"How do there begin to be more orcs?"

"Well, now, orcs just have children. But first, Melkor made them. They're what happens if you - hurt Quendi, a lot, and force them to have children, and hurt the children and force them to have children."

"...Darkspawn are... sort of similar, except that there's no god involved. I have actually given people nightmares by going into too much detail, but it's a thing that can happen to women taken prisoner by darkspawn and it's... substantially more horrifying than one would expect from that description alone."

"Yeah."

"- I can die without having to do anything specific, if I want, at what point if I meet darkspawn -"

"...I'm not sure whether or not they can do it to you, it depends on how much of what I heard was... decoration... and how much was actually necessary, but even if they can't do that they can do other horrible things - the flesh and blood of darkspawn is poison, and when it doesn't kill people it turns them into ghouls, which are - sort of like the people they were before, but they have trouble moving and thinking and the darkspawn have some way of making them do things that seems to work much too well to be ordinary coercion. So... if you're taken prisoner by darkspawn and they try to make you eat or drink anything, that's very worrying but not necessarily hopeless; if they succeed, none of the ways that can possibly turn out are good."

Nod.

"I have seen a ghoul survive on his own, but he was a very very unhappy person and running a constant risk of being enslaved by darkspawn if they ever found him. And not running a risk of being turned into a darkspawn broodmother."

"If anything happens to me I would be much obliged if someone could retrieve my chip and keep it somewhere sufficiently plain that it will eventually turn up if the Valar find this place in a few thousand years. My husband is allowed to ask for a fork of me but - he won't, he'd just. He'd wait."

"I'll do my best," he promises.

"And Stalas's best is pretty impressive," Tev contributes.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"I should think about how best to teach you all to make stuff - it will depend on what materials I can get -"

"What kinds of materials would you need?"

"Many different kinds of metal, especially - uh, metals that go towards each other, do you have those -"

"You can talk to Caridin about them, he'd know. I don't remember anything like that but I might just not have heard of it."

"And - well, I'm not sure what else will be most important here, I'll have to look around more."

"Yeah. We can show you around Redcliffe while Elissa and Ambrose are talking politics with Eamon."

"...but not for too long all at once because I can see it from here and it is not pretty enough."

"...If you're going to have trouble just being in or near it, that's a problem, because Redcliffe is one of the few places that's safe from darkspawn and will let you live there just because we ask them nicely... we could try to get you set up with a clan of Dalish elves, they're nomadic, less architecture to be upset about, but it would mean going a fairly significant distance out of our way and I'd have to think pretty hard to find a way to pull it off that's minimally disruptive to the world-saving project - I wonder if you'd do any better in Orzammar, the nicer parts of Orzammar anyway, we pay a lot more attention to construction and maintenance because we can sense the shape of the stone directly, it's more noticeable..."

"I could maybe make it work with a lot of pretty things in wherever I was staying and singing a lot and windows with a view of the woods..."

"I'll see what I can do - and there are places in the town that are prettier than others, I don't think the back of the chantry is visible from here unless you can see around corners but they have some fairly amazing stained glass windows..."

"Not around corners, no."