This is a copy of the timeline I messed around with to help out the lore discussions in the Solas Thread. 
It takes the timeline on Dragon Age Wiki and converts it all into FA (Foundation of Arlathan) years to make it easier to draw comparisons than having to juggle FA, TE, and Chantry calendars at the same time. Some edits have been made for the sake of being concise or more accurate. If you spot any math errors, feel free to point it out, and I'll try to correct it. The Divine Age being one year shorter than the rest threw me for a loop, but I hope I managed to do it properly.
Sadly while pasting it it seems some of the formatting was lost. 
Obviously, spoilers abound for most Dragon Age games, books, comic books, and so on.
The Age of Arlathan:
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 split from the Neromenian and cross the Frostback Mountains and settle in the lands that will eventually become known as Ferelden. Alamarri tribal legends say they 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 was preserved underneath the volcanic ash.
6005: 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.
6185: The Chasind People break away from the Alamarri tribes and settle in the wild and unexplored Korcari Wilds.
6393: 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. The dwarven contests known as Provings become popular among the noble class of the Tevinter. A Grand Proving Arena is built in Minrathous.
The Age of Tevinter:
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.
6705: 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.
6720: The Tevinter Imperium settles the island of Estwatch and fortifies its bay. The port is built for repairing warships.
6840: Archon Almadrius ascends to the throne of the Tevinter Imperium.
6885: 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.
6888: The First Tevinter Expedition against the Avvars in the Frostback Mountains.
6905: The western part of the Tevinter rebels to form the Anderfels, mainly populated by the Yothandi people.
6908: Archon Almadrius is assassinated. His apprentice Tidarion inherits the throne. Civil wars break out in the Tevinter Imperium.
6960: Archon Tidarion dies without an heir. The civil war continues, and the Magisters fight for power.
6980: 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.
7025—7045: 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.
7065: After generations of independence, the Anderfels are reconquered by the Tevinter Imperium.
7190: 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.
7205—7397: THE FIRST BLIGHT.
7205: 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.
7220: The dwarven kingdoms begin to fall to the darkspawn.
7245: 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.
7295: 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.
7345: 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.
7352: Caridin disappears along with the secret to creating golems, and the dwarven kingdoms continue their descent into oblivion.
7397: 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. DUMAT SLAIN.
The prophet Andraste is born in the Alamarri lands around this time. The exact year of her birth is hotly contested by scholars. At some point in her childhood, she is sold into slavery to the Imperium. Later, she escapes sometime before 7413, when she marries Maferath.
7405: Slowly, the last of the darkspawn hordes are defeated. They are forced into the Far Steppes, west of the Anderfels, and into the Deep Roads. 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.
7409: 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.
7413: Andraste marries Maferath, an Alamarri chieftain.
7414: Andraste preaches of a new creator, whom 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.
7416: The Tevinter Imperium’s influence recedes in southern Thedas as Minrathous rebuilds.
The Chasind claim the fortress of Ostagar.
7419: 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.
7420: THE RISE OF ANDRASTE. 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.
7429: 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.
7430: DEATH OF ANDRASTE. 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.
7435: 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.
7440: 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.
7445: The Ciriane in present day Orlais unite in a movement known as the Grand Unification.
7465: 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.
7470: 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.
7475: 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.
7480—7550: 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.
7500: The Inquisition is founded around this time. The loose association of Andrastian hardliners hunt heretics and mages in the name of the Maker.
7556: The Kingdom of Rivain is formed.
7560: 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.
7570: The city-state of Antiva expands and becomes a nation.
7575: 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.
7585: 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.
7589: 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.
7597: THE ORLESIAN EMPIRE. THE CHANTRY CREATED. 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.
The Divine Age:
7600: The first Divine of the Chantry, Justinia I, is instated at the still unfinished Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux. The free use of magic is declared illegal in Orlais except by those mages acting under the direct auspices of the Chantry. The Chantry Calendar begins at this point, 1:1 Divine. It has been 1195 years since Darinius founded the Tevinter Imperium.
7604—7694: THE SECOND BLIGHT.
7604: Zazikel awakens and the Second Blight begins in the Anderfels, with darkspawn slaughtering the entire city of Hossberg before the Grey Wardens finally get the word out. Now, rather than the darkspawn coming primarily from the west as they did before, they come out of the mountains in all corners of the continent. Once again, mankind is launched into a desperate battle for its survival over the course of the next 100 years.
Emperor Drakon calls on mages to use their magic against the Blight. The mages prove themselves to be effective allies in battle.
The Tevinter Imperium abandons the Anderfels and attempts to protect itself, a betrayal that is remembered by the Anderfels people even to this day.
7614: In several engagements, including the hard-fought victory at the Battle of Cumberland, the Orlesians defeat several hordes of darkspawn, and numerous cities are saved. The Orlesian Empire under Drakon’s command expands quickly, as does the influence of the Chantry.
7619: THE NEVARRAN ACCORD. The Nevarran Accord is signed between the Chantry and Inquisition. The senior members of the Inquisition form the Seekers of Truth. The Circle of Magi and Templar Order are then born from this agreement.
Mages are now formally permitted to practice magic under the close watch of the Chantry.
With the creation of the Circle, the Templar Order is formed to police magic use.
7624: The people of Orlais are angered when the city of Montsimmard is nearly destroyed by the darkspawn as the elven army watched from nearby.
7630: The darkspawn horde fails to overrun the Tevinter capital, Minrathous.
