"Survival shouldn't be a victory...but the gulf between what should be and what is can be rather wide. Often, the only good thing that comes of such horrors in Thedas is the ability to walk away afterward. Being able to do so at all is far more than what the imprisoned were given." It may sound cynical, but Inessa still remembers the harshness of city elf life. If she got worked up about all bigotry thrown their way, she wouldn't have energy to confront anything else. At certain amount of fatalism is a way of life for her, a survival method.

"That is not to say that I don't agree with you. They should have more, despite that so often they never do. I try to remind myself that Corypheus is fallible; very Venatori and Red Templar we take away from him is one less to torment innocent civilians. Sometimes it even helps." Sometimes.