"There are many Circle mages and Chantry sisters who will bore you with the details but the Fade is the realm of demons and spirits, touched by each mage when casting a spell, where the spirit goes when it departs the body, or when dreaming. Except for dwarves." Dwarves are weird, but because they have no magic, she's not really all that interested in dwarven things anyway. "Time and place have little meaning there, things will float as they please or they can seem very real and normal almost but for suddenly finding a rowing boat floating through the sky above you or wedged in a great hunk of rock. How any of you have survived when the Herald did not is...astounding, truly. One hopes that you did not enter it physically though, the last time that happened, if the stories are to be believed, the Blights began."

She survived a Blight, all rotting land and darkspawn, roaming ravenous corpses and if he didn't like the Mire, then she doubts he would enjoy a Blight much more.

"People are often idiots who fear things they can't understand, quick to blame all their problems on a child coming into their magic or an old woman that knows too much. Templars in particular, all of them twitching in their skirts."