7632: Emperor Drakon is given the opportunity to expand northward, but instead he chooses to swing his armies west and relieve the siege of Weisshaupt.
The Grey Wardens are impressed enough to convert to the worship of the Chantry, and together the Grey Wardens and Drakon save the badly weakened nation of Anderfels from destruction, making it part of the Orlesian Empire and bringing to it a devout worship of the Maker that continues to this day.
Throughout this entire time, the elves of the Dales remain neutral and unhelpful.
7639: The Alamarri warrior Hafter unites the tribes and defeats the darkspawn horde.
7644: Emperor Drakon perishes from old age in Val Chevin. His empire, forming the majority of the Western Free Marches and all of the Anderfels, does not survive his death. His successor, Kordillus II, doesn’t possess the political savvy of his father.
The teachings of Andraste are popularized in Antiva.
Over the next fifty years, the Chantry continues to spread rapidly, aided by the Grey Wardens as the Blight winds down.
7644—7694: The Chantry spreads east into the Free Marches and Antiva.
7649: Hafter defeats combined Chasind and Avvar forces and holds the Fereldan Valley. He is proclaimed teyrn.
7664: The Anderfels declare independence from the Orlesian Empire.
7678: Caspar Pentaghast, who will one day become the first Pentaghast king of Nevarra, is born in Hunter Fell.
7694: The Free Marches and Orlais are hard-pressed to defend themselves, but the Grey Wardens and the Orlesian armies make the difference. The last battle of the Second Blight is fought at Starkhaven in the Free Marches. The human army is led by the Grey Wardens and takes a resounding victory, where Zazikel is finally destroyed and the darkspawn routed. ZAZIKEL SLAIN.
The period that follows is known as the ‘Rebuilding’-a time when trade, culture, and religion become paramount across most of the human lands.
Astyth the Grey is made a Paragon after sacrificing her life for the king. The Silent Sisters are formed in her memory.
7698: Divine Hortensia I names it the Glory Age, predicting a Grand Rebirth of the world after the devastation of the Blight.
The Glory Age:
7704: Increasing hostility between elves and humans result in numerous border skirmishes between the Dales and Orlais.
7709: In Alamarri lands, Hafter’s grandson, Teyrn Caedmon, declares himself king. A civil war begins in opposition. Finally, the elven forces attack the Orlesian town of Red Crossing and quickly take it over. The atrocities they are said to have committed there against the villagers and the town’s Chantry enraged humans across the land.
Orlais immediately went to war with the Dales, but was initially surprised by the ferocity of the elven response. A quick Orlesian victory was not going to happen.
7709—7719: With elven forces having captured Montsimmard and marching on the doorstep of Val Royeaux, Divine Renata I calls for a holy war against the elves. This becomes known as the Exalted March of the Dales. While the elves eventually sack Val Royeaux in 7713, and push well into human lands, Halamshiral is conquered and the elves are completely crushed by 7719.
The lands of the Dales come under Orlesian control, with elven settlements being uprooted and worship of the elven gods forbidden. The elves are forced to either live with mankind under their rule or wander as homeless vagabonds, the Dalish.
Divine Renata orders the establishment of the first alienages.
7714—7744: The rise of Starkhaven prompts its king, Fyruss, to attempt to unite the Free Marches under his banner and build his own empire.
7717: Caedmon is killed at the Battle of Valmorn Hills. The fight for power over the region begins. This period is known as the War of Crowns.
7729: The Winter Palace, by far the most prominent structure in Halamshial, becomes a regular seasonal retreat for the Empress and selected Orlesian nobility.
7732: Antivan cities to the north unite under a common banner to defend themselves against Fyruss’s advance.
7733: Following the defeat of Zazikel, there is general support of building fortified headquarters for the Grey Wardens. The fortress of Soldier’s Peak in the Alamarri lands is finished after a decade of construction.
7744: Fyruss is betrayed by his Tevinter allies, and Starkhaven is conquered by the Tevinter Imperium. By the time of his death, Fyruss’s name is equated with that of prideful folly.
7745: Caspar Pentaghast of Hunter Fell seizes control of the city-state Nevarra and becomes its king.
7779: Starkhaven is freed from Tevinter rule during an Exalted March, the second in less than an age.
7782: A conflict between Templars and mages in the Nevarran Circle leads to an abomination slaughtering both parties and escaping to the countryside. In response, Divine Galatea grants the Right of Annulment to every Grand Cleric of the Chantry, and sends a legion of Templars to hunt down the abomination. It is killed only a year later.
7799: The Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux is completed, its two towers visible from miles around. Archon Vespasian is assassinated the same day that the Grand Cathedral in Orlais is completed. The next Age is named.
The Towers Age:
7799: Flemeth is born in the Fereldan village of Highever.
7805: King Caspar Pentaghast of Nevarra dies in his sleep at the age of 127, after a reign of sixty years.
7808: The Right of Annulment is invoked in the Circle of Antiva for the third time since its inception. Hundreds of mages are put to the sword.
THE THIRD BLIGHT: 7809—7824
7809: The Old God Toth awakens, and the Third Blight erupts in the central lands of Thedas with darkspawn coming in greater numbers than ever before. Darkspawn swarm the Tevinter cities of Marnas Pell and Vyrantium, as well as the Orlesian cities of Arlesans and Montsimmard.
The Grey Wardens in both of these countries are able to quickly organize a defense, and despite heavy losses in the besieged cities, the darkspawn are pushed back.
