Your response is not only appreciated: it is as admirable as your first message and a credit to your background.
But I must assure you, in turn: it is not the hapless men for whom I fear. I care little for the idiot who would presume to approach a beast without proper reverence and an improper interest (though I will be first to confess that I have shaved my initials into many creatures in my years). My fears are for the halla themselves. You are their advocate. But your number is limited, as are your resources. You say these creatures are kept outside of Skyhold, in a pen with stables of their own. Did your people construct the pen, or did the Inquisition? By what plans?
The climate may not trouble the halla overmuch today. But tomorrow? A mountain can be so quickly beset upon by snows, and as our years are ever turning, we must consider this obstacle - and then, the obstacle of their food. Your people provide for them. By what means? The Inquisition's, or your own? Do they graze, as a herd might tend to do? But then, they graze in a limited space, unless you have minders to tend the flock and lead them to verdant pastures, which will not last forever. Even a stable of horses must consider such things when preparing to face a season of cold.
I am pleased to hear that your people do not selectively breed these creatures. And I am as fond of the status of noble beasts as anyone. What other resources do they provide, if not transportation?
I also must question how willingly a creature might live in a paddock. But as you say: they are creatures of which so little is known about. Your interest in their continued obscurity is one that I find troubling but there is so much of your people that is perhaps better left in obscurity, for the preservation of traditions is so dear to the sentimental heart.
Your consideration, so carefully worded, is appreciated, and I commend what charitable translator you had to assist you.
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