Additionally, it increases Revan's power, allowing him to easily beat a powerful Sith lord. After the Exile gives Revan back the Sith mask, it triggers a flood that returns all the memories.
In the novel Revan, it's a plot point that Revan doesn't actually remember being a Sith lord or meeting The Emperor on Dromund Kaas. Seeing as you have every opportunity to turn to the dark side again if you choose, they only wiped the slate clean and hoped to carry out the overarching plan properly i.e. All he really did in the first game was clean up the mess he made by his backstabbing apprentice, then before the start of the second, he left to continue where he left off to find and destroy the true Sith. He just lost his memories and changed methods, but his motivations and goals never really changed. It is suggested in the sequel that Revan was never really brainwashed by the Jedi. the protagonist, in Knights of the Old Republic: Though the process is entirely voluntary, it can occasionally backfire spectacularly as the converted synth has no idea of their past lives and why they should care about synth rights. A doctor they sponsor gives them new memories to help them acclimate to the Wasteland and live normal lives as humans. In Fallout 4, it's stated that this is how the Railroad rehabilitate escaped synths. The morality issue is brought up frequently, and the ritual remains extremely controversial, both in-universe and out. Really, how much the Rite of Tranquility falls under this trope depends on the morality of the people using it, and whether the mage in question was willing (or at least beyond saving) or not. In the Dragon Age universe, mages can be made 'Tranquil', robbing them of the chaotic influence of emotions and thus rendering them slavish, robotic, atonal and altogether compliant to The Greater Good. Unlike other criminals she keeps him like this to help his alternate good personality continually win out during flare-ups. 
A more significant example of this is her side-kick Malaise, who has dissociative identity disorder and periodically switches to his identity as a mad art thief As he is also psychic this makes him quite dangerous, so she does the psychic equivalent of shooting him full of anti-psychotics.
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