[Aveline still isn't certain how that works, it's fairly hard to imagine a government being able to control all information in that manner. Even the very real threat of war hadn't made Kirkwall's citizens behave more...cowed by the government, if anything it had been the opposite. But then, she certainly couldn't describe their approach as merciless, however undirected it had seemed at the time.

The Knight Commander towards the mages was another story, but even there it didn't seem to have resulted in mages just rolling over and accepting that sort of thing. Or in everyone believing that all mages were innately dangerous.]

I suppose. But they're a foreign nation, so it's not really any of our business beyond trying to minimize the hostility that they express towards us.

[Better to be practical about this.]