Tyrdda's axe, as we know, is a staff. In retrospect, this makes sense. Depending on the Veil strength/existence in Tyrdda's time, it may not have made sense to even own a mundane weapon. In a situation like that, staves might have many subclassifications depending on their specific powers. Perhaps "axes" are staves with a specific kind of blade.
Now, let's take a look at Felassan's clan. It, too, is not exactly a clan. Perhaps he's referring to the agents of Fen'Harel specifically, or to ancient elves more generally, but it's clear that it's a misdirection. He looks Dalish, so he says "you wouldn't want to meet my clan" rather than point-blank denying that he comes from a clan.
Finally, let's look at Trespasser. Solas has had spies embedded in the Inquisition for a long time, and he has so many of them that he can afford to throw one of them under the bus. Even for inquisitors he loathes, he casually points out a specific elf as one of his. So he's got spies to spare. But the Inquisition wouldn't have been his only area of interest.
Solas was particularly interested in the movements of the Ben-Hassrath. Especially the movements of the Viddassala and her agents, who he would later thwart. Luckily, the Qunari get a lot of elven converts due to the elves' mistreatment, so it would be relatively easy to slip a few ancient elves into that mix.
But there's another possible route.
Suppose Solas has a spy that he wants to get close to the Ben-Hassrath. They would be an ancient elf, like Felassan, and may or may not have markings that (to any modern observer) would put them in a clan. Likewise, they would have come from a time when weapons were predominantly magical, like Tyrdda's axe.
So we might expect such an elf to claim that they're Dalish, saying things like "my keeper thought I should see the world a little" - despite the fact that Fen'Harel is not a keeper, as the Dalish understand it. And they might call their staff by a more archaic name.
Like, for example, a bow.
Now, like Felassan, an elf like that would want to be perceived as Dalish in order to lay low. If their insistence on being Dalish backfired (in a "hello hungry, I'm Dad" kind of way) they might even find themselves going by the name... Dalish. After all, who could possibly be suspicious of a Dalish elf so Dalish that their friends call them "Dalish"? Like a human named Hugh Mann, there could be nothing less suspicious than that. And of course she calls her staff a bow, because apostates are targeted by the Chantry. Ha, how funny she is for cheekily insisting that it's a bow! It's merely a coincidence that she came to be working for Hissrad, one of the agents that the Ben-Hassrath sent to watch the Inquisition.
After all, the Iron Bull - as he repeatedly boasts - has plenty of Ben-Hassrath training. Probably decades. Surely he would notice such an attempt at infiltration. How many years of spy training could an agent of Fen'Harel have, compared to his Ben-Hassrath training?
Oh, what's that, you say? Millennia, you say? Well then. That would be a little longer.
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