On the tail of a huff of laughter, Felassan lies, "I had long birth and a cruel mother."

It's a joke he's told before to Dalish who found his name a strange choice — which plenty have, all the more so if they know the stories it might reference, because to name a child slow anything is still kinder than to name him for a weapon of the god of treachery. And it's one that doubles as a private joke, just for him, about the All-Mother.

Or it has been just for him. Maybe Rook knows enough to get it.

"Can I ask what game you were playing, Rook? If it was not literally chess."