There's nothing shocked about the man but Dorian's rather amused for the brief moment of brevity they have. It's been hard to find laughter or smiles in the ruins.

"There will always be bad apples, but that doesn't make all of them bad," he says with a shrug. It's how he feels about Tevinter. There's bad but there's good worth saving. The same with mages.

He shakes his head. "Well, you'd do best to get one sooner rather than later as the mages would like to help more instead of leaving things to Templars, mercenaries and dwarves."