It could honestly go either way. James is ...cautiously optimistic that the mages won't try to turn this place into another Tevinter where blood magic reigns supreme and people are used as neverending fonts of power for the mysticall greedy. He nods his head slowly.

"So ... we would all, more or less, get precisely what we need, if not what we all wanted all along." Respect. Freedom. "What are ... what are you considering here?"

Just how much am I going to regret this? should have been the unasked question.