"The Divine is the leader of the Chantry and is always a woman--at least everywhere except Tevinter, which does the opposite and has its own version of the Chantry. Anyway, she governs it all from the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux. The latest one, Divine Justinia, died in the explosion at the Conclave, the meeting meant to attempt establishing peace between mages and Templars. That's where the Breach was formed, the mother of all rifts, and everything's so chaotic. Without a Divine to guide them, a lot of the faithful are...agitated. And that sometimes means lashing out.

However, she did authorize the formation of the Inquisition before she died, as a last-ditch attempt to restore order, so that's why some of the Chantry acknowledge us. Only some, though. The rest refuse to believe it and denounce us as heretics."