Let's put this in relation to Wolfe and Anders, who you knew. They're both mages, who are part of a group that's generally feared for variety of reasons, some justified, others less so.
Tevinter is an "evil" empire that has a lot to do with said fear of mages, since the people with magic run everything and those that don't aren't worth the dirt on a mages shoe.
The Chantry is an expansive religion which says that it was the Magisters of Tevinter who created the Darkspawn- well, the Chantry everywhere but the one in Tevinter, that is. That one disagrees with that series of events. The rest of the Chantry though, they say that to prevent mages from doing something like that again, they have to be locked in tall towers, and can be murdered if they even look at a Templar wrong. Templars being Chantry soldiers who are addicted to a highly dangerous substance often smuggled from a dwarven criminal organization called the Carta.
The Darkspawn, sorry for the tangient, are disgusting creatures that grow underground and sometimes come up to murder people and then drag the survivors back underground to make more of them. They poison the land and are generally a Blight upon every living thing in the world and sometimes try to destroy the world. You know that old hat.
Uh... what else. Oh, yes the Qunari.
[ There's a personal vitriol in her voice when she says the word, far above the dispassionate way she described all the previous things. ]
The Qunari follow an even stupider religion that robs people of individuality so that it can mold them into bricks to fit nice and neatly into their utopic society. They don't like mages and chain them up like cattle.
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Tevinter is an "evil" empire that has a lot to do with said fear of mages, since the people with magic run everything and those that don't aren't worth the dirt on a mages shoe.
The Chantry is an expansive religion which says that it was the Magisters of Tevinter who created the Darkspawn- well, the Chantry everywhere but the one in Tevinter, that is. That one disagrees with that series of events. The rest of the Chantry though, they say that to prevent mages from doing something like that again, they have to be locked in tall towers, and can be murdered if they even look at a Templar wrong. Templars being Chantry soldiers who are addicted to a highly dangerous substance often smuggled from a dwarven criminal organization called the Carta.
The Darkspawn, sorry for the tangient, are disgusting creatures that grow underground and sometimes come up to murder people and then drag the survivors back underground to make more of them. They poison the land and are generally a Blight upon every living thing in the world and sometimes try to destroy the world. You know that old hat.
Uh... what else. Oh, yes the Qunari.
[ There's a personal vitriol in her voice when she says the word, far above the dispassionate way she described all the previous things. ]
The Qunari follow an even stupider religion that robs people of individuality so that it can mold them into bricks to fit nice and neatly into their utopic society. They don't like mages and chain them up like cattle.
Oh, that wasn't a rhetorical question, was it?