This is my take on all lores and myths from Thedas coming together to form a coherent unified history, first I'll narrate how it is and later post the evidence to back it up.
On the Maker and the creation of spirits:
Then something happenend entirely by chance, a spirit formed out of that nothingness with a sense of self and that spirit trying to understand it's own existence began to shape the Void over time creating all the known universe and gaining immense power.
That first spirit is what came to be known as the Maker and the realm shaped by it's thoughs came to be known as the Fade.
It first created the spirits as it tried to conceptualize what emotions and ideals were in his own pursuit of defining itself, once he developed and understanding of emotions and ideals, it's curiosity over spirits was sated and the Maker moved on to shape more complex things.
It is not that the Maker had any love for it's creations, as a spirit itself born out of nothingness and trying to define the meaning of it's own existence, they were just the byproduct of his own quest for complexity which is a trait it shares with every other spirit that came after him.
After obtaining it's desired level of complexity from shaping spirits, the Maker created matter, itself a far more complex and permanent form of existence than those which existed in the Fade.
From matter, it shaped new and more complex things such as stars, planets and evetually life itself.
The creation of life, elves and the world:
First it made the titans which as him were immortal and immensely powerful but lacked emotions and with them the ability to evolve despite their overwhelming intelligence.
Second it made the dragons which were mortal, immensely powerful and capable of independent evolution thanks to their complex emotions but lacked intelligence to create anything.
Having developed and understanding of both knowledge and emotions, the Maker finally created life with the level of complexity he desired.
The beings he created, which were mortal but able to feel emotion and develop knowledge were what Solas would today call the true elves.
These elves while dreaming shaped the Fade in the same way as the spirits, titans and the Maker did but despite lacking the scale of their power their complex emotions allowed them to create far more different things than the former.
As the elves who dreamed died, their essence and toughts returned to the Maker which in turn gave him the complexity and fulfillment which he long desired.
The origins of dwarves:
Having power comparable to the Maker but lacking emotions with which to evolve, the titans sought to create beings of their own to improve themselves.
This was the origin of the dwarves and the founding of the stone.
Originally made from the titans blood, the dwarves lacked any connection with the Fade or the Maker and had little more sentience than bees tending to a hive.
However, as the religion of the stone states, the better dwarves who die each increase the strenght of the stone and with each passing generation the dwarves who returned to the stone made it stronger and more complex thus becoming more emotional and independent.
Eventually, as the creations of the Maker and the creations of the titans grew and evolved, it came a time when clash was inevitable. It all started when the elves discovered that the blood of titans could drastically improve their connection with the Fade alongside their magic and thus they warred upon the dwarves for control of lyrium, the former drawing power from the Fade while the latter drew power from the titans.
The War of the Titans: Blood Magic, Old Gods and the Evanur:
Like any other spirit, the Maker had no sense of guilt over actions that served his assumed purpose.
Abandoned by their god and left to fight an endless war with the dwarves, the elves grew desperate and sought any means to end their plight and the means they found were blood and dragons.
The elves discovered that by using their blood when casting magic they could not only momentarily server the connection between the titans and the dwarves but even gain control over the minds of the later.
Still, despite the advantage that blood magic gave them, it was still not enough to stem the tide of war to their favour. They needed more power, the power in the blood of beings whose might could permanently server the connection between the dwarves and the titans.
This is were dragons came in, those mighty beasts almost as ancient as the titans themselves had enough power in their blood to suppress the singing of an entire titan thus rendering all dwarves under it powerless against the elves.
The elven mages who would later be known as the Evanuris and the Forgotten Ones came to a permanent solution to this conflict.
Through the use of blood magic, the former would bind the souls of the latter each into a great ancient dragon and the resulting abominations would sing a song of their own capable of drowning out the titans song and rendering the dwarves powerless.
Thus the Old Gods were born and with their birth the dwarves lost their magic and were driven underground forced to mine lyrium for the elves.
After creating the Old Gods, whose drinking blood from was involved in the ritual, the Evanuris realized that they didn't simply shut down the song of the titans, they had obtained the power to control the minds of those ancient creatures of immesurable power and in turn became godlike themselves.
The First Sin and the origins of the Taint:
Afraid of losing the power they gained and returning their souls to the Maker, the god who had abandoned them, the Evanuris, all but Fen'Harrel, decided to use the power of the titans to storm the Golden City and usurp the throne of the Maker.
They and not the magisters of Tevinter were the ones who blackened the city and created the blight.
