Well I'm pretty sure you won't get your head lopped off, you probably make more friends than enemies with your kindness. And as for a crystal statue...well...you should be making plenty of mage-friends to keep you from that fate, right?

[Because he absolutely is assuming that Varric would free all the mages and let them do whatever.]

It's a good thing, Varric. You could do a lot of good for a lot of people, having a position like that.