"It kept that belief, and then some." She sets down the pen, lest she snap it in two. "About six months after the Blight's end, it resurfaced in the arling of Amaranthine, the seat of the Wardens of Ferelden. It decided that it needed the blood of Wardens in order to break the darkspawn of the mandate to find the Old Gods, thus giving darkspawn an individual will. It led to dissension in the darkspawn ranks." Cold. Not very nice. "Not everyone wanted to be free of it, you see. You'd think it would have better sense than to have started with a broodmother.

"At any rate. It did not survive its final encounter with the Wardens."

By which Ivette means my knives.