You can't be serious. ... though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Everything in Thedas turns to shit pretty quickly. But I can't believe the mages would just... throw away their chance like that. Can't they see that they were fighting for something bigger than strips of land?
The fact that the Grand Enchanter was willing to sell her own people into slavery to escape the persecution of the Templars is... worrisome. On multiple levels. I don't understand how it could have all gone so wrong. And this is all because of this Corypheus fellow?
You don't actually believe that Corypheus was a magister who tried to breach the Golden City, do you? Those are children's tales conjured up so as to further vilify mages to make for extra easy oppression.