This is actually my canon hawke and he s a goody two shoes blue personality.
Siding with templars inquisition.
Siding with the templars will allow to recruit cole first then recruit dorian at skyhold.
For a circle supporting mage siding with the templars is the best opportunity to change things from inside out.
Inviting templars to work with the inquisition is basically inviting religious prison guards who are addicted to drugs.
Ultimately there s no right or wrong answer of who to pick.
I personally prefer siding with the mages because i find the red templars more of an adversary than the tevinters but being as i have played both pathlines i will probably only side with the templars now because you can get a minor boost to 3 of your stats when you end up in envy s dreamworld which you can only get by choosing to side with the templars.
You re standing for order in the hopes that more death can be avoided later on.
Story wise if you side with the templars you lose fiona who is a character with a lot of history.
If you side with the mages you lose ser barris who is one of the best templars in dragon age.
It is possible to get leliana as divine if you side with templars.
This allowed many members to join the new seekers of truth.
If leliana becomes divine when players side with templars the remaining templars will follow cullen example and stop taking lyrium.
The divine choice is mostly around the choice you made.
It s kirkwall or the world.
The ones against it are blackwall cassandra vivienne and the iron bull.
Personally i usually pick mages.
Also the antagonist changes samson if you side with mages and calpernia if you side with the templars and of course the missions related to them are different.
It s fairly easy to rp a hawke that sees siding with the mages as starting a continental wide war and siding with the templars as bloody de escalation.
It is a good decision to include cole into the party.
Inquisition on the playstation 4 a gamefaqs message board topic titled question about siding with the templars or mages spoilers.
My 3rd grey warden in dragon age.
Origins was a mage arcane knight build and origins did a great job in making me feel for the plight of mages overall.