"Resistance will hardly come flocking to the Inquisition's flag if it is known that we are prone to hacking off limbs."
And there is Alexandrie, bringing up the rear and looking rather the worse for wear; blood spattered, like the rest, the skirt of her gown slit to the thigh for movement.
"Yes, as you say, the people of Tevinter will fight for Tevinter. But that is not what we wish, is it? It is the people of Tevinter fighting for Thedas. What care they for us; what care they for our efforts in Orlais, in Nevarra, in the Marches, Ferelden, the Deeps, if it is our care that starves them? You may as well write the Venatori's propaganda for them. Why create willing recruits when you could have a city full of spies and rebels waiting to be tapped?"
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And there is Alexandrie, bringing up the rear and looking rather the worse for wear; blood spattered, like the rest, the skirt of her gown slit to the thigh for movement.
"Yes, as you say, the people of Tevinter will fight for Tevinter. But that is not what we wish, is it? It is the people of Tevinter fighting for Thedas. What care they for us; what care they for our efforts in Orlais, in Nevarra, in the Marches, Ferelden, the Deeps, if it is our care that starves them? You may as well write the Venatori's propaganda for them. Why create willing recruits when you could have a city full of spies and rebels waiting to be tapped?"