[--Oh whoa wait a minute there, this is hooking Sarkan's attention. Screw the part about manners, that's giving Sarkan far too much of a headache to continue that line, and besides, something way more interesting just came up. His tone transforms into a wholly serious, probing, commanding clip.]

Wait, what was that about 'Vint stuff' being at fault for Blights and ruination? I take it you're talking about the Tevinter, of course, not a fine vintage.

[Did Yngvi give Sarkan ideas? He certainly did.]

Forbidding that is limiting, short-sighted nonsense, [in a low, cast-off voice, thinking aloud. And no, he certainly will not keep this opinion to himself. If the Tevinter did something to knock out Thedas's stability, he feels he has a right to study how and why thoroughly in order to better seek a way to reverse it. It does occur to him that the native mages have probably done so long ago, but in the event that something was missed, or there is something a skilled foreigner like himself could catch in those elusive text accounts...]

There must be something allowable I can dig up!