"I didn't leave so much as be shown the proverbial door. They wanted nothing to do with me." Even when they knew the alternative, they did not care. He was of the city and therefore spoiled or tainted or otherwise wrong. The Dalish he's met elsewhere haven't done much to relieve him of his first impression. "Even though I had no say in where I was born and I had traveled quite some distance to join them. They did not care."