"Horrible, from what I underst-- ...I just stepped in it, didn't I."
Alistair pursed his lips. First he'd made the parallel between Tevinter and Rome, and now he was insulting it. Oh what a genius he was.
"I mean. Maybe it's all right for--
"This is going to come out badly no matter what," he sighed, resigning himself. "Those of us from the rest of Thedas are basically taught to hate Tevinter from before the time we can say the word. They have slaves, sometimes kidnapped from the rest of Thedas. Their mages do blood magic, usually using their slaves' blood. Sometimes they kill them for it. They're always at war with the Qunari, and it seems like the bad things they do like to seep out into the rest of the world. But. I did meet a man from Tevinter not long ago - Dorian was his name - and he had... ideas. Ideas on how to fix things. To get rid of the blood magic, for all I'm not sure of his stance on the whole slavery thing."
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Alistair pursed his lips. First he'd made the parallel between Tevinter and Rome, and now he was insulting it. Oh what a genius he was.
"I mean. Maybe it's all right for--
"This is going to come out badly no matter what," he sighed, resigning himself. "Those of us from the rest of Thedas are basically taught to hate Tevinter from before the time we can say the word. They have slaves, sometimes kidnapped from the rest of Thedas. Their mages do blood magic, usually using their slaves' blood. Sometimes they kill them for it. They're always at war with the Qunari, and it seems like the bad things they do like to seep out into the rest of the world. But. I did meet a man from Tevinter not long ago - Dorian was his name - and he had... ideas. Ideas on how to fix things. To get rid of the blood magic, for all I'm not sure of his stance on the whole slavery thing."