She listens carefully as the situation with the mages is laid out before her, absorbing the information and filing it away where it'll be most useful. She's oddly relieved to hear that there's some real structure, that the mages haven't gone mad with freedom since the collapse of the Circles. She'd been friends with Anders, she'd expected that to be an inevitability.

"Templars trying to stick their nose in where they don't belong isn't anything new. My people have been avoiding them for generations."