The reality in Neverwhere's world is the Templars are the gateway between the human world and everywhere else. So they need to exist because some of those other realms would rain untold havoc on the human world without the balance the Templars keep. The Templars need to exist. So our mistreated hero needs to make a decision. Either the Templars need to have a reformation or a new entity put in their place. Which way should the narrative go?
They are not really the gateway tought, we know that there are a lot of other portals around the globe, which are not under their control and are are also often misused for illegal dealings.
If there really was such a huge threat they could easily bypass the templars or wip them out.
So as a gateway or protectors of the world the templars are not really in a position to do their job (at least not adequate), and they are also way to few to actually do that job.
Elves offer was disassembling Templars and closing the gates to Neverwhere. Which means closing the gates is possible. Also as Linnae said that place is wretched place and as far as we have introduced it has no real benefits to humanity except people do illegal stuff, so shutting it down has no downside to it. As far as I understood, Templars are just guard dogs for rich wrecthed people. They don't even protect people get killed by those people just because they talked about it.
So if we ever given an option, I hope we will have it, I am gonna choose the demise of Templars. You can't reform something as corrupted as Templars, if you really want to make it right you need to topple it down and rebuild something else in its place.
Maybe it is possible to close them, but we don't know how difficult it is, if they could actually close them in a reasonable timeframe, well at least these they can access. It also implies that it is possible to open gates, pretty sure otherwise they would have tried closing some gates before to stop the shady dealings.
Well they are just a few hundred, they simply don't have the numbers to play secret police on the entire world, fight criminal syndicates, protect innocents and deal with Neverwhere on top of it (assuming they ever tried to get rid of the criminal elements).
I don't agree with him being moron he is a high ranking Templar, he cannot climb that place without being smart enough to play dirty especially in such a corrupt hierarchy but I can agree with him not being the mastermind behind all of it. He is probably being a puppet in the hands of some third party but he is thinking he is winning the game. Like Sun Tzu said appear weak when you are strong. His unwillingness to help MC is also a giveaway, I think.
To me he seems like a meathead which is completely 'templars first', basically a older, male version of Kaija.
If he is a traitor, then yes, he's at best a puppet. But i can just as well imagine he's just heavy indoctrinated/convinced of the templars (and can easily be used/mislead, if you understand how he works).
All which benefit them is good, even if there is some fallout, the end justifies the means ect.
If there is really a traitor among the leaders the other guy/woman seem both more likely imo.
So if we ever given an option, I hope we will have it, I am gonna choose the demise of Templars. You can't reform something as corrupted as Templars, if you really want to make it right you need to topple it down and rebuild something else in its place.
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