nenosronhir wrote...
He also says "Thank you for my life. I'll try not to make such a mess of it this time." when you tell him to go (and I think when you keep him at your side). I never believed there would be an opportunity to separate Anders and Jusitce after Hepler's short; if anything, it feels to me like Anders finally comes to terms with himself in the follow-up dialogue. He is Anders and Justice; he has the courage to fight for this cause and do what needs to be done, and it feels like it was his indecision and ambivalence through the second Act that was tearing his mind apart.
He comes across as more stable/focused/determined in the climax than he was throughout the rest of the game, but that might be me, and I haven't replayed the ending conversation yet(which is still a blur).
Also, keep in mind that when a Knight-Commander invokes the Rite of Annulment, all of the bitty apprentice mages are condemned to death as well, and I imagine that if Meredith had found enough evidence (fabricated, imagined, or otherwise) of blood magic in the tower, she would have condemned them all anyway. If not now, soon, with how hard she was coming down on the mages.
Innocents were going to die (and HAD been dying/turning to bloodmagic/becoming abominations) needlessly either way. Anders did what he had to do to make it mean something more.
I can understand that Meredith is crazy but I just cannot justify his actions . I sided with the mages. I let him live and by her side because I think the love him and Lady Hawke have is genuine but he chose to be like Meredith through his actions. They are both completely mad driven by the principle of their cause, that they whole-heartedly believe is bigger than people's lives. If you're sacrificing people and are building your just principle upon the blood of innocents, then the mages will not be any better than the Templars and the whole thing will repeat itself over and over again.
There should be a better way to free mages or make a compromise between the Chantry and the Circle and even take a substantial amount of power from the Chantry. They shouldn't be allowed to have that much power ever again but if mages take down this path of pay blood with blood, the whole thing will never end.
Either way he accomplished what he wanted. There will be a war. Whether it will benefit the mages or not remains to be seen. As I look back though, there seems to be bigger things happening between Orlais and Ferelden and maybe even other nations. There will be war everywhere. I hope there's a blight coming then that will be the cherry on top.
We don't even know what Flemeth wants or what Morrigan fears. Also the hints that mages are being born more than before rises a lot of question about Thedas. I don't think we have enough context to decide what is right or wrong or what would benefit the mages the most.
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