#dankinthedas

varric: Wait, you read my book?!

solas: It was in the Inquisition library. Everyone but Donnen turned out to be in disguise. Is that common?

varric: Are we still talking about books, or are you asking if everyone I know is a secret agent?

solas: Are there many tricksters in dwarven literature?

varric: A handful, but they’re the exception. Mostly they’re just honoring the ancestors. It’s very dull stuff. Human literature? Now there’s where you’ll find the tricky, clever, really deceitful types.

solas: Curious.

varric: Not really. Dwarves write how they want things to be. Humans write to figure out how things are.

dorian: So when I cast a fireball, it’s just the Fade saying “peek-a-boo”?

cole: I don’t think it says that.

dorian: If it says anything other than “I’m going to burn your face off.” I don’t want to hear it.

solas: When they possess people, they often indulge in feelings they have never before experienced.

cole: But it changed. It is blank, black, blunted from being. It never wanted before.

solas: Have you felt no interest in women since you came through the Veil?

cole: No.

cassandra: I did. The evidence seemed damning, given the lack of an alternative.

solas: Yet you changed your mind.

cassandra: You also heard the voices at the temple—is it so surprising I listened to them?

solas: Sadly, yes. Too few invested with authority possess the courage to alter their course. They fear the appearance of weakness.

cassandra: The truth is more important than my reputation, and anyone wishing to accuse me of weakness is welcome to try.

solas: I suppose.

iron bull: What, you don’t think so? You ripped him a new one. It was great!

solas: Unless the fight is personal, violence is a means to an end. It isn’t appropriate to celebrate.

iron bull: I don’t know. Gotta wonder about anyone who fights as much as we do and doesn’t have some fun with it.

solas: We have fought living men, with loves and families, and all that they might have been is gone.

iron bull: Yeah, but they were assholes!

solas: I’m sorry?

dorian: No, that outfit is sorry. What are you supposed to be? Some kind of woodsman? Is this a Dalish thing? Don’t you dislike the Dalish? Or is it some kind of statement?

solas: No.

dorian: Well, it says “apostate hobo” to me.

cassandra: I’m right here, you know.

varric: That doesn’t rule you out, Seeker.

solas: Cullen’s not up for consideration?

varric: Curly? They just keep him around to look pretty.

vivienne: The same could be said of any mage. Beyond that, I have little in common with a noble from Tevinter.

cole: No. For most mages, it’s a tool, a toil. You make it you.

vivienne: Nonsense, as usual.