A cool noble, of course-- well, he has good taste in swords, so he has that going for him.

Adrian goes on a sort of face journey at "mage," opening his mouth, closing it again, grimacing, considering it, grimacing a little less hard than the first one-- all within the span of a couple seconds. So many ways to answer that assumption, but eventually he settles on, "Yes."

So the rest of that reaction was probably nothing. "I went to school for sorcery." Then, pivoting and lifting a finger to indicate, uh, the sky with a loopy gesture, this means the leaders somehow, "Shame about, you know, having to beg for magic, too."