"I do not think I will live so long as to see the end of the world. Assassins rarely live to see twenty, let alone forty." And here he is, inching up on the latter. "Predicting the future is not something mages or dreamwalkers can do for the future is ever changing. Twelve years ago I could not think of any one event that would lead me here, let alone the whole of them. A world might end- one where elves were immortal and had their magics, one where Tevinter's empire spanned the continent. But simply because A world ended- does not mean the whole of it is destroyed. It is changed. That is how I look to those tales. Change in a way they could not hope to understand."