I see you also left out how that "Cole" if such a person ever really existed given I personally have doubts on that front killed a man.
Even if he had? The boy was a murderer; hardly a innocent victim.
Would you have preferred he be made tranquil upon arrival?
*This was taken from another post about Cole's background from the book Asunder. As Asunder is not written from a first person narrative but in the third person, it's not subjected to the "unreliable narrator" which would perhaps cause you to question it.
- Cole is from a very poor farming family. Cole's father was abusive and extremely anti-mage. Cole was a mage and it is implied his mother was one too, or carried the "gene" for it. Note that Cole was never trained to use spells.
- Cole's father had murdered Cole's mother because of being a mage (or carrying the "gene") and he intended on killing Cole as well. While hiding from his father, Cole was desperately trying to keep his younger sister quiet to protect where they were hiding. While covering her mouth to keep her from making any noise, he accidently smothered her to death. Eventually, either his father found Cole, or Cole left the hiding spot to confront his father. Using his
mother's dagger, he killed his father and made sure his father saw it was Cole that killed him and that he would never hurt anyone again. This traumatic event happened to Cole around the age of 12 and is revealed in the book while Cole is in the Fade.
Of course, if you believe that killing your abusive, murdering father and accidentally smothering your sister as a scared child of 12 years old means that you deserved to starve to death in the dark, then I hope you don't find yourself in a position of power presiding over such matters.
I would have preferred for him to be taken in and treated like a human being. It would seem better, given your views, that all mages be killed upon discovery, seeing as though no matter what they do, even the most controlled, kind hearted mage can cause the world to implode on a whim. Why not save all of Thedas from the time and money used to keep circles, train templars and monitor magic than to just kill them outright? Is it because, without some serious backing (thousands dying in blood magic rituals, ancient cryptic artifacts of power held by gods etc.) that mages actually aren't that powerful in and of themselves? Or that, like most people, the large percentage have no wish to become gods and just want as normal a life as possible? Or that most mages, with the proper instruction, can control their magic and resist possession, making them productive members of society?
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