"The majority are taught to follow rather than to think for themselves," Solas agreed. "And for a long time I had thought it impossible to find those that didn't simply strive selfishly for power, and crush those beneath them. But perhaps there are a precious few."

There was a slight twinkle in his eye, and he paused as he moved to the next patient, checking their bedding and forehead.

"I had been studying the rifts on my own, through the fade, and managed to find where the next shards would be released. But I am but one elf - I can not take the breach down alone. This is where the rest of the shards have been brought, and though I thought I could help more on my own - thought I could avoid some unpleasantness that I feared would come in the wake of the herald's death - it seems that this is where I must be, for the time being."