Inquisition on the playstation 4 a gamefaqs message board topic titled question about siding with the templars or mages spoilers.
Mages dragon age inquisition siding tempars.
The difference is that if you side with the templars they crown you the viscount after the final battle with meredith.
If you side with the mages the templars will let you leave kirkwall in peace.
In origins it was more minor.
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.
Just in the first area alone i encounter.
You re standing for order in the hopes that more death can be avoided later on.
In inquisition you are put in a place where you decide whether to have the mages or templars join the inquisition.
Preliminary information the wrath of heaven the threat remains champions of the just siding with templars in hushed whispers siding with mages in your heart shall burn from ashes here lies the abyss wicked eyes and wicked hearts what pride had wrought the final piece doom upon all the world.
The templars aren t bad the quest around them is okay but it s not great.
Also siding with the templars will force you to kill anders sooner or later.
This is actually my canon hawke and he s a goody two shoes blue personality.
It is a good decision to include cole into the party.
The ones against it are blackwall cassandra vivienne and the iron bull.
It s fairly easy to rp a hawke that sees siding with the mages as starting a continental wide war and siding with the templars as bloody de escalation.
Templars killing people for being suspected not even proven to supply mages instead of them.
Evaporate talk 12 28 march 21 2011 utc.
In the 2nd game the decision was everywhere and everything exploded to the mage rebellion.
It s kirkwall or the world.
Templars versus mages is a major decision thrown on the player throughout the series.
Disband the chantry of templars and include their soldiers into the inquisition this choice earns you sera s and solas s favor.
If you side with the mages you lose ser barris who is one of the best templars in dragon age.
Siding with the templars will allow to recruit cole first then recruit dorian at skyhold.
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.
Story wise if you side with the templars you lose fiona who is a character with a lot of history.
But in dragon age inquisition go out of its way to show how screwed up the templars have become.
Killing a farmer because a shovel looks like a staff and keeping his wedding ring because it might be magical.