[Asher listens as quietly as he did when he was a boy learning the stories of his gods from his grandfather, not quite smiling but it's close. This has always made more sense than anything about the Maker. Gods that were real. That did things. That were bloodied and moved and touched the world. Andraste might have lived and died but that was different again to what Ellana's telling him now.]

Thank you, for sharing that. I've only ever passed clans on the road and I tend to let them have a wide berth just so nothing ever happens that doesn't need to happen. [Melisende's history is her own, same as Liadan's. Asher doesn't pry.] Plenty of things I know better than to believe books about.