[No, see, this is fine. He can handle this. It's just like walking around with... No, it's not just like that... perhaps more like Sten?
Yes, Sten. Perfect analogy. Good job, Alistair. This is why you're king.]
Honestly, because everyone wants to have something different from everyone else. A noble woman isn't going to care if the silk she has was made by one of the elves in the Alienage of Kirkwall, so long as she can tell her friends that it was made by the silent monks in the Anderfels. Or something like that.
[He honestly doesn't know where silk is from. Val Royeaux, maybe?]
So, it's a bit like that. "Oh, no, Marie. I got this love potion from so and so. It's guaranteed to make that handsome king fall madly in love with me and it only cost me fifty sovereigns."
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Yes, Sten. Perfect analogy. Good job, Alistair. This is why you're king.]
Honestly, because everyone wants to have something different from everyone else. A noble woman isn't going to care if the silk she has was made by one of the elves in the Alienage of Kirkwall, so long as she can tell her friends that it was made by the silent monks in the Anderfels. Or something like that.
[He honestly doesn't know where silk is from. Val Royeaux, maybe?]
So, it's a bit like that. "Oh, no, Marie. I got this love potion from so and so. It's guaranteed to make that handsome king fall madly in love with me and it only cost me fifty sovereigns."