What do you mean, "regularly spouts mages"? The Amell Warden couldn't possibly have been taken to the circle until way after Leandra left Kirkwall or they'd be in their thirties in DAO with Jowan somehow being even older, and it isn't until even later that the other Amell cousins are discovered to be mages. And the whole thing eventually costs Aristide the Viscountcy. There's no way he wouldn't have been terrified of being associated with mages and raised his children accordingly.
Leandra tells us that the Amells have had magical offspring for generations. Her example of her cousin Revka having her children all go into the Circle (including the Mage Warden) are just the most recent example, besides herself, in the current generation.
Leandra's lack of conscientiousness and foresight is relevant to how much it's fair to blame Gamlen for his actions. Nobody is saying that he's right and that she's crazy, just that he isn't nearly as wrong as people give him credit for and that she doesn't deserve to be viewed as any more deserving of the money than he was. That you can't wrap you head around this distinction and have to just make **** up to pretend to understand people's arguments is tragic, but please stop it. You're just wasting space and confusing yourself.
A tad hypocritical, wouldn't you say, given how often you've insisted that Malcolm was a "criminal", despite all evidence to the contrary?
Precisely what crimes did Malcolm commit during the 25 years that he was living as an apostate? And how does that back up with how we're told he was freed by a Templar precisely because he was posed no danger to anyone ("Order is not served caging the best of us") and that Malcolm's motto was "Magic will serve what is best in me, not which is most base" showing he didn't abuse magic?
The way I see it, the entire point of Leandra's existence as a mother during that year was to make every effort that her children had a safe and comfortable place to come home to after dangerous missions. She didn't lift a finger in that endeavor, and instead wailed and complained and pushed them to throw themselves into even more danger. That, vocally blaming her children for their siblings' deaths, and protesting the idea of two of them going into the Deep Roads at the same time is the extent of her parental virtues as we see them during the game.
We're told countless times in DA2 that practically no-one in Kirkwall wants to hire refugees and we even see that Darktown is full of homeless and unemployed Fereldans, scraping to simply find enough food to not starve to death. The "lucky" ones who can find work are the usually hired for the absolute worst jobs, such working in the Bone Pit, a veritable death trap that earns them only a pittance to try to live by.
Hawke only manages to get work through the decent reputation they gained working for Meeran/Athenril, as well as Varric hooking them up with his contacts. Even then, it's not like Hawke or Bethany/Carver have a form of stable employment available to them, but have to go out and actively find mercenary work.
Aveline seems to have been the only one to buck this trend by getting a job in the Kirkwall City Guard. But I suspect though that she got it because the job is considered extremely high-risk and Jevan's poor leadership caused a bit of a high turnover rate, so they often find they need to refill the ranks. Her having actual experience serving in the Fereldan army probably helped her application though.
But yeah, as far as Leandra is concerned, someone who's primary experience for the past two decades has been homemaker and farmer's wife, she has next to no chance of getting employment in Kirkwall post-Blight.
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