Through all his trials at Skyhold, the one thing about Cade that has never wavered is his faith. Or at least... his determination to try to uphold the tenets of his faith as dictated by the Chantry. Even while screwing up unimaginably. Even while destroying himself.

His eyes actually tear up a little when he looks back at Zevran, his eyelids red and the rest of him tense with the sort of misery that starts to build slowly when he's left with his thoughts for too long. "...I've never been anything else," he says quietly, his voice quavering, "I don't... if I... if I'm not this, I'm nothing." He might be nothing anyway.