Lord Raijin wrote...
OLDIRTYBARON wrote...
Because Orsino really was corrupt. There really was rampant blood magic. Blood mages really were trying to undermine her authority and use the "poor helpless oppressed mages" propaganda to exploit that. Meridith may have lost her **** at the end, but she was right about the conspiracy against her and she was right about her suspicions.
And I assume that Meredith had no affiliation whatsoever over Orsino's corruption, huh? Orsino was so corrupted that he begged Meredith to revoke the ROA, and to essentinally told her to imprison him and his mages. He did not wanted this war to start, but already Meredith was so hungry for mages blood that whatever Orsino said did not make any connection with Meredith as she was clearly not listening to him. Orsino did what he did because he was in a desperate situation.
Don't get me wrong. I'm no Orsino fan but Meredith was largely responsible for what happen in Kirkwall as the same goes to the Grand Cleric.
Oh, so Orsino didn't want to face the hangman's noose and that made him noble, did it? He provoked a lot of what happened in Kirkwall by his willful disregard for the Chantry's laws and their oversight. He reveled in disobeying the Knight-Commander and practically thumbed his nose at her every chance he got. Then there's the whole "Orsino knew about Quentin's experiments and encouraged them" part, or do we sweep that under the rug because it doesn't fit the "poor mages" motif?
Orsino should have cooperated with Meredith. Irving would have, and I dare so any other First Enchanter would have. Orsino didn't want the Templars searching the Gallows because he knew they'd find something -- most likely his links to Quentin and God knows what other dark work -- and he'd probably face death for it. Orsino was a coward and he didn't want to face the consequences of his actions. He doomed his circle by refusing to acknowledge Templar authority and did nothing to stifle the growing unrest among circle mages. There is no excuse for what Orsino did. None.
People want to paint Meredith as a blood thirsty tyrant, but she wasn't. She wasn't paranoid in her suspicions of a plot against her, we found the plotters and dealt with them. She wasn't paranoid over the rampant blood magic in Kirkwall, we dealt with them every second wave of enemies. She wasn't paranoid because she suspected Orsino was hiding something, because he
was. Meredith was right the entire time. When she starts to lose it is when she questions Hawke's loyalty, at which point even Cullen steps in and says "simmer down, sir."
Now as far as the Rite of Annulment goes, it was deserved. All the rampant blood magic, all the blood mages preying on the citizens of Kirkwall, all the demons running amock, and
on top of all that a
mage blows up the Chantry killing hundreds of innocent civilians. There was no way the people of Kirkwall weren't going to demand blood. Meredith invoked the Rite to deal with the problem before a war between Kirkwall and the Gallows erupted. Her duty was to protect the citizens of Kirkwall from hostile magic and she did her duty. Also notice that even during the Rite of Annulment, Hawke, Cullen, and Meredith (admittedly begrudgingly) agree to spare all mages who surrender to the Templar's authority. Not every mage dies in DA2 on the Templar path. In fact, more mages
live after the Rite than from siding with the mages. Why? Because they were given the chance to surrender and Orsino had less corpses to turn into
a bloody Harvester.I can understand why people dislike Meredith. I even understand how people succumb to the romantic interpretation of poor mages who are so oppressed, so wronged, locked away in their towers in a gilded cage. But the wilfully ignoring facts serves no one.
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