Rifters have less context. I suspect fewer mages were surprised that it eventually came to this, though. Magic, too, was a gift at first.
[See how well that's gone -- not only politically, but with its actual application in some cases. They say Corypheus was a magister, once.]
The Inquisition would do well to remember, though, that part of the reason all the rifters are here and most are cooperating is that no one in Thedas is currently offering them anything better. We have no guarantee that will continue forever, and we might want to mind we're offering them more incentive for their loyalty than "you have, effectively, no other options." We almost lost them all to illness, and then where would we have been?
[Even if they'd saved a handful of native shard bearers, it would have been a massive tactical blow, and surely there are people outside Kirkwall who realize it.]
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[See how well that's gone -- not only politically, but with its actual application in some cases. They say Corypheus was a magister, once.]
The Inquisition would do well to remember, though, that part of the reason all the rifters are here and most are cooperating is that no one in Thedas is currently offering them anything better. We have no guarantee that will continue forever, and we might want to mind we're offering them more incentive for their loyalty than "you have, effectively, no other options." We almost lost them all to illness, and then where would we have been?
[Even if they'd saved a handful of native shard bearers, it would have been a massive tactical blow, and surely there are people outside Kirkwall who realize it.]