With a roll of his eyes, he gives Sam a shove before settling a hand more solidly on his shoulder. "Word of advice: the proper ones are always really into the last thing you'd expect them to be into. Learn from experience. The really delicate pretty ones like the big rough soldiers with square jaws and faces like hatchets, beards that'd rub their faces raw. Christine's lovely, must be the Circle that gets rid of some of the more unbearable Orlesian traits though." Church might be from a rift and thus not count but she did go to the ball with him and he's certainly something after all.

"It's on her staff isn't it?" Mage weapons are a big stick that you fire stuff out of or whack things with if they get too close, he doesn't care too much about the ins and outs of them. "You should have the muscle to swing it though obviously it's not going to have the weight of a greatsword since the weight is in the blade itself but you'll need to hold it differently to a staff to start with. Your whole stance'll have to adjust as well, if you're really thinking about it."