[Seil]

If Anders is proven right and the Mages win, then mankind is also very quickly going to move towards the same sort of society that lead to the creation of the DarkSpawn- if you have a ruling body of superpowered individuals, bad shit is going to go down no matter what you believe. And mages winning a war against anything is a snowball's chance in my oven.

I like how in DA there's extremes. You can show Tevinter and say "This is what happens when mages rule." or you can show Kirkwall and say "This is what happens when the Templars go bat-crap crazy."

It's better to be tolerated rather than Exterminated. If you don't have something to keep them in check, there's nothing to stop the mages from deciding they don't have to obey any law.

That's actually.... a sad truth, come to think of it.

The only thing keeping the Mages from abusing their power over people are the Chantry, who themselves are just as likely to abuse their power as well.

Like I say above, sad truth, but also something totally unfair. At what point does a rebellion turn into a terrorist attack? ...I guess it depends on the perspective. History is written by the winners.

Ander's only driving goal is for a violent reprisal against the Chantry for what they've done, not create any sort of better standard of life for mages. He is guided by Vengeance, not Justice, and is no longer capable of caring about the ENDS of his actions, rather the MEANS. Even Anders will likely recognize that he has no endgame in his plans, but rather "Blow up Chantry, Enjoy their Deaths, ?"

Well, the lands of Thedas are ruled by a hierarchy of royals and nobles. The Chantry plays a big part in day-to-day life; many are devout. It has definite parallels to medieval England. So we can imagine that setting historically.

However, over the years, our sense of right and wrong has changed socially. We're more protective of life, more disturbed by slavery. Our royalty has turned into our government... and people rebel against their governments. Not to say that that people didn't do so years ago, but at the same time we've got Libya, Egypt and Somalia recently rebelling against a corrupt ruling class. Is what they did in those fights wrong? Maybe. Necessary? ...Maybe.

Then again, look at Cuba.