In retrospect Anders finally saw how deadly dangerous it had been to give the Divine any ideas on how they might fight back against the mages. Kirkwall had indeed been the perfect fertile ground for seeding horrors – the knowledge that Qunari had a thing called gaatlok, the evidence that both mages and templars were corruptible, and the Chantry, of course the Chantry.

He should have known that if he could find the recipe that used drakestone and sela petrae, so could they.

Still, it drove him to his knees the first time he saw a Circle tower erupt in red light.