7817: Darkspawn ravage the Free Marches, attacking cities along the Minanter River. At first, the Orlesians and Tevinter do nothing, but constant pressure from the Grey Wardens in Weisshaupt convinces both nations to send aid to the beleaguered city-states.
7824: The armies of Orlais and the Tevinter Imperium meet in Hunter Fell and join the Grey Wardens in the last battle of the Third Blight. TOTH SLAIN.
Toth is destroyed, and the darkspawn are slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles in history. The darkspawn carcasses are piled into mounds as high as 100 feet high and then burned. The people of the Free Marches will not soon forget the image of the burning darkspawn.
Their goodwill is quickly crushed by the victorious armies as they decide to occupy the territories liberated from the darkspawn. Orlais takes the city of Nevarra, while Tevinter takes Hunter Fell.
7848: Hunter Fell breaks away from the Tevinter Imperium.
7864: Nevarra achieves independence from Orlais.
7885: Divine Joyous II is made head of the Chantry.
7886: THE CHANTRY SCHISM. After many years of arguments, the Schism splits the Chantry as the Imperial Chantry within Tevinter elects their own Divine, a male mage named Valhail, at the Minrathous Cathedral. The Imperial Chantry has always taken a more moderate view on magic and argued that mages should be allowed to rule so long as blood magic remains prohibited. They also argued that Andraste was not of divine origin but rather was a mortal prophet with considerable magical talent and that her ascension to the Maker’s side did not make her divine, even if she was a symbol of hope. Both of these arguments did not sit well with the rest of the Chantry. As the Val Royeaux Divine Joyous II took measures to restrict the power of the Circle of Magi within Tevinter, the Imperial Chantry took action. In Minrathous, the Divine is referred to as the ‘Black Divine’ by most, and Chantry propaganda stirs popular sentiment against Tevinter and the Circle of Magi.
7898: The death of the Divine Joyous II in Val Royeaux is celebrated in Minrathous and is declared a holiday by the Imperial Divine.
The Black Age is named as the Chantry calls for retribution against the false Divine of the north.
At an unspecified date in the Towers Age, the Chasind Wilders and other ‘terrible things’ were led by the Witches of the Wilds in an invasion of Ferelden, defeated by Cormac. According to legend. According to Morrigan, Cormac led a war against his own people and blamed the brutality on the witchcraft of their neighbors to the south. Also unspecified in date is that the local Circle of Magi in Ferelden moves to Kinloch Hold after the original tower in Denerim is razed.
The Black Age:
7899: Werewolves, long present in Fereldan lore, are said to reappear, assuming the appearance of regular people. The use of dogs as guards able to ‘detect’ werewolves becomes common. An especially bloody chapter of Fereldan history ends with the apparent extinction of the creatures.
7921: The Antivan King Guiomar the Younger meets his end at the hands of Callisti di Bastion, a soon-to-legendary member of the Antivan Crows.
7929: The Rivaini-born Queen Asha Subira Bahadur, who will later become of Thedas’s most influential queens, is born.
7939—8009: The Chantry declares a series of four Exalted Marches to destroy the ‘heathens’ within the Tevinter Imperium. All four times, large armies are gathered from around the Chantry’s domains, and an assault is launched deep into Tevinter. Every time, however, the Exalted March falls just short of its goal of conquering Minrathous. In the end, the Exalted Marches serve to simply cement the separation between Minrathous and Val Royeaux. The Imperial Chantry starts to form its own dogma and policies, and the groundswell of mages fleeing from southern lands into Tevinter bolsters the Imperium’s waning power.
7945: Divine Clemence I commissions Tevinter fugitive Adralla of Vyrantium and former Magister to write the Litany of Adralla, a tool to protect against blood mages and demonic possession.
7951: The Great Riot of Val Royeaux occurs. Some historians allege that the riot was sparked by a performance of the lost play The Setting of the Light.
7979—7983: The Orlesian Empire takes advantage of Alamarri’s fractured state and crosses the Frostback Mountains to conquer the land for the first time. However, the Alamarri teyrns set aside age-old differences to push the Orlesian Empire back. The Orlesians hope to take the port of Highever, but the fortress of Redcliffe holds out too long, and winter in the Frostbacks leaves many Orlesian units without supplies. By the spring of 7983, most of the invaders pull out or are captured.
7984: Alamarri legends of Dane and the werewolf are recorded about a time in the past when the tribes suffered repeated werewolf attacks until the hero Dane managed to slay the lycanthropes. The events these legends refer to most likely took place in the Divine Age.
7989: The famed Fortress Haine is built in the western Vimmark mountains by Lord Norbert de la Haine, who uses it to stage numerous failed invasions of Marcher states. 7998: Divine Justinia II names the next age as the war with the Tevinter Imperium persists.
The Exalted Age:
8009: The last Exalted March on the Tevinter Imperium ends in retreat for Orlais.
Calenhad the Great is born as the third son of a Highever merchant.
The Grey Wardens sign treaties with the various Alamarri teyrns, and build a fortress in Denerim, as well as several small outposts to watch for signs of darkspawn.
THE FOURTH BLIGHT: 8011—8023
8011: The Exalted Marches against Tevinter come to an end with the awakening of Andoral and the outbreak of the Fourth Blight. Darkspawn appear in great numbers in the northeast and northwest of the continent.
