Oh. Cursed it is. At least the Templars didn't try to hide how they think of mages behind some false compassion of guarding them from themselves. Putting them in a former-slave house makes things more than clear.

[He probably would have tried to run away from that Circle had he ended up there. Maybe.

He liked to think he would have.]

I'm happy to hear it. Would one of those friends be Isabela? Our dear captain did comment once that she knew Hawke as a woman.