#honest to god Anders' magical education is severely limited | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mournflame · 5 hours ago

Text

I remember years ago, before Absolution, when there would be debates over whether a person could return from the dead in Thedas. And, people would trot out Anders saying it's impossible as some trump card definitive proof that it is, indeed, impossible. Love that guy but he is absolutely NOT an authority on this subject.

#OOC / HOLLY.#honest to god Anders' magical education is severely limited #I can buy that he's a skilled healer but I have to wonder even how he stacks up against others in that field #I can't even say well Circle mages aren't the only ones skilled in magic and formal theory isn't everything #that IS true but Anders is limited by the superstitions and preconceptions he was raised in and has never truly #moved beyond the mindset that Circle methods are the right ones (it's the templars that're the problem) and everything else is demonic #a hedge mage would scare the pants off him lmao #anyway even then Anders never had a proper education because firstly Kinloch Hold is giant torture tower #and secondly he was always shirking his lessons; making escape attempts; sitting in solitary; and finally did escape #I am not saying a Circle education is the only option #I am saying that he overall possesses a very limited understanding of magic with no understanding of necromancy etc #compensates for this with hands on experience in healing but even then is probably a damn fine healer but not the best in the world #even if he was that still wouldn't make him an authority on this topic because he hasn't truly dedicated himself to it #it's like if you took the greatest heart surgeon in all the world that wouldn't also make them the foremost authority on theoretical physic #this is NOT an Anders hate post this is a 'it was wild to think he would be the absolute authority on this topic'

12 notes · View notes