Here's a thought, why didn't he go to Emeric? A disgraced elderly Templar forced to act through a third party (fourth technically speaking) in order to investigate. He had a man singularly focused on stopping Quentin who wouldn't have gone to Meredith, who wouldn't have been believed if he had, and he did nothing
Depends. Just when did he receive the Harvester notes, which were when Orsino realized who he had been assisting unknowingly? If it was after Emeric died, well... the answer is self-evident.
If it was before, then fair point. He could've gone to Emeric.
Although Emeric wouldn't have been able to fight himself, as he couldn't even handle a few armed thugs. As a result he wouldn't be able to fight Demons and a Blood Mage.
And if he went to the City Guard, they'd more then likely request the Templars' assistance. Which would lead to Quentin being dealt with, but the Mages being punished. And then if Emeric did speak up, he'd possibly be reprimanded further for keeping this information hidden from the Templars and the Mages would still be punished.
At any rate the Templars had enough information to go off of to know something was up and needed investigating if Hawke did The First Sacrifice in Act 1.
Except she wasn't that far gone. She was rejecting the Tranquil Solution,
To save face with the populus of Kirkwall and because the Grand Cleric herself rejected it, so if she was approving of it officially she'd be going against the GC's orders.
And she did support it. Just not officially. She couldn't have failed to notice the increasing number of Tranquil Mages that were also Harrowed.
The RoT requires the express approval of the FE and the KC, as DAO's Mage Origin illustrates. That more and more Tranquil were appearing due to Alrik illegally performing it on various Mages -- Harrowed and non-Harrowed alike -- means she couldn't have failed to notice it.
If she did, she's deliberately allowing it to go on. If she didn't, she's incompetent.
and she wasn't calling for the RoA until Blood Mages were literally coming out of the wood work.
Yeah, that happened after she called it. Any blood mages that existed during Act 3 were either apostates or dealt with -- due to plot-stupidity for pro-Mage Hawkes -- by Hawke and no more were present.
Any other blood mages were a result of an unjustified Annulment being called down on the Mages for the act of an apostate.
Even if she was that far gone she couldn't have enacted the RoA anyway, she still needed approval from Elthina or the Divine and there was no way she could go over their heads without coming across as a raving loon.
Oh she very much could have. She probably would've kept persisting and when she was refused would've killed the Grand Cleric, citing it as a "mercy killing for her friend that was enthralled by the maleficarum of Kirkwall" and continued it on subsequent Grand Clerics until one capitulated to her demands out of fear or an anti-Mage outlook
In the absence of evidence of a positive we must assume the negative. We can't know if he did anything or not but without any indication that he did we must assume he didn't.
Well, he was in Kirkwall with a contingent of Mages when he was caught in the crossfire of the Qunari attack.
It's evident that he was there for reasons that had nothing to do with the Qunari, because the Qunari assaulted the city after Orsino and his mages were there.
So while there isn't anything to outright state or even imply such, we can choose to believe that he was there in Kirkwall with those Mages for that reason.
Wow. I mean it's one thing to base the attitudes of people we've never met based on 6 we have, but to not even base it on those 6 is something else. Actually we meet 7 Templars; four of them are decent men who at their worst are just doing what they feel is necessary to protect people, and the other 3 are absolute monsters.
I didn't realize the thousands of Templars that went through with an unjustified Annulment without even caring to call Meredith out on the idiocy of her idea didn't qualify as "absolute monsters".
And considering all of the Templars that fought for a better Circle were killed or (temporarily) kicked out of the Order -- as Cullen states -- then yes, they were all absolute monsters.
Even Cullen, the so called standard of being a moderate, goes through with it despite his growing doubts.
If hundreds of Mages die for an act they had nothing to do with while the culprit submitted himself to justice and didn't receive it by the Templars' hand, then they are absolute monsters. If the Veil is thinned even further because of an unjustified RoA, then they are absolute monsters. If no Templar is smart enough to know that catering to a mob's demands -- which hasn't even formed yet due to the fact it's nighttime -- will only make them bolder and should be avoided, then they're idiots to boot and have no place in the political spectrum.
Side note: Cullen needs to be deeply traumatized by his part in the RoA of Kirkwall to be a believable character. The deaths of hundreds of innocent people by a person's own hand and inaction to injustice will weigh on a person's mind and soul heavily.
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