"Corruption more like disease than like turning into demons. We've got something like that here too - it's called the Blight - but as far as I know the shards don't cause it. You have to get bit or bled on by a Darkspawn, I think, though there are definitely people in the Inquisition who know more about the Blight than I do."

That's not comforting at all, but he doesn't seem like a man looking to be comforted.

"As far as I know, we've also got some time before it's more than anything but that annoying ache in your hand. But since I don't know how much I figure better help people get on that. I prefer not dying."