Double update! Sorry for the utter lack of warning, inspiration just hit me.
From a dialogue option I always chose when possible, because it was in-character.
You know the score - world, characters, mythos, official lines herein are all BioWare's.
Nobody
Alistair
The thought comes to him out of the blue, as he watches her grimace at her own stew - the sight brings a smile to his face, though it is one of pity.
She is a Grey Warden. The Warden, according to the rumours flying round Ferelden, which, thankfully, always seem to ignore him. Yet she never flaunts it.
He remembers her words in Lothering, when asked who she was: "Nobody important. I'm... just passing through."
An utter, utter lie. She always seems to say it, though, pretending she's just one more person on the street, unless she has to explain who she is. He frowns.
He always assumed it was to avoid Loghain's men, to avoid bloodshed - she always tries to, after all; her expression after they had to kill those refugees looking for the bounty in Lothering...
Just idiots with swords. Innocent men who wanted to feed their families. He'd felt more than a little sick after that fight, but she'd closed up, just standing, looking at the bodies, refusing to take supplies from them, her words as they walked away simply, "Not their fault. Loghain's."
She hadn't talked to him much then, but he remembers that. He remembers, too, her expression, after he'd told her about his father, at what he'd called himself. He was, he is, just another nobody too lucky to die with the rest of the Grey Wardens.
She'd turned back to him then, met his eye, her voice quiet and her brows set in a frown. "That's not really what you think, is it?"
Thinking about all the times she's called herself "no-one important", he wants to ask her the same, because the thought frightens him.
That's not really what she thinks, is it?