Learn a better way. From a Dalish elf who insists written information is less reliable than that passed on by word of mouth. If he weren't so upset by what she was saying he might be tempted to laugh.

"The Circle works. It's always worked. They've never been this chaotic, and just look at how things are now."

He's sure Thedas can't have been so awful before the mages started this blighted war even not having seen it until then.