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[tsunamitigerdragon]

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[Bluwthe]

You got blasted into the Fade. Physically. That's what Corypheus wanted to happen to himself, but, well. As it happened, the ritual failed = Cory's unable to enter the Fade = he has no other choice but retreat and come up with another plan. As for Justinia... maybe it was not really her, but the same spirit that helped you later? Idk. Need to think.

True, but Corypheus presumably needed a sacrifice to open the fade and cross it physically, which was Justinia. I assume that she was suppose to die if all had went as planned, but the inquisitor shows up and it all gets kindof confusing from there. Quizzy grabs the orb and somehow both you and justinia are trapped in the fade...but not corypheus? He was lunging at you as soon as you grab the orb, therefore closer and yet justinia is with you in the fade? Also she dies getting caught by the nightmare demon, so I think we can assume she was alive and not just a spirit.

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7996FA: The Grey Wardens discover a number of intelligent darkspawn who can control portions of the horde even after Dumat’s death. Warden Sashamiri arranges a trap to restrain and study one of these creatures, Corypheus, believed to be one of the Tevinter Magisters who entered the Golden City and were corrupted into the first darkspawn two centuries prior. Corypheus is successfully imprisoned under the Vimmark Mountains in the southern Tevinter Imperium.
 
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have confirmation of the rest of the Seven Magisters being active.
...Okay, so that was probably obvious. I just missed this part somehow earlier.
Also. Corpheus was captured two hundred years after his corruption, and twelve years after Dumat's death.
Damn, Dumat. You tough.
Damn, Cory. You wily.
EDIT: They spent ten years trying to kill or control him before they gave up. I think the Wardens got bored.   

 
This is as relevant a time as any to link an interview I dug up
 

In the Dragon Age 2 downloadable content, Legacy, players discover that Corypheus, an ancient darkspawn, was one of the original Tevinter magisters. I asked David Gaider if the Architect of Dragon Age: Awakening is also a former magister, and if he’ll play a part in upcoming events in the DA universe.
 
"Yeah," Gaider agreed, "he is the same type of character as Corypheus, absolutely. Whether he pops up, well, possibly. I think so… I mean, obviously not if you killed him."

I rather miss the Architect. He was pretty cool guy all things considered.

[LliiraAnna]

True, but Corypheus presumably needed a sacrifice to open the fade and cross it physically, which was Justinia. I assume that she was suppose to die if all had went as planned, but the inquisitor shows up and it all gets kindof confusing from there. Quizzy grabs the orb and somehow both you and justinia are trapped in the fade...but not corypheus? He was lunging at you as soon as you grab the orb, therefore closer and yet justinia is with you in the fade? Also she dies getting caught by the nightmare demon, so I think we can assume she was alive and not just a spirit.

The problem is, we don't see her die, just disappear (or at least that's the impression I got from this scene). You don't see her corpse or anything like that, only spiders. I think it's plausible to suggest that she died with everyone else during the explosion, and that it was a spirit helping you all along. Could be mistaken, ofc.

[Caddius]

Keep talking history to me. 

 

Keep talking history to me. 

Dean's pose is what I do whenever I find a Codex entry in DA.

I can confirm that if the Dumat=Andraste theory is correct, she's sixteen when she marries Maferath in 8000. Which would be completely normal for that culture and timeframe.

Shartan/(Solas?  ) joins Maferath's army at the Battle of Valerian Fields, nine years into the war.

[slmisfit]

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have confirmation of the rest of the Seven Magisters being active.

I think at least one of the Magisters is dead. Killed and apparently eaten by a fellow Magister. >_>

 

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[Liec]

OH SNAP. OK. Here's a question before I create a crack-pot theory: WHEN did Corpheus get the orb?

Sometime after escaping the Warden prison, I believe. He must have gone poking around elven ruins until he found Solas.

[Bluwthe]

The problem is, we don't see her die, just disappear (or at least that's the impression I got from this scene). You don't see her corpse or anything like that, only spiders. I think it's plausible to suggest that she died with everyone else during the explosion, and that it was a spirit helping you all along. Could be mistaken, ofc.

True. The way I interpreted that scene what with the angling and the fast paced pull away shot we get right before our inquisitor turns around to see Justinia, is that she got grabbed away and presumably killed by the fear demon as you were escaping. When you enter the fade later in the game and your quizzy recovers her memory, she even says that the divine died then and what is before her now is just a spirit. If she DID die with everyone in the initial explosion,  we could then theorize that Corypheus body died and he just re spawned elsewhere, but as of now it's too ambiguous to say.

