Were this any other competition, I would agree, with all of my heart. But I am determined to find the very best among us. It is important that my sampling be unparalleled. If we strip this list of us, what is left? Fereldans. I cannot, in good conscious, doom my list and its eventual purpose to such a fate.

Perhaps it would be simpler to include Orlesians by default, and worry of their ranking later, once the wider sampling is complete.