Apostate

The common term for any mage who is not part of the Circle of Magi.

There are two types of apostates: hedge mages, who were never raised by the Circle, and rogue mages, who have fled from the Circle.

Once, the term only described mages who willfully left the Circle and the path the Chantry had laid out for them. However, as the Andrastian Chantry is now the dominant religion in Thedas, the Chantry assumes that everyone born in Thedas is part of the religion. Anyone who then does something frowned upon is betraying the religion, thus making them apostate.