Haggis is correct Gerald is the one complaining about the deep roads and he is annoyed greatly by the idea of going down there. From what I see he is not raving or ranting at all in fact he's given up trying to convince others of the dangers down there. Likewise if you're saying Gerald hasn't been doing anything it's hardly true. He's been traveling the world if anything he's seen a lot of dangerous things and he was grown up in Kirkwall politics and lived through the turmoil prior to the fall of the city.