Given that half the commonfolk she's ever met, particularly in Ferelden when a Blight was going on, could be mistaken for turnips, any effort to actually learn is to be commended.
"Absolutely not, I have always been free and I always will be, to be caged like some animal with swords all about me is not how I plan to spend one day of my life." Come watch the next time she goes to stare down Templars, it may or may not be one of her very favourite games to play at the moment, especially when she only listens in on the mage council from elsewhere instead of joining. "The prophet Andraste once said 'magic is made to serve man' and so the Chantry decided that at the first signs of magic, a child is taken from their family - if there are multiple children then they are sent to different Circles - and raised the way the Chantry wishes them to be raised. To be frightened of what they are, and watched. Constantly. As if they are convicted simply by being born a mage."
Of course Tevinter kind of took that to an extreme but bringing Tevinter into a conversation right now might derail it, especially if there's been any sort of lurid talk.
"Elves in Orlais are either servants or citizens in the alienages, walled off from the rest, looked down upon and treated poorly at best most of the time. They lost their homeland once, and then they lost their homeland again. To see so many of them walking freely here is very rare, especially with all the many Dalish present, usually they keep to their clans and on the move so as not to draw the ire of humans who would run them off as soon as they overstayed their welcome."
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"Absolutely not, I have always been free and I always will be, to be caged like some animal with swords all about me is not how I plan to spend one day of my life." Come watch the next time she goes to stare down Templars, it may or may not be one of her very favourite games to play at the moment, especially when she only listens in on the mage council from elsewhere instead of joining. "The prophet Andraste once said 'magic is made to serve man' and so the Chantry decided that at the first signs of magic, a child is taken from their family - if there are multiple children then they are sent to different Circles - and raised the way the Chantry wishes them to be raised. To be frightened of what they are, and watched. Constantly. As if they are convicted simply by being born a mage."
Of course Tevinter kind of took that to an extreme but bringing Tevinter into a conversation right now might derail it, especially if there's been any sort of lurid talk.
"Elves in Orlais are either servants or citizens in the alienages, walled off from the rest, looked down upon and treated poorly at best most of the time. They lost their homeland once, and then they lost their homeland again. To see so many of them walking freely here is very rare, especially with all the many Dalish present, usually they keep to their clans and on the move so as not to draw the ire of humans who would run them off as soon as they overstayed their welcome."