Hermione wouldn't know how to feel about being considered part of the next generation of mages in Thedas, given that she's under the impression that her stay is a temporary one. But while she's here, she's more than happy to help Detlef in whatever way she can to make sure mages have a shot at a better life in the future.

"I arrived in a snowy place called Emprise du Lion," she explains. "There were demons, and... some sort of soldiers with red crystals jutting out of their bodies. If that's what's waiting for me outside of Skyhold, I'll gladly stay here until things either calm down or I can make my magic work the way it should again." She might have survived a war back home, but she'd done it with magic; not having her full spectrum of spells available to her means that she's going to have to force herself to hang back for the time being.

Shaking her head, she smiles a little and remarks, "I know there's a war though not between whom, though I've heard things about the mages and templars, but I think that's sort of a background war? And there had been a native woman with one of these shards in her hand - she'd been called the Herald of... Andraste, I want to say? - and she'd died while closing the breach. But I'm afraid that people have been assuming I know bits and pieces that I don't, and there aren't exactly any books available on current events. I don't suppose you have a newspaper or some other daily or weekly publication here, do you?"