The circle is a necessary evil in the fact that it keeps mages from making terrible decisions with spirits demons cue anders merrill.
Da2 siding with templars with bethany in the circle.
Once he uses blood magic she will help hawke fight him.
If hawke sided with the mages bethany will rejoin the party in the gallows.
Unless you want to leave your sister to die by siding with her enemies.
And the circle of magi is one of the possible ways of such control the one with a lot of flaws.
If the choices are kill these innocent people or pave the way for all of thedas to become the new tevinter as filtered entirely through fenris narrative.
Bethany is a mage turning her into a grey warden keeps her at a distance as she will travel with them instead of being stuck in the circle gallows waiting to be purged by the templars.
I believe that in scenario 3 for her to show back up you have to side with the mages if it s carver you have to side with the templars.
Circle bethany thinks the circle is a good thing.
Other thing the interaction with kirkwall circle mages is bad.
Even though there is up to three mages in the party none represent the kirkwall circle mage.
Siding with the templars might seem like the lesser of two evils.
Bethany circle mage.
She said something about being unsure but if i believed it was the right thing to do then.
Also if you send bethany to the circle you find out it s not too horrible there and she actually enjoys it.
Yes the rule of templars in kirkwall is too harsh but it doesn t mean that all other circles are also ruled with a rod of iron.
However i don t think that the war is an acceptable way to transform something that is not entirely bad.
There s not even a kirkwall circle mage npc that is at least the equivalent of cullen.
Siding with meredith is saying screw all mages.
After the battle is over hawke has the option of letting her join the party or allowing meredith to kill her.
If hawke sided with the templars she will be inside the gallows with orsino.
You leave her out of the deep roads.
Technically you can side with the templars by not being a mage hating death machine.
Templars take her to the circle and she stays there until the near end of the game.