[Caddius]

Sometime after escaping the Warden prison, I believe. He must have gone poking around elven ruins until he found Solas.

Don't some old people attend classes where they learn about all the new technology and lingo kids these days are using?

Maybe he met Solas in one of those.

 

As for the eaten Magister, I almost think that that is the Architect. It sounds like his sort of luck. And as disgusting a fate as that is, if they also possess the body-surf, maybe he survived? Then again, if there weren't any other darkspawn at that time...probably not.

EDIT: I'm fairly certain the Larius/Janeka skin Cory was wearing was incinerated in the blast, and he kept Wardens at various locations as a respawn point. Hence his not having a direct hand until Haven. Going off his memory crystals in the Shrine of Dumat, he may have respawned in Nevarra or southern Tevinter, even. Trusting Alexius and Envy to do their jobs. 

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[LliiraAnna]

True. The way I interpreted that scene what with the angling and the fast paced pull away shot we get right before our inquisitor turns around to see Justinia, is that she got grabbed away and presumably killed by the fear demon as you were escaping. When you enter the fade later in the game and your quizzy recovers her memory, she even says that the divine died then and what is before her now is just a spirit. If she DID die with everyone in the initial explosion,  we could then theorize that Corypheus body died and he just re spawned elsewhere, but as of now it's too ambiguous to say.

That's what I was thinking about: everyone, Inquisitor aside, died (Inky got saved by the Anchor sending them to the Fade), Fade!Justinia was a spirit, and Cory simply respawned afterwards. Morrigan says his body-surf ability has no range.

[Kittn]

Ok, so what I am sure (almost) I hear: "Mythal speaks the truth" - there is a voice overlay, where the second voice says "calls" or "calling" at the same time. "Go to the..." - I am not sure about the last part. Dirt? Deer? (XD) "Bound to the same fate". "Travel far". "Don't speak". "She speaks the truth". "She's one of us" (another voice overlay saying "lost"?).

 

*continues listening* 

 

I swear every time I replay it I hear something different in that part where I thought I heard "From the blood." When I first played it, I heard halt, blind just like the prompt text. Then I heard from the blood when I listened real close. Now I hear fought blind and fought blood. Still hearing from the blood too, but it could just be my mind trying to make a sentence out of mush. Just like I sometimes hear "him" right after Go to, but then on a repeat, I don't hear anything there but a brief silence. That whole part around the oddly loud Dir(th/t) is what's throwing me. I don't really hear Mythal after that either. It sounds more like "It's all" to me. I also hear Flemeth's voice following along some of the words, but not all of them.

 

'Tis interesting how we are listening to the same thing but not hearing all of the same stuff.

 

Still unbelievably creeped out by it though. I think I have room for a few more goosebumps. Must play it again!

[Caddius]

The reason I was asking about when Corypheus got the orb is because I had a WEIRD idea that Fen'Harel gave the Orb to Corypheus PRIOR to the birth of Andraste and gave it to the Priest of Dumat/ Mythal because he thought they were on the same side. **** goes super down, Corypheus and the Magisters break through the Veil, First Blight. Mythal->Dumat->Andraste. Shartan (if he's Solas) joins up and the real reason they go against Tevinter is to get the Orb back.

But given that this is likely not true due to the very good references we have so far of Corypheus not having the orb until much, much later out of the Warden Prison, it's irrelevant.

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This COULD still be a possibility if Corypheus HID the orb prior to being taken into the Warden Fortress and came back for it. Fen'Harel just would have had to have TWO uthenera periods. One after the sealing of the Elven Pantheon/ Forbidden Ones until the Magisters, another post-Andraste.

I believe the Orb is a substitute for not having six other incredibly powerful Somniari Magisters at his back, a mountain of lyrium to snort, and a few hundred elves to sacrifice.

You can't get good help these days.

EDIT: Why does Justinia glow in the shape of the Adamant Spirit in the memroy of the escape from the Fade? I figure it's either a spirit quickly saving your bacon by assuming a trustworthy form, Justinia's actually with you (somehow), or it's Andraste or a figure like that.

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[slmisfit]

If they were capable of body-surfing at that time, he could have killed him, ate him, but that magister still survived in another body? I'm unsure. That cannibalism though... Yech.

