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Q:Tbh I'm like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about whether Mouse is the actual spirit of a person, who managed to stay there because he'd been sent into the Fade via the Harrowing, or whether the Mouse you meet is like Cole (perhaps a spirit of confidence or something, who took on Mouse's aspect because it couldn't help him), and just became demonified because of a combination of changed purpose + trauma of the apprentice getting killed + being stuck in the vicinity of the Fade side of Kinloch Hold.

Ok, so, there's a quest in Origins, during Broken Circle, called 'Watchguard of the Reaching'. The 'reaching', apparently, judging from the codex entries for this quest, is some sort of journey into the Fade, like a Harrowing, but by more advanced mages.

Finally, this conversation is important to note, because I occasionally see people say that the mages never wanted to rebel until Anders blew up the Chantry, when that just isn't true. The Libertarians are the second largest group of mages. That is a really big portion. Enough so that in 9:31 they have enough power to petition separating from the Chantry the first time, as detailed by Wynne right here. They try again in 9:37. Then finally in 9:39, the rebellion began. So, let's not pretend that there was no large force against the Circles before Anders blew up the Chantry. Fiona was working her ass off for years, before Anders even took his Harrowing.

The one major issue with the Magi origin is that, because the player is dropped into the middle of a brand new world that the character has inhabited all their life, Amell or Surana will spend the entire time wandering around like "new brain who dis?"