I am not so sure. Yes, it is grief of course, but that's the shallow answer. Not everybody goes on a killing spree when grieving. I felt he could not understand their mistake was ignorance, fear, weakness. He would not act like that (probably) and he sees himself as the moral authority, the one being able to decide what is good or evil. I felt that was why he acted like that, because he decided they had been evil and decided they deserved death. That's pride for me, not being able to step back and look at a situation through the eyes of somebody else.
After the Dread Wolf revelation, what always struck me about that scene was him going, "Not again."
He's lived and walked through the Fade for at least eight thousand years. He must have had thousands of spirit friends over those thousands of years. And he's seen most of them corrupted and die. Just like the Creators were twisted and imprisoned.
I think Wisdom's fall thanks to the ignorance and arrogance of these petty shemlen trying to survive for a few more years was the straw that broke the camel's back. Stupid mortals that know nothing of spirits or the Fade, but claiming to be experts and lecturing a god on arcane knowledge. They brought Wisdom into the world to protect them from other mages as small-minded as themselves. But they achieved nothing. Wisdom's perversion and death served no purpose, not even base survival. It's a lifetime of grief and wrath wrapped up in a Kirkwall package.





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