"True enough." Whether she's speaking of the riffling fox or the apostate sensibilities, Adelaide does not mean to elaborate. "They managed to accomplish a separation and dissolution of the circles which in turn threw the world into upheaval, get a great many of us exiled or killed, and push a large number of mages that never spent much time beyond their towers into a world that feared them. So I should say they accomplish quite a bit when given cause."

It is what they accomplished most recently that is the greatest point of contention among mages. Those hat would go back, those that would double down on Chantry dogma, those that wished nothing to do with any of it, and those that wished for reformation. "What we were accustomed to frames how we work now, this is true, but the inclusion of our Dalish Council members, as ill suited to the position as Ellana seems through no fault of her own- to be Dalish surrounded by human politicians with their opinions and experiences where she seems to have little cannot be easy- is as vital as the inclusion of Circle mages. We are all of us apostates after a fashion, now. There are no Circles. What comes next must come from our hands and that means taking into account alternative perspectives. Convincing one another of that, now. That is the trick. Especially when some of our apostate members are...stubborn, like Korrin. Not to say the rest are any less so. Vivienne in particular, in her own way, is loathe to give ground."

As a political moderate it has caused more than it's fair share of headaches for Adelaide.