I’ve just started Act III of DA2, and am kind of flabbergasted by the way the conflict is being framed on the Chantry side. I was looking forward for an opportunity to see Leiliana again, and hopeful that the presence of a Seeker in the city meant that the Divine was prepared to intervene, she being the only one capable of taking Meredith out of power, since Elthina consistently refused to take action.
Instead, literally the only intent anyone involved with the Chantry ever voices – - Sebastian, Elthina, Leiliana – is suppression. There’s not even the slightest spark of interest in finding out why the mages are acting up, despite Orsino (and, hypothetically, Anders, given his comment after ‘Dissent’ about how he’ll try talking to the Grand Cleric in hopes of getting her to see his concerns) yelling them at the top of their lungs to anyone who will listen. There’s not even a modicum of interest in investigating the Templars’ blatantly illegal actions, or consideration of reprimand or replacement for Meredith, who as Anders puts it, “even her own people admit that she’s gone over the edge.”
Leiliana, in her role as seeker, has exactly one binary question that she poses: Does the Chantry massacre the city, or does the Chantry do nothing? Literally no other options are ever considered, or even presented.
Yet fast-forward a few years to the beginning of Inquisition, and apparently Divine Justiana has changed her tune: she’s actually willing to mediate the conflict to try to end the Mage/Templar war. Now she’s willing to listen. Now she’s willing to take diplomatic action.
Apparently to get the Chantry to listen, you have to speak to them in the only language they understand: Violence.
…Kind of sounds like Anders knew what he was about.
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