My guess is the Normal Templars just want to end the War and get back to the way things were. Red Templars I'll wager are going for full on Mage Genocide. And I'll wager they have a method of looking at non-mage people and determine if their lineage has magical potential and then kill them if they find any.
all 3 groups are disgusting. This is maddeness what is this substance?
They dont have to be consciously aware of it. i mean we saw with bartand that he forcefully wanted his servant to hear the song and made them eat raw lryium, so they could just be acting on that, everyone who isn't under the influence they try to force feed them. we have also seen them taking slaves so they might be forcing people to mine it up so they can then feed it to people. It might not even be comnected to the elder one and its just a sad tale happening at the same time.
i am h
onestly unsettled by that
theory kieran almost too horrorifying and bartrand was mad