Anders breathes out, a long sigh. "I didn't prove anything the Templars all didn't already believe. Anything was taken as proof in the Circle, especially in Kirkwall but everywhere else as well. Templars take everything away from you until you're desperate, until you'd do anything just to feel human again, and then you're labelled as another reason why mages shouldn't be allowed to exist. They made Karl Tranquil for writing letters to me. Desperation and necessity can make anyone dangerous. It isn't limited to mages. I....don't know how many died." Probably quite a lot. The Chantry square was always busy, as was the Chantry itself. "But someone needed to take action. While Meredith and Orsino were in their stalemate, more mages were abused every day in Kirkwall, made Tranquil for looking at a Templar too long, or drinking too much. Any compromise could only leave things stagnant, the mages still imprisoned and controlled."