[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
You have absolutely no evidence that any of the elders contested Marethari's decision.
None.[/quote]
The Chief Crafter just packed his stuff and left. Given the fact dalish clans are quite a cohesive group, I seriously doubt he would have just left without even trying to tell Marethari she was being crazy. [/quote]
No, he was planning on leaving, and his apprentices were surprised that they were going. There is no dialogue to suggest thst any elder publicly contested Marethari's decision.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
The elders had forbidden the union between the two, which is why the Keeper and the hunter had to meet in secret.[/quote]
The elders forbid the Warden's mother; a non-mage; because they had authority over her. They didn't forbid his father, a mage, from anything. [/quote]
That is
not what was said.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
It wasn't a front; it simply operated very, very differently than the rest of the Circles in the Andrastian kingdoms, with mages having relationships with their family outside the Circle, and passing on their traditions.[/quote]
The Circle was meant as a place to, basically, keep mages in and keep spirits out. In Rivain, mages were out and spirits were in people.
That sounds like a front. [/quote]
It was run differently by the foreign templars. That doesn't make it a front. And if they were like Wynne (who was bonded to a spirit), it's not the same as being an abomination like Sophia Dryden or Uldred.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
We have no evidence at the moment that suggests the kingdom of Rivain is ruled by a mage. [/quote]
We do know their communities are, though. [/quote]
Having wise women in the village, again, isn't the same as the entire kingdom being ruled by a mage.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
Kolgrim was the ruler in Haven, and he wasn't a mage. [/quote]
True but that's the only example you'll find. [/quote]
In a world without democracy, you have mundanes or mages as leaders. You seem to be pointing the finger at mage leaders and ignoring the plethora of my mundane rulers lording over everyone in the Andrastian kingdoms.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
I don't see any reason to condemn the mages. [/quote]
I'm not condemning the mages; not particularly anyway. I'm just saying in most societies they are free in, they end up extablishing themselves as the rulers and that thus, this should be taken into account when discussing a possible independency of the Circles. [/quote]
It would mean the Circles would have autonomy. That's it. The equivalent of the Magi Boon, across the Andrastian kingdoms. The Avvar and the Chasind credit the Witches of the Wild for teaching the early shamans magic, while the Dalish lore reads that all elves were mages once, with the Keeper and the elders currently guiding the clan. I don't see anything to suggest that mages would try to topple the ruling mundane nobles who lord over everyone simply because they aren't controlled by the templars.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
We don't know how the shamans are chosen among the Avvar or the Chasind, while we do know that the Keeper and the First have to earn the right if there are other contenders, like we know from Lanaya's story (where she said she contended with several others for the right to become the First of the clan).[/quote]
And these others were all mages. What if a non-mage is the most qualified to rule? S/he's not even given the opportunity. [/quote]
Unless Felicia Day is correct about non-mage Keepers. We are also moving away from my original point about these societies not trying to replicate the Imperium.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
Merrill was the only designated First at the time, when the clans are actively hunted down by the templars, who threaten their lives in the same way that the darkspawn threatened the lives of the people of Amaranthine. I think the comparison is valid.[/quote]
The clans are not at war with the Templars. The lore actually specifically tell us that templars rarely go after the Dalish Keepers. It's not the same as being at war with creatures like the Darkspawn. [/quote]
A war wasn't declared against the darkspawn, but the humans were attacked. It's a similar scenario with the Dalish, who are under threat from the templars. And the reason the Dalish are nomadic is because the templars hunt them down.
[quote]MisterJB wrote...
[quote]LobselVith8 wrote...
And I don't see anyone arguing that non-mages should be dominated by mages, so I don't see the point to this kind of language. [/quote]
Perhaps you should be more careful with your own choice of words. If I say that mages inevitably dominate non-mages and you start saying things like how the Dalish are so much freer than human kingdoms, it sounds like you're accepting this domination and trying to justify it. [/quote]
The Dalish are governed by the Keeper and the elders; pretending otherwise doesn't help your vilification of the mages.
Modifié par LobselVith8, 30 juin 2013 - 07:03 .