Dragon Age 2 Chantry Destroyed Scene

A scene from Dragon Age 2

[ginew]

Everything was so tense and messed up, but how easily I convinced Fenris to hell me fight was absolutely hilarious
“I don’t understand why you fight with these mages for”
“Fenris, buddy, come help me defend these mages”
“Alright”

[ginew]

Sebastian felt like he was added in honestly just for that brief “Elfina noooo”

[feliksdzierzynski]

shit, that moment was so unexpected, imo one of the best moments in the entire series

[DngrDan]

It's such a stab in the chest when Orsino turns out to be a bloodmage.

[vexn]

What a great climax. Yeah, it's not Origins, you don't fight a dark god and save the world, but I felt more involved in this conflict because of the way it's structured. You see the rise of the Champion, you live through the rising tensions between templars and mages, the stakes get higher and higher, and then, you have to make a choice: do you murder the guardians against the corruption of the demons (corruption you've seen run rampant throughout the game), or do you participate in the extermination of wrongfully accused mages? All because two madmen were in place to make a powder keg ready for Anders to blow up.

[biostar]

All this talk about whether Anders was right or not, templars or mages.
And I can't help but symphatise with Varric saying he had enough of this issue

[lexuschambe]

Chantry: exists
Anders: Peace was never an option

[rahulsar]

Anders had a point here. It was he who destroyed the chantry, not the circle. But the Knight commander choose to kill all circle mages instead of 1 mage. That shows how warmonger Templar really are.

[AbdulRafay-vlrs]

All i can hear is "A new hand touches the beacon"

[SrChr]

The one event that changed everything. Although, no one mentions how Anders how possessed by the Spirit of Justice. The one detail in history that remains obscured.

[Tanzenergise]

so 1 mage blows up the chantry and the entire templar order try to execute every mage in a circle. sigh this is why fucking hate templars

[Leonion]

The look of your Hawke is gonna haunt me in nightmares.

[kyleway]

Sebastian's heartbroken shout when it all goes up always twisted my gut, that poor kid has been through enough

[admiralandrews]

Chantry: *exists*
Anders: It's free real estate

[Cassimfan]

Looking back after Inquisition and things I start to wonder how much of this was Ander and how much of it was truly Justice/Vengeance swaying his actions. As the game progresses into each Act it seems like Justice grows stronger and exerts more and more control over Anders, even in the background. Heck, I'm in Act 3 and doing Legacy, and after a brief succumb to Corypheus that led to Justice taking control and fighting with us Anders seemed so.... scared. Justice starts to SCARE Anders as the years go by, but he's stuck with Justice. Even in Act 1 if you take Ander into the Fade he later says it's disturbing when Justice takes control. And Anders is just stuck with him. He doesn't know how to get rid of Justice, and it would likely require Justice being agreeable to leave Anders' body, which seems like that's not going to be something this warped spirit would be willing to do. Evidently if you are rivals with Anders Justice canonically became a demon and forced Anders to blow up the Chantry, but I don't see why Anders' relationship with Hawke would change Justice, being his own being with his own thoughts. My personal theory is regardless of friendship, rivalry, or romance with Ander Justice warped completely into Vengeance and forced Anders' hand, and him claiming to be truly one with Justice in the choice is an effort to protect himself until he either dies or can later confide the truth in Hawke and perhaps seek a way to be rid of Vengeance.

[catrionapritchard]

...ok, I am side-eyeing Fenris, Varric and Aveline so hard right now. Yeah, I know Fenris has a lot of mage-related trauma, but...we're talking about averting a mass murder of everyone in a building we know has small children in it (Emile was taken to be an apprentice at five and, while that was mentioned to be young, it was not mentioned to be the youngest age at which they take kids). The other two have no excuse.

[Kpimpmaster]

I don’t understand why the Grand Cleric didn’t expel Meredith for abusing her power “regardless of what the Divine says” and put one of the captains in her place

[maximusgennaro]

the worst part is he truly thought that was the only solution

[amazingcynic]

"you might not win this fight its a hopeless cause" better a hopeless cause then an unjust and evil one

[sarag]

Anders is kind of right that the mages needed to rebel, but he took the choice from them and condemned them to a certain death.