"I didn't have a choice." Anders looks down, into the depths of his mug. "I'd escaped the Circle for the seventh time and been caught, two Templars died to Darkspawn right near where I was setting Darkspawn on fire, I was going to be killed."

Not executed. Yes, it was legal to kill him, but it wouldn't have been right in his eyes.

"Jonas conscripted me and spared my life. I don't want to have died, so therefore there's no room for regret." He wouldn't have lost Karl, but he wouldn't have met Nate. He wouldn't be in this war, but he wouldn't have had the chance to know and lose Varric and Isabela and so many others. "Do you regret joining the Inquisition rather than staying with your clan?"