I don’t care what Bioware says, any Ferelden in Kirkwall who used to be a refugee (or still was), who was able-bodied enough to fight fought beside the mages in the Kirkwall Rebellion.
Anders did so much for the refugees throughout his seven years in Kirkwall, no doubt they felt indebted to him, but he always refused any form of payment they offered. When Meredith called for the Rite and rallied the Templars against the mages, the refugees acted. The plight of the mages was always important to Anders, and he was important to them. They’d be happy to fight for a cause that was dear to someone who meant to much to them.
It goes higher up than the refugees, even.
Some of the sex workers, towards the end of Act 3, start turning on their Templar clientele. The Seneschal has always made complaints about Anders being an apostate that he was supposed to turn over to the Templars disappear, but he becomes steadily more bold about disposing of them. Some of the guardsmen will do patrols of Darktown, off the clock, to make sure no one is sniffing around the Clinic who shouldn’t be. Even some of the rabble in Kirkwall have been known to attack Templars on sight. Especially in Darktown.
By the end of the war, Anders is a folk hero in Kirkwall. Some people believe he didn’t really exist because surely it’s impossible for someone like that to be real. But those who were there insist that he was as real as real can get. There’s a slew of children between the ages of infancy to around nine years named some form of Anders. Whomever the next Viscount receives frequent petitions to have a statue of Anders built in the Gallows courtyard. Sometimes the petitions request, instead if rebuilding the Chantry, they build a free clinic and school for mages in Anders’ name. He is celebrated. The anniversary of the Kirkwall Rebellion is a day of feasting and merriment. Effigies of Elthina and Meredith are burned while children run through the streets, cloaked in the feathers of their hero.
If anyone doubts the impact that Anders had on the refugees and impoverished of Kirkwall, remember that when you are first trying to find him, a bunch of Ferelden refugees get wind of it and come to beat you up because they fear you’re out to hurt him.
They’re willing to take huge risks to protect an apostate mage. He didn’t just help, he helped SO reliably and SO well that people who spent their entire lives learning Chantry doctrine throw it off within a few MONTHS and are entirely willing to kill to protect him.
@safetytank
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