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Come se non bastasse, è addirittura riuscito a inimicarsi lo studente più promettente del suo anno, che si dà il caso sia anche il nipote di un re. Hugh non ha amici, non ha talenti e di certo non si aspetta di essere scelto come apprendista durante il Selezionamento. Eppure, quando viene scelto da un mago particolarmente eccentrico, la sua vita cambia per il meglio. Non gli resta che superare l'esame finale delle matricole: una spedizione nel terrificante labirinto sotto Skyhold.

The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity and even more so in times of war or tension. Many authors and poets have had real life incarnations as spies from Christopher Marlowe and Aphra Behn to Daniel Defoe. But it’s a dangerous game. Working in a murky, secretive world where any trust given could be at the expense of your life.

Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. As blood and limb are sacrificed the true cost is seen but often set to one side as the dispute becomes embedded in emotions and reason falls away.