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"All Expectation hath something of torment."
Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and religious aphorisms, Chapter XII, #1135, 1753.

Hawke will not become Viscount hence self-deceiving Carver to flee Seekers of Truth shall join the Grey Wardens.

Alvaro Delgado & Alltair feat. Akacia — Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odsEhv2Bzq8

Cassandra: Even so, had the Champion not been there...

"As we are alone, this is hardly time to boast, in my place I had rather go too far in despising than in seeking glory;
but the simple truth is that the only rational method of carrying on our war is the way in which I have conducted it:
not only this event—experience is the teacher of fools—but that same reasoning held good then will hold unchanged, 
so long as circumstance remains the same."
[Nec gloriandi tempus adversus unum est, et ego contemnendo potius quam adpetendo gloriam modum excesserim; 
sed ita res se habet: una ratio belli gerendi adversus Hannibalem est qua ego gessi. Nec eventus modo hoc docet
—stultorum iste magister est—sed eadem ratio quae fuit futura, donec res eaedem manebunt, immutabilis est.]
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 22, Chapter 39, #9 [Fabius Cunctator].

Varric: It might never have even gone that far.

"And for the other Instance of attaining Soveraignty by Rebellion; it is manifest, that though the event follow, 
yet because it cannot reasonably be expected, but rather the contrary; and because by gaining it so, others are 
taught to gain the same in like manner, the attempt thereof is against reason. Justice therefore, that is to say, 
Keeping of Covenant, is a Rule of Reason, by which we are forbidden to do any thing destructive to our life; 
and consequently a Law of Nature."
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I. Of Man, Chapter XV Of other Laws of Nature, 1651.

Varric did not kill his brother Bartrand. Merrill did not kill mother Marethari. Hawke did not kill her sister Varania.