EmperorSahlertz wrote...
A mage will forever be a amge, he will always have to beware of his skills and of demons, that is why he is "cursed". He cannot simply stop being a mage and live a life like everyone else.
The mentally ill have to beware of fits or loss of memory, epileptics have to beware, the disabled have to beware, people with cancer have to beware, people with severe allergies have to beware. They have medications and techniques that allow them to live normally. Mages do too. For ****'s sake, the whole
point of the goddamn Harrowing is to demonstrate that a mage is capable of resisting powerful demons, and they don't even get trained in it beforehand. Imagine if they did.
Blood mages forced a possession on to Wilmod.
The Ferelden Circle veil is in a weakened state when you fight through it. And IIRC the Templars aren't possessed, but mind controlled mostly. I remember that one Templar and a desire demon, but that is it.
Sophia Dryden was either dead when she became possessed, which her rotting form could indicate, or she was possessed by a summoned demon. Again, not a natural possession.
Lady Harimann weren't possessed at all.
Viscount Khedra could easily have been a mage.
And none of your party memebers become possessed, nor is the whole Fade sequence(s) natural by any means.
So what? He counts. Why does possession have to be "natural"? Individuals can resist forced possession, Keran did. The fact that Wilmod was unable to proves that non-mages are vulnerable. Since demons force themselves on humans who are in a weak emotional state, would that not mean that
all possession is "unnatural"?
You said you were unaware of any non-mage possession occuring
even while the veil was in a weakened state. I proved you wrong. Jesus Christ man, it's right there in your post, do try to keep up. Where do you draw the line between "possession" and "mind control"? Either way, non-mages are susceptible to demonic influences. If you can't resist mind-control, odds are you can't resist possession. This is just commonsense.
Sure, Viscount Khedra could be a mage, except with no evidence that he is, one has to assume he isn't by default. Mages can't inherit titles, so how did he manage to hold on to his nobility if he was one?
Uhm.. So all Chrstians think that all women are pure evil, since they brought original sin on us? Please.
Surely the mages are blamed for "original sin" in Thedas, but that is not the source of the fear of mages, it is rather a byproduct of it. The source of the fear of mages is, quite simply, magic, with abit of demon thrown in the mix for flavor.
Speaking as a former practising Christian, I can tell you right now that yes, there is a lot of blaming and shaming of females in Christianity. No, not everyone does it, but it's there and the inferiority of women compared to men is supported throughout scripture, and yes, it's all traced back to Eve, who is seen as biblical evidence that women are weaker and more susceptible to sin, and that they will corrupt men.
The fact that mages would be feared regardless does
not excuse the Chantry's bull**** and lies.
Show me an example of a mage which was actively prevented, by the Circle, to keep contact with their families. We hear about lots of mages who doesn't keep contact with the families, but that isn't because such contact is prevented, it is because such contact is unwanted, from either part.
Gee, um, how about, oh, I dunno,
Ella? You know, the girl who had to escape through the dungeons because nobody had ever even told her mother where she was? The one who got cornered by a sadistic templar rapist? If she was allowed to visit, or even just to write a ****ing letter, there would've been no
need for her to try and escape through the secret passage.
Nyssa tells Hawke that she had no word from Huon for ten ****ing years, and the De Launcets hadn't seen their now grown-up son since he was taken away at the age of six. And don't try to spin some bull about how they never tried to make contact themselves. If they were willing to
violate the law and help their son to escape Kirkwall, you can damn well bet they would've visited him if it was ****ing allowed.
In fact, why restrict it to family members? Karl was tranquiled just for writing letters to a friend. In fact, he had to send them secretly in the first place
because the templars intercept and tamper with mail.
If you need it to be
explicitly stated that the Circlesforbid contact with the outside world than you obviously weren't paying attention to the game. Most mages, most people
in general would not resort to such desperate and dangerous methods if they had other options.
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