Templars versus mages is a major decision thrown on the player throughout the series.
Mages dragon age inquisition siding tempars.
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.
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.
If you side with the mages you lose ser barris who is one of the best templars in dragon age.
But in dragon age inquisition go out of its way to show how screwed up the templars have become.
In the 2nd game the decision was everywhere and everything exploded to the mage rebellion.
Regardless of what you do you cut back to haven.
You re standing for order in the hopes that more death can be avoided later on.
Siding with the templars will allow to recruit cole first then recruit dorian at skyhold.
This is actually my canon hawke and he s a goody two shoes blue personality.
The difference is that if you side with the templars they crown you the viscount after the final battle with meredith.
The templars aren t bad the quest around them is okay but it s not great.
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.
Siding with mages will get you dorian first and cole later.
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.
In origins it was more minor.
It is a good decision to include cole into the party.
It s one of the best segments of the game and you can completely miss it by choosing to side with the templars.
Also siding with the templars will force you to kill anders sooner or later.
Killing a farmer because a shovel looks like a staff and keeping his wedding ring because it might be magical.
Templars killing people for being suspected not even proven to supply mages instead of them.
Story wise if you side with the templars you lose fiona who is a character with a lot of history.
It s kirkwall or the world.
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If you side with the mages the templars will let you leave kirkwall in peace.
Disband the chantry of templars and include their soldiers into the inquisition this choice earns you sera s and solas s favor.
Inquisition on the playstation 4 a gamefaqs message board topic titled question about siding with the templars or mages spoilers.