The country of Antiva is overrun by darkspawn. The Grey Wardens arrive to evacuate Antiva City but the royal family refuses to leave. The Antivan Royal Guard rebels and kills King Elaudio before the Wardens stop them. It is publically reported he was killed by darkspawn. The Wardens evacuate the surviving royals and court members via griffons. As they retreat they are attacked by the Archdemon and the surviving royals are killed along most of the Wardens.
Using improvised Aravels supported by magic and drawn by griffons, the Grey Wardens evacuate a large number of civilians from Wycome to Starkhaven.
The darkspawn pour into the Free Marches and Rivain.
The Blight rises in the Anderfels as well, and the capital city of Hossberg comes under siege.
Orlais and the Tevinter Imperium are attacked by smaller numbers and are able to drive the darkspawn back into the depths of the Deep Roads. Despite their success, Tevinter refuses to send any aid to the Free Marches or the Anderfels, while Orlais only sends a token force.
8015: Divine Hortensia II dies. Divine Rosamund is elected. At nineteen, she is the youngest Divine in history. She was personally groomed for the position by Hortensia II.
8019: The Grey Warden Garahel leads an army of Wardens and Anders and breaks the siege of Hossberg.
Kirkwall declares the common nug as a noxious vermin over fears that the animals carried the Blight. The extermination became known as the Battle of Squealing Plains.
8020: Darkspawn all but devastate the Free Marches. Chateau Haine becomes Fortress Haine, a makeshift Grey Warden garrison commanded by Isseya. A refuge known as the Retreat is dug into the mountain. At the most dire point of the Fourth Blight hundreds of fleeing Kirkwall and Cumberland residents call the Retreat home.
8021: Garahel gathers Wardens from Orlais and the Anderfels and marches to Starkhaven. At Starkhaven, Garahel organizes an alliance between the leaders of the Free Marches. A united army marches north, led under the banner of the Grey Wardens.
8023: Antiva is freed from the darkspawn during the infamous battle of Ayesleigh, where Garahel dies slaying the Archdemon Andoral. So many darkspawn are slain that is it considered certain that they will never return. That the darkspawn continue to be felt underground by Orzammar is largely ignored by most except the Grey Wardens. Most are eager for the war to end and for regular trade to begin. ANDORAL SLAIN.
Lambert Valmont, a young Orlesian captain, is declared a hero by King Azar Adalberto Campana of Antiva for coming to the rescue of the Antivan army during the Battle of Ayesleigh. Lambert weds one of Azar’s daughters and the Valmont family is elevated to the nobility. Upon returning home, the Orlesian Emperor is forced to match Azar’s honors by granting Lambert a marquisate.
8024: Griffons go extinct due to losses during the Blight and due to a plague.
8032: Calenhad Theirin defeats Teyrn Simeon in the Battle of the White Valley, and is named Teyrn of Denerim.
8036: The first king of the Nevarran Van Markham family, Tylus Van Markham, is crowned after having claimed to be a descendant of Drakon’s son, killed in Cumberland and killing the ruling Pentaghast king. Being a hero of the Blight, Tylus is able to stir nationalistic feelings in the western Free Marches against the growing power of Orlais. He proves his military might by winning several major battles against the Orlesians, establishing Nevarra as a new, growing power.
8039: King Tylus Van Markham expands Nevarra into a proper nation after several border wars with Orlais.
8041: With the crowning of King Calenhad in Denerim, the various warring factions of Alamarri are at last united under a single banner to form Ferelden. What had always been considered a land of wild, nomadic barbarians was finally a nation in its own right, though considered primitive and backward by most.
8072: Divine Rosamund dies after fifty-five years in power. She leaves a legacy as one of the most compassionate women to ever occupy this post. Divine Amara III is elected. The famously fanatical leader is said to enjoy bonfires fueled by burning maleficar. Her reign does not last long.
8098: Queen Madrigal of Antiva is assassinated on a hunt, stabbed in the chest by four blades. Divine Theodosia I receives news of this. The image of the queen with four swords plunged into her chest haunts the Divine’s dreams that night. That morning, she declares the next age.
At an unspecified date in the Exalted Age, a civil war broke out in Orlais after Xavier Drakon, described as a usurper and false emperor, assumed the throne. Alphonse Valmont, the son of Marquis Lambert Valmont, led the faction that sought to overthrow Xavier, and Alphonse’s younger brothers Duke Isidore ‘dArlesans, Duke Yvon of Savrenne, and Duke Stephan of Val Montaigne commanded some of his armies. In the final battle of the war, Alphonse fought and killed Xavier in single combat. With the Drakon dynasty extinguished, Alphonse became the first of the Valmont emperors.
The Steel Age:
8114: Dragons are nearly hunted to extinction thanks to methods pioneered by the Pentaghast family of Nevarra. The Pentaghasts become known across Thedas as legendary dragon hunters.
8117: Fionne Therin becomes the new Queen of Ferelden.
8129: THE QUNARI INVASION. The Qunari land in Par Vollen which was loosely controlled by Tevinter and conquer it quickly, unbeknownst to the rest of the continent.
8131: Word of the Qunari invasion does not reach the continent until the Qunari ships begin to land en masse at the coasts of Seheron and northern Rivain. The Qunari Wars begin and last for the remainder of the century, and most of the next one.
8134: The Antivan city of Treviso is conquered by the Qunari.
8141: The Qunari’s initial advances are great; they have conquered much of the Tevinter Imperium, Rivain, and Antiva and begin to assault the Free Marches, forcing all they conquer to convert to the Qun. Only Minrathous itself remains standing in the North, albeit heavily sieged by Qunari forces.
