@nighttimefriend from here
âSo,â the warrior mused, âyer Mum might yet be livinâ. Fer all I know, mine could be as well. She left me tâ be raised by the Chantry, so young I donât remember her at all. âTaint tâ say she done wrong by me. I wasnât the first brat...or the last...to be dropped off at the Chantry because there was too many mouths tâ feed, er whatever.âÂ
âAnd âtwasnât bad, not in the beginninâ. I never had a problem with the lay folk, sisters or brothers. Bâsides teachinâ me tâ read and write and do sums, and nursinâ me through coughs and fevers, âtwas them who did all the cookinâ and cleaninâ and mendinâ, and a lot of it there was, in a Chantry the size oâ Kirkwallâs. Those folk were as close to a mother as I ever knew, just as Knight Commander Guylian was the closest to a father.âÂ
âI know,â he said, waving a hand. âHeard it all. Guylian was dull as a rock. He was too old, too lyrium-addled, almost as senile as Divine Beatrix. And yeah, he did give in to Beatrix when he shouldnât have. But ainât that what a good Templarâs supposed tâ do? All through our training it gets hammered into us that Andraste speaks through the Divine. So if thereâs a conflict, and the Divine asks somethinâ of ya, how can ya refuse? Because of course the Divine donât play favorites...â Â
He smiled a bit sheepishly. âBut...I ainât here tâ give yâ another lecture about the Chantry. Theyâre all set tâ topple on their own, with no help from me. Iâve...been sent back. Tâhelp ya deal with a certain...Wolf.â