While your examples are amusing aTigerslunch, they forget one minor detail...
The biggest difference between the mass-murdering rogue and the mass-murdering mage: Preparation. A rogue must prepare for what they're going to do, how they're going to do it, and obtain everything they need in order to do it. All before they can take action. Meanwhile, a mage just needs to show up. And they don't need to do anything prior to showing up.
No need to prepare if to poison water sources at a castle or town is necessary. Poisons are pretty easy for rogues to get a hold of or had. The party, yes that does need time, anything that requires time to think.
Then again, a rogue could just assassinate the town guards, then kill everyone else in quiet of the night. Yes, takes time, where as a mage could do it one shot, but a rogue can still do this, not just a mage. They are faster at it is all. Sorta.......
*get lantern oil, pour it around all the houses and barns around town, light it, and watch the town burn, assassinate anyone picking up water buckets.
Some say just a mage is a threat when I say its not just mages. They can do something faster, yes, but not the only possible threat. Most mages seem to just want to live normal lives as everyone else does technically.
No need to prepare if to poison water sources at a castle or town is necessary. Poisons are pretty easy for rogues to get a hold of or had. The party, yes that does need time, anything that requires time to think.
Then again, a rogue could just assassinate the town guards, then kill everyone else in quiet of the night. Yes, takes time, where as a mage could do it one shot, but a rogue can still do this, not just a mage. They are faster at it is all. Sorta.......
*get lantern oil, pour it around all the houses and barns around town, light it, and watch the town burn, assassinate anyone picking up water buckets.
Some say just a mage is a threat when I say its not just mages. They can do something faster, yes, but not the only possible threat. Most mages seem to just want to live normal lives as everyone else does technically.
An 8 year old could poison a water well..... No they couldn't blast a town in one hit, no they couldn't summon undead....none of that magic stuff.
An 8 year old could set a town ablaze with lantern oil.
Your rogue can't do it as an 8 year old. Or on accident.
A rogue could kill people on accident... I mean, Zevran killed a couple targets on accident...
A rogue probably couldn't commit a wholesale slaughter in a single location on accident, though...
Unless you do that systematically that aspect worked in circles rather well.
Poisoning a water supply is a stupid move militarily I think. In the short-term it'll work but poison doesn't discriminate so in the long term it probably would be a stupid thing to do. You're essentially contaminating a vital part of a fortress (if not a village if the water moves towards one) which can be... pretty bad. Especially for public relations.
But that's not a thing I'm completely certain on. And I'm assuming the topic is the level of danger a person can cause since this is about whether mages deserve freedom or not and the posts on this page seem to say that to me. But I've also got a headache. If so then... you don't even need poison to poison a well. Bodies work just as well. Throw a corpse or two in a well and it's gonna do itself in eventually. Bonus points if it was a diseased body.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree that the devastation is equal, but poison in the sense of a few bottles isn't the only thing you can use.
The mages deserve to be regulated by a supervisory body where their expertise and interests are represented, as well as the interests of the local community and other stake holders of their respective societies. The groups policing the mages should be composed of specialist mages as well as Templars.
Privilege comes with responsibilities. The mages are like the scientists of their society and should be involved as a part of the governing bodies, being ruled over but also assisting in the functioning and improvement of society. Of course this may involve a social revolution that requires the removal of the aristocracy and more representative forms of government. Perhaps a Commonwealth.
Well that was five minutes wasted.
Yeah it isn't about capturing a fortress. That would take a rogue longer than a mage, but a rogue could still manage it. Dead body deseased and decaying in a water source would be far worse than what I was actually thinking of. 
And an 8 year old is capable of dumping a body in a well, may take longer than an adult would though.
Regulating mages is fine by me, as long as families can visit, that should keep mages happy too.
I don't think mages will ever be content to live their whole lives locked up in circles, so I think that will always fail. At most, I support schooling systems where young mages can be taught to control their powers. I don't agree with how the Harrowing is conducted at all. Mages should be prepared for how to deal with a variety of demons. It shouldn't be something that's just sprung on them and we assume they're good because they dealt with one alright by chance. It proves nothing. Schooling should be supportive and actually educational. It should not be connected to the Chantry and religious dogma. At a certain point, mages should be free to leave. They should always be allowed to see their families.
And to make sure no one causes trouble, station Templars throughout towns.
I think there is not a good solution but if I was a mage in Thedas I would want to live in Ferelden because the Circle there was a vast step up compared to some others "Cough" Kirkwall "Cough" but all in all there is no good solution.
Wowsers! There is a whole bunch of people here with gameplay-story segregation problems..
