run wikis, with a couple blog posts and fanfic translation reference pages, too.)
Every single one of these predates the podcast Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance, which is the only canonical usage of "vhen'alas" that I can find. (Ep 4, spoken by Bellara.) They also all use the exact same translation, word for word. And, that translation even makes perfect sense in the context of what Bellara's saying! So it must have been canonically translated somewhere, right?
The thing is, none of these pages ever list a source besides occasionally this wiki's own elven language page, which itself didn't have a source (still doesn't) and therefore cannot be verified.
I've played/watched/read most of the Dragon Age canon by this point, but still not everything. And obviously not every medium would come up in a google (text) search. Since V&V is audio, for example, I only found out that "vhen'alas" was said in it because someone happened to have transcribed that episode. So, is it hidden in Dragon Age: Redemption or something? (That's the only other spoken-aloud DA title I haven't watched/listened to.)
My gut is telling me that it's canonical and from something even older, since so many of these pages that reference it are also super old. But still, it's also entirely possible that one person just decided this was the translation ages ago, added it to the wiki back when we weren't as diligent about citing sources, and then it got spread to all those other pages as a result. Does anyone remember seeing it in canon anywhere?