Yeah, that's true. We don't really know if Cory's body-surfing is a Magister ability or a Cory ability, though. Still... getting so angry at someone that you eat them is... new. lol

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[Addai]

Now that you mention it, the way the story is presented you DO seem like an anomaly. HOW did you survive the orb not killing you the moment you grabbed it? Cory mentions that you should have died, though whether he was just being a boastful villain in that segment, or honestly puzzled is debatable. How was it that only you and Divine Justinia survived and were in the Fade afterward? We know the orb tore a hole in the sky and could theorize that everyone in the room got transported...but wait, why didn't any grey wardens survive, then? And where was Corypheus at that point?

My interpretation is that everyone died except the Herald. Justinia didn't survive physically- when you first see her in the Fade at the top of the stair, she's glowing like the spirit does later. That was the spirit who inhabited her. Corypheus died as well but later did his resurrection thing into one of the bodies of the Grey Wardens.

[Caddius]

I've completed the Ancient Age translation into FA units. Starting on Blessed. Um...this is embarrassing but can I get a more explicit tutorial in spoiler tags? I messed up last time.   I figure I'll edit the post as I finish each Age.

I couldn't get the black background of the Wiki timeline to go away, so instead of copying and pasting I got to exercise my fingers. 

[Bluwthe]

Just throwing it out there, but what if Mythal was betrayed and murdered by Elgar 'nan? He does seem to have a bit of a temper in his codex entries and the rest of the pantheon seems to rally behind her when she calls. The way she is describe does suspiciously bleed into Elgar 'nan's territory as the God of Vengence. Just a crack pot theory, but maybe he grew tired of her overshadowing him as the leader of the pantheon?

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[Caddius]

This is the Ancient Age adjusted to all be dated from the foundation of Arlathan, taken from the Dragon Age Wiki.

 

