And how many people will those mistakes end up killing? The blood mage that follows Hawke around is as sweet and naive as can be, but she still ended up getting her clan murdered by a demon.
It's not as if plenty of mages in Kirkwall don't fall to the temptation of blood magic. When there are no avenues left to turn to, they'll try anything. But it hurts the cause, to be the example of what we're trying to prove we aren't.
They wouldn't feel the need to hurt anyone if they weren't suffering under the yoke of the Templars.
[the thing is the whole story he told her was very sad and made her feel very sympathetic so she can't ignore that but also he does truly suck. other people had bad times too and they aren't like this, man. she doesn't remember but she assumes her life was also quite bad.]
Resisting the temptation of power is a struggle for most people in the best of times.
[there she said something non-committal so they don't have to argue about her friend who he doesn't know. she even thinks wyll is kind of a dingus but don't agree.]
[ thats sort of the whole problem with anders. he has a sympathetic cause and a compelling argument, but he can't get out of his own way (sucking) to convince anyone else. idk man don't get possessed it ruins your personality. ]
... Yes. Well. At the very least there's no power here to resist. We're stripped of all of it.
I spent my childhood praying for the Maker to take my magic away, before I realized it for the gift it is. And now that it is actually gone, it feels like something vital has been stripped away.
...My magic is my connection to my goddess. Finding that it was gone felt as though she had abandoned me. But then I realized I could still feel her, in another way. So this test is one I can adapt to.
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Okay. Well, he hasn't done that.
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Yet.
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How exactly is this different from everything you said your society believes about mages in general? That they're bound to hurt someone eventually?
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They wouldn't feel the need to hurt anyone if they weren't suffering under the yoke of the Templars.
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Resisting the temptation of power is a struggle for most people in the best of times.
[there she said something non-committal so they don't have to argue about her friend who he doesn't know. she even thinks wyll is kind of a dingus but don't agree.]
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... Yes. Well. At the very least there's no power here to resist. We're stripped of all of it.
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I spent my childhood praying for the Maker to take my magic away, before I realized it for the gift it is. And now that it is actually gone, it feels like something vital has been stripped away.
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...My magic is my connection to my goddess. Finding that it was gone felt as though she had abandoned me. But then I realized I could still feel her, in another way. So this test is one I can adapt to.