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Yeah, not buying your straw-manning. My point about Loghain is that Teagan's stance against him was legitimate based on the man's actions and methods which created a very obvious and very real harmful effect on Ferelden.
Here? The Inquisition has been doing mostly good things for Ferelden in the name of saving the world and Teagan is misconstruing these actions as a threat. As part of his argument, he's also misconstruing the wardens in the same way and it has no basis despite your assertions which hurts his arguments against the Inquisition.
If the Inquisition did takeover Redcliffe which is occupied and ruled by a legitimate lord of a sovereign realm, then that's an aggressive move that needs to be challenged. But an abandoned fortress that's occupied by highwaymen? Plenty more debatable and again, if they want the fortress back then they should've either gotten it themselves or asked for the Inquisition to return it. But Teagan is completely ignoring the context of the fortress' capture as well as Ferelden's apparent inability to retake it themselves and the benefits that occurred with the Inquisition retaking the fortress from lawless bandits that were preying on Crestwood and travelers going through the country.
Let's go through the pros and cons, shall we?
Pros
The fortress is no longer a hive of scum and villainy
The people of Crestwood are safe from bandits
The road leading through Crestwood is safer for travel and trade between Orlais and Ferelden
Cons
The fortress is now run by a foreign quasi-chantry organization
And what's so bad about that as long as the Inquisition isn't directly using that position to attack Ferelden or directly seize further territory? And again, if the crown has such a problem with foreigners taking their castles, why not just ask to have the fortress returned? That's certainly more sensible then demanding complete disbandment based on nonexistent evidence of the Inquisition attempting to seize power.
When did I ever say that Teagan isn't allowed to say a bad thing against the Wardens? All that I pointed out is that what he is saying here is all based on nonsense based on current events. Even Dryden's revolt was not seizing power, it was essentially supporting the Landsmeet against a tyrant king. Certainly a grey situation and a breach in Warden standard conduct, but it's not as warmongering nor "seizing power in the name of restoring order" as Teagan insists. And again, that was 200 years ago and since then, the wardens have been allowed back into Ferelden and haven't done anything that would make Maric regret his decision.
Unless Teagan forgot that all but two of the Ferelden wardens died at Ostagar defending his home and king; forgot that the survivors saved his home and saved his family; those same survivors stopped a civil war that he helped start (Loghain's fault, but still); ended the Blight before it butt-screwed his country more than it already did; and that the wardens were given Amaranthine and again, they saved Ferelden from a darkspawn civil war between intelligent darkspawn and the area has now improved in terms of strength and trade with the rest of the nation.
So yes, Teagan's nonsensical comparison to the wardens is nonsense and weakens his criticism of the Inquisition considerably.
The reason that Clarel's wardens don't count is because they are based in Orlais and again, were being manipulated by a Darkspawn Magister and his Nightmare Demonic Spider Friend.
And even with Inquisition being infiltrated by Solas' spies and the Qunari, that doesn't make Teagan's nonsense any more valid as that can be more owed to bad timing. And even then, the Inquisition STILL saves his life and Ferelden's from yet another danger, but this blows completely over his head due to his delusions of insisting that the Inquisition is a threat when there's way more factual proof to the contrary than he seems willing to admit and it's so long that I won't bother listing it.
In fact, I'm certain that you still don't agree with me or my viewpoint and that's your choice. But for brevity, I'll just let you believe what you want as that's what "Teagan" is certainly is doing with his nonsense.
Honestly, it's obvious that the whole Exalted Council Ordeal is just a ruse to weaken and slander the Inquisition so that they're kept from shaking the "status quo" of Southern Thedas. The Chantry, Orlais and Ferelden had helped start or were being thrashed by various major conflicts and problems and yet, they turn around and act like the Inquisition is the true problem because it's existence is inconvenient for them. The insane troll logic involved in their arguments are almost laughably frail or hypocritical especially if you consider how often that the Big Three have also been corrupt (which started the Mage-Templar war), infiltrated (All three) or started conflicts where many died (Orlesian Civil War and the Mage-Templar War). Yet they want to point fingers at the Inquisition with nonsensical argumentation and condemnation despite the fact that they're only around because of the Inquisition?
Makes me wish that the Inquisitor could just ignore the Council entirely or systematically tear apart their arguments so that there is no basis for the Inquisition to downsize to an honor guard or disband. Oh well, disbanding will have to do and then laugh when Ferelden has it's next big crisis and have it's people call out, "Save us."
And then answer, "No."
Cause gratitude is apparently a luxury to these fools.





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