What do you believe gods are Inquisition? Do you indeed believe that there are gods? The Chantry that likes to press and to meddle might not be for all but there are many of those who will still have the name of the Maker upon their lips in a time of strife. The Dalish have the Creators. The Avvar have beliefs about spirits and gods, and the Chasind have gods of a fashion, men and women beloved of them.

Rifters need not be shy in answering, I ask about...what a god is. What it might be. If it is a thing indeed. Something far beyond the comprehension of any mortal being, shifting even beyond the Veil or Fade that we might never know what it truly is, or if it might something else. Something closer to flesh and blood fashioned long ago. Shaped in the way the world is shaped.

[That phrase turned over and over: There is only the subject and the object, the actor and the acted upon.]

Perhaps… [and well she might as well voice a possibility when they're in Kirkwall where the Veil was stretched so thin long ago] once 'twas possible to raise those of ambition and power as high as the magisters of old Tevinter, to leave terror and awe in their wake depending on the mood, the whim, the offering.

[Eventually...well eventually there will be a report, but until she can trust how to write it, can know what the reception might be when it dares to leave the small group that know even the truth of what lies deep in the Tirashan, she can't bring her hand to write it.]

I have an inquiry that needs swift response...

(Maedhros is seated on the back of Rúnya, holding his Crystal with one hand and...a person...with the other. A very disgruntled person, who is trying to plead his case. Enjoy his babbling - like an undercurrent to Maedhros's words.)

Where am I to leave a thief?

(He lifts the mugger as if he weighs no more than a puppy. The man in his hold blanches of color, eyes shifting nervously.)

I can think of several punishments for him, but -

(His voice lowers to a growl and the man falls abruptly silent. Yes, that is a smart move.)

I haven't any wish to do something illegal.