The possibility that they were official Chantry Templars, sending a direct threat to Riftwatch? But we’ve fought alongside the Exalted March, they’re our allies against Tevinter—

( What follows is the sound of Doctor Strange thinking it through aloud. He’s paranoid enough that he could consider anything, and can’t rule anything out. God, he hates politics, even if he’s getting plunged into a crash course in mage politics, )

—then again, it’d hardly be the first time that an organisation’s left hand didn’t know what the right was doing. Not the literal Hands, but hell, that too.