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[Ajadea]

Not really, if you look at it another way. 

 

Look at it from this perspective. You have just passed your Harrowing, a test that had another mage throwing up for a week afterwards, and senior enchanter Torrin says that those who pass typically need a week to recover. You have just been given your ring, staff and robes marking you as a full-fledged mage and all your possessions were moved to a private room (without a door, but you now have some privacy,) Irving is setting you up to get along with Duncan, and Jowan comes in and asks you to give up your recovery time, risk your station in the Circle, and possibly your very life on the very day you pass the Harrowing to help him escape. 

 

Taken from that perspective, Jowan seems to be the one who doesn't care about you. Granted, he's a fool in love who is also desperate, but you could roleplay your mage as thinking "I'm not helping the Chantry, I'm working to keep myself from getting killed on the very day I should be considered safe."

 

Pretty much, yeah. There are no real pro-Chantry options in the Mage Origin except 1) to pray with Keili and not screw up the Chant and 2) to willingly subject yourself to punishment after siding with Jowan. Side with Jowan, and you're openly telling the Chantry to crawl into a hole and die while also putting yourself at massive personal risk. Side with Irving, and you screw over Lily for the sake of preemptive revenge against the Chantry and the whole concept of forced Tranquility while writing Jowan off as a lost cause.

 

Siding with Irving is the more pragmatic/nasty option, but it's FAR from licking the Chantry's boots.