but if you let mages run free they will get possessed and they can destroy villages with their fireball they should stay in the tower to protect people. The circle tower is good for them and civilians
The circle tower is good for mages? Did you even play any dragon age? These towers are not good for anyone (except for the chantry). No. Not even for the templars stationed there because that means they will be required to take lyrium over and over again....
The circle tower was designed as a prison and glorified concentration camp to cull mages population and to exploited their magic for the ruling class profits. Mages were purposely put in a high stress environment where many of them will fail and they will die or lobotomized
You cannot even feel the sun, going outside without a permission. Also the whole possession thing is a propaganda and something that the chantry took advantage of. The chantry never bothered to properly learn about spirits and instilling fear of demon into mages so mages would be weak and the chantry instilling fear of mages into the population to keep mages exploitation going... It's about profit
Also there's way to counter demon possession. I mean mage inquisitor and Fiona are not possessed despite the gaping breach in the sky
Also what? You think those wizards are mindless monsters? They are people and they can learn to control their power without have to be enslaved in a tower. If all mages are inherently walking bombs Tevinter should have been destroyed LONG AGO
And because at the end of the day mages are people with feelings and minds of their own... They won't just randomly attack some villages.
I mean in the epilogue of DAI we learn that mages are freed and they built College of Enchanters and yet there's no report of mages randomly murdering people left and right for no reason...
Let's make a comparison. You think Gale of Waterdeep should be shackled by a paladin and imprisoned in his tower because you THOUGHT that he MIGHT destroy a town? Despite his expertise and the fact he's a thinking, rational human?