Spoiler

The Dragon Age Wiki timeline converted into FA units to make it easier to see how everything connects.
The name of Chantry ages are noted with an underline.
The original Chantry timeline has used the Divine, Glory, Towers, Black, Exalted, Steel, Storm, Blessed, and Dragon Ages, each representing a century. The Ancient Age is longer, and used both FA(Founding of Arlathan) and TE (Tevinter Empire) dates.
1: The legendary elven city of Arlathan is founded. The date is difficult to pinpoint in Chantry years and is not exact.
3000: Approximately at this time the elves make first contact with the dwarves.
4500: Records claim humanity arrives in Thedas around this date from the north in a single tribe known as Neromenian. This is disputed by scholars, who ask where humans came from and why they left.
4750: Elves first notice the Quickening, which puts an end to their immortality and forces them to withdraw from human contact. This is thought to be a mere legend.
4800: The Old Gods begin whispering to humanity from the Golden City. They teach the Dreamers of the Neromenian tribes magic. These Dreamers become the priests and rulers of their people.
5185: The Alamarri tribes cross the Frostback Mountains and settle in the lands that will eventually become known as Ferelden. Alamarri tribal legends say th4ey were fleeing a ‘shadow goddess’, but modern scholars believe they were escaping a sort of natural disaster.
5785: The Alamarri living near what is known today as Lake Calenhad break away, becoming known as the Avvars. The two tribes fight with each other for several centuries, though they unite when the need arises.
5900: The Neromenian tribes split and form four ancient kingdoms: Tevinter, Neromenian, Barindur, and Qarinus.
5990: The entire kingdom of Barindur vanishes. The humans of the day claim the city lost the favor of Dumat. Solas claims it preserved underneath the volcanic ash.
5990: Thalsian, also known as the First Priest of Dumat, is the first known person to wield blood magic, and the first Magister. The Archon claims to learn this art after personally communicating with the Old God. The power he gained from blood magic allowed him to spark the birth of a future empire under his rule.
6005: The Chasind People break away from the Alamarri tribes and settle in the wild and unexplored Korcari Wilds.
6185: Darinius, the High King of Neromenian, takes control of the Tevinter throne, uniting the kingdoms of Neromenian and Tevinter under his rule.
6400: Darinius of Tevinter forges an alliance with the dwarves.
6405: Darinius unites the kingdoms Tevinter and Qarinus, forming the mighty Tevinter Imperium. He declares himself the first Archon. The Dreamers learned the use of lyrium to enter the Fade from elven captives, and these dreamers later became the first of the Imperium’s ruling Magisters.
6430: Under the rulership of the Paragons King Endrin Stonehammer and King Orseck Garal, the capital of the Dwarven Empire is moved from Kal-Sharok to Orzammar, as trade with the surface becomes more and more vital for the prosperity of the dwarves. Stonehammer orders the construction of the legendary Stonehammer Hall in Orzammar. The Orzammar Proving Grounds are expanded for the Grand Provings, previously held in Kal-Sharok. The winners of these Provings become the first of Orzammar’s Paragons. Endrin Stonehammer builds a hall to house huge statues constructed in their honor.
6440: Taxes collected by Orzammar from Kal-Sharok’s trade profits becomes onerous.
6469: King Endrin Stonehammer is made a Paragon on his deathbed, and becomes known as ‘The First Paragon’ presumably for his vast accomplishments.
6619: The hostility that festered between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves finally turned into open war. Armies of the Imperium surrounded the fabled elven city of Arlathan.
6625: The Magisters resorted to a horrifying blood ritual that sank Arlathan into the earth, destroying it utterly and deciding the war in their favor. The conquest of the elven kingdom was complete: All those who did not perish with their city were enslaved, their spirit crushed and their ancient culture destroyed forever.
6702: The Tevinter Imperium expands rapidly, bolstered by its new elven slaves. The Imperium takes nearly all of northern Thedas and begins the conquest of lands across the Waking Sea.
6797: The Tevinter Imperium settles the island of Estwatch and fortifies its bay. The port is built for repairing warships.
6917: Archon Almadrius ascends to the throne of the Tevinter Imperium.
6962: The Tevinter Imperium begins several campaigns to subjugate the barbarous Alamarri tribes in the Fereldan Valley. After many near losses, they manage to hold the central area for a time and pave the Imperial Highway across the Frostbacks to the fortress of Ostagar.
6965: The First Tevinter Expedition against the Avvars in the Frostback Mountains.
6982: The western part of the Tevinter rebels to form the Anderfels, mainly populated by the Yothandi people.
6985: Archon Almadrius is assassinated. His apprentice Tidarion inherits the throne. Civil wars break out in the Tevinter Imperium.
7037: Archon Tidarion dies without an heir. The civil war continues, and the Magisters fight for power.
7057: Emerius, the last of the great Imperial cities, is founded in the distant south of the Imperium by the powerful Magister, Emerius Krayvan. Elven slaves were brought in by the thousands to work the stone quarries, and suffered hardships that would give the city a dark and bloody reputation. In time it became known as the ‘City of Chains’, the center of the Imperial slave market and the destination of all those captured by the spread of arcane rule. Archon Parthenius claims the throne of the Tevinter Imperium. The end of the civil war in the Imperium.
