He is. Once he is gone, I will try to get home once more. Until then I shall allow myself to the whims of the rifts.
[If he was still traveling with Hawke, things would be different. He cares about Astarion, but Hawke has his undying loyalty and--...
No, it wasn't a surprise, but it did confirm his suspicions. Those scars aren't unfamiliar to him, he has his own - not just the lyrium markings, but faint ones of a collar once around his neck, ones where he was whip marks against his back under the lyrium, reminders on his wrists where he was held down and struggled until they were raw-- So yes, he knew those scars, but he did not presume them until he hears the disgust for slavers on the man's tongue.]
And when I return, I will cripple and dismantle the slave trade of Tevinter by making it too costly in slaver lives. Or die trying.
[Yes, he was helping others, but mostly he did it for himself. Wanting to gut each and everyone of them, to see them die slowly, hear them beg for their lives and know that this former slave was now in power.]
cw: slavery mentions and violent murder
[If he was still traveling with Hawke, things would be different. He cares about Astarion, but Hawke has his undying loyalty and--...
No, it wasn't a surprise, but it did confirm his suspicions. Those scars aren't unfamiliar to him, he has his own - not just the lyrium markings, but faint ones of a collar once around his neck, ones where he was whip marks against his back under the lyrium, reminders on his wrists where he was held down and struggled until they were raw-- So yes, he knew those scars, but he did not presume them until he hears the disgust for slavers on the man's tongue.]
And when I return, I will cripple and dismantle the slave trade of Tevinter by making it too costly in slaver lives. Or die trying.
[Yes, he was helping others, but mostly he did it for himself. Wanting to gut each and everyone of them, to see them die slowly, hear them beg for their lives and know that this former slave was now in power.]