8149: The Avvar organize forces under the great warlord Balak and sweep into the heart of the Ferelden Valley in massive numbers. The Bannorn is put to torch.
8151: The Avvar are pushed out of Ferelden proper. The period results in one of the worst famines in Fereldan history. Memories of Avvar savagery sour relations between the barbarians and Fereldan kings for ages to come.
8184: The humans have organized themselves and pushed back hard enough that massive rebellions in Tevinter manage to free the Imperium, and the Qunari lines begin to crumble.
8198: Divine Hortensia III names the next age, foreseeing growing violence across Thedas.
The Storm Age:
8204: After losing the Fereldan throne to her cousin Arland Theirin, Sophia Dryden joins the Grey Wardens and rises to the rank of Warden-Commander in Ferelden.
Arland is considered by many to be a tyrant. Banns approach Sophia, asking her to intercede. She agrees and attempts a coup against her cousin using the Grey Wardens. After the bloody Battle of Soldier’s Peak, Arland declares himself victorious with Sophia killed. The Grey Wardens are exiled from Ferelden and Soldier’s Peak is abandoned.
8222: The Qunari are pushed back to Seheron and Rivain, where they are well entrenched.
The Battle of the Nocen Sea is the largest naval engagement in history and results in a stalemate and the destruction of many of the ships on both sides. With both sides exhausted, an impasse begins.
8224—8284: The Exalted Marches on the Qunari are declared, by both the Imperial Chantry—to retake Seheron and the eastern city of Qarinus—and the Andrastian Chantry—to retake Rivain. During this time, Orlais manages to steal the Tome of Koslun from the Qunari.
8227: A dragon cult following the rampage of the High Dragon Urzara devastates the northern Free Marches until the dragon is slain by a group of militia men.
8233: Archon Nomaran is elected directly from the ranks of the Enchanters. He overturns the old rules forbidding mages from taking part in Tevinter politics.
8243: The newly crowned emperor of the Orlesian Empire, Freyan, allows women to become knights, after witnessing the death of Ser Aveline, the Knight of Orlais.
8251: The second New Exalted March ends in disaster, as the Qunari recapture much of Antiva.
8253: The Qunari land in Estwatch and use it as a launching point for dreadnoughts.
8254: Raiders from Llomerryn unite under the banner of the Felicsima Armada. Together, their pirate fleets help turn the tide against the Qunari at sea. A third and final Exalted March on the Qunari is called.
8255: The Qunari, although on the retreat, manage to gain a foothold in the Free Marches by landing near Ostwick and launching assaults against Starkhaven and Kirkwall. Starkhaven prevails, but Kirkwall falls to the sorceries of the Saarebaas in a daring night-time raid and is occupied until the end of the Third New Exalted March.
8259: The Kirkwall City Guard is founded, after the city is liberated from the occupation of the Qunari by an Orlesian chevalier by the name of Ser Michel Lafaille, who becomes the first Viscount.
8274: Battle of Afsaana between Orlesian and Qunari forces.
8277: The Felicsima Armada takes Estwatch following a massive naval battle with the Qunari.
8283: By the end of the Third New Exalted March, the Qunari have only one stronghold left on the continent: the city of Kont-aar. By then, rebuilding all the destruction caused was considered more important than trying to dislodge the Qunari from Kont-aar once again. A meeting between envoys of all the human lands (except Tevinter) and the Qunari at Llomerryn results in the signing of the Llomerryn Accord and peace being declared.
Peace is not established between Tevinter and the Qunari. Though skirmishes are few while the Qunari pull back to Par Vollen and rebuild.
8287: The Chantry names Calenhad Therin one of the Annointed as he was responsible for the spread of Andrastianism in the entire kingdom of Ferelden.
8289: Ceridweth of the Spiral Eye, one of the more popular apostates of the Gallows, is made Tranquil.
8298: The end of the Qunari Wars and the birth of twin boys to Emperor Etienne I of Orlais provides the name for the next age. (Etienne had long been without children, and civil war had been brewing for decades.)
According to Levi Dryden, a ten year civil war in Ferelden ensued after King Arland’s death. It is unknown when Arland died.
The Blessed Age:
8304: Kirkwall rebels against Orlais and becomes a Free City.
8309: In a grand gesture, Qunari in Par Vollen welcome a group of Rivaini diplomats. The visit dispels many myths about Qunari society.
8323: The Orlesian Empire, under the direction of the ‘Mad Emperor’ Reville, launches the Second Orlesian Invasion of Ferelden. Thanks to the clandestine support of a number of powerful banns undermining Fereldan defense, Orlais quickly establishes a strong foothold. Vigil’s Keep and the City of Amaranthine are taken by the Empire, as is Redcliffe. At the Battle of Lothering, King Vanedrin Theirin is killed and Calenhad the Great’s sword, Nemetos, is lost. Ardal Cousland, Teyrrn of Highever, is slain defending his king.
8324: Though Vanedrin is succeeded by his son, King Brandel Theirin, the youth is unable to unite the country beneath him, and for the next two decades, Ferelden is mired in blood and battle.
8330: The House of Repose accepts a contract from the du Paraquette family to prevent the Antivan Montilyet family from having any mercantile business in Orlais.
8343: The Orlesian Empire finally sacks the city of Denerim, claiming victory in Ferelden and driving King Brandel into hiding.
Though routed, the King and others among the loyal Fereldan nobility continue to wage guerrilla warfare against their oppressors.