As the Maker, whom the late Dalish legends refer to as the Sun, was cast down under the earth by Elgar'nan he turned from spirit to demon and unleashed the Taint upon the world.
The corrupted Maker became the demon of Void and filled the bowels of the world with a hellish energy that mutated or destroyed everything it came into contact with.
Horrified at what their former peers had done to obtain immortality, the Old Gods declared war on the Evanur and went underground to contain the taint.
Fen'Harrel, for being the sole Evanur who refused immortality and didn't take part in ousting the Maker was accepted by both groups and developed Uthenera as a way to postpone his death and that of any other dreamer mages while he keep check of the war between the Old Gods and the Evanur.
Rise and fall of the ancient elves:
Despite their efforts to weaken the Maker, their own arrogance and lust for power led them to spill the blood of their followers beyond control, leading to the Taint growing in power and expanding from the core of the world to the point were it began to corrupt the very titans powering the Evanur and twisting the minds of the elven gods controlling them.
Mythal, seeing their mistakes and decadence were dooming the world to destruction, appealed to Fen'Harrel for a truce with the Old Gods so that they could stop the Taint from reaching further to the surface and corrupting all life.
They proposed that if the Maker could be returned to a spirit and freed from his confinement it would stop the Taint from spreading even if that meant the Evanur would have to share their power and position with a weakened form of their creator.
The Evanur refused a compromise and murdered Mythal in the hopes that draining her power would empower the remaining elven gods to keep control of the world and drive back the Tain.
This was the last straw, Fen'Harel, with the aid of the Old Gods, created the Veil by placing the latter in Uthenera in underground vaults which would serve as the cornerstones to both sealing away the Evanur and halting the growth of the Taint.
Once the deed was done, Fen'Harel went to sleep as the elves lost their magic and immortality.
Rebel descendants, the origins of humans and kossith:
Of those groups, one decided that distancing itself from the fade and relying on physical labour to reshape the world was the path to follow and hence it evolved into humans who were physically larger and stronger than elves at the cost of diminished magical aptitude.
Another one thought that drinking the blood of dragons would eventually grant them the power to challenge the gods and from their place of hiding in the world their pratices eventually turned them into the kossith.
Shortly after the Veil came into place, the dwarves regained their freedom but thanks to thousands of years of enslavement to the elves the records of the titans were long erased and the now independent dwarves started writing their own history based on themselves alongside hiding any evidence of their shameful enslavement.
Also around that time humans finally reached Thedas and began their expansion.
The fall of Arlathan and the rise of Tevinter:
The Old Gods from their underground vaults realized the potential of the new species to help rebuild the elven civilization in this new mortal world and contacted them in their dreams to teach them magic and other stuff needed to restore and repurpose the ancient elven technology.
Unfortunately, those elven descendants named humans misinterpreted the Old Gods and began using their teachings to conquer and enslave everything they came across thus leading the elves to an even worse state than they had before.
With Fen'Harel in Uthenera for several millenia and human magisters bathing the world in blood threatening the elves to extinction, the Old Gods decided to manipulate Tevinter into breaking into the Black City to free the Evanur and restore immortality and magic to the elves.
The First Blight and the rise of Andrastianism:
The Black City that contained the Evanur was long corrupted by the Taint which had been twisting the minds of the gods ever since it first corrupted the titans they controlled. When the magisters broke into the city, instead of finding the Evanur they found the taint which spoke to them to let permeated their beings and enthralled them to the will of the Void.
When the Evanur realized they were invaded by humans, they quickly cast down the magisters down the earth whose corruption turned into the first darkspawn.
Driven by the Maker/Void to find and corrupt the Old Gods so as to weaken their seal over it, the darkspawn eventually found Dumat and began the First Blight to slaughter as many living beings as possible so that their souls returned to the Maker and strenghtened him to escape his prison.
The creation of the Grey Wardens and the destruction of Dumat wasn't part of the plan, it was to kill everything until the Maker was strong enough to break free by itself but the destruction of the Old God provided much needed relief to the sealed fallen god.
So much so that he was finally able to interact with the world again and in this short moment of freedom he met Andraste who convinced him the world was still worth saving and momentarily turned him back into a spirit.
During Andraste's life, the restored but weakened Maker helped her free the world of the Tevinter Imperium and in turn humanity began to worship him again.
There was a brief moment of hope that all woes of the world could be cured, the elves and their descendants forgiven and the world he once envisioned restored. Then Maferath betrayed Andraste, Tevinter burned her on a stake and the Maker became a demon once again hellbent on destroying everything that lives to free itself.
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