"I cannot say I know a great deal about the Vashoth but I have no quarrel with mages. Your skills are admirable and I was in an alliance with a mage boy when I was in my own world. If they are not loved in this land then I have no part in that."

And that was that as far as Iskandar was concerned. Mages were valuable and being able to use magic did not change who they were as people. Anyone could be corrupted by anything and faulting someone for being able to use magic was in error.