8346: Emperor Reville, fearing the court turning favor toward rival Grand Duke Gratien, has Gratien, his wife, three grown children, and all eight grandchildren murdered. The youngest, Camille, is only eight months old.
8350: Emperor Reville dies after spending more than a year locked in his room, fearing retribution for his assassination of the Gratien family.
8354: War between the Qunari and the Tevinter Imperium continues as the Qunari invade Seheron. Tevinter is left on its own to fight the Qunari, though the peace between the Qunari and the other nations is considered fragile. All attempts by the Qunari to land on the continent and attack Tevinter directly are repulsed.
8357: The Qunari complete their conquest of Seheron.
8359: Aurelian Pentaghast attempts to assume the Nevarran throne before it is revealed he is not a Pentaghast. The disgraced Aurelian joins the dwarven Legion of the Dead, the only human to ever do so.
8361: The Antivan city of Treviso is burned to the ground after a fire started in a warehouse full of lamp oil.
8369: A war between Nevarra and Orlais over the control of the western hills around Perendale results in a Nevarran victory. However, Orlais proceeds to sow dissent and rebellion among the locals in Perendale, who resent Nevarran rule.
8375: In the coldest winter in centuries, Adain of Starkhaven, one of the more successful apostates, escapes the clutches of the Circle of Magi.
8376: The Hundred Days Cough epidemic begins in Orlais which claims the sons of the Emperor Judicael II.
8377: Maric Theirin is born and the bloodline of King Calenhad the Great is continued.
8381: Nevarra begins a bloody campaign of conquest within the Free Marches, encouraged by their taking of Perendale. They are stopped by Cade Arvale, who is named Champion of Tantervale for his deed.
8383: After Emperor Judicael II dies during a fox hunt, his brother Florian Valmont ascends to the throne of Orlais, much to his chagrin.
When Brandel finally dies, several years after the birth of his grandson Maric Theirin, Emperor Florian crowns his cousin and possible lover, Meghren, as King of Ferelden, though Brandel’s daughter, the ‘Rebel Queen’ Moira Theirin—considerably more popular and charismatic than her father—keeps the resistance alive.
8395: Moira Theirin the Rebel Queen is assassinated by Bann Ceorlic and several other treacherous nobles at the behest of the Orlesian Usurper, King Meghren.
Endrin Aeducan takes the throne of Orzammar.
8397: The Fereldan rebels, led by the young Prince Maric, take the isolated port town of Gwaren, their first major victory since Queen Moira’s death.
House Tethras is exiled to the surface for denying the Voice of the Ancestors and willfully manipulating the sacred Provings.
8398: At the Battle of West Hill, the Fereldan rebel army is devastated by the Royalist forces. Survivors retreat to Gwaren. Maric is presumed dead. With the aid of the Legion of the Dead, Prince Maric emerges from the Deep Roads under Gwaren and wins an important battle and is coming much closer in liberating Ferelden than he or his mother ever did. Afterwards, he also kills Bann Ceorlic and his fellow nobles who betrayed Queen Moira.
Believed hunted to extinction, dragons first emerge in Antiva, then devastate rural Orlais and Nevarra. Another dragon is also sighted in the Orlesian side of the Frostback Mountains, just before the Battle of River Dane. It goes onto ravage the Orlesian countryside. In light of this, Divine Faustine II who was ready to declare the Sun Age in honor of the Orlesian Empire, sees this as an omen of the next age being one of violence and upheaval.
At the Battle of River Dane, the last two legions of chevaliers that the Emperor sent to occupied Fereldan are defeated by the rebel army, led by Loghain, Maric’s right hand man.
The Seekers of Truth abandon Therinfal Redoubt due to lack of funding.
The Dragon Age:
8401: Led by Prince Maric, the rebels finally succeed in driving out the Orlesian occupying force. He kills the Usurper King Meghren in a duel at Fort Drakon. A short time later, Antiva is shaken by a civil war and the much maligned ‘Three Queens Era’ begins.
The ruling Archon of the Tevinter Imperium faces usurpation.
8402: Maric Theirin is crowned King of Ferelden.
8403: Celene, future Empress of Orlais, is born.
8404: Birth of Cailan Theirin, future King of Ferelden. The apostate Malcolm flees Kirkwall with his wife, Leandra. They have a son, Hawke, future Champion of Kirkwall, either this year or 8405.
8408: Death of Queen Rowan of Ferelden.
8409: Underneath Ferelden, the intelligent darkspawn known as the Architect attempts to unearth and kill the remaining Old Gods and taint the entire surface world. His efforts are thwarted by King Maric and a band of Grey Wardens, including Fiona and future Commander of the Grey in Ferelden, Duncan. King Maric allows the Grey Warden Order to return to Ferelden after their exile two centuries before.
A young female smith named Branka is made Paragon for her invention of smokeless coal.
Alistair, a future hero of the Fifth Blight, is born in Ferelden.
8411: Long thought by Orzammar to have been lost to the darkspawn, the dwarven kingdom of Kal-Sharok located deep beneath the Hunterhorn mountains is rediscovered. The dwarves there are still resentful of Orzammar for their betrayal in and refuse to bow to the King’s authority. Carver and Bethany Hawke are born to apostate Malcolm Hawke and his wife Leandra in an unknown location.
8412: The dwarven fortress of Bownammar, home to the Legion of the Dead, falls to the darkspawn.
8413: Perrin Threnhold is appointed Viscount of Kirkwall.
8419: Ferelden and Orlais officially make peace after the ascension of Empress Celene to the Orlesian throne.
