IanPolaris wrote...
Falls Edge wrote...
Edit: bad example, what I mean is that as mages stand now they're relatively harmless, but it's been shown that if they were allowed to build themselves up they could lord it over everyone else, and only other mages could stop them.
I get that. However, by creating the antagonisms the Chantry is doing with the circle tower system, they've created a system that is metastable at best.
When (not if) a war breaks out, the balance will shift either towards having basiclaly no mages at all (which is like saying "free eats to the Qunari and Darkspawn), or you will actually make it more likely that mages will as a group say (to borrow from X-Men), "Magneto Was Right" and make mages even less tolerant and less willing to work with mundanes....in which case given the built up and built in antangonisms, I can easily see a situation in time that makes the Tevinter Imperium look like a Sunday Stroll......
The best solution would be to gradually give mages the ability to work in society as productive members of it, but that train has long since left the proverbial station....
-Polaris
Oh, I'm not arguing that, but the genuine problem is that this requires them to have no ability to regulate themselves for problems to show up, basically any independence they have leads to them having more power as an individual, the more ideas they come up with and write down the more all mages become more powerful.
The chantry has actually loosened up a bit if lore is any indictacation but it is also true that they'll irrationally hunt down any mage that tries to go for independence, because of the fear of sharing knowledge with the others who've run away.
I already mentioned that a deus ex weakening of the fade would allow the mages to be independent, less demons and less power means that even if they have the knowledge they can't cast the more destructive spells.
But since that isn't happening it's most just what it is now, the only thing that the chantry could do better is not to shift policy but to better take care of the mages and set up robot templars instead of human ones.
They'd still be jailed though, which is unfortunate.
Actually think of the circle towers as racial segregation between jail cells to prevent murder.
This is a horrible idea, but at the time it was the best they could do because of all the inmmates murdering each other.
There has to be a real solution to this, but I can't really think of one, besides somehow issolating the magi by introducing them to villages across the world, where only 1 mage per village would be allowed, when the mage dies inside the village probably loved by the people who were treated or helped by them, the chantry comes by and burns his house down.
Modifié par Falls Edge, 04 février 2011 - 01:09 .
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