He’s never done this before, let alone to this extent with so many names, but it’s a chance to let Gwenaëlle meander her way through that list (Casimir, Alistair, Cullen, Pentaghast) and to pay tribute, to fondly remember. Their topics continue to bounce back and forth, occasionally snagging and hooking into the conversation, and he lets them land where it will.

“A valuable one. An example the others could do with,” he says. “I’ve been trying to talk Mobius into considering quitting the lyrium, but it turns out templars are oddly stubborn about this sort of thing.”