And I will join them if someone tries to cut my offspring from their heritage.
Not to worry, Ukki. If your heir follows your example in honorable service to the Imperium as you have, their seat within the Magisterium would be assured.
The Venatori were outcasts, lunatics and malcontents, an amusing jest at our Orlaisian friends' expense. If anything "Lord" Erimond is a perfect example of the system working as intended. After all, only a fool long denied true power in our fair lands would have taken up with Corypheus' rabble. No, the current system serves us well.
Erimond was a magister, of my own Vyrantium no less, and even tried to convince another magister to abandon their duties to stroll about southern Thedas alongside him.
On the other side of the coin, our current state disillusioned one of our greatest minds, Alexius,to such an extent that he too turned his back on the senate.
And there we have it, the Qunari is finally out of the barn. Perhaps our great places of learning have been neglected, as you put it, because their members have been lax as of late in producing something worthy of notice, Enchanter.
Perhaps if our legions in Seheron had been able to produce anything besides defeat, I'd have a sufficient number of oxmen specimens for my experiments... but let's continue on with our current budget allocations, I'm sure it will turn around and produce favorable results one day.