[All you can do is laugh when the world is being torn apart by your countrymen. Not that he was very close to them, nor the venatori.]

You're joking...its been months of disaster. You're not living in a hole, are you?

Though i cant say it was all Kirkwall...the champion and Varric did mention having dealt with Corypheous before though. At the very least i dont think the explosion had much to do with that bastard trying to destroy the known world. It just helped that the peace talks brought all the right people together all at once.