When you're dealing with a 200+ year old Revenant Master Mage . . . yep, they can get a bit touchy and uppity.  'course, when they know that they'll vastly outlive anyone they're dealing with and have very nearly mastered 4 spheres . . .  ;)<br/><br/>(He's not exactly the best people person, that's not in his job description as head defender of the chantry, plus there's being a chantry mage for a very long time versus the "errant-types".)