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[StarcloudSWG]

From the various hints and information given in codexes and talking with NPCs, I'm trying to figure out the unspoken history of Thedas. Most of this speculation takes place well before Andraste.

Once, there were eight Great Dragons. Seven of them chose to present themselves in two different ways; as the dragons of their physical forms, and as benevolent gods in the Fade. One, that the elves named Fen'harel, chose a different path.

At the same time, the elves were taking their first steps towards building a civilization. They worshipped the dragons in both aspects, as if they were separate beings. Another part of elven society was that they had a high proportion of dreamshapers. Somniari, who could shape the Fade and give it a semblance of mortal forms.

At some point, Fen'harel got tired of seeing the other seven 'playing' with the mortal races, and somehow, some way, managed to disrupt the connection between the other great dragons and their dreaming selves, sending them to sleep deep beneath the earth. And Fen'harel too passed into legend for a time.

Freed of the manipulation and predation of the dragons, the elves went on to build a continent-spanning civilization. Their elders were somniari, and even as the great city of Arlathan was being built, so was the Golden City of the Fade. It was a city of dreams and dreamers, sustained and renewed by the dreaming elders.

Then humans arrived. Locust like, they started cutting down the trees to which the elves had bound their lives and spirits. Conflicts began to arise. The great dragons trapped beneath the earth wanted to be freed, to renew their connection to the Fade, and found susceptible minds among the humans. Eventually, the empire of Tevinter was formed, and went to all out war with the elves.

Once Arlathan was destroyed, and Sundermount broken, there were no more dreamers to keep the Golden City golden, and it turned black. But driven by the whispers of the Great Dragons, the Magisters of Tevinter still wanted to find a way into the Fade.

The elves of Arlathan had managed it, with the Eluvians. Old and rare magics could allow a non-somniari to speak with and even travel between mirrors through the Fade. Perhaps even to other worlds. It took perhaps hundreds of years, but the Magisters unlocked them with massive amounts of blood to fuel magic, and succeeded in reaching the Black City, only to find out their goal had long since been taken from them.

And the Fade reacted, violently ejecting the Magisters back into the real world, into the depths.

The Empire of Tevinter was doubtless thrown into turmoil, and in the chaos, Andraste took her place in history, leading the barbaric peoples of the south and the remaining elves against the Empire. This led to freedom for current-day Orlais, Ferelden, and the Free Marches, though she never did manage to destroy the Empire.

The first Blight did more than just wake Dumat, the great dragon, dreaming god of Tevinter, one of the Forgotten Gods of the elves. It also woke Fen'Harel from its long slumber. Whether it had set aside a part of itself to seed its rebirth or whether it had been wandering the Fade, now it chose to act, and found a dreamer who chose to willingly meld with it, a noblewoman named Flemeth...

Not long after this, historical documentation becomes 'reliable' in that written records seem to be more consistent, in-game, and that's where I stop speculating. Not enough information is available about The Stone, lyrium, and blood lyrium, though I have the gut feeling they tie into however Fen'Harel managed to imprison the Great Dragons.

[AxeloftheKey]

I would have to agree that this is how I choose to look at the game's history as well. I hope entirely that this is wrong and I am more surprised.