Lets say that mage Hawke decides that the Qunari are awesome and decides to follow some Qunari back to Seheron at the end of the game. How would the Qunari react to a mage trying to join them?
How would the Qunari accept a mage that voluntarily joins them?
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silentassassin264
, sept. 25 2010 01:13
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Posté 25 septembre 2010 - 06:40
David Gaider
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I see some wishful thinking at work, here.
The best that a bas can hope for amongst the Qunari is to be considered basalit-an-- an "honorable thing". This is a worthy foe, and one that can be negotiated with to an extent. But they are still bas, something the Qunari would consider unfortunate, and ultimately such a being would benefit from the Qun's wisdom.
The Qunari don't see a problem with treating any mage as they do, because they don't think it's bad. A mage has their place just as anyone does. So a human mage of any stripe that converted to the Qun would take their place as a saarebas. If they weren't willing to do that, then they're not really converting, are they? They would be professing to believe without actually understanding.
Now, this is with the understanding that the individual Qunari might come to understand differently than the group-- but one cannot account for the effect of the individual. I'm talking about the philosophy of the Qunari as a whole and how it would apply. If one prefers to believe that Sten would be willing or able to convince, say, the Arishok to look on a bas as something to be given special consideration-- well that's hypothetical but you're free to think so.
The best that a bas can hope for amongst the Qunari is to be considered basalit-an-- an "honorable thing". This is a worthy foe, and one that can be negotiated with to an extent. But they are still bas, something the Qunari would consider unfortunate, and ultimately such a being would benefit from the Qun's wisdom.
The Qunari don't see a problem with treating any mage as they do, because they don't think it's bad. A mage has their place just as anyone does. So a human mage of any stripe that converted to the Qun would take their place as a saarebas. If they weren't willing to do that, then they're not really converting, are they? They would be professing to believe without actually understanding.
Now, this is with the understanding that the individual Qunari might come to understand differently than the group-- but one cannot account for the effect of the individual. I'm talking about the philosophy of the Qunari as a whole and how it would apply. If one prefers to believe that Sten would be willing or able to convince, say, the Arishok to look on a bas as something to be given special consideration-- well that's hypothetical but you're free to think so.
Modifié par David Gaider, 25 septembre 2010 - 06:49 .
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Posté 29 septembre 2010 - 05:24
David Gaider
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Generic Guy wrote...
You know this topic makes me think. Why is it whenever the chantry does anything that in anyway might negatively effect a mage it is decried as more proof of the Chantry as an evil institution that should be destroyed, but when the Qunari do things to mages, that by an sane definition are much worse, people cant help but fall over themselves trying to make excuses for the Qunari?
I think there's a bit of a bias against organized religion in these parts (bad organized religion! bad!) which leads some to look on anything the Chantry does with suspicion. No doubt it doesn't help that the Chantry is a big organization with political power, and thus given to corruption much like in our own Middle Ages. The fact that it's mostly benevolent in its nature and sees what it does as necessary if unfortunate is compared to the fact that they are taking freedom away from those poor mages-- and anything that deprives freedom is also automatically bad (we're a comfy, democratic lot here on the internet, I suppose).
The Qunari, meanwhile, are a friendly bunch. Like Sten. And they kick ass better than a bunch of priests, so who wouldn't want to join that (realities of the Qun notwithstanding)?
