( contemplatively, )

That does solve a lot of problems.

( for legal reasons this is also a joke. still, )

I don't know— I think there's something to making people take ownership of a thing, and not blindly follow some exciting symbol. ( the herald is dead; no hero is coming to unite thedas behind her, they're going to have to save themselves. )

But people like exciting symbols. They're persuasive in a way it's in your own best interests, you sub-basement imbecile isn't.