
Who are the blood mages in Dragon Age Origins?īlood Mage is one of the mage specializations in Dragon Age: Origins. They must be willing to sacrifice their own life force or that of others in order to wield this power. What kind of magic does a blood mage use?īlood mages employ dark rites, originally taught to mortals by demons, in order to access more powerful magic. However, if you’ve maxed out your friendship and given him the two gifts, he will be willing to stay no matter what you decide. – During “The Last Straw,” Fenris normally leaves your party if you side with the mages.


Can you romance Fenris If you side with the mages? However, this was cut very early in the game’s development. The Warden would have used the Right of Conscription to recruit him after Arl Eamon was healed. Jowan was planned to be another full party companion. It’s quite easy to get a full friendship romance with Fenris as a mage. I’m glad a blog like this exists and flourishes because then I, as well as others, can just… feel safe about having our own opinions.You get + for killing blood mages and + for having regular mages go to the circle rather than being set free. I always feel reluctant to say how I’d side with the templars over the mages because I can see how the fandom can just slam people down with hate over that.

Once the mages are assisted, there aren’t any issues of Templars going, “Oh no, the mages have power again! They’re dangerous!” If you fix/rebuild the Templar Order first (in a way of how Cassandra would rebuild the Seekers), it makes things easier in terms of helping the mages afterwards. If I help the mages and assist them with their power, they’ll just look like a bigger threat to the templars and possibly make things worse. My way of looking at it is that Templars are afraid of magic, yeah? They see it as evil and corrupt and that thought poisoned them into mistreating and abusing mages. I love the mages and I want to help them, but at the same time, I don’t think helping them first is the best idea in a story-telling standpoint.

I know that there’s a lot of hate towards those who side with the Templars over the Mages, but don’t get me wrong. Now, having all three games, DLCs for both Origins and Inquisition (I’ll get those BioWare points and buy those DA2 DLCs someday.!), and having a good idea of the story told between these three games, I feel like I would still be siding with the Templars over the Mages. I chose the templars over the mages at the time because at that point, I didn’t know anything about the lore or previous games – not to mention, it saved time since I was only able to play as long as I could while at their house. I was at a friend’s house and they showed it to me on their PS3 and it took me a while before I fell in love. When I first played Dragon Age: Inquisition, I had no idea of the game series.
