Not necessarily. [Possessing the mind of the writer meant that he was often dancing with complex scenarios, even if few of them made it to the page.] Might not want to get their hands dirty, or risk getting hurt themselves. I'm guessing you can hold your own? Well, same here.

So if they pit us against each other, they work their enemies down. At the end of it, they have to take out one of us, instead of 30.

[But then, that would imply that the thirty of them had a common enemy. And Varric had never seen Elda before in his life.]

Maybe not that...