[ What Ellie is describing is not so far from what Ellis recalls of his time rotating in and out of the Deep Roads, or pursuing rumors of darkspawn across Thedas. There are Wardens with notches on their belts, or the hilts of their swords, or the haft of their axe.
But Ellis has very much learned his lesson about invoking Wardens too closely in conversation, so his answer takes a different form. ]
There are many in Riftwatch who haven't fought on those terms. Or seen open combat. It is different, for people who cannot imagine what it's like to live so close to different kinds of danger.
[ Is it morbid? Maybe. But Ellis has shown off his scars here too, and received a kind of shocked fascination for it, rather than the knowing rejoinders he had been so used to. ]
Even the ones who brag aren't bragging in the same way as someone who's had to make a habit of scraping through dangerous conditions daily.
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But Ellis has very much learned his lesson about invoking Wardens too closely in conversation, so his answer takes a different form. ]
There are many in Riftwatch who haven't fought on those terms. Or seen open combat. It is different, for people who cannot imagine what it's like to live so close to different kinds of danger.
[ Is it morbid? Maybe. But Ellis has shown off his scars here too, and received a kind of shocked fascination for it, rather than the knowing rejoinders he had been so used to. ]
Even the ones who brag aren't bragging in the same way as someone who's had to make a habit of scraping through dangerous conditions daily.