jln.francisco wrote...
An irrational fear because were blood mages really capable of feats on that level why isn't the Grand Cleric or the Divine under one's control right now? There are plenty of maleficarum out there that the Templars have failed to capture, you kill quiet a few of them throughout Origins. Or why didn't Uldred force Cailan or that Chantry Mother to do what he wanted back at Ostagar? Why did he bargain with Loghain for the Circle's independence if he could just force a regular human to do what he wanted?
Good questions. But considering you get to use the Litany of Adralla yourself, don't you really know answers to them already? It's more than reasonable to expect head figures to be protected from such attempts very much like they're protected from regular assassinations. But the act of being protected doesn't make the threat itself any less real, or irrational.
Not everyone was captured or imprisoned. Several Blood Mages were surviving on their own though we are forced to kill them because the developers hate letting you add allies to your ranks.
I can't remember but weren't these mages initially on Uldred's side, but started to have second thoughts when the situation developed beyond what they expected? In any case they don't get to do much which is a pity but maybe you're right it's to keep that part from becoming too hard to balance (if the extra assist was optional then the latter encounters could get either too easy or to hard if the player didn't opt for that help. hard to tell)
You are right though. the mages didn't see the situation coming any better then the Templars. I don't see why this means Templars automatically win when it was their responsibility to safeguard against this kind of situation. (by the way, Wynne and her group of mages did a lot more to halt the abomination advance then the Templars and they managed to rescue innocent bystanders in the process.) My point stands, the Templars can't do their job.
I mostly look at it from the viewpoint, the templars are trained to resist the magic while the mages not so much. The game claims if the templars can prepare then they're practically impossible to harm by a mage which unfortunately never actually happens in the game with the cap on the mental resistances and such. Still, if this ability is taken into account and treated as real, then they just make a potentially better anti-magic force (be it against mages or abomination) than the mages do.
How can you expect to monitor a political leader?
Political leaders by the very nature of how they work must remain in pretty much permanent contact with other people. They'll rarely if ever go for months or longer to secluded locations that few people from outside visit. Mages in contrast aren't really limited in such manner.
If your fear is them becoming abominations there are signs for that. Abominations don't happen except for extremely trying emotional times and once you know someone is a mage you can protect against that with support groups or family or whatever. If the family is abusive or the mage is prone to lack of self control or whatever have you, you can have more experienced mages take them under their wing or have some well trained competent individual look after them.
I really didn't get such impression from how it was discussed in the game. Certainly, no mage pointed out such possibility. The way it was talked about it seemed more like, the demons are attracted to the mages both when in Fade and if they manage to get out of it, and they try to take them over very much like they try to take over other living being. Whether they succeed is pretty much down to individual strength of will of the mage vs strength of the demon, and very little else.
If it actually worked this way then sure, it may be somewhat viable (still doesn't address cases of mages who will just desire power, but that's another story) But honestly, considering this doesn't seem to be supported by the information provided by the game, can it be you're just projecting your expectations and ideas which tend to work in other settings onto the DA settings, and from that jumping to conclusion this is how it actually works and as such your solution could work?
(then there's also this potential issue with plain numbers. Considering an abomination is clearly out of league of single mage/templar, then putting mages prone to failure under wings of more experienced mage/other individual isn't going to help much shall they actually fail, and there's no guarantee they won't fail, after all. Given this, a system where you have say, dozen mages and dozen experienced people to watch them over --and hoping you won't have to deal with more than single abomination at once which is rather reasonable since demons don't seem to invade in large numbers on their own-- makes sense from practical standpoint. More than rather implausible system where each individual student is assigned dozen supervisors just so they can deal with the potential trouble. But then it is very much the way the Circles are set up. Hmm)
They got magic haven't they? How's about working on some means of long distance communication? (or some means of improving roads and travel lines?
Well, seeing how they didn't work out these improvements despite magic being the very thing that used to run Tevinter Imperium for hundreds of years, perhaps there's some limitations to DA flavour of magic that prevent it? Granted, being able to handwave everything with "a wizard did it" can be convenient way to remove obstacles but then maybe they (the devs) are instead more interested in creating a world where such obstacles do in fact exist and force hard choices rather than nice "everyone is happy" solutions.
What you said was absurd. From what I understand of people in that mage's situation she behaved exactly like someone who has internalized the hate she is feeling from an outside source. If you don't see that, oh well, I don't very much care.
I don't really agree with it because it is also not unusual for a person to develop self-depreciating attitude on their own rather than have it beaten into their heads by someone else. So as long as we aren't actually shown cases where such external indoctrination does take place, and also given how things were worded, i'd consider it basic case of applying Occam's razor -- that is, not introducing theoretical factors beyond what's necessary to provide a working explanation.
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