Leaving the Choice to the Mages

Although it had a grand-sounding name, Benjamin’s plan was actually quite simple. He wanted to let mages across the whole of Fereldan see the true faces of the Mages Freemasonry.

The mages will soon realize that they were not as liberal as they initially thought.

To guarantee circulation, Benjamin was clear on what needed to be written in the "Declaration of the Freedom of Magic". Incantations, magic potion recipes, laws of meditation… He had to include all these alluring things mixed in with the ideology that they wanted to spread. If they did this, the book would sell like hotcakes.

Within the mage's circle, except for passing it on to students, knowledge was normally kept to oneself. Therefore, Benjamin was sacrificing his own intellectual property whilst also challenging the general procedure of being a mage.

He figured that once these books were distributed widely, then mages all over the place would be able to experience true liberty for the first time.