Malcolm Hawke and his family settle down in the outskirts of Lothering.
Arl Eamon Guerrin marries an Orlesian woman by the name of Isolde, and upon her request sends Alistair to the Chantry.
8420: After a failed coup against the Templar Order, Viscount Perrin Threnhold is executed and Marlowe Dumar is appointed Viscount of Kirkwall. Due to her part in the arrest of Viscount Threnhold, Meredith Stannard is promoted to Knight-Commander of Kirkwall by Grand Cleric Elthina.
8421: Blood mages, secretly in league with a rogue Grand Cleric of the Orlesian Chantry, conspire to assassinate Divine Beatrix III. A Seeker of Truth, Cassandra Pentaghast thwarts the conspiracy and is named Hero of Orlais and the Divine’s Right Hand.
8424: King Maric is lost and sea and is imprisoned by Antivan Crows in Velabanchel. Maric’s son, Cailan Theirin, inherits the throne. Approximately one month later, Cailan marries Anora, daughter of Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir.
8426: Malcolm Hawke, the apostate responsible for resealing Corypheus, dies in Lothering.
8427: Paragon Branka takes her entire house, save Oghren, into the Deep Roads in the hopes of finding the Anivl of the Void and the secret of making creating golems.
The lyrium-infused slave Fenris escapes from his master, Danarius, and heads to the South.
Leliana seeks refuge in the Lothering Chantry after being betrayed by her Bard master, Marjolaine.
THE FIFTH BLIGHT: 8429—8430
8429: Alistair is recruited into the Grey Wardens by Warden-Commander Duncan. The Fifth Blight begins in the Korcari Wilds when the Architect’s failed attempt to make a Disciple out of Urthemiel instead results in the Old God rising up as an Archdemon. Arl Rendon Howe murders Teyrn Bryce and Teyrna Eleanor Cousland of Highever in a surprise attack after Fergus Cousland led most of their troops to Ostagar for the king’s mustering against the Blight. The Sabrae clan of the Dalish elves temporarily staying in the Brecillian Forest find a tainted Eluvian and lose some of their number to it. To escape its taint and the coming Blight, the clan leaves north toward the Free Marches. Crown Prince Trian Aeducan of Orzammar is murdered and his middle sibling is banished to the Deep Roads for the deed due to the machinations of their youngest brother, Bhelen. King Endrin Aeducan falls ill and dies in his grief. The Hero of Ferelden is recruited by Warden-Commander Duncan. Ferelden’s army is crushed at Ostagar by the darkspawn; the darkspawn were greater in number than expected and seized the Tower of Ishal, and Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir quist the field. This results in the devastation of the army of Ferelden, the near-destruction and outlawing of the Grey Warden Order in Ferelden, and the death of both King Cailan and Warden-Commander Duncan. The Hero of Ferelden and Alistair are saved by Flemeth. They begin to gather allies against the Blight. Loghain returns to Denerim and names himself regent of Queen Anora. A civil war breaks out, raging in the Bannorn. Lothering is destroyed by darkspawn, and the Hawke family and Aveline Vallen flee to Kirkwall, aided by Flemeth.
8430: The Battle of Denerim. The Wardens slay Urthemiel atop Fort Drakon. Senior Warden Riordan dies crippling the Archdemon. URTHEMIEL SLAIN. A new monarch is crowned. The Grey Wardens are given the lands of Arl Howe, Amaranthine, as recompense. Orlesian Wardens are sent to Ferelden to handle the post-Blight ‘thaw’. They gather at Vigil’s Keep. The Darkspawn Civil War between the Architect and the mad broodmother the Mother begins. The Hero of Ferelden deals with the Darkspawn Civil War. The dwarves of Orzammar reclaim the great thaig of Kal’hirol.
Amgarrak Thaig is overrun by harvesters after failed attempts to re-create Caridin’s golem research. The Warden-Commander of Ferelden slays one and destroys the research.
The Circle of Magi in Starkhaven burns to the ground. Its survivors are relocated to Kirkwall, making it the largest Circle within the Free Marches.o
Qunari set out to meet Orlesians who agreed to return the Tome of Koslun to them. However, the book is intercepted by the Rivaini pirate Isabela.
Following a storm, Qunari are shipwrecked on the coast of Kirkwall. The Arishok and his surviving troops are forced to remain in a compound while they search for the Tome of Koslun.
A shipwerecked Qunari mage is imprisoned underneath Kirkwall by the Chantry after causing the destruction of an entire village. The Saarebas uses a Dalish artifact, the Mask of Fen’harel, in an attempt to tear the Veil. A Qunari Tallis is sent to retrieve him.
Hawke of Kirkwall helps fund an expedition to the Deep Roads with Bartrand and Varric Tethras. They discover an ancient, pre-First Blight Primeval Thaig, and an ancient lyrium idol contained within. Bartrand betrays the company and escapes with the idol, but the company makes it back up to the surface.
8430—8436: An Orlesian noble by the name of Prosper de Montfort works out a deal with a Tal-Vashoth named Salit to purchase a list of Qunari sleeper agents. He is killed by Hawke.
Corypheus awakens in his prison, and is defeated by Hawke. However, he escapes through the body of a Grey Warden.
8431: The Warden-Commander of Ferelden confronts Morrigan in the Dragonbone Wastes; she leaves through an Eluvian.
