It's all too true. Kain could handle giving up anything that didn't impede his ability to fight. It's just too important to him to be a dragoon. He's devoted his entire life to it, after all.

"That must be frustrating, to be taken so far out of the role you're used to. Fortunately, they've documented a great deal about their history... you'll have a lot of material to cover." Kain has glanced through a lot of it, mostly while looking for dragon-related lore, and what he's seen... Thedas is a complex place, especially when it comes to the relations between the various races.