"I'm not denying the magisters were awful people," Anders said, then considered it. "Are awful people, given the blood magic and the slavery. But the question isn't whether they're terrible, it's whether we know for sure that they made the Maker turn away from us. I don't know that we can. I don't think Andraste was a liar, but maybe she heard what she wanted to hear."

Of course, Cassandra happened to be right on this point. Too bad they didn't have Corypheus to tell them that.