And that it may have been naive, if understandably naive, to think the situation was ever one of us being accepted as equals.

[Now his voice is sad. He had wanted so badly to see mages treated as equals this quickly, to see actual, healthy results from the chaos he'd helped seed. The last time he'd been in Kirkwall he'd expected it to take fifty or a hundred years, but he wants to see it. He wants to live to see the day they're recognized as people.]

Why are you unpopular in your tower?