"Thedas needs the sort of change that Thedas might not be capable of." If Anders doesn't need comfort then Araceli can speak plain then, or closer to plain. "The Chantry needs leadership sooner rather than later since it's such a cornerstone of life here and a new Divine might undo all that any of us accomplish. Nobility need to be held accountable for their actions but I won't hold my breath there. Elves shouldn't be treated as they are, as if they're less, their history crushed and trampled and taken from them but that is hardly a popular fight to be taken to the people. To a degree there is little spoken of the Tal-Vashoth or the Vashoth or the dwarves on the surface as if they are overlooked unless they are a problem or a tool, there are Seekers scattered who knows where, the Templars likely hold just as many opinions as mages but would hold more popular support than them when push comes to shove and I do not know enough of Wardens to speak of them but there are Wardens to add to this mix as well as everything you know of mages and their struggles. Rifters too. Whatever the rifts might have done to the world. Whatever else Corypheus has unleashed that we cannot see.
"All of that one day must be addressed but so too must the people who get forgotten. The people who have the soldiers march through their villages or the mages and templars fighting by their homes. People who do not have these things. Who will never have these things. Who will live and die as they are perhaps with a dream of better. They know a false promise. They need to know that what we do is give them enough at least where they have a world without having to worry for the roof over their heads or there being food on the table. Convince the common people of your plight and you already have an army." Perhaps not the army others imagine with swords and shields and banners but it's the one the people on their thrones and pushing their papers will fear when the unrest begins to swell.
Considering it quietly while she again tries to get her temper back under control (it shouldn't surprise her, that the poor and the common in a place with magic aren't even considered at all but every time when she thinks of the work she was doing at home she pens another letter to Leandra with aching fingers, it still does) she realises she's already said what he could offer. "I know very little of the Grey Wardens. What I do know is hopelessly outdated; the hazard of a book is always that by the time it goes to print the information can already be obsolete in some cases." It's half a lie, Kaisa told her things but Kaisa is Kaisa. Kaisa isn't Anders. And one person can't be considered an accurate and valid source of information.
[muffled do you hear the people sing in the distance]
"All of that one day must be addressed but so too must the people who get forgotten. The people who have the soldiers march through their villages or the mages and templars fighting by their homes. People who do not have these things. Who will never have these things. Who will live and die as they are perhaps with a dream of better. They know a false promise. They need to know that what we do is give them enough at least where they have a world without having to worry for the roof over their heads or there being food on the table. Convince the common people of your plight and you already have an army." Perhaps not the army others imagine with swords and shields and banners but it's the one the people on their thrones and pushing their papers will fear when the unrest begins to swell.
Considering it quietly while she again tries to get her temper back under control (it shouldn't surprise her, that the poor and the common in a place with magic aren't even considered at all but every time when she thinks of the work she was doing at home she pens another letter to Leandra with aching fingers, it still does) she realises she's already said what he could offer. "I know very little of the Grey Wardens. What I do know is hopelessly outdated; the hazard of a book is always that by the time it goes to print the information can already be obsolete in some cases." It's half a lie, Kaisa told her things but Kaisa is Kaisa. Kaisa isn't Anders. And one person can't be considered an accurate and valid source of information.