Noble or commoner human

Whatever kind, it would have to e something that made sense for why they are trained in any of the classes. 

There's also the possibility that these Kirkwall mages escaped well before the annulment even started. People often forget about it, but Kirkwall had a thriving Mage Underground where even average civilians were willing to help mages escape the city's Circle. There was even a point where they sent raiding parties to the Gallows via tunnels in order to transport mages directly. 

And while I will grant that there were some good templars in Kirkwall, it should surprise no one that a sizable portion of templars, in all likelihood, embraced the annulment with open zeal. There were way too many signs of systematic abuse in the Circle, and it has all but been confirmed that Meredith was either silencing templar dissenters or straight up causing them to leave the Order entirely. By the time the annulment was put into effect, the number of 'good' templars on duty was likely drastically reduced due to Meredith's draconian leadership. But I trust that at least some of them were still around. But was that enough?

The mission parameters of an annulment are clear, and if templars were really against Meredith's annulment declaration, then why didn't they stop her? Oh sure, trying to kill the Champion is a bridge to far and they rally to rebel against her authority, but following an annulment declaration based on the actions of a rogue apostate? Minimal complaint. So yeah no...Something tells me that most templars there were either wanting to kill mages or were of the earnest belief that the Circle was "too far gone" to be considered salvageable despite their mage sympathies. 

Mages surviving that annulment were most likely due to a minority of templars having mercy, mages escaping in the chaos, or not even being at the Circle by the time the annulment was declared. There is alot of evidence supporting any of these scenarios as opposed to just assuming "The templars did not support purging the Circle".

I don't think there are going to be multiple origins. The best we are going to get is like in DAI or possibly like in Mass Effect, where you get to choose from three backgrounds in which they grew up and then from two scenarios in their later career. Working on the last idea:

1. Raised in a village as a farmer/blacksmith/hunter. Knowledge of defending and fending for yourself in the wild.
2. Raised in a city, possibly orphaned at an early age. Knowledge of surviving in the slums and the seedy underworld politics.
3. Raised on the island of Seheron. Learned about espionage from an early age.

Professional career: (Both can fit either a warrior, rogue or mage.)
Part of military that suffered devastating defeat by Qunari; troops were made a scapegoat for failings of superiors. Dishonourable discharge.
Part of Imperial templar force either regular or apprentice justicar; got too close to the truth about a high ranking family, who framed you for a crime that had you thrown out of office in disgrace.

The upshot is that you have lost any prestige or rank you may have once had. You know the ruling elite are both corrupt and inept in dealing with the issues that are threatening the survival of your country and aim to do something about it.

Twisting words? Come now, just because you've lost the argument that's hardly my fault. The evidence doesn't support your zealotry and hatred, that's all. I understand the fact that Andrastrian's aren't all evil is something you can't process. It's the sort of twisted argument I expect from you: You attack someone else when your facts don't add up. 

The templars didn't support Annulment. Otherwise, they would've never spared any of the mages. Especially true when the mages come out and surrender during the templar. It's not hard to kill a defenseless prisoner: One arrow is pretty easy (the mages aren't wearing armor, their faces are exposed). And yet, they don't. Only Meredith (and maybe Hawke) can choose to kill them, and it's so easily ignored. You have no evidence to support anything else

If you want to whine about bad-faith arguments, talk to yourself. Your hatred of Andraste warps anything you say and do, perhaps its due to some deep-seeded personal opinion, desperate for applicability to a group you hate. 

Bioware loves the unreliable narrator. It's always a good idea to assume that all information sources in game are shading the truth in pursuit of some agenda. From a game design stand point, this helps with continuity errors. They can explain away any inconsistencies as being the fault of the narrator in question rather than sloppy writing.

#cynicism

Sloppy writing, inconsistencies, and all of that are terrible things, I'm with you on that. 

As for an origin, a community leader of a small village might be interesting. Consider how Tevinter is a stand-in for the Byzantines, and you'd have a lot of that Balkan-area influences, as Tevinter was that big. 

the actual OP of the thread. Fixed that for you.

I really want an origin where one could imagine they struggled for something. Community Leader/Mayor of small village sounds meh, unless your village just got overrun by Qunari and you have a bone to pick with the Magesterium. But even then, you are a member of a system I want to flip, so it's still kinda lame.

I feel like we simply reinforced the Status Quo in DAI. Mage vs Templars ended up with the same system, new coat of paint. New Divine had the same morals as the old divine. The Orlais decision, whether you went with Celene or Celene-Briala is literally keeping the same ruler in power
while Gaspard as a choice is ignored. Whether the Grey Wardens were exiled or not is irrelevant, and most people opted to keep them- since they were already present, that's litterally choosing to keep things the same. Then the Inquisition was neutered/disbanded. So we played an entire game where no changes were made, even if the path along the way was fun. I suppose the Inquisition was declared an organization to Restore Order so it's not like they didn't warn us that we are essentially returning the world to the state before the Breach, not remaking it to our preferences.

DA2 is very much such a chaotic mess that any attempts to do anything is simply staving off the inherent entropy found there. Nothing changes although we affected some individual lives and enjoyed our time there. DAO is about scrambling an army together to defeat the Archdemon.

So flipping the system would truly be a new thing for Bioware to approach. and a lot of fans think DA4 will be the last in the series before we perhaps leave Thedas altogether for lands abroad. Let's shake Thedas before we leave, and feel like we really left our stamp on the continent.



That would at least introduce us to a portion of Thedas we haven't encountered before, so sure, I'll take it.

The problem with that is that, writing away the choice, also nulls the choice.
Which just begs the question, why have the choice in the first place?
You put an illusion of one, with all the negatives and none of the positives.

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