"You've been on the other end of it, then? I was taught that an effective military force had to be willing to take casualties from their own spellcasters, but I didn't believe it until I had been in the field for months." She said. "I was sure that I would be better than all those others with arcane or divine powers who had placed them in Thrane's service, and would be able to place everything I cast perfectly. It took a long time for me to understand I was doing more harm than good in trying."