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[The Angry One]

LobselVith8 wrote...

The meeting in Cumberland likely didn't get enough votes to warrant breaking free from the Chantry. I'd assume that Wynne and Ines managed to convince enough people not to risk emancipating themselves from the Chantry, since the primary concern Wynne has is the response the Chantry will give if they tried it. Wynne and Anders initially make it clear that the Chantry would rather kill all the mages than see them free when we meet her in Amaranthine, but I'd wager that the act of defiance in Kirkwall showed the mages of the Circles that the "might templars could be defied," as Varric narrated. At the hub of eastern power over Thedas, the mages stood against the templars. It changed all the rules.

See that makes no sense to me.
There was a mage revolt in the Ferelden Circle during the Blight after all.
Granted, that one was instigated by an abomination which makes it entirely different from Kirkwall, which was instigated by an abomination.

[Pandaman102]

HopHazzard wrote...

Pandaman102 wrote...
What Varric says doesn't make sense either. If you side with the Templars he states in the epilogue that mages realized that Templars could be defied... totally ignoring the fact that an entire Circle was slaughtered despite resorting to blood magic. If you side with the mages he says the same thing... totally ignoring the fact that an entire Circle was slaughtered despite resorting to blood magic (except Hawke, who wasn't part of the Circle and shouldn't have been a target of Annulment anyway). How does any hope of having a successful rebellion being utterly crushed encourage every Circle to rebel?

Probably the same reason 'Remember the Alamo' became a battlecry. It's inspirational. Not aspirational.

Huh, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks, the Alamo didn't even occur to me.