No large enough group will ever be unanimous, [he observes, simple and mild, if perhaps masking something a bit more focused.] The strike wasn't. The rebellion wasn't. That's not exclusive to mages, we've just got higher stakes for our internal disagreements and fewer allies to create a margin for error.

I don't think we need to imagine too hard, when the Rifters provided an all too apt object lesson shortly after. They have less in common, or many of them think so, and they managed not to send the former head of diplomacy in their delegation to Skyhold.

[He allows that he may be biased in Petrana's favor, but even allowing for that... he thinks it's illustrative.]