"A familiar question, I assure you. And perhaps if we had an answer everyone could agree to, the war that followed wouldn't have come to pass."

A good many people might still be alive. Homes unburnt, families whole. But they are where they are, and she can see Hermione wrestling with the very same notions that mages and non-mages past must have. She's questioned herself, when it was Cullen in the midst of that chaos.

"But whether out of desperation, hunger for power, or whatever else might have motivated them, blood mages are a terrible danger to everyone around them. Kirkwall was thick with them not so long ago, and it grew so terrible that the Knight-Commander in charge ordered the entire Circle annulled."