If the mages need the voice of an outsider (if that won't shoot them in the foot) then they'll have it in her. "I don't see how they'd defend anyone, but there are always lies people tell themselves that others end up buying into wholesale. It does work well for crowd control, certainly more than a smoke bomb would do. I wonder how similar parts of our childhoods were - pirates and mercenaries differ but they make the world go round without being a part of it exactly." Even in Castileos they must be disavowed when doing the work of the queen but that's a given, their private joke laughed about politely in the audiences.

"You could set up some dummies in Skyhold - it'd hurt enough to clatter into them but it would teach course correction without having to risk falling off something although if you did want that sort of lesson, I could pad somewhere for you." No one, not even Gavin, died during her lessons and she's damn proud of that fact.