"No." Simply, offering no room for disagreement. "I would prefer that none here know of that. It is unbelievable enough to look at us and know we carry ourselves without stooped shoulders, without fear of the whip or the swords of Men. That we ruled, that I had crown and kingdom... I would appear a madman. And beyond that, what king is a king without subjects? A treasury?"

He gestures, something short and sharp to indicate an absence, a dismissal. Nothing and no one.

"You will find it far easier, but the Dalish will take time to warm to you, if at all." A warning. "The Peredhel here favor the Mannish parent, always. There is no choice. They could render the elvhen extinct if they had a mind to it. The truth of your bloodline will anger them."