Actual quotes from Alistair the “Chantry Boy”
Alistair: The Circle is here at the king’s request and the Chantry doesn’t like that one bit. They just love letting mages know how unwelcome they are.
Alistair: You want the Chantry’s version or the truth?
Warden: They aren’t the same thing?
Alistair: (Laughs.) They seldom are.
Alistair: The Chantry raised me and becoming a templar was a decision made for me a long time ago.
Alistair: Duncan saw I wasn’t happy, and figured my training against mages could double for fighting darkspawn. Now, here I stand a proud Grey Warden.
Alistair: The grand cleric wouldn’t have let me go if Duncan never forced the issue. I’ll always be grateful to him.
Warden: You didn’t want to join the Chantry?
Alistair: It just… wasn’t for me. I believe in the Maker well enough, but I never wanted to devote my life to the Chantry.
Warden: You speak fondly of Duncan.
Alistair: I spent years in that chantry, hopelessly resigned to my fate. Duncan was the first person who cared what I wanted.
Warden: So you’re not happy in the Grey Wardens?
Alistair: Far from it. I never wanted to be a templar, anyway.
Alistair: The Chantry would tell you that the templars exist simply to defend, but don’t let them fool you. They’re an army.
Warden: Have you hunted many mages?
Alistair: No. I never actually became a full templar. Duncan recruited me before I took my vows.
Alistair: I was only present during one Harrowing. That was all I needed, too. I don’t know how anyone could get through that.
Alistair: The girl they tested… she had a demon put inside her, to see if she could resist. And she couldn’t. We had to… end it quickly.
Alistair: I have to say I didn’t have much interest in becoming a templar after that.
Alistair: I’m not exactly the Chantry type, if you haven’t noticed. I don’t think I would have made a very good templar.
Warden: You don’t seem like the religious sort.
Alistair: You’re telling me. I was banished to the kitchens to scour the pots more times than I can count. And that’s a lot; I can count pretty high.
Warden: Do all templars make these jokes? Or just you?
Alistair: Oh, you know… between all the guilt and the hours spent in solemn prayer, any good templar or priest is just bursting to tell a few good jokes when the opportunity arises.
Warden: Not this again. Can’t you answer a simple question?
Alistair: I used to be able to, but then the Chantry beat it out of me. Sad, but true. I can’t hardly get through a pillow fight these days without becoming overcome with guilt, either.
Alistair: [Broken Circle] As I recall from my time as a templar, locking the door and throwing away the key was ‘plan B’.
Alistair: [Warden about to accept Kolgrim’s gift of dragon blood] Are you sure this is wise? I stood by while you did that thing with the Ashes, but they’re just ashes. This is different.
Leliana: You must have been a brother before you became a templar, no?Alistair: I never actually became a templar. I was recruited into the Grey Wardens before I took my final vows.
Leliana: Do you ever regret leaving the Chantry?
Alistair: No, never. Do you?
Wynne: The Templars serve a function, and a necessary one. If what has happened at the tower proves anything, it is that we mages can be dangerous… even to ourselves.
Alistair: That’s… one way of looking at it.
Morrigan: So I take it you did not enjoy your templar training?
Alistair: That’s directed at me, I take it?
Morrigan: Do you see any others about who have failed at their religious instruction?
Alistair: I didn’t fail. I was recruited into the Grey Wardens.
Morrigan: And if you had not been recruited? What would have happened, instead?
Alistair: I would have turned into a drooling lunatic, slaughtered the grand cleric and run through the streets of Denerim in my small clothes, I guess.
Morrigan: Your self-awareness does you credit.
Alistair: I thought you’d like that.
Alistair: Let me guess: that’s your final answer?
Meredith: [If Mage Warden] You declare your Circle of Magi free, as if its your right to do so, and thus stir up every mage outside of your kingdom.
Meredith: [If not Mage Warden] Three mages have fled to Ferelden, and you have intervened to protect them as if it is your right to do so.
Meredith: What other answer did you expect, your Majesty?
Alistair: A “maybe” might have been nice.
Hawke: You were having an argument about mages?
Alistair: Yes, well, apparently I don’t feel the same way about mages as the Chantry does.
Alistair: So we’re in disagreement. That means they get nasty. They’re like that.
Alistair: What you can do is protect Kirkwall. It will take someone like you to keep it from falling apart.
Hawke: Protect Kirkwall from what, exactly?
Alistair: You ask me, the biggest threat to this city just walked out the door.
Alistair: But maybe that’s the ex-templar in me talking.
Alistair: [In the Crow’s prison] I’m not sure I’m going the right way, but there can’t be a worse place than here. There are screams from the cells like a chorus. I’m studying with the templars again, listening to the Holy Chant, and I just want out.
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