Ellie is not the first person to realize this only deep into the evening, and Gwenaëlle laughs,

“Thomas is my cousin,” she elaborates, “and l'Duc is my grandfather. Sort of. I was passed off as his daughter's legitimate child for years, and he decided not to let a little thing like that being an illegal lie force him to give me up—when we first came to Kirkwall from Skyhold, he arranged the house for me. I haven't always lived here, but I do.”

Currently, she means. She points out Enchanter Julius, a tall, light-haired mage dressed not dissimilarly to Ellie, “He lived here for a bit in the first year, the old Forces Commander, Coupe, she made me bring someone with me for security and picking a mage was a bit of a fuck you. Ex-Templar,” as an explanatory aside. “I had never held a weapon, at that point, so it wasn't not a good idea.”