EmperorSahlertz wrote...
No, they are MORE dangerous.
You've just insulted the Crows.
MisterJB wrote...
Lord Raijin wrote...
Mages are no less dangerous than the mundanes with giant swords (or dual daggers) strapped on their backs with their heavy set of armor.
Of course. I mean, do you remember that time a normal child destroyed a thriving community all by his lonely self?
Wait, that never actually happened. A mage child, on the other hand, did kill more than half of a city and then raised their corpses as his army of undead soldiers and had them kill their families.
If were talking about the incident with Conner... well you can certainly blame his parents for not taking him to the Circle where he can get the proper education to control his magic and to resist demons... instead they hired an inexperienced apostate to secretly tutor him. That is HIGHLY illegal by chantry laws, and they could very well be executed for what they've done.
hhh89 wrote...
@Lord Raijin: regardless of one person's stance on the mage dilemma (if they should be free, leave in Circles, being treated like the saarebaas, etc.) to say that mages aren't more dangerous than armed men is objectively wrong. They are far more powerful, and in a normal situation still at risk of being possessed, while non-mages don't.
The Circle system the Chantry endorsed was meant to protect non-mages to magical threats, and mages from non-mages as well.
That doesn't mean that the Chantry doesn't have interests in keeping mages under their control, though I'd say they're more economical than militaristic. The only time the Chantry might've used mages to their own interests (don't recall if it used them) would be against Tevinter in the EM, since against the qunari it was a necessità to save southern Thedas (and I'd say mages would've been happy to help, since the alternative was living as animals).
I can understand where you're coming from base on what mages are capable of, but the mages are essentially prosecuted for being who they are; mages. No trials no appeals, nothing. They're driven by this very same prosecution by their mundane peers to be dangerous. If you provoke a bear by poking it with a stick a few times eventually the bear will not tolerate the abuse and will imminently retaliate thus becoming dangerous.
The harrowing ritual that the Chantry forces their apprentices to undergo does not prevent them from getting possessed by demons. It is the mages themselves that determine this. Apostates like Morrigan, who never experienced Circle life, had done incredibly well without the supervision of the Chantry, and I can't possibly see her allowing herself to be possessed by a low some demon no matter how hard they try.
On chapter 2 in Asunder speaks volume regarding reasons behind the Chantry having such high interests in the mages, and why they insist on imprisoning them. They still blame the mages of today for what happen in the Golden City. Blaming them for what the Tevinter Magisters had done, and how the Maker cursed them thus becoming the first darkspawn. This is the perfect propaganda to spread fear
and to gain support from the public. This is the curse that they've been blabbing over.
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