"I suppose you're right."

"Don't just suppose it. Know it. I wouldn't be better off if I angsted over the shem guards I had to kill."

"I'm sorry to hear that. What happened?"

"I can't tell that story; Elissa's using it to blackmail someone. Suffice to say that the guards and the blackmailee really, really deserved it."

"Do people really run into the spirits of the dead wandering the Fade?" wonders Tev. "I wasn't sure if that happened or not."

"Not the dead, no, but sometimes the living dreaming."

"I don't think that is what matters either," says Shiral. "Dwarves don't dream."

"Dwarves also never have magic."

"...I'm not sure I follow."

"Dwarves are cut off from the Fade, and therefore have neither mages nor dreams. Darkspawn do have magic occasionally."

"Does that mean it's possible to have mages who don't dream? Interesting."

"There's a lot we don't know about darkspawn, since they're almost never safe to study."

"We may not know whether darkspawn dream, but we know that Archdemons do," Ambrose mentions.

"How do we know that?"

"One of the lesser-known signs of a Blight is that Grey Wardens start dreaming of the Archdemon, and the Archdemon's spirit is present in those dreams."

"Being a Grey Warden just keeps sounding like more and more fun," says Tev.

"Better that way than having learned than by some unsuspecting mage stumbling across it in the Fade."

"Okay, true."

"So does the archdemon just happen to generally be asleep at the same time we are or what?"

"I've never asked."

"Does sleeping at odd hours reduce the number of archdemon dreams?"

"I haven't tried."

"Okay."

"Have any Grey Wardens written books about this kind of thing?"

"Yes. There's a collection of such texts at Weisshaupt Fortress. I haven't yet had a chance to visit, so I can't tell you much about them."