brialavellan:

I’m still so frustrated that almost all the “reasonable” mages you can talk to in Redcliffe are anti-rebellion, pro-Circle mages.

The only one who isn’t is the “irrational” “angry” one who later can be found happily summoning demons in the Bad Future (and who was apparently just jealous of a Mage Trevelyan) when it was made clear that slightly more than half of all mages voted FOR INDEPENDENCE.

Most of the people there SUPPORT the rebellion but we don’t ever get their side? Their views on the alliance? Their views on Fiona or Vivienne? Nothing? 

I think it’s been well established that DA has a problem with storytelling at times but this particular omission is GLARING, especially because of what it implies about the rebellion, the vote for independence, and even about Fiona, to an extent.

It’s like when in DA2 they realized in a modern day context that the players come from – you know, back in 2011 when the world was sane – the circle as an institution has basically no leg to stand on, so every. Single. Goddamn. Mage. you meet outside of it in the game is a bloodmage or an abomination or one unkind word away from turning into either of them, just to make the fear seem justified. DA:O at least had mage living outside of the system who got by without being abominations, with their own underground and support system.

(Emile de Launcet is an outlier and mostly there for comedic effect after the two heavy hitting blood mage scenarios you had to deal with in that quest, proving Meredith right 2 out of three goddamn times aaaaaah)

So to keep a “balanced” narrative goin where you are totally not a bad person for choosing one side over the other, here’s a bunch of peaceful, rational mages – because that’s totally the antithesis to mages wanting their freedom. Where all these people came from and why they apparently had no voice during Asunder and the like, I have no idea, but GREY AND GRAY MORALITY! BALANCE! NO ONE IS RIGHT! Deep story telling, so edgy.