"He earns it, perhaps one day you'll get to see him when he's hard at work. The Fereldens talk about how smart their mabari are but they know nothing of the cunning of a fox." Maybe because all of their foxes are tiny things that can fit in her pocket if she felt like scooping one up but they also tend to scatter if you anyone seems to get too close.
"I have been the one told I am less for my station in life, there was a time I allowed it to get beneath my skin. Never again. My work here for the Inquisition has me having to play nice with the nobles, perhaps it colours things more." As if her work before didn't already do that though here she doesn't have the same familiarity or the buffer of her fellows to help out, almost entirely alone even if she knew that and accepted it going in. Some things you can't help but miss.
Smiling softly once she's managed to push her grief down to be dealt with later, she continues. "The simple and wrong thing to say is change for the better, because no one ever agrees on what better is. Her Grace Above the Waves to give her her proper title wishes education to be available to all regardless of their birth, and to hold the nobility and the wealthy accountable for their actions. Higher taxes for them to pay for such things, to stop some of them from having a monopoly on certain goods if there is ever a shortage and such." Is it still going on without her? She hopes so even if she does worry because she was always the one to take Leandra out into the places of Castileos deemed 'too unsafe' for a queen, ridiculous really, for a council to ban the queen from anywhere she had been born to; how could she rule if she didn't know the whole of her nation, something Araceli had argued early and Leandra had laughed and said 'we will be such good friends, you and I'. But Waver speaks of mages and Araceli's eyes light up because this too is a thing she cares for though with so many departures from Skyhold?
Well, she's at a loss really. And this might help.
"Are you free mages? How you teach, how you are governed, it isn't like the Circles of Magi with restrictions and being kept from your families and freedoms? I confess, magic is only a thing in books where I am from so Thedas has been an education to me on such things. How does it work? Being a professor of magecraft?" Waver you might have regrets because there's the Circles or apostates or being Dalish or being a mage under the Qun, that's pretty much it for her knowledge here and finding out something new is exciting.
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"I have been the one told I am less for my station in life, there was a time I allowed it to get beneath my skin. Never again. My work here for the Inquisition has me having to play nice with the nobles, perhaps it colours things more." As if her work before didn't already do that though here she doesn't have the same familiarity or the buffer of her fellows to help out, almost entirely alone even if she knew that and accepted it going in. Some things you can't help but miss.
Smiling softly once she's managed to push her grief down to be dealt with later, she continues. "The simple and wrong thing to say is change for the better, because no one ever agrees on what better is. Her Grace Above the Waves to give her her proper title wishes education to be available to all regardless of their birth, and to hold the nobility and the wealthy accountable for their actions. Higher taxes for them to pay for such things, to stop some of them from having a monopoly on certain goods if there is ever a shortage and such." Is it still going on without her? She hopes so even if she does worry because she was always the one to take Leandra out into the places of Castileos deemed 'too unsafe' for a queen, ridiculous really, for a council to ban the queen from anywhere she had been born to; how could she rule if she didn't know the whole of her nation, something Araceli had argued early and Leandra had laughed and said 'we will be such good friends, you and I'. But Waver speaks of mages and Araceli's eyes light up because this too is a thing she cares for though with so many departures from Skyhold?
Well, she's at a loss really. And this might help.
"Are you free mages? How you teach, how you are governed, it isn't like the Circles of Magi with restrictions and being kept from your families and freedoms? I confess, magic is only a thing in books where I am from so Thedas has been an education to me on such things. How does it work? Being a professor of magecraft?" Waver you might have regrets because there's the Circles or apostates or being Dalish or being a mage under the Qun, that's pretty much it for her knowledge here and finding out something new is exciting.