8433: The Arishok attacks Kirkwall, starting the First Battle of Kirkwall. Marlowe Dumar is killed by the Arishok. Hawke drastically contributes to the repelling of the Qunari invasion and is named ‘Champion of Kirkwall’ by Knight-Commander Meredith Stannard. Meredith takes up stewardship of Kirkwall and imposes tighter sanctions on the Kirkwall Circle of Magi.
Revered Mother Dorothea ascends as Divine of the Chantry, taking the name Justinia V after her predecessor succumbs to old age after long suffering from dementia.
8436: THE KIRKWALL REBELLION. An apostate mage, Anders, destroys the Kirkwall chantry, igniting the Kirkwall Rebellion and inspiring mages throughout Thedas to rebel against the Circle system. The Champion of Kirkwall kills First Enchanter Orsino and Knight-Commander Meredith Stannard during the rebellion in Kirkwall, and later flees the city.
Fiona is elected as Grand Enchanter and the College of Enchanters rejects a motion to dissolve the Circle of Mgai at the urging of Senior Enchanter Wynne. Morrigan resurfaces at the court of Val Royeaux and is appointed an ‘arcane advisor’ to Empress Celene.
8437: The Chantry dissolves the College of Enchanters and refuses to allow any future meetings. Alistair, with the help of Isabela and Varric Tethras, travels to Antiva City, looking for King Maric. Qunari forces under the command of the new Arishok, Sten, assault the Tevinter fortress of Alth Velanis on Seheron with Alistair in order to stop Aurelian Titus’s exploitation of King Maric and the Magrallen.
8437—8438: Unrest brews in Orlais as Grand Duke Gaspard de Chalons stirs dissent against reigning Empress Celene, eventually igniting into the Orlesian Civil War.
8439: NEVARRAN ACCORD ANNULLED. THE MAGE-TEMPLAR WAR. Empress Celene is called out of Val Royeaux after news of an elven rebellion in Halamshiral. The move is thought to have been orchestrated by Gaspard. Celene’s absence fuels rumors of her death or capture. Anticipating unrest, the Sun Gates in Val Royeaux are ordered closed for the first time since dragons attacked the city in 8421. Briala, former spymaster and lover of Empress Celene, reactivates the Eluvian network. Gaspard de Chalons returns to Val Chevin to resume the civil war; the missing Empress Celene reappears at the Winter Palace in Halamshiral and begins to marshal her own forces.
A violent uprising at the White Spire leaves many senior mages dead. The uprising is apparently supported by the Divine through her agents, including ex-Bard Leliana. Following the Conflict at the White Spire, Lord Seeker Lambert van Reeves dissolves the Nevarran Accord, severing ties between the Seekers and the Chantry. Allegiances between the Seekers and the Templars are split. Some support the Divine.
The Circle of Dairsmuid in Rivain is annulled. The College of Enchanters votes to separate from the Chantry. Lord Seeker Lambert declares the Circle of Magi no more. The Mage-Templar war begins in earnest. Lambert is killed by Cole. Lucius Corin replaces him as Lord Seeker.
Varric Tethras is captured and interrogated by Cassandra Pentaghast in Kirkwall.
8440: Several mages from the Hossberg Circle of Magi join the Grey Wardens and begin an investigation in to the Wardens’ history. One finds the diary of Isseya, sister of Garahel and the one who may have brought about the end of griffons.
Divine Justinia V calls for a conclave between the mages and Templars at the Temple of Sacred Ashes to negotiate an end to the Mage-Templar War. The Conclave is disrupted by Corypheus, who uses the Orb of Destruction to open the Breach in a bid for godhood, destroying the Temple and killing the assembled leaders of the mages, Templars, and Chantry. A survivor of the Breach is found with a Mark that can control the Breach and the rifts created by its eruption. After calming the Breach, the survivor is hailed as the Herald of Andraste. The Herald becomes a leading figure of the reborn Inquisition, which seeks to seal the Breach and restore order to Thedas. The Mage-Templar War ends. The Herald seals the Breach. Corypheus attacks Haven, driving the Inquisition to retreat. They claim Skyhold as their headquarters, and the Herald becomes the Inquisitor, their leader. The Grey Wardens of Orlais begin to hear a false Calling and are terrified into desperation to end all Blights before their perceived end. They join forces with the Venatori and sacrifice their own warriors to raise a demon army, ostensibly to march into the Deep Roads and kill the last two Old Gods. The Inquisition learns of this and lays siege to their base at Adamant Fortress, putting an end to their machinations. The Inquisitor defeats the Nightmare demon behind the false Calling and the demon army. The Inquisitor attends a ball held by Empress Celene after learning of a Venatori plot to assassinate her. The Orlesian Civil War is resolved. Corypheus is pursued to the Temple of Mythal in the Arbor Wilds, where he fails to gain the knowledge of the Eluvian network and fails to re-enter the Black City. As a final act of spite, Corypheus re-opens the Breach above the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Corypheus is defeated by the Inquisitor, and the Breach is sealed. The Orb of Destruction is ruined.
Divine Victoria is elected.
8441: A clutch of thirteen live griffons are discovered at Red Bride’s Grave in the Anderfels by a group of Grey Warden Recruits.
Retour en haut
I see the lower-classes sticking with the Maker for a few centuries, but after Tevinter goes on the rise with the Old Gods support, the Old Gods provide a more immediate and real divine presence, so the masses convert. But at some point, Old God worship begins to decline in the years leading up to the First Blight. My question is, why and to what? Was agnosticism and atheism on the rise, or did they turn to new religions on the fringes of the Imperium?
