First of all, those two things are not even comparable. The ability to have fire, ice, and all kinds of magical spells at your finger tips as well as summon demons from a dream world into your body and turn into an abomination that can harm hundreds, if not thousands of people is not the same as getting a medical procedure done, I’m sorry.
Second, we’ve seen what happens when mages are put in charge of themselves. It typically ends with blood magic and owning slaves.
Third, the templars are in place to keep the peace. Thats not to say that they haven’t taken advantage of their power and used it to abuse mages. But their role is to protect people from mages, as well as protect the mages. That is their official role.
Fourth, Let me begin by saying that you’re not wrong, Cullen’s actions have not always been the greatest, and what you fail to recognize that this is a thing that most Cullenites recognize this, and we accept Cullen’s faults. We don’t need you to point it out. What you also fail to realize, while his actions cannot be excused, there is a direct cause here that has effected his behavior against mages. It starts in the Circle of Fereldan, where a young Templar opposes mage treatment but finds himself in a position unable to do anything about it, so for not he’s a man just trying to do his job,. Thats when mages he worked with, was acquaintances with, chated with and was maybe even friends with turned out to be blood mages and over took the tower.
They take he and other templars captive and mentally, physically and emotionally torture them. And one by one he watches his fellow templars fall until he is the only one left. Who knows how long it is before the Warden arrives and saves the circle? This experience leaves Cullen tramuatized. If he couldn’t trust the mages of Fereldan, people he knew, people he sympathized for, people he trusted, then who could he trust? Cullen now suffers from PTSD.
Unable to move on from this, he moves to Kirkwall, where they are a little more strict over their mages thinking that this Circle would be a good fit for him, thinking that there is no way anything bad could ever happen here. He says things like “Mages cannot be treated like you and me” out of fear, and ignorance. What he once understand seems terrifying and foreign to him. But as the years pass, he begins to see the corruption of the templars around him, even Meredith who he respected. And by the end of Dragon Age 2, he can no longer agree with Meredith. A group of innocent mages approaches them, begging for their lives. While Meredith would have them slaughtered, Cullen stands in to protect them. And Meredith says to him exactly what he said when he first came to Kirkwall “Mages are not people like you and I, they cannot be trusted.” and she says “Are you willing to risk the lives of innocent people, of ALL your brothers in arms on the off chance that they AREN’T blood mages?” and he says to her “Yes, because I believe thats what being a templar is about.”
It’s called character development, you might have heard of it. Cullen started out as someone who trusted mages, to someone who was terrified of them based on the trauma he endured in fereldan to someone who learned that both Templars and Mages are corrupt and wants to work to provide a world that both of them can function in. Which is a direct quote from his writer.
Fifth, get the fuck out of the tag.
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