Aside from combat training, they are also taught the Chant of Light, history, and how to improve their mental focus. This power can also be channeled through their skin and used, for example, to activate plates housed in special dwarf-created doors within the Circle of Magi such as the entrance to the phylactery storeroom, which require the presence of both a templar and a mage working together to open them.Įven without their abilities, templars are among the best warriors in Thedas. When a templar taps into their power, their sword visibly courses with a white power that disrupts mana.
Abilities such as Silence and Lasting Cleanse can prevent even normal opponents from using their talents for a short time. Holy Smite for example, is an attack that causes magical Spirit damage.
Though their abilities are mostly used as a foil for mages and fade creatures, some of their talents can have practical uses for the mundane. If Lyrium ingestion is stopped, Templars will eventually lose their abilities. The lyrium is prepared by philters- boxes containing tools that are used by templars to prepare the daily draught of lyrium which consequently allows the denial of magic. They reach for that "other thing" and magic has no room to come in. Cole says that the bodies of the templars become incomplete and try to connect to something older and bigger than they are. Templar abilities to dispel magic and inhibit spellcasting, as well as develop a considerable immunity to magic, come primarily through ingesting lyrium. The Seekers of Truth share these powers, and some believe their abilities to be gifts from the Maker. From a mage's perspective it appears to be less spell interruption and more a templar reinforcing a reality in which that spell cannot be cast in the first place. Magical effects dissipate and the mage is unable to reshape a suddenly stubborn world. A templar's ability "declares the world real" and closes off a mage's access to the Fade. When a mage-or a demon-seeks to work magic, they tap into the Fade in order to reshape reality. This is done by a unique method of reinforcing the reality and immutability of the world. Templars are the ideal foils for mages, having been trained specifically to counter and "deny" magic.
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