"Not really. It's still a matter of training and basic human nature. If you're close to someone, you're going to hesitate when that hesitation will cost lives. Templars are human, too. The reasons behind our methodology aren't cruelty for its own sake." He takes another bite and follows it with some vegetable, chewing methodically and quickly. That's also habit. Eat what he can when he can, because there's no way of knowing when it will be interrupted.
"I'm all too aware of that." The ones that turned, some of them at least, he never would have expected. He frowns.
"Until there is a way to know, this is how it has to be. Not all of us want to bow under the yoke of powerful magisters." He holds up a hand to show he's not trying to start an argument. "It may be there's no true balance to be had, but as things stand right now I think we can both agree that neither Tevinter nor the South have stumbled upon the right answer."
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"I'm all too aware of that." The ones that turned, some of them at least, he never would have expected. He frowns.
"Until there is a way to know, this is how it has to be. Not all of us want to bow under the yoke of powerful magisters." He holds up a hand to show he's not trying to start an argument. "It may be there's no true balance to be had, but as things stand right now I think we can both agree that neither Tevinter nor the South have stumbled upon the right answer."