Giggles_Manically wrote...
I thought that Meredith actually recruited him because she agreed with his views?
In fact I thought that Gregoir specifically was said to have shipped him way out to avoid him being around mages?
In Witch Hunt, its daid he got shipped out somewhere else (don't remember where, but it wasn't Kirkwall) but somewhere that was away from mages, some quiet place in the country.
How he ended up in the Gallows specifically I do not know, but regardless, the Chantry should have stepped in and said "no." Since Meredith is still technically part of the Chantry, and for that matter, so was Cullen.
But then again, Meredith is another example of someone who should have never been allowed to be in a position over circle mages, given what happened with her sister. She should have been either put on assignment to some local Chantry, or put in a templar unit that only deals with apostate mages. or exalted marches.
But both were clearly mentally scarred by their experiences, and they certainly had the right to feel this way. That's normal. But it also makes them extremely poor choices for positions where they will be required to supervise and control mages who are living legally within the Chantry's limits, if the Chantry is even remotely interested in a system that is functional and working.
It would be like, say, taking a guy, whose house had been robbed and his family murdered by individuals in group A, and then taking that guy, making him a policeman or prison guard, and putting them in a position where they will have direct control of a prison filled with inmates mostly from group A. Or, putting them on patrol in a neighborhood or district of the city that is primarily ihabited by people from group A.
And then being surprised when suddenly, all hell breaks loose and chaos insues. But that's the Chantry in a nutshell.