"Tabris ain't a nigger. We don't got any knowledge about people with deformed ears where I'm from." Bayard's not necessarily aggressive, but coming into a sort of stubbornness that is far less about what he's saying than about the fact that he's far from home, separated from his family, unsure about the outcome of a war that he only vaguely understands has to do with all of these concepts.

Given time, it'll be different, but overnight he won't undo the bondage of racism of prejudice on his soul.

"It's different. I ain't lecturing you about Thedas so kindly keep from lecturing me about what happens in my country."