Dave of Canada wrote...
Unless you've got a bad family, your family is troubled or whatever. Family can cause emotional trauma / weakness quite easily. Remove it completely, raise somebody without it and they don't know what they are missing and the Circle becomes their family.
I'd suggest reading up on child development and human psychology here. Being ripped and seperated from family, and being completely cut off from society and normal development is almost asking for a mentally unstable, socially broken individual who is going to create problems.
Takings kids from their families is going to cause more emotional/psychological trauma and long term developmental damage. As well as hatred and bitterness towards the institution that did this. And surprise, look where it gets you: alot of pissed off, mentally unstable mages with buried resentment, which demons easily exploit,as we see. So, no, I disagree strongly here.
Which is entirely possible.
Circle Bethany has contact with Hawke and Leandra.
Gamlen is capable of sending mail to Bethany in the Circle.
Finn has his family come and visit in addition to bringing gifts.
Eamon visits Connor.
Eamon is a Noble with alot of pull. He has influence and sway most parents don;t have.
being able to write letters to, and visit Bethany, is more due to Hawke and family being wealthy, influential nobles with sway. other mages I encountered seemed to have been cut off from their families, not knowing where they are at.
Circles don't educate mages about their power or demons? The Harrowing is what, exactly?
A very hamfisted ritual that is the equvilant of taking a teenage kid from the city and dropping him in the woods full of hungry bears, and telling him to find his own way home. The Circle's education on demons is incredibly lacking, given that the Chantry still pushes very unrealistic rules and teachings that do not apply in the Fade. As well as their incorrect belief that spirits can be simply classified as "good" or bad".
If anything. I've seen the Circle's very limited, Chantry regulated education as one of the reasons their mages have so many problems.
Because there's no expectation to keep the child, nor do the usual mages support having children / long-term relationships. Desire Demons might step in, though there's a lot less chance of it happening. It's about minimizing risk, not eliminating it completely (which is impossible).
Nope, traumatizing and giving the kid a reason to hate his captors is basically creating the very fodder demons seek and exploit. As far as expectations to keep the kid, it varies. It has already been covered, the reasons mages generally avoid forming families, is because they know the templars or Chantry will destroy or exploit it.
So far, I'm yet to see anything that supports the current system, which is failed, broken, and dangerous, and responsible for creating more problems than it prevents.
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