Under the circumstances (angry about the Loyalists and also on a griffon for the first time in her life) she'll be less garrulous than she might have been, but in a nice way. She'll certainly remember Ellie's name afterwards.
She's familiar with rifters; they were originally part of the Inquisition, before Riftwatch split into an independent organization, so she worked alongside them there. (OOCly speaking, someone apped her and she was also briefly a player character!) She's relieved the scare-mongering about them being demons had died down somewhat and believes they either are mages or should be mages' responsibilities to protect after the war, since they often have unexplained abilities.
The mages at the front are continuing to operate as an independent army with the same organizational structure they had during the Mage/Templar War—they're allies cooperating with the Inquisition and Exalted March to hold the front, rather than being fully integrated into their command structure. It's important to her to maintain that independence and structure so they aren't sneakily absorbed back into the Chantry.
An admittedly unfortunate drawback of that is that many of the mages keep to themselves outside military actions—they camp in clusters, train together, operate as smaller mage-units alongside larger units of common soldiers, etc., rather than being fully integrated. This spills over into a social divide as well.
On the whole they are not treated badly. This is at least in part because most standard-issue Thedosians are terrified of mages and would never start shit with one to their face, for fear of being turned into newts and/or ashes. Sometimes they're rude when they think no one can hear them. Sometimes the mages are also rude. Yesterday she had to reprimand a young one for telekinetically holding someone who called him a spellbind (an insult, for some reason) upside-down for several minutes.
The mages and Templars who were prone to picking fights with one another got it out of their systems, for the most part, in the first couple of years.
She is too much of an experienced politician to commit to a vision for mages' futures on griffon-back with someone she just met, but she will express that the current situation with young apprentices at Skyhold was only ever meant to be temporary. The optics and implications of a whole generation of mage children being raised as Chantry-allied soldiers are worrisome. The apocalyptic war has just been very time-consuming.
The opinions of the rebel mages are split, with plenty of people not entirely sure what would be best and are open to discussing it. Some popular opinions include:
Keeping many of the old Circle structures and systems, but maintaining independence from the Chantry so it and the Templars have no authority over them. This was Fiona's original goal, and she clearly still finds it appealing.
Reestablishing a few Circles as solely educational facilities, like Mage Universities, rather than permanent associations/living situations, and otherwise integrating with normal people.
Bargaining with the Queen of Ferelden to give them Brandel's Reach and Alamar to establish their own nation. (Fiona thinks this one is extremely unlikely and the mostly-rocky islands could not sustain a population as large as theirs would grow, but people like to dream.)
Establishing a new city-state in some empty swath of Free Marches wilderness. (See above.)
That list is not exhaustive. Mages have a long history of both endless debate and careful consideration, so having now had years to think about the future, every single one of them seems to have their own plan.
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