Gela is guilty of never having given it much thought before, but of course the rifters have not all come from the same place, not like she's been thinking about it, some formless, all-encompassing Rifterworld where they all lived before they came to Thedas. They have come from all over. The universe is more than the city Gela was born in, and the places she's seen.

It's difficult to understand it, if only by the sheer scope of what he's asking her to entertain here, but he's said one thing that is particularly interesting...

All this time, she's been making a face. Reckoning with it, trying to understand. She asks, "Other versions of my world... where the past played out differently? What past?"