[ There's no smirk back, an even stare across the desk with his pen only barely touching the parchment. ]

The Order remained intact, empty towers or not. Even when they severed their ties to the Chantry, years later, they marched beneath a shared banner. There was a war.

[ Or did Barrow miss it? There is a bluntness to the way Marcus speaks, now, an impatience, but no spark of stronger feeling. If he's speaking to a deserter, then there are others would who sooner be upset to hear it. ]

Did all of the Templars of Jainen lay down their arms and quit the Order, or only you?