The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...
Believing a monster sleeps under your bed and doing everything in your power to make that monster does NOT prove you right. It makes you an abhorrent person.
I will stand by my claim that out of all the blood
mages and abominations Anders claims were pushed into it, only one can be believed and that is Alain. And not only did his suffering have nothing to do with Meredith, he still knew better than to target innocent people or demand the absolution of the Circle.
This whole "Templars made me do it" is just one more way the
mages use to avoid taking responsabilities for their actions.
Not so. The Bloodragers are a gang of apostates that have many... well... blood mages in their group. And they run all throughout Hightown while the Templars, who are stationed there, do literally nothing about the situation. There are only TWO circle blood mages in Act 3: Huon and Grace. The others were, IIRC, using regular magic.
Huon, Evelina, Grace, every
mage in Grace's group; those blood
mages from the
Mage Underground.
Depends on the context of the situation.
And I could just as easily say that when Meredith leaves, she's going to plant evidence there.
At that point in time, it's feasible. Later on not so much after what the game does, but at the time yes.
Meredith may be paranoid but she is not one to plant evidence. She suspected Orsino; and for good reasons; when the Champion assured her he was not involved with Grace's group, she doesn't accept it but she also don't tell Hawke to lie to the Grand Cleric. She just intends to wait for Orsino to reveal his true self in time.
I still don't see why I should condemn Orsino for all of this when the woman who had full authority at that point and didn't need Orsino to say such a thing could've easily gone "Well, ****, now I've got the power to search the Circle."
C'mon, you're better than this, You know that the morality or lack thereof of Meredith's actions have nothing to do with whether Orsino's are suspicious or not.
And it is suspicious for him to agree to Meredith's search only after he has been to the Circle.
Uldred. He summoned a slew of Demons and the Pride Demon he summoned ended up forcefully possessing him because he couldn't control. He screamed and fought against it, but in the end lost.
What does that have to do with anything?
I'm saying that the demons in the Warden's Keep turned against the Wardens that would have fought by their side despite being surrounded by the King's forces and, therefore, there is no reason to believe the demons in Kirkwall would prioritize killing the Templars before turning on the
mages.
Since Demons operate on a power hierarchy, with the more powerful ones dominating the lesser ones, the more powerful demons could've told the lesser ones that this would be the plan.
That would either mean that demons are just waiting on stand by for
mages to summon them or...
That they can come up with a chain of command and insidious battle plans on the spot despite being summoned to the middle of a battle.
Hardly feasible. It's much more believable the
mages were just skilled enough to control the weaker denizens of the Fade like Shades and Rage and Sloth Demons.
You don't ever see those Circle
mage summoning and controlling Pride and Desire Demons but, if these creatures that stand at the top of the demonic hierarchy, somehow designed a plan that involved obeying
mages, why not pretend that they were being controlled as well?
Arguable. We don't know the specifics of Demon deal making in regards to blood magic, so we can't say for certain one way or the other. I believe the situation forced them into it, you believe they were long time blood mages now exposed by the circumstances.
Avernus claims that he spent months studying the darkest corners of the Fade and designing the glyphs that would allow him to summon and control demons. And he still failed.
And those
mages in Kirkwall who we were previously told were denied grimoires and staffs managed to do it in the span of a night.
Na ah, that doesn't happen, not possible. They had to have been studying for months, if not years.
Very few Mages actually summoned Demons in the pro-Templar side of things.
Incorrect, I just played through the Pro-Templar ending and, while there are demons who appear on their own, there is only group of
mages in the entire ending that doesn't, at one point or other, suddenly have non-hostile demons helping them fight and that is the group that accompanied Orsino.
So, more like 100% of the
mages summoned demons.
I've always believed he's read up on certain things regarding blood magic, but has never once practiced it. And I don't see how a person could even safely practice making a Harvester, so remembering the ritual in total form is what I believe.
Grab a few rats, sticth them together. Even if you don't practicew making an Harvester, you'd still need to have some experience with blood magic in general to perform the spell.
And, of course, why would he read on blood magic if he has no intention of practicing it?
Why would a man who's about to off himself and is fessing up to a whole bunch of **** lie about having never practiced blood magic up until that point? He has nothing left to lose and nothing to gain.
To make Meredith suffer. What would affect her more? Saying "You were right all along, Meredith. I am a blood
mage" or "If you hadn't done anything, I never would have used blood magic."
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