Nathaniel grunts in the back of his throat in agreement to the assessment. If you listened in the right places you could hear talk of many terrible things coming out of Tevinter, but he had never heard of anything like this. Surely, someone would have noticed...

"Is that so?" he questions as he moves through the door, only to pause in dumbstruck amazement at what he finds on the other side.

There's no end to the surprises here, it seems.