The Baconer wrote...
Master Warder Z wrote...
Or you could consider that since they just need the cheapest form of lyrium they could just by that in bulk through the Carta? The stuff was what...5 bits per unit back in DAO, even if the Carta hiked it up by thirty percent that isn't damaging to any outfit that can afford to sustain operations in thirteen diffrent locations at the same time.
These aren't mages, they don't need the highest grade of lyrium for their potions and elixers; They need Lyrium Dust.
Which is as i said before; the cheapest form it comes in 
Lore-wise, I don't know if it's been stated how much it costs, so I wouldn't make an assumption based on that. But, assuming that somehow red Lyrium is cheaper or easier to obtain than regular Lyrium (although I don't now how that would be the case... So I'm not sure how much stock I would put into the "cutting" theory) it would only make sense to keep the prices the same, while mixing it with materials that make manufacturing it cheaper. Or maybe they could be using it for its potency, where Templars would be returning more often for doses than regular Lyrium.
Aside from that, where do you think their money was coming from? Just because they worked under the Chantry doesn't mean that they were independently wealthy as an organization. What sources of income did they have? There was support from the Chantry, which is now gone, goods produced and sold by the Formari/Tranquil, and that now too is probably all gone. I wouldn't be surprised if each state gave partial funding to the Circle in the area through the revenue it made in taxation, but since the Templars are no longer affiliated with the Chantry, that would make them a paramilitary organization operating in Andrastian nations.
So I can only guess that whatever money their making now is either left-over from before the schism, or donated by governments and citizens sympathetic to their cause... I guess they could also have connections through Templar members who are of noble blood. But overall I would say obtaining Lyrium is going to be a lot harder than it was before.
A fair: point the economics of it wasn't my primary concern regardless but my point was in fact.
They don't the grade of lyrium that could buy you a suit of armor for every man in a division, they need basic lyrium nothing overly expensive.
Considering the Templar Order owned property through out Thedas, note the distinction of "Templar" Property that it owned independent of the chantry, that gives the agrument that the order it self was well off regardless of support from the chantry, admittedly you cannot overstate their assistance but the fact of the matter is.
The order was buying up equipment and supplies with out chantry approval or resources for years apparently, and considering order was also more then capable of doling out money to the champion in kirkwall and Fereldan that certainly didn't come from the chantry given the nature of what it was rewarded from doing?
Well clearly the order has deep pockets, Perhaps it comes from the sources as you described, perhaps they collect tithes from usage of their services elsewhere when not guarding mages.
My point is ultimately however this, Even if the Order was only moderately wealthy by it self, it has shown through clear example after example that it has the connections, resources, numbers and money to wage this war that every keeps trying to deny them being capable of waging.
Modifié par Master Warder Z , 21 décembre 2013 - 11:36 .
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