"There are good people to be found in the most corrupt group."

Gaius could understand that, and he spoke with feeling, from his own experience. Not on the scale that Alistair was suggesting; in his time, Rome had the ambitions to expand across the mare internum, but was not yet the ruler of the entire sea as he'd learned it would be. He could hear the parallels starting to line themselves up between Rome and Tevinter.

He loved his city, but he still loathed the Senate for what they'd done to him, to his brother, to the people they were supposed to be caring for.

"There are people in Rome who seek power above all else, no matter who they hurt. You may not have been so wrong."