It was oddly reassuring to know that, whatever Corypheus had done to their Veil, it didn't sound like her world's problems were also, somehow, his fault. Whether that absolved him of responsibility for the kidnap was a different thing, and there he wasn't sure if things being the fault of an enemy they didn't yet know about was Worse.
"Yes. Well, sort of. First we had the Blight - that's when an Archdemon rises up and leads a horde of darkspawn on a rampage across the surface. Then after that two of the remaining darkspawn had let's-call-it-a-difference-of-opinion about what to do next, and some of us lucky mortals got stuck in the crossfire. And after that an entirely different monster started tearing holes in the Veil between this- between our world and the Fade." He had, of course, neglected to mention the part where, somewhere between chapters two and three, he'd started a war which swept across Ferelden, and Justice chafed at the omission as he did at most untruths, but Sypha didn't need to know that bit just yet. "Never a dull moment, really."