Meddling in foreign affairs.

The enemy was meddling in foreign affairs. We followed the enemy.

I reject responsibility for what the writers did with my Inquisition off screen. I was as horrified to learn what my "crimes" were as they were that I'd supposedly done them.

What I also felt is that much of the time the Inquisition seemed the only power trying to restore order. Crestwood was a case in point. Teagan may have moaned about us taking over the Keep but who else tried doing anything about the bandits using it? What we did was in fact exactly within Ferelden law. There the freeholders decide to whom they will give their patronage and if a noble doesn't fulfil their duties towards them, they are perfectly entitled to shift their allegiance elsewhere. The freeholders of Crestwood had basically been left to shift for themselves against bandits, undead, demons, etc, with their native nobles doing nothing. Thus when the Inquisition arrived, solved the problems and occupied the Keep, so long as the freeholders of Crestwood were happy, we were perfectly entitled to stay. This was also true of other areas in Ferelden, where the nobles acted as absentee landlords and in one War Table mission actually had the cheek to demand we removed the refugees from his land and then complained when we sided with the refugees. It always irked me we were not able to say as much to Teagan, except as part of an aggressive disband speech.

The Emprise du Lion was a slightly different case since that was in Orlais, where nobles rule by divine right and feel entitled to their holdings whether they have earned the respect of those living on the land or not, most of which are peasants in a feudal system rather than freeholders. The noble in charge of the region seemed to have done a deal with the Red Templars, although we could later get her to give reparation to the peasants for this. As the nobility had also been involved in a civil war, it was slightly understandable that no one was available to give her assistance. Even so, I question who exactly had been in occupation of Suledin Keep before the war. It is noticeable, however, that the Orlesians were not calling for us to disband, merely to surrender some of a temporal power and come under the authority of the Divine, as the original mandate had intended.

By contrast, I don't think anyone was laying claim to the Griffons Wing Keep even if technically it was part of Orlais.  Assuming that it was considered necessary to have a military presence in the area, why not the Inquisition?  Clearly, the Wardens were in no position to demand its return to their Order even if they had occupied it in the past.  

Personally, I was always happier to disband than put my organisation under the authority of the Chantry, regardless of who was currently Divine, which essentially was a repeat of history and would have meant I had learned nothing from what had happened in the past. What I would have preferred was a third option where I brazened it out because I felt that the ordinary people of Thedas needed a totally independent organisation looking out for their interests. However, I suppose that would have simply resulted in assassination even if the ordinary people backed my stance.

You could argue that even those missions (most of them anyway) could still have the same end game in sight. Need allies and their support/coin/supplies to feed/house/outfit an army the size of the Inquistion's, in order to be able to fight Coryfish's army

I must admit you have a point, although the writers did seem to forget there even were Ferelden nobility who might object to certain plot points. For example, in Champions of the Just when our appeal to the Templar Order based deep within Ferelden territory is done with the backing of Orlesian nobility. So apparently Ferelden were just fine with this situation? Did Josephine not feel that it would be more appropriate to have invited Ferelden nobility?

Then that whole business with Haven allegedly belonging to an Orlesian noble having been gifted it by the monarch of Ferelden. When exactly? If it was done during the Orlesian occupation then it was not valid. If it was done after the Orlesian occupation, why exactly? Bearing in mind that apparently no one knew anything about the region, let alone there was a settlement there and it had allegedly been that way since the time of Andraste, no one really had a claim on it but certainly not Orlais.

I feel that was also true of Skyhold. If anyone could lay claim to that area of the Frostback Mountains I'd say it was the Avvar.

Still, I'd also point out that in the early days many of our conscripts were from Ferelden and if we did the Hushed Whispers plot then we did help defend Ferelden against occupation by a foreign power. If you opted for joint operations with the Qun, then their intelligence and personnel enabled a sequence of war tables missions that ultimately saved Denerim from destruction. Not to mention sorting out a problem in the Frostback Basin that had it been left would have been just as much if not more of a threat to Ferelden than Orlais, as the Avvar generally attack Ferelden first (something that was overlooked in the JoH plotline together with the fact that in Drakon's time if the Jaws had come down the western side of the Frostbacks then they would have had to fight their way through the Dalish before they got to troubling Orlais). I just felt that the writers made certain assumptions when it came to the viewpoint of Teagan, for example that we had refused to relinquish Crestwood when requested to do so, when to my knowledge we were never asked.

Nevertheless, given the options we were given, as I say above, I opted for disbanding rather than putting the organisation into the hands of the Divine/Chantry and thus effectively Orlais as well. It just annoyed me that it made it seem like Teagan was right about my leadership when in fact I had always tried to be impartial but if I favoured anyone it was always Ferelden and I would have liked some assurance that in future the nobles of Ferelden would start doing their duty by the freeholders when the Inquisition was no longer around to defend them.