"She's good people," Avery says simply and leaves it at that. She doesn't know much about Cassandra personally, but she has a lot of respect and gratitude for her.

"And I think helping us is a nice little extra, but mostly the dwarves are just fighting for their homes. They don't like the surface for weird, dwarfy religion reasons I don't really get, but it's the only place they have left to go if they can't hold their ground where they are. So that's what they've done."

She runs a hand through her hair as she pushes down some unpleasant memories that threaten to surface and says, "If you really want to know more, I'd ask a Grey Warden. Dealing with darkspawn is their whole thing."