No, the man wouldn't have the right context to understand any of this. It's part of why he had debated the merits of even attempting to. Strange had insisted and Solas thinks he can put it in terms that would make it plain to the man what had happened.

"You are familiar with Empires." Or so Solas would hope. "The Empire of the elves extended across Thedas before its fall with magic at its fingertips. In some ways, we were not that different from Tevinter."

Instead of magisters, they had mage-kings and queens to start before they wanted to be treated as gods, slavery was commonplace. They at least did not seek to bind spirits to do their bidding though that felt only a small advantage when one could see the entire picture.