MisterJB wrote...
If I get to choose, I wish it to be Evangeline.
Otherwise, I hope any templar antagonist is an atheist.
Yes, you read that right. I've always felt that making the Chantry a religious organization was a cheap way of making them harder to sympathize with because nowadays "Organized Religion=Evil".
So, if there must be a templar antagonist, I want him/her to use logic and fear to justify his/her actions because there simply is no way to relate to someone who does things because god ordered it.
It's hard for me to feel sympathy for the templars and the chantry less because they are religious, and more because they made the bed that they are lying in right now.
I mean, there are so many magic users that are against the misuse of magic, and all for reaching some sort of co-existanse, but the chantry didn't use them, they just kicked mages again and again until the only thing left for them was to rebel against the chantry.
It dosen't matter if they acted stupid *because* of their religion, or if they are stupid regardless of their religion,
the result is the same.
That said, there is a reason why it's hard for most people to be sympathetic toward organised religion.
Most of the time organised religion is a catalyst for ignorance, stagnation, and suspicion or out right hatred
toward everything that isn't part of said religion.
If there is one thing DA lore did well, it's pointing out what religion looks like when it's rampaging out of control.