[Yngvi listens because he's been doing a lot of that lately, thawing out after the whole ice adventure and his lady's upheaval. Checking in on things when he's working on traps.]

Alienages have traditions and stuff, y'can ask but they might be a bit wary of strangers for good reasons. [Strange names being, unfamiliar songs, doesn't take a leap for him to guess that this is a rifter and that given the everything of everything that folk have a right to just want to be left in some peace.] Everywhere has shit like that, not that Orzammar would spare rope for folk when they can just toss you into the Deep Roads because it's right there and less wasteful. They'd need to pay for rope.

[Need to pay surfacers for rope and 'trade happens' because that's how dwarves work, no he's not bitter.]