Yeah, that's the thing. Depending on where you were coming from, being a mage might not be that bad in comparison.
Like for someone like Conner it would be devastating. He goes from being in the top 1% of the elite privileged, heir to an Arldom and having more freedom and wealth than almost everyone in the entire country to being locked in the tower for the rest of his life and stripped of his title. But for a kid on a backwater farm where they're scratching out an existence or a kid out of the alienage? They might welcome the chance to not starve, get an education, etc... as a tradeoff for all of the suck. For them, it wouldn't be so horrible necessarily. It would still suck, as you don't get to have kids or the freedom to travel as you want, but in comparison to being your average peasant, it's not so bad.
And I agree. I really feel just as bad for the Templars as I do for the mages, as their lives seem to be even more restrictive and just as forced into the situation by circumstances of birth many times as the mages.
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Like for someone like Conner it would be devastating. He goes from being in the top 1% of the elite privileged, heir to an Arldom and having more freedom and wealth than almost everyone in the entire country to being locked in the tower for the rest of his life and stripped of his title. But for a kid on a backwater farm where they're scratching out an existence or a kid out of the alienage? They might welcome the chance to not starve, get an education, etc... as a tradeoff for all of the suck. For them, it wouldn't be so horrible necessarily. It would still suck, as you don't get to have kids or the freedom to travel as you want, but in comparison to being your average peasant, it's not so bad.
And I agree. I really feel just as bad for the Templars as I do for the mages, as their lives seem to be even more restrictive and just as forced into the situation by circumstances of birth many times as the mages.