"Knight-Enchanter Herian Amsel, of the White Spire." Technically it might be that she could introduce herself as Councillor, but that hardly seems appropriate when she is so freshly joined to the mage council. "I am only newly joined to the Inquisition. My teacher from the Spire, Councillor LeBlanc, mentioned you to me."

A friend of her younger brother, Adelaide had said. A friend to Adelaide's family, but Adelaide's family where nobility, Orlesian nobility, where Adelaide was a mage of the Circle. She was different, even if their blood ran the same, she was closer to something Herian understood, and removed from what it was to be noble.

Lady Vauquelin had no such redeeming qualities to be automatically granted her.