[ a laugh ] Glad you haven't disappointed me with your taste. [ see, this is why he liked Dorian so far. ] Years ago, our nobility back home used to speak it. Tried to emulate the pompous French court. [ for all the Soviet Union's flaws, at least it wasn't Imperial Russia. ] What are these "Orlesians" like?

[ a world without Russians but with French. what a true hellscape Thedas sounds like. ]

The best languages are always the ones you can curse the most creatively in. I admit that I have a certain bias towards Russian, but never let it be said we don't have some creative turns of phrase. If we wanted to say the same thing, we'd say something along the lines of "Насрать".