[Varric spent a long few minutes after the speech tapping his finger against a nearby rock. He'd never admit it aloud but... he was at least somewhat stricken by his words. He didn't exactly need the inspiration of course, everything he'd been missing had cropped up on the Hub but... he didn't need to say that out loud.]

You ever considered contracting out your speech-making abilities? I've had a lot of hero types in my books, and none of them have ever sounded half as inspiring as you. Me, I'm a real wordsmith, but I'm-- I'm not so great at the whole motivating the masses thing.

[All of the decent speeches he had written had come from the actual heroes themselves. It was easy to sound good when he was just transcribing things.]