Tevinter, Dalish, Rivain. The three "nations" that allow their mages autonomy, and in all three the mages are in a "supervisory" role over the non-mages. Rivian is the least extreme of the three, though, because those with magic are treated more like spiritual leaders than anything else. And I don't think that It really matters that the Dalish have been brainwashed into thinking that it's "tradition" for the mages to rule them...
Brainwashed? I don't see the Dalish as being brainwashed for not vilifying magic to the point where it causes people to murder mages, i.e. how Andrastian culture has lead to mobs murdering mages over things they haven't done. Also, hahren also have an authoritative voice in the clan.
I appreciate the situation the mages are in. If I were a mage, I'd probably be pissed and on-board with the whole "I deserve to be treated as any 'normal' person" shtick. But from the random peasant's standpoint, they only have a shot of murdering the lord that mistreats them if that lord is not a mage... Nobody here honestly thinks the city-elf is saving Shiala from a mage version of Vaughan Kendalls, do they?
Or the perspective could be that a mage among the city elves could have helped them stop a threat like Vaughan and his guards.
Judging by the vitriol I have just read, It would seem that based on their opinions Master Warder Z_ TheKomandorShepard and General TSAR are more dangerous than any mage....
Judging by the vitriol I have just read, It would seem that based on their opinions Master Warder Z_ TheKomandorShepard and General TSAR are more dangerous than any mage....
I don't think they can set stuff on fire with their minds...
I don't think they can set stuff on fire with their minds...
They probably would if they could 
They probably would if they could
Then I am sure they would willingly submit to the harsh treatment they advocate.
Judging by the vitriol I have just read, It would seem that based on their opinions Master Warder Z_ TheKomandorShepard and General TSAR are more dangerous than any mage....
Im nice and kind individual i don't know if im more dangerous than guys that can destroy entire towns in seconds. 
They probably would if they could
Pretty sure if i had power that no one can handle and oppose i would abuse it but then everyone would it is like god mode and starting rampage in gta and that mean total lack of negative consequences.
Then I am sure they would willingly submit to the harsh treatment they advocate.
Nah i alrady said that i wouldn't not that i I expect mages do the same as i said it isn't matter of morality it is matter of survival.
Nah i alrady said that i wouldn't not that i I expect mages do the same as i said it isn't matter of morality it is matter of survival.
And by virtue of your claim, you wouldn't be mad if people tried to kill you, if you were a mage, because you would be capable of comprehending why they would do it, based on your previous claims.
And by virtue of your claim, you wouldn't be mad if people tried to kill you, if you were a mage, because you would be capable of comprehending why they would do it, based on your previous claims.
I didn't say i would be mad because of that there is no much emotions in that same with my solution toward mages i see mages as obstacles but same i would see peoples that try to kill me and i just remove them.
I didn't say i would be mad because of that there is no much emotions in that same with my solution toward mages i see mages as obstacles but same i would see peoples that try to kill me and i just remove them.
And with that, I rest my case.
I didn't say i would be mad because of that there is no much emotions in that same with my solution toward mages i see mages as obstacles but same i would see peoples that try to kill me and i just remove them.
Mages are not obstacles they are people....That includes children that are not trying to kill you
Absolutely, but it should be worked at gradually, and not immediately done.
And with that, I rest my case.
Well you said that you would expect me to submit treatment that i suggests for mages if i was a mage right?
But then as i said my reason behind my solution which is my survival so what point would be killing myself if my goal is to survive? 
Mages are not obstacles they are people....That includes children that are not trying to kill you
For me mages are obstacles because of their dangerous and unstable nature but as i said other peoples can be obstacles (just to much lesser degree) for me as well but in that case it would depend on individual.Those childrens because their nature still are dangerous whether they intend me harm me or not , it is like be locked with human bomb in 1 room doesn't matter if it is children it still can explode and kill me.
Well you said that you would expect me to submit treatment that i suggests for mages if i was a mage right?
But then as i said my reason behind my solution which is my survival so what point would be killing myself if my goal is to survive?
For me mages are obstacles because of their dangerous and unstable nature but as i said other peoples can be obstacles (just to much lesser degree) for me as well but in that case it would depend on individual.Those childrens because their nature still are dangerous whether they intend me harm me or not , it is like be locked with human bomb in 1 room doesn't matter if it is children it still can explode and kill me.
"Fear makes men more dangerous than magic ever could" by advocating the genocide you are the cause of all the mages problems they would be too scared to learn about magic and therefor the consequence of it, It is fear and desperation that drive them to demons, if you treat others with respect and kindness they will show you it too and they wouldn't "explode"
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