mikkeneko:

internallyscreamingfrootloop:

drawsshits:

sanguinifex:

mikkeneko:

bunny-loverxiv:

mikkeneko:

drawsshits:

drawsshits:

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

I wish there was a side quest or war table mission or even a full plot twist where the inquisitor would find the records of all these families who were essentially bred out of existence (because the key to this level of surveillance would be impeccable records) and have the choice to publish these records for the rebel mages to find their parents, their children, their siblings either within their own sides or out in the world or even on the other side. Templars would know why they were denied permission to marry. Both sides would have to reconcile this new layer to their identity: “My son is a templar in Kirkwall.” “I have siblings in the Montsimmard Circle.”

And when both sides have grieved and raged and reconnected they would look at the Chantry who did this to them—who pitted them against each other for no easily defensible reason—and burn it down.

I had a theory that Leliana as Divine does this.