Crazy He Calls Me

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Ruby and Hancock

he did that because he knew there was no alternative. not to start a war, but to finally put it out in the open, to give mages a fighting chance. those are his words. mages were being systemically massacred, raped, turned tranquil to make them easier to abuse, killing themselves in droves because there was no escaping the templars, no escaping the chantry, no escaping the thedosian everyman’s mass disgust and fear of mages. 

the chantry was in charge of the templars. it is not some innocent charitable organization, but a military one, wielding the sword of divine right to abuse mages to their breaking point, and then driving the sword home when the mages finally fight back. for years anders did everything humanly possible to end this war peacefully. he blew up the chantry because he was being ignored by everyone — by those in power, by his friends, even by his potential lover. he blew up the chantry because mages were already suffering and had been suffering for 1000+ years, not to pick a fight.

Instead, literally the only  intent anyone involved with the Chantry ever voices – - Sebastian, Elthina, Leiliana – is suppression. There’s not even the slightest spark of interest in finding out why  the mages are acting up, despite Orsino (and, hypothetically, Anders, given his comment after ‘Dissent’ about how he’ll try talking to the Grand Cleric in hopes of getting her to see his concerns) yelling them at the top of their lungs to anyone who will listen. There’s not even a modicum of interest in investigating the Templars’ blatantly illegal actions, or consideration of reprimand or replacement for Meredith, who as Anders puts it, “even her own people  admit that she’s gone over the edge.”

Leiliana, in her role as seeker, has exactly one binary question that she poses: Does the Chantry massacre the city, or does the Chantry do nothing? Literally no other options are ever considered, or even presented.

Yet fast-forward a few years to the beginning of Inquisition, and apparently Divine Justiana has changed her tune: she’s actually willing to mediate the conflict  to try to end the Mage/Templar war. Now  she’s willing to listen. Now  she’s willing to take diplomatic action.

Apparently to get the Chantry to listen, you have to speak to them in the only language they understand: Violence.

Cole: There were beatings, worse than beatings. “If you tell anyone, I’ll say you used blood magic.”

Which pretty much confirms what pro-mage people have been saying all this time - that the whole system was rigged against mages, that Templars abused their position of power and the legitimate fear of blood magic to get what they wanted from innocents and, when the mages still resisted, had them lobotomized.

Suffer with me ;-;

Maccready

Hancock

Cait (pre Benign Intervention)

Danse

Curie

Deacon

Piper

Nick Valantine

(When sole starts their shit again)

Preston

the things he does for love