Meredith wasn't doing anything illegal, technically. So the Seekers would have come up with a whole lot of nothing on the Templars, and a whole lot of dirt on the mages in Kirkwall in general (resolutionists, underground, blood mages galore).
I never said she was doing anything illegal when it came to the Annulment. I outright cited Gaider saying that what she did was legal, under barebone technicalities.
But I also said that what she did was unjustifiable since she was punishing a group that had nothing to do with the crime, and Gaider also said the same thing.
But the Seekers could have gotten her out of her position as the defacto Viscount. She never should have had that position. We know from Alfstanna's brother in Origins that Templars have to give up their titles and rights to rule to be templars. They could have had her out for having a death squad going around killing non-mages in broad daylight without ever once taking them to the magistrate. They could have removed her for interfering with Kirkwall's politics in that she refused to hand over power to the nobles in the city.
Heck, they could have declared her unfit to lead because of the red lyrium idol affecting her sanity.
1. I sided with her. Wasn't annulled. The some of the mages get away to spread the word. You also don't have to actually let her kill everyone.
2. That really doesn't change my point. Meredith being crazy is irrelevant.
3. Legality is the only justification needed.
4. Nope. Go play again.
1. Gaider says that the three mages you can spare are made tranquil. An annulment requires the complete purge of everything. Every elderly person, every man, every woman and every child. If every single one of them is not killed or made tranquil, it is not an Annulment, and that's what she called for. An annulment is nothing less than legalized genocide.
2/3. It does change your point, and this ties in with three. It address your point in that Meredith would have been punished by her superiors for doing something she had every legal right to do, but no real justification to do so, because she was affectively slaughtering an entire group of people down to the children for a crime that they had nothing to do with.
I'll take David Gaider, the lead writer of Dragon Age's word over justification vs legality over yours. Simply because by using your argument, it is perfectly fine to turn a blind eye to real injustices simply because it isn't actually illegal to do them.
4. I have played again. Many mages escape when Hawke sides with the mages when Meredith gives the ultimatum, and the mages who weren't in the circle spread the word if you side with the templars.
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