Who actually sides with Meredith?

Anders also will remain by your side if you don't kill him...or? Maybe I misunderstod you, but I don't really understand what you want to say. (Ps: Sorry for my long sentences, and weak English)

I sided with her every single time. Mostly due to the insane amount of blood-mages that attacked me. A lunatic she was, but she was right about the blood mages.

A paranoid commander just as dangerous as the blood mages, who used blood magic because they was in hopeless situation. Meredith and her paranoia was one of the biggest cause of Kirkwall's terrible situation.

Most of them attacked me even though I HAD sided with them. Piles of them attacked me in the streets. And those morons I spared and helped in chapter 2 kidnapped Bethany and tried to blackmail me later. Even Orsino protected that serial killer that killed Hawke's mother. Meredith wasn't that insane until she got the red lyrium thingy, though. After that she went full nutcase. But out of the two, the mages in Kirkwall were the worst. When they kept proving Meredith right for years, and hiding serial killers, they don't get to play the victim card.

I suspect it was the writing that botched the mages side of the story, though. Chapter 3 in particular was a mess in this game. The game was rushed and the story suffered for it.

Blood mages kept attacking me way before I had even sided with the templars once. They kept attacking me when I sided with the mages. And the ones I helped attacked me later. Given how 99% of escaped mages actually turned to blood magic anyway, I'd say odds were pretty good that Karl would have done the same.

Turning 1 mage into a tranquil isn't worse than human sacrifice via blood magic.

Was she? When Hawke talks with her, she says she didn't expect things to escalate so quickly, or something like. That's because she turned her back hoping time would fix the problem. She was wrong. What could she do? One is to get hold of Cullen and talk to him about Meredith. He could have a couple of templars with him to have Meredith removed. But that can't happen. Cullen is a coward. Its only at the end that he grabs a pair and opposes Meredith. So its a combination of Elthina and the templars, knowing something was wrong with what Meredith is doing, that let to the right of annulment being used. Of course it didn't help that Anders blew up the chantry.

I do support Meredith. Its just unfortunate that the idol made her crazy.

No she wasn't. Maybe ruthless, but that's ok. One of the reasons I like her.

You mention a leader like her shouldn't exist.. Take a look at the First Encanter calling himself Orsino. There's a loser if ever I met one.  The piece of crap that he is failing to mention Quentin that may of saved Hawkes mother. What a dirtbag.

And made it into a nice looking sword. I like it. Too bad warrior Hawke couldn't have a sword like that

And it worked. hahaha. My Hawke likes her. Has no problem supporting her. Maybe DA2 can be remade and have Meredith and Hawke on a quest together hunting mages. I would play as mage Hawke. How awesome would that be? excellent

His kind? You mean the mages? Why does a mage have to support other mages?
What?

I don't care.

Can you explain why you posted this?

But Orsino got so desperate, he bloody used blood magic for no reason what so ever (and my Hawke sided with him too, he had no reason to turn himself into an monster). He was a hyprocrite too, preaching for respect for mages, but yet he uses blood magic in order to justify his means. Plus, yeah he let many innocent woman (including Hawkes mother) dies at the hands of Quentin. Overall, the Kirkwall Circle was fucked, and I prefer siding with Merdith sometimes - it's overall handy to have help fighting blood mages...