"I've always wanted to see everywhere save Qunari-controlled territories," he says with a matching laugh. Anders the runaway had wanted to be Anders the explorer. Decades later, that dream seems to be coming true.

"Maybe we should make statues when we get home. Of people we knew. And then we can decorate them. I'd take a great deal of joy in hanging goofy things off of Wynn, personally. And Irving and Greagoire. I may draw a dick on Greagoire's face, as fair warning."