What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

However, if you grew up in veneration of the ability to sacrifice for the sake of achieving a better end, and do not learn to sugar coat and believe that it can be achieved bloodlessly or painlessly, etc, what Anders does is mild compared to the historic realities. Also, imo, it's important to note that it's not Justice that turns Anders to nihilism and anarchism from a lovable vagabond, it is Anders that corrupts Justice. It is noted in the game a few times that the demons (and spirits) simply amplify the hearts' deepest desires, driving the possessed to the eventual extremes. While Justice stays with well-adjusted Kristof, he acts within the bounds of the law. When he is one with Anders, Anders' unrest and passive resistance boil over into active acts of defiance. Anders is aware that his choices are not morally sound, because it involves sacrificing others not just himself, but someone has to push the trigger to advance the situation towards a better resolution, past the insufferable status quo. Anders is an interesting character, and I am happy BioWARE have tried something like that.

She does try to restrain Meredith and Templars and refuses to Annul the Circle.  She's trying to find a compromise for peace.

dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Elthina

The non-mages of Thedas are suspicious of mages to begin with.  I don't see how this act would increase the number of sympathizers.

Just curious; for those who side with Anders, how does that impact DAI?  In my PTs, Cass wants to kill Varric because they wanted Hawke to be part of the Inquisition.  Is that still the case if Hawke is in a relationship with the guy who blew up the Grand Cathedral?

True, the viscount is responsible for the city, its operations / laws / defenses, but a city can only be called a city if there're people. Buildings create a place, not a living breathing city. The GC is also responsible for the city, albeit in another way. The same goes for the KC too.

I'm not saying Elthina didn't have her failures / lacks but I feel the devs should throw more insights on this char, her motivations.

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Playing Trespasser. I'm sad because this is the ending / no resolution to the story which is why I'm always reluctant to play it although it's the top DLC of the lot. My consolation is that the Inq married Cullen and will have a life / future with him. Another reason why I don't want to redo the Solas romance. Yet. Once DA4 is confirmed and ready for launch, I will do it once more...in the hopes that the devs did not relegate this relationship to a few lines in epilogue.

Every time I go up against the qunari, I always go 'take that you SOBs' because I really really detest them. I'm on Solas's side, going "make statues of all of them'. I think of all the Bioware games, the Qunari are the only chars that I detest with a passion because they reflect something in my life.

If anything, you would think Cass would want to take down Hawke for being an accomplice to Anders' crimes.  Oh well...such are the illogical compromises developers make to allow characters to go from one RPG to its sequel!

Because s/he is (and Anders too!) Andrastian? I don't think, that Hawke (and/or even Anders) HATE the Chantry, they wanted to change. So: the rebellion started. This was, what they want, not the end of Andrastianism. As I see. 
Anders speach before the battle [...] "May the Maker bring us victory, or everything else is meaningless".

Indeed, but I don't think that Anders wanted a big black hole in the place of the Chantry. This is chaos, not justice, and the people need justice (this is why Justice/Vengeance don't try to prevent the execution of Anders, as I see). He only wanted rights for the mages too. A changed Chant of Light would be acceptable even according him. To restore order, the right thing to do. Not the Circles in the old form, the order. This isn't same. And to stop Corypheus.

I know, that hard to believe this, only I try to explain somehow, and I think, this is not unimaginable.

Act 3, if Hawke spare Anders' life, and Aveline in the party: 
Aveline: Just to be clear Anders: when this is over, you will turn yourself in for your crime.
Anders: I’m well aware of your commitment to oppression.
Aveline: The laws of the land. Fairly applied to everyone.
Anders: That…is actually something I’d very much like to see.

And why Cassandra think, that Hawke would be willing to help? Why not would give a chance?

Finished Trespasser. This one is not as bad as the previous (Solas romance PT) where I had to force transitions many times. I merely have to go through the trouble of closing and launching the game again to get the party cards to appear. Since it takes less than a minute, it's just a minor annoyance. The mods I have been using throughout the PT were not taken out.

