"We came from the sea, where I come from." Her heart longs for it, even if she has come to make a terrible sort of peace with being up in these mountains so far from it, so long as she might spend her birthday by the salt air at the very least. "The histories we can say are fairly accurate and well-recorded from the founding of the Chantry; all of us are prone to error but that gives us the standard Ages for Thedas, dates and so on. Going further back is what makes it more difficult.
"I cannot say what stopped them. They do not lack for the ability to build ships, and with their magic and discussions I've had with Korrin, it should give them some things we had to overcome with different methods. Even the Qunari...the timing doesn't match up if they were afraid of that. There are pirates in Thedas, the Raiders of the Waking Sea or the Felicisima Armada but there are obviously other routes to take." Looking up from the map to Waver, she shakes her head, trying to get rid of the confused frown on her face because it doesn't make sense to her, not at all. "Thedas is very focussed within itself. It could be just that. I will be sad but unsurprised if it is that."
Always looking to their own borders, to themselves? Orlais was proof of many things for her so she wouldn't be hugely surprised if that's what's managed to keep them bound to these shores all these centuries.
"What other methods do you have? It must be so freeing in so many ways - so many times I have worried about a friend or a contact I rely upon, where you have to go through so many people in different ways to pass a message. If you can just--" She doesn't know what to do to illustrate her point exactly so she waves her hands slightly, trying to convey something of just doing it. Something that would free them up. Even the sending crystals had been so strange and impossible, more is nearly too much.
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"I cannot say what stopped them. They do not lack for the ability to build ships, and with their magic and discussions I've had with Korrin, it should give them some things we had to overcome with different methods. Even the Qunari...the timing doesn't match up if they were afraid of that. There are pirates in Thedas, the Raiders of the Waking Sea or the Felicisima Armada but there are obviously other routes to take." Looking up from the map to Waver, she shakes her head, trying to get rid of the confused frown on her face because it doesn't make sense to her, not at all. "Thedas is very focussed within itself. It could be just that. I will be sad but unsurprised if it is that."
Always looking to their own borders, to themselves? Orlais was proof of many things for her so she wouldn't be hugely surprised if that's what's managed to keep them bound to these shores all these centuries.
"What other methods do you have? It must be so freeing in so many ways - so many times I have worried about a friend or a contact I rely upon, where you have to go through so many people in different ways to pass a message. If you can just--" She doesn't know what to do to illustrate her point exactly so she waves her hands slightly, trying to convey something of just doing it. Something that would free them up. Even the sending crystals had been so strange and impossible, more is nearly too much.