I wonder...maybe some day, we'll figure out how to stop the darkspawn, and the dwarves will be able to rebuild. I don't think it'll ever be the same, though. Their birth rates being so low and all.

[ She sighs, tapping her fingers on her knees. ]

Do you think we'll ever really end it? The darkspawn, I mean. Even if we stop them from ever getting to the Old Gods, that doesn't stop them, it just keeps them down here.