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The Qun teaches that all living things have a place and a purpose, and only when they are in the correct place and in control of their self may they attain balance. When balance is lost, suffering follows. Mastery of the self is, therefore, the first and greatest duty.
Those born with magic are at a terrible disadvantage, for demons can always rob them of their self. Because of this, the Qunari name them saarebas, meaning "dangerous thing", and treat them with the utmost caution. Saarebas must be carefully controlled by someone else, an arvaarad, "one who holds back evil", because they cannot truly control themselves. The evil is not the mage, but the loss of the mage, the loss of the mage's self, and the suffering that inevitably follows.
The Qunari pity and honor the saarebas, for striving while under constant threat from within is truly selfless, which is the highest virtue of the Qun.
—From the writings of the seer of Kont-aar, 8:41 Blessed