7102—7122: The largest civil war of the Tevinter Imperium is usually cited as when it began to decline markedly from its golden age. The Magisters of the various noble houses wield terrible power but still seek more; their competition with each other leads to human sacrifice, and demon summoning becomes a regular occurrence. When two of the largest Tevinter houses battle to claim the Archon’s throne, the Imperium is almost split in two. The resulting war left ruins and battlefields where the magical taint continues to be felt to this day. Peace is brokered in the Senate to prevent the dissolution of the Imperium, but the nobility continues its oppression of the masses in an effort to achieve supremacy.
7142: After generations of independence, the Anderfels are reconquered by the Tevinter Imperium.
7277: A group of kossith is believed to land in the southern Korcari Wilds, establishing a colony. They are most likely killed off in the First Blight, giving rise to the first appearance of ogres on the continent.
7292: According to the Chantry lore, seven of the most powerful Magister Lords, seeking more power, open a gate to the Golden City at the heart of the Fade. The Golden City becomes tainted, and the Magisters bring the taint into the world, creating the first darkspawn.
The Old God Dumat is freed and transformed into the first Archdemon. The First Blight begins. The darkspawn attack en masse, concentrating at first on the underground Deep Roads of the dwarven kingdoms. The darkspawn use the Deep Roads to appear throughout the continent. All of the Imperium is under siege and in a state of chaos. Finally, the nations of the Imperium begin to settle in for a long war as they become accustomed to the surges of the darkspawn. Communication becomes difficult across the Imperium, but cooperation is paramount. The people of Tevinter pray to the remaining Old Gods for help against Dumat, but receive only silence. With the people’s faith waning, unrest sees many temples destroyed as the Imperial people begin to turn from the Old Gods, believing themselves betrayed. This dark period lasts for over 200 years, extending post Blight.
7307: The Dwarven Empire falls to the darkspawn.
7832: The Blight has yet to reach the Alamarri. They are instead caught up in a war with the Avvar. In the Battle of Red Falls, Alamarri warrior Luthias Dwarfson fights Morrighan’nan, Avvar warrior queen. Both die in the battle. The Order of Ash Warriors is founded in Dwarfson’s honor.
7882: The Grey Wardens are founded at Weisshaupt Fortress in the Anderfels, dedicated to wiping out the darkspawn wherever they should rise. The organization is formed primarily of veterans from the countless battles against the darkspawn. They maintain communications within the Imperium and strike quickly wherever the darkspawn appear, quickly erecting fortresses everywhere and receiving tithes and supplies from all lands.
7932: The dwarven Paragon Caridin creates the first golem from the Anvil of the Void to battle the darkspawn terrorizing the Deep Roads. The dwarves begin to regain lost thaigs and reclaim parts of the Deep Roads.
7939: Caridin disappears along with the secret to creating golems, and the dwarven kingdom continue their descent into oblivion.
7984: The Grey Wardens gather the forces of humanity and confront Dumat at the colossal Battle of Silent Fields in the southern reaches of Tevinter. Dumat is ultimately destroyed by the Grey Wardens and the darkspawn forces routed. Though the darkspawn are still large in numbers and still battle mankind, they are no longer directed by Dumat’s power and become scattered. The contracts ensuring the powers and rights of the Grey Wardens date from this year.
The prophet Andraste is born in the Alamarri lands. The exact year of her birth is hotly contested by scholars.
7992: Slowly, the last of the darkspawn hordes are defeated. They are forced into the Far Steppes, west of the Anderfels, and into the Deep Raods. For the dwarves, the war continues underground, but for humanity, the battle is believed to be over. After centuries of fighting, the once mighty Imperium is now weak.
As the Deep Roads close, communication lines falter between the surviving dwarven kingdoms. Each thaig elects its own king while maintaining allegiance to a high king in Orzammar.
7996: The Grey Wardens discover a number of intelligent darkspawn who can control portions of the horde even after Dumat’s death. Warden Sashamiri arranges a trap to restrain and study one of these creatures, Corypheus, believed to be one of the Tevinter Magisters who entered the Golden City and were corrupted into the first darkspawn two centuries prior. Corypheus is successfully imprisoned under the Vimmark Mountains in the southern Tevinter Imperium.
8000: Andraste marries Maferath, an Alamarri chieftain.
8001: Andraste preaches of a new creator, whokm she calls the Maker. The more she says, the more her following grows. Maferath uses her teachings to unite the Alamarri clans under his authority.
8003: The Tevinter Imperium’s influence recedes in southern Thedas as Minrathous rebuilds.
The Chasind claim the fortress of Ostagar.
8006: Warden-Commander Daneken realizes the futility of the Wardens’ attempts to control or kill Corypheus and proposes instead to seal the prison off from the rest of the world and keep its very existence a secret forever.
8007: A massive horde of Alamarri cross the Waking Sea from the south led by the warlord Maferath and Andraste. Some records claim that the barbarians were driven north by the darkspawn, others that Andraste was bringing freedom to the people of the Imperium who had been long oppressed by the depravities of the Magisters. Regardless of the reason, the press of the barbarians in the south is accompanied by massive rebellions that welcome their progress. The invading army frees the elves, enslaved for centuries by the Tevinters. At the same time, the elven slave Shartan starts a massive slave rebellion, and the Tevinter Magisters are forced to unite the combat the incoming threat.
The Tevinter Imperium abandons the island of Estwatch to focus on mainland troubles. The island remains largely uninhabited for ages.
8016: Outside of Minrathous, the Battle of Valerian Fields is fought between the Alamarri and the Tevinter Imperium. Maferath is victorious. At that battle the elven slave Shartan takes Maferath’s side and leads other elves in the fight against their Tevinter oppressors. He later converts and is made a disciple, only to have his writings suppressed following the Exalted March of the Dales.
