It's hard to justify from an outside perspective, because we know the consequences. We know the war is coming either way. But Hawke doesn't know that. 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.
Dragon Age: Those Who Speak. Isabela's birth name is Naishe. She was born in Rivain to Madam Hari, a notorious thief and charlatan, and an unknown father who was described as "large, hairy, and good with his hands" [2] by her mother. When she became a pirate, the first ship's captain she served under began to call her "Isabela," his "little
Individual templars can be bad. Individual mages can be bad. A bad templar can be easily punished when caught. A bad mage will blow up a chantry first with everyone inside. The core friction in dragon age mage and templar relations is that you HAVE to have some kind of control over magic.
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