"I hope we do not have to set the entire forest ablaze ... but yes. Sometimes it is necessary to cut out the dead wood. That is true of templars, and of mages." He knew there were bad apples in that bunch, as well as in his own. He wasn't stupid.

He just hoped the mages weren't either.

One corner of his mouth twisted, before he shrugged. "Because humans can't sometimes see the larger picture. I'm grateful for the Chantry - they took me in when I had no place to go - I didn't want to live with my Aunt and Uncle after all. They understood a young man's anger and they forged it into a man's convictions."