Solas looks at him for a long, judgemental moment.

"Spirits inhabit bodies of the willing," he says, carefully, "Your Chantry will not have taught you of the numerous spirit healers among their own ranks, nor of the traditions of their secret initiations, and rites. That such unions are often destructive is not usually the fault of the Spirit, by my experience."

After all, who among us would react well to be invited to come into someone's home, only to find the door locked and barred behind them, and the home itself a surprising horror of torture and mistreatment?

"The man you saw was most likely Anders, famously a companion of the Champion of Kirkwall," He continues, prim after his pause for breath, "He partnered to a Spirit of Justice, and as I am told they remained together for many years, doing good work and seeking reforms from the Circles. Indeed, he is largely attributed to be the cause of the dissolution of those institutions, some ten years past. You were very close with both of them, and I am sure they mourned you profoundly."