"Another ancient dwarven tradition," Varric says. "This one's at least entertaining to watch. There's courts for questions of law, and duels for questions of honor, but when you absolutely, positively have to settle a dispute in front of as many people as possible and have the Paragons and ancestors on your side, you go into a Proving against your opponent, and the two of you beat the stuffing out of each other in the arena. In front of everybody who's anybody in Orzammar."