"Not if the First Warden is doing what I think," he sighed. "See, the Wardens that helped Corypheus... Even before they were enthralled by him - twice over, blood magic and Blight magic - Clarel agreed to meet with the damned thing's Tevinter helper. Corypheus had started a false Calling, so all of the Wardens in Orlais and Ferelden and some of the Free Marches thought they were being called to die. Erimond offered to bind them to demons and let them take a demon army into the Deep Roads to wipe out all the Darkspawn before the Calling took them. It required a huge amount of blood ritual. And Clarel was the Warden Commander of all Orlais."

He was sure Zevran could make the connection he had. Zevran was canny like that. He had more practice with intrigue than Alistair ever had, and the idea of a Warden Commander doing that big of a blood ritual without the First Warden knowing, even up in Weisshaupt? It was impossible.