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honestly the Chantry recruiting templars from their orphanages, WHERE THEY PUT THE CHILDREN THEY TAKE FROM MAGES, is so fucked up

what do you think the Chantry tells those kids tho

Child: What happened to my parents?

Sister/Brother : *noncomittal grunt* *vague hand gesture*

I mean, there’s really only two options here: either they tell them “your parents are monsters and we took you away from them because you’re a monster too and monsters don’t deserve parents,” or they lie through their teeth and tell them “your parents didn’t want you” or, perhaps more kindly, “your parents are dead”

Of the these options I’m inclined to believe “your parents didn’t want you” is the most oft-repeated, since of the two cases we’ve seen of women giving birth in the Circle and being forced to give up the child (Wynne and Fiona,) both came with a hefty dose of victim-blaming towards the mother. In both cases the mother is made to feel guilty for “choosing” to give up the child even though there was no choice whatsoever.

Would the kids of mages ever find out?

The Templars could eventually see babies being taken from mages. And they have to ask permission to get married. Mages blooded ones could get told no.

Would mage born templars be warned they stand a greater risk for having mage kids?

If the chantry wants to cut down on the number of mages then they want to stop mage blooded people from “breeding” like they do for mages right??

That is the beauty of taking mage orphans as Templar recruits: it keeps them under the Chantry’s eye. They stay in the same prison, albeit on the other side of the bars. The Chantry will be able to keep close track of them and if they or any of their family ever shows signs of mage talent, they can be put right back in the Circle immediately.

Also, it’s possible that mage-blooded Templars are actually more effective at Templar skills. Alistair doesn’t even need lyrium to use them. Meredith (whose sister was a mage) gets final boss powers simply from proximity exposure to red lyrium. So that’s likely another reason why the Chantry would recruit Templars that way. Lyrium is expensive, and you don’t need as much for the not-quite-a-mage recruits and they’re easier to train.

now, that’s an interesting theory

So do non-Mage blooded Templars (recruits who don’t have a family history of magic in their bloodline) have to use more lyrium for their powers? Are they more susceptible to addiction? Relapses? Overdosing?

I have lots of questions and lots of things to think on.

Tying in with the previous conversation, with Wynne, her lover was a Templar. When he found out she was with child and had “given him up” to the Chantry without telling him, he was devastated. In the letter he wrote, he stated he would’ve given up everything for her and the baby. Would’ve left the order for them. I mean it might be a death sentence, because of the lyrium addiction, but he would’ve left the order with the baby (or so he says).

The interesting thing about this theory is that while using mage-blooded children as Templars… the Chantry is effectively breeding mages or increasing its chances. Templar and mages are known to have relations. We’ve seen how much Bioware loves its Templar x mage pairings (Cullen x Surana/amell, Rhys x Evangeline, Templar x wynne, that Templar and mage couple in the hinterlands, another couple in a DA comic, not to mention the rape victims…)