Kostos takes the drink without comment, which is probably for the best, because if he did comment it would be to say maybe Anders should have tried harder to die during the Kirkwall Rebellion.
It's also for the best that he's give a drink at all, because it leaves him feeling appreciative enough that he doesn't bristle too badly—some, but not a lot—at the comment about organization, doesn't snap back. He just takes a very long drink, and then speaks slowly, choosing words not out of care for anyone's feelings, but because he is really not very good at talking.
"It has always been a battlefield of public opinion," he says. "People gave quarter to the Templars as they would never give to us. We could not stay where we were not wanted or take supplies we were not offered, because then we would be what they fear we could become. Redcliffe is the only place we were ever offered shelter. Even the children."
Perhaps if the Templars traveled with eight-year-olds they had to consider as well as grown men, or elderly Templars who could hardly life a sword—perhaps if locking Templars in a house and setting it on fire wouldn't have been regarded by the people as an atrocity beyond forgiveness—
"The Grand Enchanter could not have been a commander and a caretaker at once," Kostos finishes. "It is too much to ask. And as long as it is a war between people who are chosen and trained, and people who are born, there is no evening those odds."
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It's also for the best that he's give a drink at all, because it leaves him feeling appreciative enough that he doesn't bristle too badly—some, but not a lot—at the comment about organization, doesn't snap back. He just takes a very long drink, and then speaks slowly, choosing words not out of care for anyone's feelings, but because he is really not very good at talking.
"It has always been a battlefield of public opinion," he says. "People gave quarter to the Templars as they would never give to us. We could not stay where we were not wanted or take supplies we were not offered, because then we would be what they fear we could become. Redcliffe is the only place we were ever offered shelter. Even the children."
Perhaps if the Templars traveled with eight-year-olds they had to consider as well as grown men, or elderly Templars who could hardly life a sword—perhaps if locking Templars in a house and setting it on fire wouldn't have been regarded by the people as an atrocity beyond forgiveness—
"The Grand Enchanter could not have been a commander and a caretaker at once," Kostos finishes. "It is too much to ask. And as long as it is a war between people who are chosen and trained, and people who are born, there is no evening those odds."