I think the stupider thing would be to go crawling back and then tossed bodily at a bunch of Venatori and become another corpse to throw on the pyre. I don't know what else they're doing with Templars now given the March. Still probably have a couple higher ranks with cushy jobs in major cities doing the usual duties of taking care of maleficar and looking into reports of blood magic and the like. But they still need plenty of foot soldiers in their war.

If we could just-- This split with the Inquisition didn't help our odds even if it gives us more freedom to bend and break whatever rules they wouldn't have let us.