Even then, it seems like getting to know people would be a better way to go about it. I know I was much less inclined to, oh, give him access to things, being as nasty as he was.

[ He lifts his eyebrows. Then: ]

A paranoid man might think that he came, and was so unpleasant, and caused such destruction, to sow mistrust of either the elves or the Chantry.