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Do templars take wows of chastity?
Edit: I could see why they would, but I don't remember it being mentioned.
Good question. I wonder if it's explicitly stated someplace? We meet the Templar the Lust Demon has seduced with an illusion of a happy family life, so Cullen is hardly the only Templar dreaming of a normal life. Chantry Initiates take vows of celibacy, and sometimes break them. In The Calling we see that at least some Mages manage to have an active sex life. Wynne tells us that the Mages are forced to sneak around, and that if a female mage has a child the Chantry will take it away (which makes her willingness to submit to the chantry deeply disturbing imo).
I believe it is stated by the Desire Demon.
She says that if she were to leave the Templar, he'd return to the resentment of his vows and desire for a family.
So at the very least, it's heavily implied that Templars are forced into chastity.
And yes, it disturbs me greatly that Wynne is so pro-Chantry and yet they take a woman's child away. And took hers. So it's not just an abstract. She's had experience with it.
Wynne is a hypocrite.
Wynne has Stockholm Syndrome. She was abused so badly, so systematically and so long that she completely internalized the point of view of her abusers. She has become part of the system, enforcing the will of those who imprisoned her and took away her child, calling the abuse she suffered good and justifying it because to call it evil would destroy what little self worth she has been able to construct.
Morrigan is right about the Mages, though she's also too damaged to show compassion about it. The system is horrific, and it deforms people. It turned Wynne, who might have been a kind, strong woman, into a platitude spouting mess who can't meaningfully resist when her child is taken from her and her apprentices abused, hunted and killed. It turned Cullen, who might under other circumstances have been a good man, into a self hating mess who ends up either insane or a brute.
Somehow the Dalish Elves and the Tevinter manage not to be destroyed by abominations, so the Chantry's claim that this is the only way to handle the risks of magic is obvious pig swill.
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