Honestly, at a certain point Alleyana had reached full saturation on the strange people and things she'd encountered on Thedas. Cole didn't seem all that odd anymore, not after all the rest.
"No mage did it, he came across on his own. A spirit of Compassion, he was trying to comfort someone as they died and ended up manifesting entirely. Even he doesn't know how it happened, and apparently he spent the first year or two not even remembering he was a spirit. He thought he was the ghost of the boy who'd died."
The Ghost of the Spire.
"We know lyrium still has strong attachments to both sides of the Veil; if it's letting you imitate the reality on the other side, temporarily going incorporeal suddenly doesn't sound that weird, does it? The Fade's quite the bizarre place. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you could walk up walls and across ceilings, for that matter."
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"No mage did it, he came across on his own. A spirit of Compassion, he was trying to comfort someone as they died and ended up manifesting entirely. Even he doesn't know how it happened, and apparently he spent the first year or two not even remembering he was a spirit. He thought he was the ghost of the boy who'd died."
The Ghost of the Spire.
"We know lyrium still has strong attachments to both sides of the Veil; if it's letting you imitate the reality on the other side, temporarily going incorporeal suddenly doesn't sound that weird, does it? The Fade's quite the bizarre place. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you could walk up walls and across ceilings, for that matter."