Thats great actually, I had completely written it off I'll look into it more now. BG3 too
blood magic
I guess in my head that story turned out that the blood magic was hurting the apostate. And that the no more blood magic, I'll protect you instead, was a loving thing. Though I'm completely neutral on blood magic in the games as written, all thats bad is that some people need to learn it from demons, and consorting with demons ain't great. The real story is that blood is essentially just a substitute for lyrium and the chantry controls the lyrium trade. Presumably templar abilities also don't work on blood mages because templars gain their powers from the lyrium that the chantry gives them. That they are addicted to. The chantry's entire power, everywhere besides tevinter, is completely dependent on the control of lyrium. They are the only ones aloud to buy and move it and they get their muscle hooked on the stuff. Its brilliant and blood magic ruins fucking all of it.
So the real blood magic story is it's power to destroy the chantry. If we ever get another blood mage companion it probably means the chantry became evil. This might just be a fan theory thing though because while materially this makes total sense the game usually approaches blood magic with pure ideology :zizek-preference:
Honestly though what we learn about blood magic in inquisition, it weakens connection to the fade, might be what keeps blood magic on the periphery. I think the fade will continue to be important and one of the specializations in inquisition is literally rift mage.
Cutting open your hand mid combat to shoot a fireball will always be dope though.
Thats great actually, I had completely written it off I'll look into it more now. BG3 too
I guess in my head that story turned out that the blood magic was hurting the apostate. And that the no more blood magic, I'll protect you instead, was a loving thing. Though I'm completely neutral on blood magic in the games as written, all thats bad is that some people need to learn it from demons, and consorting with demons ain't great. The real story is that blood is essentially just a substitute for lyrium and the chantry controls the lyrium trade. Presumably templar abilities also don't work on blood mages because templars gain their powers from the lyrium that the chantry gives them. That they are addicted to. The chantry's entire power, everywhere besides tevinter, is completely dependent on the control of lyrium. They are the only ones aloud to buy and move it and they get their muscle hooked on the stuff. Its brilliant and blood magic ruins fucking all of it.
So the real blood magic story is it's power to destroy the chantry. If we ever get another blood mage companion it probably means the chantry became evil. This might just be a fan theory thing though because while materially this makes total sense the game usually approaches blood magic with pure ideology :zizek-preference:
Honestly though what we learn about blood magic in inquisition, it weakens connection to the fade, might be what keeps blood magic on the periphery. I think the fade will continue to be important and one of the specializations in inquisition is literally rift mage.
Cutting open your hand mid combat to shoot a fireball will always be dope though.