Your opinion on Mages vs Templars?

I think it was set up badly. The conflict being "grey" relies in accepting that mages are as dangerous and volatile as the lore tells us. The problem is that partly because it's a game franchise this disporpotionate dangerousness compared to "normal" people is not shown, only told. And it's also a series that has a lot of unreliable narrators and in universe propaganda, so the only thing you can reliably trust is the experiances of your character. Mix that two togeather, and the Mage vs Templar conflict allready starts from a bad place.

And even whithout that, the Templars and the Circles just, aren't a great organisation and they are really bad at what they are supposed to do. It's all under the Chantry, there are no checks and balances, barely any defined rules on how they should operate, the whole system is set up to be abused, and the only thing standing againts that is you local Grand Cleric and Templar commander being nice people. The Templars are in a dementia and paranoia inducing drug, and plenty of non-Templars have an easy time dealing with mages, so why are you even existing? It locks people who really shouldn't be in close proximity to each other togeather, I'd even say that having nothing in it's place would still be better than the Circle system.