Aha. ( Dryly: ) I’ve heard a bit of it during my Thedas 101 lectures. Don’t run around setting things on fire and brandishing the fact that I can do magic or be met with tar and torches and pitchforks, sort of thing?

( Which is, frankly, painful for a man who had grown used to it as a crutch; who once used it like breathing; who dipped into magic for everything as banal as telekinesis to write notes or knot his tie. )