[ the caterpillar, so wooed, clambers to her hand. isaac sets the jar aside. if there's any apology due the flood of information, he doesn't grant one. ]

Their own little cities, [ he agrees, ] And as influenced by those surrounding them. Kirkwall has ever held reason to fear Tevinter, and to pattern itself in her shape. Famously corrupt, harsh, and sat in spitting distance of a dangerous history.

I was raised in Montsimmard, in Southern Orlais. Manifesting magic gave me — gave most there — an astonishing leap in circumstance. Access, education; connections. At the time I received leave to work beyond Circle walls, the mages here,

[ a gesture to the fortress walls ]

Were locked in cells.