EmperorSahlertz wrote...
GavrielKay wrote...
EmperorSahlertz wrote...
GavrielKay wrote...
Which is fair, but then it also makes it easier to understand why some players don't grant the Chantry quite as much respect for their religiosity as some might hope. They have made themselves into a giant semi-military power based on lyrium trade and control of the mages. In light of that, the random orphan they might care for starts to seem like an afterthought. The reality of Thedas and the Chantry is that there's not a lot of holiness to be seen.
Indeed. However, a lot of folks seems to refuse to acknowledge the good the Chantry does, in favor of focusing on some great injustice they percieve. It is like they refuse to acknowledge that when they scream out "Tear the Chantry down!" They are inevitably also screaming: "Let the orphans starve! Let education be erased! And let anarchy rule!". They pretty much neglect that in their own fiery zealotry they become the exact same thing they despise from the Chantry. A fate of irony really.
There isn't a lot fo good to be seen in Kirkwall especially. There's quite a lot of destitute folks in Darktown who don't seem to be getting any help. I don't see orphans or the poor being fed in the Chantry. There isn't any in game evidence (in DA2 at least) for the Chantry's good works. I didn't encounter all that many educated people either. And trying to keep religion from taking over government is hardly the same as wanting all out anarchy. When the current system gets to a certain level of dysfunction, it's going to hurt no matter how you try to fix it.
In some of the random banter amongst the priestesses in the chantry, they talk about how many refugeses (and orphans) that has arrived in Kirkwall, and that it is hard to help them all. And all the codex entries are more or less proof of the Chantry educating, at least their own, people.
It
is hard to help them all. So hard in fact, that apparently they just said "**** this, it must be the will of the Maker!" and decided not to bother!
If Anders can run a secret free clinic by himself for seven years, with
no money and the constant threat of discovery and persecution hanging over his head, then the Chantry has no excuse for failing to do its part. You can see just by walking around that it has more resources available to it than Anders did. The priestesses have obviously expensive robes while lowtowners and darktowners dress in rags. Not that the priestesses would ever know that, because they never go there.
The Chantry obviously has money, Petrice was able to pay Hawke for the task she assigned him. And even without that,you can see just from walking around that there's there's valuables all over the damn building. Carpets, candlesticks, tapestries, furniture that isn't being used, storerooms with boxes full of who-knows-what. For ****'s sake, half the space is taken up with a gold-plated statue of Andraste that goes all the way up to the roof.
If the Chantry were serious about helping people, they could sell the wealth that has accumulated on their premises and use it to buy food and clothing for the needy. But they don't. They don't do anything, in fact. Where are the mats laid out for the homeless who come to take shelter at night? Where's the soup kitchen? Where is the templar-monitored mage clinic? Where is there even the slightest scrap of evidence that the Chantry gives a damn at all?
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the Qun. The mage issue might force one, but as of now, it isn't the friendly neighborhood church.
