Yes. [ The placidity of his expression breaks, becoming a melancholy frown as he looks down. His voice softens considerably. ] They were terrified, confused, desperate to live and helpless as they watched themselves age and die.

The Dalish speak of the immortality as if it is a barely remembered dream, something impossible and mythological, not fully understanding the magnitude of what they lost. Better perhaps that they cannot understand. It would grieve them if they knew.