Lord Raijin wrote...
Off topic here.... but I'm strugging to bash the Chantry when I keep having to look at your avatar
That Grand Cleric is hawt <3
Callista's pretty cool for a scheming byotch.

Ok back on track
Elthina was Meredith's boss. She had the authority to tell Meredith to knock off the crap that shes doing to the mages.
Except its not that simple. The templar order is adjacent to the Chantry, and not under it, and the Kirkwall templars have leverage as the city's de facto army. Meredith can run the circle how she wants to for the most part, and she's the kind of templar that won't tolerate interference in her duties. And she takes power as Viscount, so to challenge Meredith as KC is challenging her ability to rule in all dimensions, and subverting big time Chantry/Templar/Orlesian interests in the region. If Elthina pushes Meredith too hard, she's getting removed from her position as Grand Cleric by some chantry higher ups with some ready-to-go BS excuse, or she risks acclerating the templar split from the chantry - handing effectively a chantry province over to the templars which won't go down well in Val Royeaux.
This was going on for so long that she should've done something about it, and she didn't.
What is she supposed to do? She can't just order Meredith around. That's not how it works. Meredith has far more power in this arrangment than you're giving her credit for.
Anders was willing to compromise with her and to have a civil discussion, but apparently that didn't go as plan, and the only result was to blow up the Chantry with Elthina inside. Is it sad? Yes. It is sad that a life was taken away, but it is also sad that rape, physical abuse, and illegal tranqulization was going on under Elthina's control.
Anders was dumb. The circle was annulled, everybody was killed, and nothing changed. Anders 2.0 aka Adrian started the rebellion, not him, and she stooped to trickery and sunk to some despicable personal lows to do it. Its plain to me that violence was not the go to solution and never was.
The true victims were the mages. Mages like Karl, the elven tranquil you hear talking to her former boyfriend in the Gallows, Alain and his Starkhaven friends who were either slaughtered or illegally made tranquil to set an example to orther mages. Mages deserve to seek justice, and they did when Anders blew up the Chantry.
They got no justice. They were killed, everywhere else there was a crackdown, and the college of Magi was shutdown. Such justice. Praise Anders.<_<
Modifié par Youth4Ever, 26 décembre 2013 - 04:47 .