Whoa, I like your Aeducan's name! What will be the big difference between Nasir and Xanthos?
Thanks! I have a few good screenshots of my DN in my files as well, if people would like to take a gander at him.
I suppose the main difference between them is that Xanthos knows what he does is for the Dwarven people and he has no qualms about it (though he's a good person who does his best to help everyone). Nasir is similar, in that what he's doing is for the Dwarves as a whole as well. He was tasked by King Xanthos and Queen Nerav Helmi to investigate the Inquisition and determine their nature and whether the war would be of use to Orzammar's interests.
Nasir tends to be torn though about what he needs to do. He wants peace and order (as does Xanthos for this thing) but he feels a strange sense of loyalty towards Xanthos that he didn't feel before (being casteless and a surfacer, he didn't care much for Orzammar Dwarves. But his meeting with my DN during the Blight struck a chord with him). So he's trying to find this balance between what's best for the people and what's best for Orzammar, and it leads to a lot of questioning decisions on his part. He's trying to figure out what works the best.
Also he's very much a self-deprecating *******, more then my DN was. And he's got some PTSD, from years of being a mercenary and smuggler for the Carta (serving, again, my DN). The destruction of the Conclave didn't help because he had a lot of friends there from all walks of life.
So when Iron Bull came clean about his own thing, Nasir said the same thing about himself. He understands where Bull's coming from because he's in the same boat.