"Not quite like Tevinter, then, though you've got the right of it with all the ruins my countrymen have left scattered about. Many of them lay nearly undisturbed and unexplored. Who knows the knowledge waiting in those old crumbling buildings...?" He, for one, never thought he would have the opportunity to explore them, and yet here he was, with his dearest friend, exploring them while they sought to save the world.

It was stunning, really, learning the truth of his own homeland, beautiful and potentially deadly. "Due to a bit of conflict over a line of religious script, my homeland is frowned upon in lands beyond its borders. Well, that's one of many reasons Tevinter is bastardized by outsiders, and often with good reason." It wasn't a topic he wanted to dwell on too much at the moment, of course. It was already making him homesick.

"Oh yes, quite. I rarely stop thinking."