"Fertile farmland is a resource to be respected. Humility will serve a people far better than noblesse, in a crisis."

A drought, for example, or apparantly, a Blight. Armies marched on their bellies, after all.

"Ah, yes. This will be the sister everyone seems to assume I know so much about?" He hasn't encountered Varric's book yet, but Obi-Wan will find it in his hands eventually. Until then, the Champion Hawke of Kirkwall is mere rumor and heresay, to his mind, "And Carver?"