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[lltoon]

Herr Uhl wrote...

lltoon wrote...

"While not inherently evil, the Chantry strictly forbids the
usage of blood magic as it supposedly eventually leads to corruption." -
Dragon Age Wiki

"This practice is so rare in Thedas now that it can now only be learned from contacting a demon, with the risk of becoming an abomination." - Dragon Age Wiki


I am really confused on how all the mages in Kirkwall knew blood magic. So basically they all made deals with demons, knowing fully that they run a very very high risk of becoming abominations.

My theory was that Hawke learnt Blood Magic from sources other than demons. Which explains why blood mages in the game could summon out demons to assist them while hawke could not, because he didn't make any deals with demons to obtain the skill.

Hawke should have just made a circle branch teaching in blood magic so that the circle mages didn't have to turn to demons to learn it. Problem solved.

But nooooo... Hawke had to be such a selfish ******.

You can learn blood magic without demons. Case in point, Jowan.

And it was hardly rare in Kirkwall, so that wouldn't be much of a problem.

I think Jowan's skills in Blood magic was limited as he could only just throw people down or put them to sleep with it. He dabbled in Blood Magic, never realizing it's actual power. Comparatively, the blood mages in Kirkwall could smack you halfway across the area and slap your face down with an AoE stun bomb.

Though I theorize that blood magic was common in Kirkwall because the mages all made deals with demons which explains why almost all of them summon demons. The ones that don't probably have learnt it from their small groups of colleagues they trust. I can understand why they don't simply teach each other blood magic by word of mouth because they didn't know who was going to rat them out as it's something that's punishable by death.

[Volourn]

"there was not a single uncorrupted mage in Kirkwall"

That's not true. Tons of mages were uncorrupted. I fought with like 7 of them on the docks, for example, on the way to the final confrontations.

[blauwvis]

Re: the matter of uncorrupted Circle mages... aside from Grace, obviously, I don't believe that the mages encountered in Best Served Cold were corrupted.  I highly doubt that the Templars would have been willing to work with them if they were openly practicing blood magic, no matter how much they disliked Meredith, and I don't recall fighting a single demon during that questline.  Sure, Samson (?) said something about their little group going against all that's holy, but I wouldn't take that loser's word about anything (and he might just have meant the whole idea of mage/templar cooperation).
Of course, then you kill them all.