His quiet laugh is at his own expense. "I suppose it depends on what you mean. Hand-to-hand combat and martial arts ... I suspect most of your students here could best me fairly easily if magic weren't permitted. But I've been in a variety of real battles, and I've had battle-specific training."

He looks more thoughtful, watching the pair of trainees sparring, as he adds, "Granted, not too much, as a young man. The Circles were in the awkward position of wanting docile, easy-to-control mages ... but also not wanting to give up their usefulness against threats like Darkspawn or invading armies. A tricky problem for them, you see." It gives him a strangely unexpected pang, seeing the trainees in Kamar-Taj, working under the eyes of their teachers and not heavily armed Templars. "Some of what I know I've learned more recently or worked out on my own."