That thought alone is strange -- what would it be like, to simply choose to be a mage? And how many people would want to with the consequences of being one? Possession isn't an idle threat, but real and present. It isn't something for the untrained, not with how wrong it can go. "If that were the case in Thedas, I wonder how many would readily pick it." She would, of course. She cannot imagine not being a mage.

"Lately it's been mostly combat, but it's not restricted to that."