When dealing with mages, you have to realize one thing: Society is fearful of magic, not because of Chantry propaganda or whatever. You'd have to deal with people that can play with your mind, become demons and destroy everything that you hold dear. Mages will never be free, even if the templars are removed out of the picture, unless they subjugate the people and essentially turn into the Tevinter Imperium.
How do you think Jim the Farmer will react when mages come around and oppress him? Do you think he'll like it? Chances are, he'll now view the templar as even more justified than before and he'd be more fearful than what the mages felt locked up in the tower. How does he know that his missing crops isn't something that he was forced to do against his will using blood magic? How does he know that the entire harvest that's gone bad isn't the rival neighbor's mage boy using his spells to help his father?
We've heard multiple times in Origins itself that the Circle protects mages as much as it protects normal people, the children who are taken there are often the minority and the others are often killed by the people out of fear. Many people use this as some sort of excuse as why the templar are evil, however... they protect the children, they don't slay the child when they could have and they bring the child to a place of learning so they don't risk possession.
The Tevinter Imperium, a land of mages, still takes mage children away for training. Does that make them as evil as the templar? I see many people disagree, they tend to ignore that these mage children learn their talents to become something like Magisters which can summon demons and do whatever they want or be crushed underheel by other mage fanatics.
So I ask you, which is better? Mages, a minority, oppressing the normal people or the normal people, the majority, sealing mages away? There's no other options for the mages, any freedom will lead to an eventual Tevinter or new Circle being formed. Anders was devoted to the former and felt that the latter didn't work, he decided to risk an entire war that will kill thousands continent wide for the chance that the former
might happen. If the latter happens, he caused an entire war that will probably lead to mages being justily prosecuted with harsher penalties.
That's why
I was upset, he caused a war for the sake of mages without caring about anybody else. He knows it himself, he wants to die because he knows what he did was crazy and that he killed innocents. He admits it himself.
I tried to keep the peace, the war was looming and I didn't side with anybody (though I was pro-mage in my dealings) to that point, after he blew it up and removed the choice of peace? I tried to contain the situation as best as I could, I killed Anders to make sure that his influence doesn't spread further than Kirkwall (he's symbollic whether he's a martyr or not) and sided with Meredith because fighting the authorities
and the public wasn't something I was going to do. Siding with the Mages would mean supporting anarchy and the destruction of the Chantry.
That and I felt the Right of Anullment, while extreme, was justified. Meredith saw demons everywhere she went because they were actually demons, blood mages roamed the streets and possessed random people to attack you (even before the war) and half of the quests you deal with are the result of blood mages or apostates going bat**** crazy. Orsino tried to oppose it, Orsino protected Quentin (thy mother's killer) and the Circle in general was planning to usurp Meredith.
Hell, before the idol she was introduced we know she's logical and not as evil as everybody makes her out to be judging by how she still allowed blood mages--which are usually killed on sight--back into the Circle and how she allows Keran to stay in the templar even at the risk of having him possessed. This is her even though her entire family and 70 of her fellow villagers were killed by her sister (which was a mage), how do you think anybody else would feel in those shoes? Probably not as merciful.
Dismissing all of this by saying "I love Anders" or "templar are bad' is dismissing pretty big things.
Modifié par Dave of Canada, 21 mars 2011 - 06:28 .
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