@Br3admax: Well, I'd like to think my mage was doing whatever he could to mitigate that damage - even to the point of angering people like Adrian by stopping to heal wounded Templars and non-combatants as mages were forced to defend themselves because of the ruling of their new make-shift government.
It's interesting to me that Rhys even comments that Adrian is elected First Enchanter in a system that the mages claim no longer exists.
They slap together some crap and then make a ruling that will affect every mage on Thedas. Honestly - that the First Enchanters even had the gall to do something like that in the first place says to me that whatever was going to replace the Circles was going to be worse than what existed.
That being said - I'm going to play it that my Inquisitor's "sin" is secretly finding the explosion at the peace summit an opportunity (while also seeing it as a tragedy).