Dragon Age Inquisition Siding With Mages Or Templars

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Dragon age inquisition siding with mages or templars.

In inquisition you are put in a place where you decide whether to have the mages or templars join the inquisition. If you side with the mages you lose ser barris who is one of the best templars in dragon age. Enter the alliance with the templars and let them keep their independence this choice earns you blackwall s cassandra s vivienne s and the iron bull s favor. Given the attitude amongst people about mages and the respect people have for templars they give the inquisition some more credibility.

Story wise if you side with the templars you lose fiona who is a character with a lot of history. Kharnthebetray 5 years ago 7 templar. In origins it was more minor. To be fair closing the breach will give it credibility too even if the mages are recruited and you don t have anyone left to negotiate with before you close the breach so level 1.

Also the antagonist changes samson if you side with mages and calpernia if you side with the templars and of course the missions related to them are different level 2. The ones against this decision are sera and solas. Just in the first area alone i encounter. Disband the chantry of templars and include their soldiers into the inquisition this choice earns you sera s and solas s favor.

Also siding with the templars will force you to kill anders sooner or later. Siding with the mages leads you on a quest that involves meeting dorian one of the companion units and a plot that uses magic with time travel. If you do the redcliffe missions then choose the templars you will at least meet dorian and cole. Evaporate talk 12 28 march 21 2011 utc.

Templars killing people for being suspected not even proven to supply mages instead of them. Whoever you do not choose becomes part of corypheus army. But in dragon age inquisition go out of its way to show how screwed up the templars have become. If you side with the mages the templars will let you leave kirkwall in peace.

The templars aren t bad the quest around them is okay but it s not great. It s one of the best segments of the game and you can completely miss it by choosing to side with the templars. The difference is that if you side with the templars they crown you the viscount after the final battle with meredith. If you choose mages cole showing up doesn t make sense.

Siding with mages will get you dorian first and cole later. Killing a farmer because a shovel looks like a staff and keeping his wedding ring because it might be magical.