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[Risax]

So a lot of mages end up in the Circle of Magi, but how did they get there? Did their parents give them off wilingly? From what I know about the parents of the Mages, they are not always nice.

Like Jowans mother, after he had shown his magical abilities his mother ignored him and called him 'demon child' or 'abomination'. And after a while his father dropped him of at the local chantry where the Templars picked him up. I don't know excactly what happend to Wynne, but I guess her parents abondend her somewhere.

But what happens to parents like Isolde, who try to keep there children at home? Do all un-educated mages eventually become abominations no matter what their age? And what do the Templars do to parents who have hiddin their children away for so long? Are they punished?

[David Gaider]

Risax wrote...
So a lot of mages end up in the Circle of Magi, but how did they get there?

Through the front door.

Did their parents give them off wilingly?

Sometimes, sure.

Like Jowans mother, after he had shown his magical abilities his mother ignored him and called him 'demon child' or 'abomination'. And after a while his father dropped him of at the local chantry where the Templars picked him up.

Maybe it's just me, but I think teenagers that can't throw fireballs are scary enough.

But what happens to parents like Isolde, who try to keep there children at home?

Usually they're charged with having broken a law-- not by the templars, but by the regular authorities. Do you think those authorities want mages lurking about in their cities? Not a chance. It's easy to think of mages as poor, oppressed souls until you consider what they can do.

Do all un-educated mages eventually become abominations no matter what their age?

Of course not. Not all mages become abominations or blood mages. The fact that they could do it is what makes them so terrifying. If you knew your neighbour was a mage, someone who could turn into an abomination and kill you even without him wanting to? Or someone that might steal your children to use their blood, or read your mind? How comfortable would you feel about that?

That's if people even think it through that far. Once upon a time, mages ruled the known world with terrifying power, and the Chantry tells them that, given the chance, that could happen again. And not without reason.

[David Gaider]

EmperorSahlertz wrote...
Well, many of the times the children aren't forcefully removed from their families at all, but rather rescued from their neighbors. There are many reasons for why the children are removed from their families, not just the one about its dangerous if the child forms connections. Its also dangerous for the child itself and its surroundings.

Actually, it's fairly rare that a mage will be discovered to possess their gifts in childhood-- usually it's something that begins to manifest itself near adolescence (which is still a child, I suppose, but it sounds like some people are talking about babies being ripped from their mothers' arms).

It's very easy to demonize the Chantry, but the fact remains that it's largely an organization of people that mean well-- and who are looking to help and protect these mages (who, yes, would probably be killed by a frightened mob or even by their parents if not by themselves) as much as they are to control them.