This is a matter mostly prevelant in Dragion Age II. Why does everyone pretend that any mage in the circle is all but dead? Even if you get sent to the circle at a young age, shoudn't it be like boarding schhol? Can't you call home (Magic crystal ball phones)? Can't the reletives visit or send gifts? After the mage is sufficiently trained. can't they go back for a Holdiay or two with a Templar companion? If it truly is a prison, then they are missing many of the facilities real world killers get. Or is that the point?
If Mage Circle = Prison. Then, don't they get visitations?
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Posté 25 janvier 2014 - 03:58
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Bethany sends you mail from the Circle, and gets time off to take part in the DLC events.
Also, mother Hawke mentions having visited Bethany.
Also, mother Hawke mentions having visited Bethany.
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Posté 26 janvier 2014 - 04:43
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Well the Ferelden Circle certainly seem pretty lax about letting the mages out to play. The one in Witch Hunt joins you easily enough. It seems a year or two's good behaviour earns you a permission slip for trips out (though I would imagine with a curfew).
Maybe it varies from Circle to Circle? You'd think Kirkwall's would be very strict. But then Bethany gets to go on your DLC adventures.
Still, I rather doubt they allow it for just holidays or nights out. I imagine you have to give a good reason why you need to go (Bethany mentions this at the start of Legacy, iirc). Also, in terms of prison, I suspect that just means they're not free to come and go as they please rather than it being about the comfort they are kept in.
Maybe it varies from Circle to Circle? You'd think Kirkwall's would be very strict. But then Bethany gets to go on your DLC adventures.
Still, I rather doubt they allow it for just holidays or nights out. I imagine you have to give a good reason why you need to go (Bethany mentions this at the start of Legacy, iirc). Also, in terms of prison, I suspect that just means they're not free to come and go as they please rather than it being about the comfort they are kept in.
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Posté 26 janvier 2014 - 11:45
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Bethany does write a letter home, and both Leandra and Gamlen mention contacting her. At the same time, Anders letters to Karl and the letters Samson was carrying were more of a problem.
The justification for Bethany being allowed out for DLC was better for Legacy than MotA, I thought. Even the more lax Ferelden circle discontinued it's exercise program because of Anders. Finn getting permission from Hadley isn't a really big deal because the templar knows he doesn't want to escape.
I think being denied contact with the outside world was SOP for criminals up until the last couple centuries but that doesn't invalidate the point.
The justification for Bethany being allowed out for DLC was better for Legacy than MotA, I thought. Even the more lax Ferelden circle discontinued it's exercise program because of Anders. Finn getting permission from Hadley isn't a really big deal because the templar knows he doesn't want to escape.
I think being denied contact with the outside world was SOP for criminals up until the last couple centuries but that doesn't invalidate the point.
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Posté 26 janvier 2014 - 07:55
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I think the point is most mages are feared because the can become abominations, spawn demons and so on.
The Chantry tries to invoke fear of Mages.
In Dragon Age Origins I pretty much got the impressions that there is a whole lot of parents who fear there kids once they notice they got magic talents.
It is a medieval world and the average people there should not have much knowledge or education about magic at all.
So the kids in the tower are just different and might be demonspawn.
The Chantry tries to invoke fear of Mages.
In Dragon Age Origins I pretty much got the impressions that there is a whole lot of parents who fear there kids once they notice they got magic talents.
It is a medieval world and the average people there should not have much knowledge or education about magic at all.
So the kids in the tower are just different and might be demonspawn.
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Posté 01 mars 2014 - 05:49
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Depends on how much money the family that's visiting has. Huon wasn't allowed to see his wife, and was taken from her in chains. Ela was nearly made tranquil illegally by Alrik because she wanted to see her mother. But nobles don't seem to have the same restrictions.
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Posté 05 mars 2014 - 06:47
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Depends on how much money the family that's visiting has. Huon wasn't allowed to see his wife, and was taken from her in chains. Ela was nearly made tranquil illegally by Alrik because she wanted to see her mother. But nobles don't seem to have the same restrictions.
One that could be because the nutter was an insane blood mage and two, it could because she has tried the same tactic before and was caught before.
Pro Mage assumption aside, we don't know enough about those individual cases to say one way or another.