I still winced at the cries of pain. I doubt I'll be able to stoically bear it, the VA (Sumalee Montano), she did it too good.

Although I said I would keep the Inquisition under the Divine, I took another look at the choices and took note of what the devs have defined with each choice. So I reconsidered again. With inquisition, efforts stronger against Solas, risk of corruption. No inquisition, efforts weaker against Solas but secure. I went with the peaceful dissolution.

Cass will have to be the one to take up the load of forming some kind of emergency protection /preparation (if she could) for the populace in the time they have. She has the authority and resources. The Seekers she's reforming, augment by templars who freed themselves of the lyrium addiction would be an unknown element to Solas and might be useful against him. Meanwhile, the rest would maintain contact with one another and do whatever they can to prepare.

Since the Inq married Cullen, he was standing with her at the last. I was surprised when Cass walked back. So there're two of them with the Inq. I like the idea of them returning to humble status and having time for each other. The Inq probably helped Cullen in running the rehabilitation centre for templars. The one thing I'm not certain of is whether the Dalish clans responded to Solas's call. The epilogue said elven servants across Thedas and those in the inquisition leaving. It seemed as if he left the Dalish clans alone. This wouldn't surprise me since he had mentioned the hostility he encountered from them. Most would probably not have been willing to listen or even allow him to approach so the only elves who would listen were city elves.

Iona and her companions went to the Emerald Graves in pursuit of the Freeman of the Dales, the Orlesian rebel group which appears to have ties to the Red Templars. Between evidence recovered in rebel camps and the camps of lyrium smugglers, Cullen is able to piece together Samson's operations and trace the ultimate source of Red Lyrium to the small mining town in the Empris de Leon. Ominously, they note that the Freemen have been capturing war refugees and turning them over to Samson's men. They also note Red Templars trying to capture giants, which are plentiful in the Graves. After clearing the Graves of rebels and Red Templars, Iona and her crew kill an Ice Dragon that has been terrorizing the region as well.

Having defeated the Freemen of the Dales, the Inquisition has done its part to facilitate progress in the peace talks to end the Orlesian Civil War. The Inquisition can now attend the Ball at the Winter Palace where the talks are being held and hopefully prevent the assassination of the Empress that was foretold in the future that Iona experienced at Redcliffe.

You speak about this Bethany? Seems she happy with the new chance...
Probably Bethany don't likes Anders' tools, but she agree with freedom, and that the people need to drop their fears and to learn to live with mages. Bethany don't likes the Circle. Bethany only accepted her fate, because she don't wanted to be burden or a danger for her family. But not because she agreed with the system. Why many people think, that Bethany is idiot, who likes better to live closed in the prison, without privacy? She want to live as a everyone else. (Fenris also need to learn not to be afraid, he is capable to it.)

The Circles not capable to prevents a new arrives of a Black City, the mentality, the thought, the moral can. (As Anders said at Act 1: the freedom of mages will not cause a rising of a new Tevinter) Orsino presented finally, in his despair, that he would be capable to leave the Circle and destroy anything long ago, but he didn't. He tried to protect his people. Tevinter's problem is the slavery and the human sacrifice. In Southern Thedas this is unacceptable (at least the latter...)

He just wanted to give a chance. To begin a revolution. To force the mages to fight for themselves. He don't knew the result, just hoped for a better future: "Ten years, a hundred years from now...". He just wanted to awaken the mages, the people.
His tools are questionable, his purpose is clearly right. He knew, that so many people will hate him for it, also that he deserves this.

People never know a revolution's result, but always try, if the oppression is unbearable. The tools sometimes bloody, sometimes more peaceful. Every revolution, what turned into a war have innocent victims. So: when you said, that this revolution was against every non-mages, you're right, and in addition: against every mages (because mages also died for this), every war and revolutions are against every people, but still: the people starting revolutions, because in their situation don't see other solutions. Anders tried both, but the peaceful solution failed on Elthina. And not only he wanted the revolution. And if the revolution fail? Even nothing will be same as before. And the people will remember, in the worst moments as well, and this give them hope.