He watches what he can of her--for once, with no lecherous intent. "Gone. Long since destroyed fighting the darkspawn, or in the final battle to take the anvil. The last of them, what was left of the man who created the anvil, he took his own life when freed from its power."

He does not speak to her of how there are other ways to control a person, and nothing can be smashed to stop them. He is ruthless, and a killer, but he isn't cruel.