Life is a cage. All life follows restrictions. Mages have to follow more restrictions because of what they are and the danger tehy represent. It is necessary. It's that simple.
And if you study the lore, mages aren't as big a threat of becoming abominations as the Chantry preaches, lessening the need for that cage. Granted the threat is greater than Libertarians will speak of as well, many would have us think there was little to none.
But in all honesty, take the Spirit Warrior specialization. Its very description of the spec says it's a normal man or woman working with a Fade Spirit (still in the Fade) to gain borderline magical powers despite being mundane. And templars often overlook the fact that that warrior isn't a mage at all. Every human, elf and kossith, their men, women, and children are all connected to the Fade. They go there regularly every night. The spirits of the Fade call them dreamers (Mage Origin.) The spirits observe these dreams of mortals, and sometimes even shape them.
The only two things that separates mages from mundanes is the ability to use magic, and the ability to enter the Fade conscious and aware. When they do that they run the risk of possession, but even non-magicals can weaken the veil and make it easy for demons to leave the Fade. All it takes is a large battlefield (the Brecilian Forest once was just that, and now spirits infest the trees, turning them into sylvans) or a lot of violence and bloodshed.
Then, once demons are in the world, even non-mages run the risk of possession or falling into deals with them (see Sophia Dryden or Sebastians quest where a non-mage woman made a deal with a desire demon, and most certainly used some form of blood magic against us despite never having been a mage before that.)
If less mages entered the fade for whatever reasons, there would be less abominations. And if violence (or magic rituals. Avernus, I'm looking at you) are decreased, less demons would enter the real world, which would also decrease abominations. It has very little to do with a mage being a mage. But making a deal with a demon. Mages simply are the most convenient route for demons into our world because they can enter the fade aware.





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