The Alamarri army led by Maferath and Andraste lay siege in Minrathous. However, they fail to conquer the capital of the Imperium.
According to the Chantry lore, Maferath’s jealousy overwhelms him. Wanting to bring an end to hostilities and tighten his grip on conquered territories, he makes a pact with Archon Hessarian of the Tevinter Imperium.
8017: Andraste is betrayed by her husband at the city of Nevarra, one of their strongholds. She is burned alive and then killed by Archon Hessarian in Minrathous.
Disciple Havard, loyal to Andraste, collects her ashes and carries them back to the Avvar lands in the Frostback Mountains.
8023: After the death of Andraste, the barbarian army disperses. Maferath is granted the lands south of Emerius. He takes Ferelden Valley for himself, while dividing what will become Orlais, the nation of Nevarra, and several Marcher cities between his sons.
The southern Tevinter Imperium breaks away, forming a collection of independent city states. Maferath’s unify several scattered tribes neighboring Alamarri lands; the tribes of Ciriane turns into the Kingdom of the Ciriane and the Planesene tribes into the Kingdom of the Planasene. Both of these last less than a century—the Ciriane soon become the land of Orlais, while the Planasene become part of the loose confederation across the plains called the Free Marches.
The land between the Waking Sea and the Frostbacks is given to the freed elves by Maferath as a homeland and is called the Dales. The Long Walk begins as elves from across the Imperium begin traveling to the Dales largely on foot and are preyed upon by disease and robbers, causing massive chaos.
8028: A cult devoted to Andraste’s teachings spreads rapidly in the south but is largely disorganized and is very unpopular with the temples of the Old Gods. However, Archon Hessarian converts from revering the Old Gods to the Cult of the Maker and reveals Maferath’s treachery. The Alamarri abandon Maferath, and southern Thedas collapses into anarchy. Back in the lands of the barbarians, groups which are claiming to be the Disciples of Andraste are formed, and the new religion begins to grow, referred to collectively as ‘the cults of the Maker’.
Archon Hessarian converts the Tevinter Imperium to Andrastianism, beginning the Transfiguration.
8037: The Ciriane in present day Orlais unite in a movement known as the Grand Unification.
8057: The Alamarri in Ferelden Valley fall into a long series of internal wars as various warlords attempt to replace Maferath.
Andraste’s ashes disappear, revealed ages later to have been stored away at the Temple of Sacred Ashes by the Disciples of Andraste.
8061: The Chant of Light is created by Andraste’s disciples, collecting her story and her teachings into hymns. Numerous versions of the Chant are written over time, with different interpretations of what Andraste taught about the Maker, each prevalent in different regions.
8066: Archon Hessarian dies in his sleep. Many in the eastern and southern provinces of the Tevinter Imperium push for secession, fearing his successor, Archon Orentius, will restore the Old Gods and their clergy.
8066—8138: Rebellion begins in the east as the Rivaini attempt to split off from the Imperium. The resulting campaigns to stop the rebellion distract the Imperium from its attempts to reconquer the Free Marches and allow the south to gather its strength. Many of the eastern cities in the Free Marches intervene on behalf of the Rivaini, and after several losses that culminated in the disastrous Battle of Temerin in 8135, the Imperium finally abandons the east.
8086: The Inquisition is founded around this time. The loose association of Andrastian hardliners hunt heretics and mages in the name of the Maker.
8144: The Kingdom of Rivain is formed.
8148: The dwarves of Orzammar seal the Deep Roads that lead to Kal-Sharok, Gundaar, and Hormak by order of High King Threestone. Within ten years, the kingdoms of Hormak and Gundaar fall to the darkspawn.
8158: The city-state of Antiva expands and becomes a nation.
8163: As the borders of the Imperium recede, Emerius becomes one of their lone outposts within a distant and violent frontier. The city is surrounded by the Kingdom of Ciriane, the barbarian Free Marches, the Alamarri, as well as the new elven homeland of the Dales. Despite its isolation, the city fought off many invading armies and did not fall until the slaves within the city finally rebelled, executing their Tevinter rulers in an orgy of violence. Possession of the fortress city remained contested for centuries to come, but it would never again rejoin the Imperium. No longer under Tevinter rule, the city changed name to Kirkwall, and became part of the Free Marches.
8173: The last of the Deep Roads are sealed, cutting off Kal-Sharok which is presumed lost to the horde. However, the dwarves of Kal-Sharok survive but never forgive the dwarves of Orzammar.
8177: The cults of the Maker spread quickly in the southern lands, resulting in the commencement of construction of the first great temple in Val Royeaux which becomes the center of worship for the new faith. One of its most fervent followers is the young king of Orlais, Kordillus Drakon. Drakon begins a series of holy wars in the name of the Maker, quickly proving himself to be one of the greatest generals in history.
8185: Having conquered several neighboring city-states and forced others to submit to his overlordship, Kordillus Drakon is crowned emperor of the new Orlesian Empire in Val Royeaux. His ambitions to spread farther north into the Free Marches is confounded by constant pressures from the Dale to the east.
The Chantry is formed by Emperor Drakon as he formalizes the Maker’s Cult into an official religion.
The Emperor commands that missionaries be sent forth into the other lands, thus spreading the Chantry’s teachings.
8188: DIVINE AGE BEGINS

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