"Right. Senior Enchanters is the title given to those who instruct, and students are called Apprentices until they're forced through a horrific ordeal known as the Harrowing, and then we actually get called mages."

The Circles had been insular. He doesn't expect everyone to know what all went on in the Circle.

"This room would have had a senior enchanter and four to six apprentices, or two to three mages, for each class. Generally speaking. ...If Kirkwall did things the way Kinloch Hold did, in my time." There are a lot of qualifiers there. There have to be, with how Circles operate. They also serve as a distraction from thoughts of a specific senior enchanter who was held here for a time.