leaguer of one wrote...
1. It's a given that I'm taking about normal situations.
There are no normal situations with people in the magi situation. Being a magi is itself being outside the norm.
2. That solve easilly...Stop thinging and treating the circle as a closter. That's the main problem with the issues of the circle. How does a closter work if it's imposed. That's no different from a prison.
Actually, it's closer to a quarantine: prisons are where you send people for crimes they have comitted. Quarantines are where you keep people who, through no malice or intent of their own, can inadverdantly kill dozens.
The root of mages turning into abominations isn't the Circle system, and thus solved by its destruction and mage liberation. The root of mages turning into abominations is
stress, which drives people to fear losing something or someone, or hate something else, or think their correctness is unrecognized. Life is not stress free, and keeping a cloister where an outbreak is easier to respond and containis why a single mid-tier abomination of a child desperate to save a parent wiped out most of a major settlement before anyone was aware while dozens of abominations of powerful mages were locally contained for some time in a single area.
And being with someone, even in marrage, is not a privalage it's a right.
In a western liberal society founded on principles such as all men being equal and in which people only gain disproportionate power as members of groups. Thedas is not such a society, and does not follow our values or understand our concept of rights. It is, however, a place where strong emotional relationships amongst a certain unequal parties are playing with wildfire and an excellent generator of stress.
But even we, however, have institutions in which marriage privilages are restricted. One such place is called 'the military', where enforced separation is not a question of if but a matter of how long and how far.
And why do normal fock need to have phylacteries if they are married to a mage? The enitre point is to keep track of mages. With that they also don't have to work with chantry.
To track down the mage's family, in case they seek to escape and lay the groundworks for the mage to escape and rejoin them. In analyzing and trying to track persons of interest, the immediate family is generally considered among the first degree of relations, people to whom an escapee will turn to first.
There's also the point of sharing burdens and emphasizing that they, as a family, are all together in this and to keep the mundanes also committed to the Circle. The mundanes of a family, while not mages themselves, are also persons of interest in the health and actions of a mage. Spreading the practice of phylacteries outside of the mages themselves, even if rarely used, can help share and destigmitize the burden on the mages. (For the record, I also apply this to the Templar guards themselves: even aside from some minor practical uses, the point of sharing a burden with the mages has its own merits.)
Working to support the circle would be an option available to them, not necessarily a requirement. There would probably be social pressure inside the Circle to do so, especially if the Circle is responsible for feeding and supplying the spouses and so discourages freeloaders, but the only required points would be the education of rights and restrictions and the regular marriage check-ins. Considering what's at stake if a relationship turned sour (which it very easily could with the outsider having to adjust to the Circle), marriage stability would be a potential threat factor and marriage counseling would be a very important support system.
(For reference, I'm actually basing the counseling/check in off of a variant of the US military's various support system for the spouses of and soldiers on and returning from deployment. I've never seen it brought up, but it's actually a good model to consider for various aspects of dealing with marriage stress.)
Modifié par Dean_the_Young, 16 février 2014 - 01:14 .
Retour en haut
